After Norton Utilities consolidated its position in the marketplace with the acquisition of both the Waterworks and the Electric Company, development began on new technologies that would allow previously unrealizable levels of computer support. Initially a single human, the original Peter Norton was hired as a computer consultant and lured into the Norton Utilities' Great Underground Lair, where he was sterilized and euthanized. After hacking into his gene stream, his DNA was duplicated and injected into walrus eggs, which matured and hatched into Peter Norton clones.