Trostemb State Asylum

About
The Trostemb State Asylum was a psychiatric hospital constructed in 1852 and opened in 1860. It is located in the town of Trostemb, Pennsylvania in the United States of Megaton and Columbia. It is known as one of the facilities where USMC intelligence would conduct mind controlling experiments and it would also be known for the Trostemb Incident in 1984, which caused Pennsylvania to go under lockdown. The Trostemb State Asylum would eventually close town years later in 1998.

It is the second game that takes place in the Mapping Lore and the first game to take place in the United States of Megaton and Columbia and would primarily take place before and after the Trostemb State Asylum Incident in 1984.

Construction
Construction began miles away from the mining town of Trostemb in mid 1852 as workers excavated and flattened the fertile and spacious land months prior to the construction. Eventually the Trostemb State Asylum was constructed under the design of the Kirkbride Plan, a mental asylum design advocated by a psychiatrist from Philadelphia in the mid-19th century and the first mental asylum to be constructed using the Kirkbride Plan was opened in 1848. Due to their immense cost, a new design for the facility was drawn and only the foundation and floorplans were left in place.

The construction of the Trostemb State Asylum resulted in numerous incidents in which a worker accidentally fell off the roof of the facility and died, over 4 incidents were reported during the construction and rumors of the facility being reportedly haunted by the dead began spreading. However despite many of the rumors and the incidents that have occured, construction still continued. The Trostemb State Asylum officially opened as a public mental hospital in early 1860, 8 years after construction began with an accommodation of 250 patients and over 70 personnel required for the facility to run.

Early Years
During the early years in operation, the Trostemb State Asylum was roughly stable, however as the Columbian Civil War erupted in 1862, the Trostemb State Asylum was temporarily closed to visitors until the year of 1865, during those years many patients experience abuse and mistreatment by doctors and personnel within the facility and over the years conditions within the Trostemb State Asylum continued to decline and continue to face overcrowding. Many patients arrived from larger cities and rural towns for treatment within the facility.

As physical exercise or therapy, many patients were assigned to maintain the foliage and farmland outside of the hospitals grounds daily. An industrial building opened in 1873, allowing for more jobs for patients than just manual labor jobs in farming or groundworks. It was a widely popular belief that putting the insane to work in certain circumstances was beneficial both to the patient and the institution. Those who were chronically ill, restless in the day and night, were thought to be aided in their general well-being by working out some of the oversupply of blood to the brain. Within the walls of the new building, male patients were able to make brooms, rugs, brushes, carpets, and do printing and bookmaking.

Because of the intense overcrowding within the facilities in the Trostemb State Asylum and the conditions of the hospital worsening over time, a typhoid epidemic occured inside the Trostemb State Asylum in 1891 and immediately the Trostemb State Asylum was forced to lock down along with the rest of its patients and doctors, because of the worsening situation over a hundred died during the epidemic.

Due to the sudden deaths, many of the patients which died including many of its personnel and doctors were buried deep below within a tunnel system that was constructed below and connected through the facility and it would pile up. Soon afterwards the typhoid epidemic within the facility and the grounds ended and the Trostemb State Asylum reopened without receiving any warning from the government or the state. The tunnel system would later on be used for decades.

Before the USMC government and intelligence seized the Trostemb Asylum to conduct their own interests and research, the Trostemb State Asylum confucted brutal human experimentations and treatments in an attempt to find a cure for mental illness, most of these brutal treatments would come to be known as lobotomies and traditional methods such as trephination was used as part of the human experimentations in the 1900s, some of these treatments include removing body parts, teeth and eyes which were assumed by doctors to be infected in an attempt to cure many of the illnesses. An investigation was launched into the archives of the Trostemb State Asylum in the 1990s proving its existence of such experiments.

