- "CIA operative and businesswoman Savannah Mason-Meyer recruits some of the world's most elite soldiers for a secret initiative entitled Project Blackout, using Combat Immersion simulation technology to train them."
- — Black Ops Timeline, treyarch.com[1]
Project Blackout was a covert CIA project founded and run by Savannah Mason-Meyer. The goal of the project was to gather some of the world's most elite soldiers. Alongside this, Project Blackout was also responsible for seemingly resurrecting the dead - returning them to life as "Archetypes".
Savananah Mason-Meyer has handpicked members to Project Blackout: David "Prophet" Wilkes, Tavo "Nomad" Rojas, He "Seraph" Zhen-Zhen, Krystof "Firebreak" Hejek, Donnie "Ruin" Walsh, Kieran "Torque" Mackay, Katsumi "Recon" Kimura, Jarrah "Crash" Bazley, Erin "Battery" Baker, and Kerk "Ajax" Rossouw. These members were all recruited to Project Blackout and were trained through the use of Combat Immersion.
As seen in the Specialist HQ videos, several Specialists have left Savannah in favor of joining Jessica Mason-Green, to fight back against Savannah.
Alongside recruiting the Specialists, Project Blackout was also responsible for reviving the Archetypes - Viktor Reznov, Alex Mason, Frank Woods, Raul Menendez, and Jason Hudson.
Trivia[]
- It appears Project Blackout and the Blackout mode are both connected:
- In the Specialist HQ Intel file "The Running Woman", Battery says that "People are actually dying out there in the zone" and that she sees shapes, which Ruin corrects by saying they're actually numbers - Likely referring to the Collapse in Blackout.
- In the Specialist HQ Intel file "Angel Heart," Menendez says that "Sites are under construction all over the world." In Blackout, there are some construction sites.
- In the Specialist HQ cutscene "It's YOU in the box," the Archetypes Woods and Mason are at the Asylum from Blackout.
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