Nevrin
Nevrin was a large British research organisation established in 1910 and founded by Prof. Charles Edward Pomeroy. It was headquartered in Cambridge, though its flagship site, the Dalston Laboratory, was located in Dalston, Cumberland. While the company maintained the facade of a highly profitable chemical manufacturer, it in reality would be secretly funded by the governments of multiple countries in order to operate moonshot projects no country would ever publicly authorise. The sheer scale it operated on went unmatched by any other scientific organisation until at least the late-21st century.
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Trade name | Nevrin |
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Company type | Private |
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| Founded | January 1, 1910 in Cambridge, Great Britain |
| Founder | Charles Edward Pomeroy |
| Defunct | January 1, 1996 |
| Fate | Collapsed after the Island Containment Breach |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Great Britain |
Area served | Great Britain |
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Number of employees | 133,000 (Jan 1996) |
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The company developed several highly secret projects, such as the London Underground City and the Avernus Project, and performed cutting-edge research into areas such as deep earth drilling, nuclear physics, and materials science, decades ahead of competitors. In 1920, Nevrin developed the Fluid-Uranium Reactor, years before the first publicly known nuclear reactor, and in the 1960s, it pioneered research into theoretical physics and the nature of reality, developing Red Acid and the Cavity Reactor. It was the first to discover galraite on Earth, an exotic super-heavy element that enabled a crude version of bridge technology.
Nevrin is notable for the construction of three major underground cities across the world, which it performed in total secrecy utilising novel excavation methods. These included the London Underground City located underneath central London, built to study deep-earth geology and the behaviour of people in a closed-loop society; The Girvan Offshore Science Facility (GOSF) underneath an island off the coast of Scotland, built to conduct Nevrin's most dangerous experiments, including dimensional science; and the Venetian City below Montreal, which was used to study and extract deposits of galraite crystals in deep caverns below.
Leaks
In the late 20th century, other organisations began to take interest in Nevrin’s research activities as the sheer scale of its operational expansion meant inevitable leaks. The government of the United Kingdom tasked the Department for Esoterics with investigating Nevrin, specifically its operation at Ailsa Craig, but due to resource constraints, it failed to accomplish much of value before the Island Containment Breach. However, because of the DfE’s involvement, much of Nevrin’s activities managed to be documented, with the DfE managing to preserve some of the only surviving records of its activities.
The Soviets were far more successful in their active intelligence operation against Nevrin, succeeding in infiltrating the Island and reverse engineering its technology for use at the Trans-Siberian Research Complex (TSRC), and both the Council of Exotic Artefact Affairs (CEAA) and The Power Company also successfully compromised parts of the organisation with their own agents. Intelligence agencies from all over the world sent spies to infiltrate Nevrin, though it was predominantly the Soviets and the French who held the largest stake in Nevrin intelligence.
Legacy
After the disaster in the Girvan Offshore Science Facility, Charles Pomeroy was unable to live with the consequences of his actions, and in 1996, he took his own life. This resulted indirectly in the collapse of the company, after its leadership structure fell apart. In 2009, several ex-employees, including Charles' son Daniel Pomeroy, founded Küiser Laboratories; promising to follow in his footsteps and eventually reclaim what was left of the Girvan Offshore Science Facility to continue their research. Though the facility proved far too hazardous to be usable, Küiser went on to become one of the most influential companies in the early development of dimensional physics technology.
One explanation for Nevrin's secrecy was the philosophy of its founders that the world as a whole couldn't be trusted with such advanced technology, and that performing its experiments in private would allow them to work unhindered by laws regulating ethics. This was a controversial point which not all those who worked for Nevrin agreed with, but nevertheless it was retained until the company was dissolved.