Prior to the interwar period and the 1920s, a worldwide flu epidemic occured in the United States of Megaton and Columbia during the late phases of the First Great War, with over a million people falling sick to the disease. Because of the intense overcrowding which was a serious concern within the Trostemb State Asylum, the flu quickly spread among patients, staff and eventually doctors, concerned about the spread of the disease into the nearby town of Trostemb, the entire Trostemb State Asylum was forced to be quarantined for over 2 weeks. During the quarantine patients would soon quickly succumb to the disease including many of its personnel and hundreds of bodies were forced to be sent down to an underground tunnel where they would be soon collected. As the Trostemb State Asylum finished its 2 week quarantine, over nearly 65% of its patients, staff and doctors had survived the quarantine period.

During the post-world epidemic, the Trostemb State Asylum had recovered from the epidemic, however it did not manage to regain its pre-epidemic levels, this marked the beginning of the decline of the Trostemb State Asylum. As the 1920s arrived, nothing much had occured in the Trostemb State Asylum except many of its facade was under disrepair. It wasn't until the golden age in the United States of Megaton and Columbia had arrived that the Trostemb State Asylum eventually regained its pre-epidemic levels for a short while until the beginning of the Great Depression in the early 30s.

The Great Depression primarily occurred in the United States of Megaton and Columbia and would devastate nearly all countries economies and would eventually result in the collapse of cities and businesses all across the country including the town of Trostemb, eventually the Great Depression had caused a big impact towards the Trostemb State Asylum as it was too expensive to maintain including the layoff of all personnel from the facility. During this period the Trostemb State Asylum had almost shutdown and it would become dilapidated until a renovation project began in the early 1940s.

Because of the lack of money and budget to maintain the facility, the Trostemb State Asylum was forced to lay off many of its personnel including doctors from the facility, and the facility would eventually be forced to function at only 45% of its capacity and many sections were left dark and abandoned. At this time the Trostemb State Asylum would eventually fall under disrepair and neglected. However by the end of the 1930s the United States of Megaton and Columbia had recovered from the Great Depression and eventuall

In early 1940, the new administration within the Trostemb State Asylum began a renovation project which would involve the revival of the facility including guarantees of better rooms and better conditions for mental patients to stay in, eventually the renovation project began after all mental patients were sent across Pennsylvania into other state owned asylums. The renovation had completely changed the facade of the facility as many of its notable gothic designs were destroyed to make way for complex ones and also destroyed many of its Victorian era interior. The Trostemb State Asylum officially reopened in 1941 just in time for the beginning of the Second Great War.

In 1941, the bombing of New Shingleton and the industrial vital city of Jefferson forced the United States of Megaton and Columbia to join and contribute to the war efforts in the Second Great War, eventually not much was known about the Trostemb State Asylum during the Second Great War, but it was at during this period that a certain plumber who was named Samuel who went to the basement of the Trostemb State Asylum to fix the damaged pipes noticed a putrid smell coming from one of the doors in the basement, as Samuel came to open the door in which the lock was rusted, he stumbled upon piles of dead rotting corpses. This was the first time a person had came across the tunnel that would eventually be known as the Corpse Tunnel.

Takeover
In the year of 1967, the intelligence agency of the USMC began to focus on the Trostemb State Asylum mainly because of its location and primarily to conduct many of its illegal activities and planned to set up the main quarters for a program of experiments on human subjects which would be operated under front organizations. The intelligence agency arrived to the Trostemb State Asylum to sign an agreement with the chief executive officer for the asylum so that the intelligence agency could conduct experiments hidden within the facility. However the CEO had declined the agreement and as a result he was infront of the asylum. A purge of all staff members and mental patients were commenced in which only 10 managed to survive. Many of those who spotted the shooting were either forced to be quiet or be silenced by the intelligence agency.

In the aftermath, the USMC intelligence agency had taken over the Trostemb State Asylum illegally without permission from the state or the government and many of its people responsible for the killings of mental patients and doctors from the asylum had got away with the crime and disguised themselves as proper doctors. Eventually by this point the Trostemb State Asylum becomes a hiding spot for illegal human experimentation on the grounds of the facility. The corpses of over a hundred doctors, personnel and mental patients were dragged into the Corpse Tunnel below the facility and left their corpses to rot.

