Project Longinus (comic story)

Project: Longinus was the first part of the The Forge comic series written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright. It featured Nimrod, the head of the Forge.

Summary
Five miles beneath Edinburgh, Nimrod falls out of a ventilation shaft into the fifth floor of Hecht Museum of Unexplained and Occult Material. Across the museum, curator Rhona McAndrew brings her phonecall to an end after her security systems detect an intruder.

Nimrod finds what he came to the museum for, the Lance of Longinus, and begins scanning it with Oracle. McAndrew walks into the room and shoots Nimrod. Unfortunately for her Nimrod is unaffected because of his vampirism and he reaches out and snaps her neck. He swabs the body's mouth and uses McAndrew's DNA to deactivate the museum's security protocols. He then collects the Longinus and walks out of the museum into the streets of Edinburgh.

Characters

 * Nimrod
 * Rhona McAndrew

Worldbuilding

 * The Hecht uses the same security system as Fort Knox.
 * The Hecht recently outbid Opus Dei and the Seventh Order of Lucifer on a relic.
 * The Hecht contains the foreskin of Merlin and heads resembling those of a Raxacoricofallapatorian and a Cyberman.
 * Constantine I, Alexander the Great, and Adolf Hitler all wrongly believed that they had obtained the Lance of Longinus.

Continuity

 * Nimrod uses a portable Oracle unit. (PROSE: Project: Valhalla)
 * The Third Doctor and Jo Grant also encountered the Lance of Longinus during their travels. (PROSE: The Spear of Destiny)