Juniper Project

The Juniper Project was started in the late 20th century after the discovery of the Juniper Tree. The Tree was an alien probe that could create synthetic life, and the Project's purpose was to use it to make an army of soldiers. The initial results in 1981, called Scions, were pacifistic and thus deemed a failure. In 1991, Jack Harkness moved the project and the Juniper Tree to Rawbone, where they started creating Scions as children for the town. When the aliens who created the Tree arrived on Earth in 2011 and saw what the Project had done, they destroyed the Scions and the Tree. (PROSE: First Born)