The Scientis were freelancers working remotely on islands away from the mainland to study the new mineral found in the waters of the islands. The mineral was concluded to be highly reactive, and after the months of testing, the joint abilities of the tested substances appeared to be very reactive with living cells. Most animal tests caused them to die, and the rest of results is left secret. We know that later they started using these on eachother, and sent the 4th member of their team to find more minerals in the mainland. The mixtures seemed to have amazing properties, allowing for plenty of new abbilities for humans, and the enhancment of the current ones. Batches of Agments as they called them, were sent back to the mainland to help people. They were quickly found to have malicious uses as well, which concerned a lot of people, but three scientists now split across islands, were still developing new kinds of agments, right until The Great Cleansing happened.