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{{Quote|We built the device in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar. An observatory, yes, but I think of it as a mind-ship. Capable of displacing its payload across space and time.|[[Maya Sundaresh]] in a letter to [[Chioma Esi]]}} | {{Quote|We built the device in mimicry of the Vex gateway systems from Ishtar. An observatory, yes, but I think of it as a mind-ship. Capable of displacing its payload across space and time.|[[Maya Sundaresh]] in a letter to [[Chioma Esi]]}} | ||
The Device was designed and built by a team of scientists in Lhasa, among them [[Maya Sundaresh]], who had left the [[Ishtar Academy]] some time prior. It was designed to emulate [[Vex]] technology that had been studied by the Ishtar Academy on [[Venus]]. <ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/ghost-fragment-vex-5?highlight=maya+sundaresh</ref> | The Device was designed and built by a team of scientists in Lhasa, among them [[Maya Sundaresh]], who had left the [[Ishtar Academy]] some time prior. It was designed to emulate [[Vex]] technology that had been studied by the Ishtar Academy on [[Venus]]. <ref>https://www.ishtar-collective.net/cards/ghost-fragment-vex-5?highlight=maya+sundaresh</ref> The Device was intended for intelligence-gathering purposes, and was designated with the label "SxISR" on its exterior, an abbreviation presumably indicating its status as a special asset for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance.<ref>https://www.acronymfinder.com/ISR.html</ref> | ||
During the initial tests of the Device, volunteer test subjects experienced a variety of disturbing visions or cognitive effects, in at least one case resulting in a suicide. The seeming capriciousness of the Device caused many members of the research team to become superstitious, hoping that by engaging in ritualistic behavior they might encourage the Device to work more reliably. | During the initial tests of the Device, volunteer test subjects experienced a variety of disturbing visions or cognitive effects, in at least one case resulting in a suicide. A "supervisory warmind" involved with the project, presumably Rasputin or one of his subminds, developed a drug intended to help protect subjects during use of the Device, but this appears to have been ineffective. The seeming capriciousness of the Device caused many members of the research team to become superstitious, hoping that by engaging in ritualistic behavior they might encourage the Device to work more reliably. | ||
After the [[Collapse]], the Device came into the possession of the [[Future War Cult]], who continued to use it and log their experiences as additions to the same journal that had been kept by Maya Sundaresh. | After the [[Collapse]], the Device came into the possession of the [[Future War Cult]], who continued to use it and log their experiences as additions to the same journal that had been kept by Maya Sundaresh. | ||