The Big Picture

[tsofian]

It dawns on me that The Rich 5 and Krell may well be why the Project has never been uncovered by the media. Since these two groups are at best living in the same set of shadows that MP is hiding and at worst are actually parasites off MP they have a vested interest in ensuring no lights are shone into that particular corner. Both groups are absolutely willing to kill to achieve their goals, and kill in cold blood and in large quantities. Perhaps MP has been unwittingly protected by some very very bad people.

[Project_Sardonicus]

If one goes with the latest edition of the MP then armageddon is not only inevitable, but it gets worse.
Sort of like the classic Butterfly effect scifi scenario.

Appalling nuclear war averted?

Fate gives you appalling nuclear war plus a planet killer meteorite.

So who ever knew about this dark fate would simply make their own plans and not try and either avert the apocalypse or for that matter the Project.

The Snake Eaters may have been an example of a poorly thought out government plan, to simply take over the project when it woke up. Krell perhaps a privately more organised and better thought through attempt.

The project may have been puttering around, getting ready for the apocalypse unaware or at some level unbothered it was very much a known quantity.