Human experimentation
Before many personnel involved with MKUltra moved into the Trostemb State Asylum in 1974 as part of a continuation of the project, human experimentations were conducted in the facility along with the help of the intelligence agency, many of these human experimentations were brutal and resulted in many of the victims dying and succumbing to their injuries. Many of these patients before 1974 were patients which were redirected from another asylum which was located somewhere in Philadelphia. However many of the staff which was responsible for transporting the patients were not aware that something had occurred in the facility and nothing was stopped.

Many of these patients underwent brutal mutilation while they were conscious without the knowledge or consent of the test subjects and human subjects were exposed to chemicals and biological weapons and some of them were injected with toxic and radioactive chemicals, interrogation and torture experiments, tests which involved mind-altering substances, and a wide variety of other experiments. Torture methods also included poles being shoved into the rectum of subjects. Children were also involved in the many performances of these illegally conducted experiments.

MKUltra
In 1973, Project MKUltra was officially halted by the USMC intelligence agency and commenced a continuation project with the same name. Doctors responsible for Project MKUltra were sent to the Trostemb State Asylum and were disguised as doctors and personnel within the facility in early 1974, around a year after the halt. During this period the situation became extreme as USMC intelligence would kidnap dozens of soldiers from the Federation War and smuggled them to the United States of Megaton and Columbia illegally under a different name. They would also be given false status as a mental patient residing within the asylum.

In the year of 1975, many mental patients which were formerly transferred from another mental hospital in Pennsylvania were finally finished off and killed with their corpses being dragged into the Corpse Tunnel, this gave much more room to many of the doctors new patients. In early 1975, the first group of people were kidnapped from Southern Bistonia in an unknown village which was occupied by Federation troops, many of these villagers including children faced brutal beatings and mind manipulation and some were brutally mutilated. Rumors also stated that one of the villagers heads were kept alive with a machine and some were fed brains of people in the dining room of the asylum.

As the year reached 1976, the doctors were not satisfied with their result as they had killed all of the remaining villagers from Bistonia and demanded the USMC intelligence agency to bribe the St. Ark Armed Forces into capturing more villagers from Bistonia, another second batch of villagers arrived which had came from the southern parts of West Bistonia and smuggled into a plane. Many of these villagers underwent the same treatment as the first batch of the villagers and by 1977 the second group of villagers were finally killed and sent off to the Corpse Tunnel. The same process continued over years and years until in 1983.

Prelude to the Trostemb Incident
The invention of anti-depressants and other medication intended to cure disabilities came effective in the late 70s, leading to a massive decline of mental facilities across the United States of Megaton and Columbia, by the 80s, only 68 facilities were left functioning in the United States of Megaton and Columbia alone, one of these are the infamous Trostemb State Asylum.

In late 1983, another group of immigrants were illegally smuggled and transported to the Trostemb State Asylum as another attempt to control the human minds in the continuation of Project MKUltra despite it being uncovered by the new USMC administration decades earlier, the groups along with the rest of the previous ones underwent a process where all of their memories would be completely wiped despite warnings that they were not effective and they might return back. Eventually these groups would be forced to live in the mental asylum and were made not aware of their backgrounds and the fact that the majority of the personnel were disguised. As the year reached mid 1984, the groups would suddenly become aware of disappearances and suspicion within the facility and many of the groups of 500 people attempt to find out the truth, beginning the events of the Trostemb Incident in 1984.

On the other side, many scientists working for the continuation of the project in the Trostemb State Asylum at one point begged the USMC government for help attempting to uncover the truth of the project, claiming that the project is indeed still ongoing partially and that many code names such as MKSEARCH isn't valid. The scientists also begged for asylum into many countries and that the USMC intelligence is currently kidnapping hundreds of people from countries such as from the St. Ark Federation and Bistonia.

Trostemb Incident
The Trostemb Incident was an infamous incident which occurred in the Trostemb State Asylum in 1984 which was a catastrophic blow to the facility and the USMC intelligence agency including the entire state of Pennsylvania, it was the root cause of the Pennsylvania Crisis and it was a strike by violent people who were kidnapped from Bistonia, Crimsonia and the St. Ark Federation, it was led by a certain person by the name of Juggie who was a veteran of the Federation War.

