White Alligator

White Alligator was the name of a project in Academy City meant to move past the limits set in the Parameter List, but ended up differently from it's originally intended purpose.

The original plan
At first, White Alligator was a project whose primary goal was to move past the limits set by the Parameter List, as most individual Espers, however, simply have a lack of potential and as such are unable to move past a certain set limit. Such are most Espers of Level 1, 2 and 3. Ironically, while most people think that there is a limit that is not possible to bypass, it has been revealed that it actually is possible, but would require simply to much financial resources and time and as such, Academy City rather sabotages classes as means to conceal the truth. This indicates the experiment might have been an attempt to overcome said financial shortages.

Outcome
While originally meant to reduce the needs for additional funding and create more powerful Espers, this project turned in to an Level 4 mass production, as they were more stable and considerably easier to control than the Level 5 Espers. As per usual for the Esper-related experiments, this experiment caused severe mental damage to it's participants, such as Aizono Mio. It was mentioned that the factors in the experiment that have caused this were the harsh training and the conditioning she received.

End of White Alligator
At some point, for reasons unknown, this experiment was shut down and Aizono Mio ended up loosing her humanity. As for the scandals and incidents afterwards, like the Exposure of Crystallized Esper Essence on Child Errors Experiment, the higher ups of Academy City quickly covered it up.

Known test subjects in the White Alligator project

 * Aizono Mio
 * Other unnamed Espers (mentioned to have become a Level 4 mass production program).
 * It isn't known for sure how many participants were involved in the project.

Trivia

 * Aizono Mio is the only so far successful Level 4 produced by this project known by name.
 * Despite what is so far shown with Academy City's higher ups often being willing to invest great resources in high Level Esper production, this experiment was eventually terminated. This probably implies that they either hadn't enough funding, or that to the multiple Level 4's they created also suffered from severe mental damage due to the experiment thus would make the participants as uncontrollable as the Level 5's which was part of the purpose of the experiment they sought to avoid.