The Past Era
The "Haven" compound became the home of the "Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Technologies Department".
With the help of Fabricators Inc., Gene. Tech. Inc. was able to set up a robotics manufacturing facility beneath the ice of Antartica. The facility was conceived as a way to develope robotics and artificial intelligences without being watched over by controlling governments. To keep the facility running they installed two geo-thermal generator and three nuclear generators as back-ups. The two geo-thermal generators were set-up to power the robotic's manufacturing plant. The three nuclear generators were set-up to maintain the main personnel facility and the the main control center. The main control center was originally created to house the main facility control consoles. Shortly after the facility was on-line, Cyberworks had a break-in and lost their A.R.C.H.I.E. 5 (Artificial Robot Cerebellum Housing Intellect Experiment number 5) proto-type. Not soon after that, the Haven Compound's main control room was shut down. The control room was turned into a secondary control room. There was no-longer a main control room. The facility was now controlled by what became known as "Command 1". "Command 1" was a new experimental fully-contained Artificial Intelligence. "Command 1" stood for "Central Organizing, Machine Maintance and Neural-creation Director proto-type number 1. "Command 1" saw the facility as it's body and regulated every thing occuring within it's walls. About three months later the cataclysm occurred.
The people of the Haven compound had been ready for this moment for quite some-time. The original plan was for everyone to go into stasis chambers for 6 months. at that point it was beleived that most if not all of the chaos should have died down by then. "Command 1" was installed so that by the time the people of the Haven compound came out of stasis the facility would not have had fallen into disrepair. In which case they'd be able to go on about their lives and possibly create a new kind of humanity. Unfortunately, things didn't go quite as planned.
During the cataclysm a rift openned within the facility. security robots were dispatched along with several other technical robots and scholar robots to determine what had occurred, unfortunately, as the robots went to investigate creatures began to come out of the rift. The monsters were dispatched rather quickly at first, and "Command 1" began to bring some of the higher ranking people out of stasis so they could take charge. Unfortuantely, while this was going on there were more monsters coming through that rift and several other rifts formed. The onslaught of the monsters was too much, and the robots were destroyed. The neo-terrans suffered a similair fate. Though a few had been revived, most were still asleep in their stasis chambers. "Command 1" was powerless. It shut itself down in haste not knowing what to do. A breif firefight broke out inside the facilty and the rifts closed, but not before almost 80% of the neo-terran population had been killed. After 5 hours of fighting all of the monsters were killed. During the attacks one of the computers main memory banks was damaged. From all appearances the facility had been basically destroyed, and "Command 1" had blown a power relay or something and was not responding to any kind of command. All power was shut down and the facility was totally dark. The remaining 23 survivers decided that their facility was lost and attempted to leave. They acquired all that they could salvage and loaded it into their Arrowhead Hovercrafts (huge hovercrafts shaped like arrow head). They all then opened the main doors to the outside and fled, setting explosives at the main entrance to collapse the facilty. None of them, nor ther descendants have ever been seen again.
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The New Era
The facility was not destroyed like it was planned, the explosives were faulty and didn't explode. The facility stayed hidden in the deep cold for several years, asleep. Several years later (who knows how long?), the facility began to come back on-line. "Command 1" had found a way to re-access the facility. The robot production plant became active, and robots were being produced left and right. The facility was quickly repaired (with about 5 months), and was soon fully working. "Command 1" began to send out bots to see what was out side, only to find that the doors had been covered with Ice. He quickly designed a new bot which he then used to break the doors open, and then dig their way out. At the surface of the ice was a calm sky. There was no snow falling, but the temperature was so cold that the robots began to crumble under their own power. After several tries, and failures "Command 1" gave up. It then decided to act on it's own for once, and decided to expand it's body/ the complex, and it redesigned it's robots for just that task. 5 years later, it discovered that there were some stasis chambers still intact inside a chamber that had supposedly collasped during the battle with the invading monsters. In this room there were 8 Neo-terrans, all in stasis. The computer core had been damaged and so there had been no record of these Neo-terrans in the facilty, except for one. One of the Neo-terrans in stasis was Timothy Jones. Shaun Jones's son. Timothy: as the data banks showed had an unstable power. he had the power to affect "time" though he did at a very unconscious level. He couldn't control the power and was thus put into stasis till there was a device created that would allow him to control his powers. "Command 1" used it's thinking capabilities and finally after 50 years of deep thouht and analysis figured out a way to do this. It required the total nullification of his power, if that was possible. "Command 1" decided to develope a device that would negate timothy's powers, though he's not yet developed it yet. . . . . .