However, others intended a different purpose for the Eden Project. After the "Super Ark" capable of housing hundreds of people was created, its new purpose was unknown even to its original residents and planners. On the night that Apophis struck, the military personnel stationed at the Ark site performed a coup lead by General Martin Cross and interred themselves within the Ark, leaving the original residents to their fates. This group of soldiers were to emerge into the new world as a group calling themselves the Authority, and they would remake the shattered world in the image of one man's vision.