Founded in 1892, Prometheus Labs was dedicated to researching anomalous objects for use in developing new technologies. Over the years, Prometheus Labs developed into a multinational conglomerate selling advanced and anomalous technologies to governments, militaries, and Groups of Interest. Throughout its
history, Prometheus Labs displayed a nominal amount of cooperation with Foundation efforts to protect normalcy, and at times
even collaborated with the Foundation, but refused to cease its
study of anomalies and resisted Foundation oversight.
In 1998, following a
long period of financial decline, the Prometheus Labs conglomerate was dissolved, resulting in the creation of numerous successor companies formed from its subsidiaries. The breakup of the conglomerate was fraught with technical and administrative difficulties, resulting in the
loss of many products and the layoffs of numerous personnel. Most of the former
projects of Prometheus Labs now in containment were recovered during this
time, and many of its former employees were hired by the Foundation.