The Trostemb Incident began in the morning hours as a personnel was brutally beatened after many patients had caught him dissecting another patient while the door was left unlocked. Security was immediately alerted by the violence which had occured and they were deployed to the area and rescued the personnel from death and he was sent to a ward to recover. Eventually hours later the board of the Trostemb State Asylum made a decision regarding many of the patients and that they had arranged a time where many of its personnel begin arming themselves in an attempt to gun down many of its prisoners. Before it could happen many of the patients managed to gain access to certain restricted areas such as the armory by stealing the keys of the personnel and with the help of their leader Juggie a strike occurred at midnight.

As security attempted to quell the strike within most of the convalescent and violent sections of the asylum and before they could potentially kill all of the patients, most of them had been armed with weapons when some of the groups had gained access into one of the restricted areas of the asylums, the USMC intelligence agency was immediately alerted by what was happening within the facility as a message was broadcasted to their headquarters in the midnight hours during the incident. At this point many of the asylums personnel had no control over many of the patients which wanted to escape and at 12:34 PM they had purposely set the facility on fire and shot many of those who attempted to escape. Eventually 439 patients from the Trostemb State Asylum escaped without being chased down by the remaining personnel. Many of the personnel including scientists working for the continuation of Project MKUltra fled the premises without being captured.

An hour after the Trostemb State Asylum was set on fire, police from the town of Trostemb was immediately called and alerted about the Trostemb State Asylum being engulfed in flames, and a police force including paramedics and firefighters were sent to the area to look for survivors, as police began searching the areas near the Trostemb State Asylum, they were attacked by a crowd of mental patients in which a police officer had described many of the patients as violent. Gunfire was heard miles away from the Trostemb State Asylum and eventually hours later police had deemed the patients as violent. A shootout ensued between police and patients which resulted in confused fighting. Afterwards the town of Trostemb was forced into lockdown and patients began scattering across Pennsylvania.

The Pennsylvania Crisis
The State of Pennsylvania instated a total lockdown and prohibited people from entry and exiting into the state and a police search was commenced to locate many of the patients which had scattered across after the facility was set on fire, local businesses were torched by many of the groups which split and scattered and anarchy reigned through the streets, eventually a day later the USMC government responded by deploying the National Guard to protect the cities and local businesses from being destroyed.

The National Guard afterwards had overthrown the governor of Pennsylvania and the military had complete control of the state due to the worsening of the situation, after a police search over 34 patients were caught and they would be ordered shot by the National Guard, afterwards the National Guard arrived to the Trostemb State Asylum where it was partially destroyed due to the fires, however an investigation was never launched to what had occured within the Trostemb State Asylum. Afterwards, the last of the patients had been finally shot in the town of Trostemb, and Pennsylvania was finally reopened but remained under military rule until the year of 1989.

Juggie was eventually apprehended after he was spotted living in an abandoned cabin a mile away from Trostemb, he was shot without trial before he could potentially reveal the dark secrets of the facility or describe his agenda to partially burn down the Trostemb State Asylum, it wasn't until weeks later that he was identified as the group leader of the strike which occurred in the Trostemb State Asylum hours before it was burned down. After many corpses were identified as nationals from the Republic of Bistonia, he was identified as a veteran of the St. Ark Armed Forces during the Federation War in 1975 and that he was kidnapped and smuggled into the United States of Megaton and Columbia to be conducted and used as a subject for scientists working for the project. He was buried in a cemetery for military veterans in the St. Ark Federation.

Aftermath
In the aftermath of the Trostemb Incident which occured in 1984, the Trostemb State Asylum was partially destroyed. Most of its sections for convalescent and violent patients in lower levels were destroyed by the fires, however half of the facility was left intact as firefighters managed to put out the large fires in time, with many of the media covering the topic of what had occurred in the Trostemb State Asylum, a search was commenced in the Trostemb State Asylum and eventually the dark secrets of the facility was first uncovered when a team had discovered a basement full of rotting corpses complete with patient clothing and discovered the corpses of personnel and the former Chief Executive Officer of the Trostemb State Asylum. Documents were also stolen from the Trostemb State Asylum and some were burnt. The corpses were eventually carried out of the basement and after several autopsies another suspicion was detected after one of the corpses were identified as a missing villager from the rural areas of Bistonia during the Federation War in 1975. Corpses were eventually identified one by one and the majority of them were villagers missing from Bistonia. Suspicion quickly grew among the locals in Philadelphia including the authorities but autopsies were immediately halted suddenly.

