Advanced Idea Mechanics (Earth-6531)

"I've a proposal I'm putting together myself. It's a privately funded think tank called Advanced Idea Mechanics. Or A.I.M. for short."

- - Aldrich Killian to Tony Stark

Advanced Idea Mechanics (A.I.M.) was a scientific and pharmaceutical development company founded and hosted by Aldrich Killian. Funded by the United States government, it helped the military develop biological weapons, as well as the study of enemy technology in the War on Terror. Covertly it financed the fake terrorist known as the Mandarin, and experimented upon the Extremis, which gave its users superhuman abilities.

History
A.I.M. was founded by Aldrich Killian in 1999. At the Bern 2000 conference in Bern, Switzerland, Killian attempted to recruit Tony Stark, CEO of Stark Industries, to fund his company, but he failed, turning his attention to Maya Hansen, the developer of Extremis.

However, as time passed, Killian eventually tried to use Extremis in soldiers with PTSD as his personal henchmen. He and Hansen hired Trevor Slattery, a failed British actor to portray the fictional character of the "Mandarin", serving as a proxy leader of the real life terrorist group Ten Rings. In the next years, A.I.M. bombed numerous locations across the United States duo to experimentation with Extremis, which was killing its hosts, but the Ten Rings and the Mandarin took the blame for these acts.

In order to start a proxy war, Killian, the actual Mandarin, plotted to kill Matthew Ellis, President of the United States, and replace him with Vincent Rodriguez, his Vice President, who was secretly working with Killian alongside other high-ranking political officers, to seize all the resources for the War on Terror in order to ensure the conflict never ended.

Known Staff Members

 * Mandarin
 * Maya Hansen
 * Eric Savin
 * Ellen Brandt