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October 12
[Aberrant] Proteus agent Talpa informs Director Thetis that he's "uncovered quite a bit", but has "no direct access to the Babel Dossier yet." Apparently, Æon keeps its secret files on a private network, separate from the OpNet and from everything else he could detect. He mentions that his orders to avoid Margaret Mercer make it awkward, as he needs either her approval or a unanimous vote of the Æon Council to get Dossier access; he asks her if, to that end, she could please pull whatever strings (he thought) she has with the Council.

2004
[Aberrant] Project Utopia opens a special Rashoud facility in Bahrain. This facility is ostensibly designed to assist novas with high levels of quantum buildup, but Utopia is given leeway to confine novas considered in need of therapy by the UN as a whole. The facility's opening is not publicized, nor are the media or public allowed on the facility's grounds, though documentaries of its existence soon flood the OpNet. (Unbeknownst to the world at large, it also serves as the new headquarters of Project Proteus, providing the Babel Dossier with a new home and "volunteering" the tainted novas interned there as test subjects for research on taint cures.)