In the aftermath of the Pennsylvania Crisis, towns surrounding the facility including Trostemb were devastated by the incident as homes and local businesses were destroyed and set on fire and many of their personal belongings and vehicles were stolen by the escapee groups. The total cost of the damage was estimated to be around over a hundred thousand dollars to rebuild. After the incident the USMC intelligence attempted to coverup the gaps that had been left covered such as covering up many of the personnels identities including doctors. A year later had passed and the Trostemb State Asylum was eventually restored and reopened, and personnel and doctors were allowed to return and get away completely from the crime until 1998.

Response
In the aftermath of the Pennsylvania Crisis and the Trostemb Incident, reactions were colossal. In the United States of Megaton and Columbia alone, many facilities had gradually spent the majority of its budget on security and defenses for many of its buildings, and locals responded in both furious and positive ways. After corpses were discovered in the so called Corpse Tunnel and many corpses were identified as local villagers who were missing in Bistonia during the Federation War, and many of the recent groups all originated from Bistonia that the Bistonian government responded to the incident.

Republic of Bistonia
After the discovery of corpses who were identified as missing people from Bistonia from the 1970s, the Bistonian government responded that the corpses should immediately be handed over to the Bistonian government where they could have a proper burial and the Bistonian government had suspicion of why many of the missing villagers and troops had ended up in the asylum, it wasn't until the leader of the riots in the Trostemb State Asylum was identified to be a SAAF veteran from the Federation War that Bistonia began sending fierce responses to the United States of Megaton and Columbia. After an investigation was held partially, the Bistonian government banned all USMC presence in the country. Eventually in 1993 many of the corpses were sent decades afterwards and they were given a proper burial.

In the later years, the Bistonian government was alerted about the declassification of the documents which stated that many of the villagers from Bistonia including troops that fought during the Federation War were kidnapped to conduct illegal activities such as mind control and to help with the continuation of Project MKUltra, however no responses were made.

St. Ark Federation
After the discovery of a few corpses of missing veterans from the Federation War including the leader of Juggie, the St. Ark Federation which was controlled by a military government at the time didn't respond to many of the evidence that was gathered about many of their nationals. Some government officials demanded that many of their corpses would be sent back to the St. Ark Federation where they could be given a proper burial, similar to what the Bistonian government had responded to.

Eventually in the end many of the veterans of the Federation War were transported back to the St. Ark Federation to be buried in a military cemetery miles away from the capital city.

Final Years
After the Trostemb Incident that occurred in 1984, the Trostemb State Asylum was restored and reopened next year after it was restored after a fire destroyed the lower levels, it continued to operate for 14 more years until it was closed down in 1998, during the Trostemb State Asylums final operations many of its staff responsible for burning and planning to kill most of its patients within the facility continued to work in the Trostemb State Asylum and they had completely got away with the crime. Many new patients arriving at the mental hospital were not aware that many of its remaining personnel were USMC intelligence disguising themselves. During the last 14 years many of its sections were partially closed down and the asylum was at around 50% of its capacity.

The Trostemb State Asylum reopened after thousands of dollars were spent rebuilding the lower levels of the facility, meanwhile leaving half of the facility to rot. Patients immediately arrived afterwards and unlike the previous groups some were treated fairly and they were not aware of the presence of USMC intelligence in the facility. None were killed as another attempt to continue Project MKUltra. Half of the facility was left dark after years of neglect. Authorities also continued to search for evidence or suspicion within the facility and continued to carry out corpses from the Corpse Tunnel which disturbed many of the patients residing there.

In 1991, the CEO of the Trostemb State Asylum, Lewinsky passed away at the age of 87. This was the beginning of the end of the Trostemb State Asylum as many of Lewinsky's colleagues struggle to continue operating the large and dilapidated facility. Lewinsky was buried near the front entrance of the asylum and he would continue to be buried there until the asylums closure where his corpse would be cremated.

