Research Organizations
The ever-moving wheel of technology halts for none, not even the Storm. Though the Cataclysm may have wreaked havoc over the world, the dreams of humanity have not been quelled, and burn brightly still. Research organizations primarily aim to advance the progress of technology in fields of their choosing, and often hold close relationships with the Academy and the Library as the world's primary intellectual organizations. Corporations often involve themselves with research organizations, offsourcing their projects to a research group with sizable amounts of funding, and are large investors in the field of technological research, so long as the patents are accordingly transferred over should they show promising results. For such organizations, a certificate of graduation from the rigorous programs of the Academy are a basic requirement.
Empyrean Project
"To Retrieve our Legacy"
The Empyrean Project is a research group that operates in the bounds of the City of Dyon, which primarily aims its projects toward the rediscovery of spaceflight technology and developing an alternative form of weapons research that involves symbiosis with one's Legend, as opposed to the extraction of Legends from other beings as used by the Library. Lead by an enigmatic research director named Control, the Empyrean Project does not open its doors to the public, preferring to hide itself in a massive underground complex beneath an inconspicuous building in the Central Districts named the Tower of Acheron. Despite being based in Dyon, the Empyrean Project has been granted a hefty investment from Hermes Transportation Solutions, which has permitted their studies to additionally utilize the corporation's patented drive technology, in exchange for remitting their intermediary research results and development reports back to the respective organization.
Internal Departments
Suppression Team: With its building being built down to thirty floors into the depths of the Warrens, it is not uncommon for Manifestations to breach even the immensely dense hull plating and Containment Fields distributed across the facility. As such, the Suppression Team acts as the Empyrean Project's personal security program, consisting both of regular security officers and specialized units who have personally participated in using the organization's experimental technologies on Legend Realization that grant them enhanced abilities in dealing with the facility's endless siege in the bowels of the earth.
Empyrean Project Patents
Legend Realization - Rarely is it ever that one will see such a device outside of the bounds of the Tower of Acheron, although it is with this enigmatic machine that the Empyrean Project is capable of artificially modifying one's Legend so that it acts not only as a metaphysical presence, but a symbiotic assistant.