In 1993, the Trostemb State Asylum closed down the farmland to patients and stopped maintaining it as part of the patients mental exercise. Most of the plants were taken out and a large field was set up.

In the year of 1994, personnel and patients from the Trostemb State Asylum came to the front entrance of the asylum to mourn the lives lost in the Trostemb Incident and the Pennsylvania Crisis during its 10th anniversary of the incident that occurred.

Closure
In the year of 1998, the Trostemb State Asylum was officially closed and many of the asylums personnel and doctors had completely disappeared from Pennsylvania after the closure, the reason for the Trostemb State Asylums closure was a result of the process of deinstitutionalization. Many of its patients were released and sent to houses for treatment. After its closure, everything including medical tools, documents and personal belongings were left abandoned after the closure. The grave of Lewinsky was excavated and transported to Trostemb to be cremated.

3 years after the Trostemb State Asylum officially closed, in 2001 vandals broke into the Trostemb State Asylum and began vandalizing and destroying many of the asylums furniture and walls. However afterwards over the years many of these vandals would be hospitalized after inhaling asbestos from the walls, they were arrested for vandalism afterwards. After news spread of vandals breaking into the facility, the town of Trostemb and its community contributed to clearing out the facility, furniture and personal belongings were taken out of the facility including doors.

The cleanup crew stumbled upon rooms containing documents and discovered vital and important documents which eventually uncovered the truth about what had happened, including backgrounds of certain personnel, doctors and the person responsible for the Trostemb State Asylum, Lewinsky.

Declassification
In 2002, documents from the Trostemb State Asylum were uncovered and released into the public. The documents contained backgrounds of former personnel, staff and mental patients from the Trostemb State Asylum, blowing their cover as a volunteer for the USMC intelligence agency. After further analyzation it was uncovered that the continuation of Project MKUltra was conducted including activities which were deemed illegal by the USMC government in the constitution. A search for many of the personnel and doctors was commenced and only a small amount of 6 people were captured. The rest had also passed away leaving many of the vital information left uncovered.

After documents had been uncovered, corpses of patients from the Trostemb State Asylum were exhumed and an autopsy was conducted and many of the results had baffled investigators into the case, as many of the patients did not pass away to a certain disease, but signs of blunt force and toxic chemicals were discovered which remained intact in the deceased. A trial was eventually held in which many of the doctors, locals and personnel were involved. Certain people such as the former repairman Samuel including eyewitnesses who were forced to be silent during the incident that occured in 1969. The doctors involved in Project MKUltra were deemed guilty and as a result they were sentenced to death despite their fragile state.

After the truth was uncovered regarding the origin of many of the patients and torture methods such as shoving a flagpole into the rectum and the continuous execution of groups of villagers kidnapped by the USMC intelligence agency,

Modern Day
In the modern day, the Trostemb State Asylum is a former shell of itself. It had been stripped away from its windows, furniture and priceless artifacts and many personal belongings. After the cleanup in 2001, the Trostemb State Asylum had been left completely empty and many of its utilities were stolen as scrap metal. The former farm which was turned into a field has turned into a forest and nature had taken over the entire asylum. The state of Pennsylvania has yet to make a decision either to demolish the Trostemb State Asylum or leave the asylum to rot, however the governor of Pennsylvania has decided not to demolish it due to its expensive cost, another reason to add to the facility not being demolished is the amount of asbestos used within the walls of the Trostemb State Asylum which is considered a hazard in their policies during the modern periods.

Legacy
The legacy of the Trostemb State Asylum was that it was one of the most gruesome locations involved with Project MKUltra, and that the damage it had caused across the entire state of Pennsylvania had been a memory that often resides within the locals, a memorial was constructed mourning many of the lives which had been lost as a result of the USMC intelligence agency's illegal activities. It had also become a negative part of diplomatic relations across the global world within the United States of Megaton and Columbia.

Notable patients

 * Juggie

Notable staff

 * Samuel
 * Lewinsky