Gravitas

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Gravitas was an Earth technology company that conducted experimental and often controversial projects with great success. However, it was destroyed along with the rest of the Earth during the events instigated at Gravitas Facility and leading up to the game.

Company

The logo of Gravitas was a stylized strand of DNA, shaped to look like an hourglass. The Gravitas Facility lobby reception desk has this logo prominently displayed. Products Gravitas sold include the Thermo Nullifier, the Printing Pod, and the matter manipulator tools, that duplicants use to do errands. Most of the critters and plants are also bio-engineered by Gravitas.

The Temporal Bow

The Temporal Bow was the brainchild of Director Jackie Stern, a method of obtaining infinite energy through the fourth dimension. It works by vibrating sections of the forth dimension backwards and forwards in time. Unfortunately, what was meant to be a means of saving humanity during a time of political and economic strife ended up destroying it. While Stern claimed publicly that the Temporal Bow produced virtually no waste, in reality, it was generating hundreds of pounds of Neutronium every few hours, believed by Stern to be an autoimmune reaction of the universe to prevent contamination between timelines. This greatly disturbed Dr. Olivia Broussard, who warned Stern that the research they were conducting had the potential to destroy the world, but she was ignored.

Eventually, due to issues with the massive power consumption of the Printing Pod, Stern expressed a desire to build Temporal Bow technology into the Pod itself. Broussard was once again disturbed by this notion, but Stern insisted, stating that the world was doomed regardless. Some time later, Dr. Nikola Techna, who had designed the safety systems designed to prevent the Temporal Bow from destroying the world, had a breakdown over the use of the Temporal Bow in printing pods, informing Ruby that the world was doomed if anything went wrong and that the entire universe and time itself had the potential to be destroyed. He was right, and the utilization of the Temporal Bow technology in printing pods eventually tore the Earth apart.

Personnel

Those are the employees of Gravitas as they mentioned in the Lore of the game. Some of them also appear in the game as derived duplicants.

Director Jacquelyn Stern

The director of Gravitas Facility. Although she was a typical college student when she was going to school with Olivia, as time passes she is increasingly consumed with the Time's Bow, perhaps pressed by the need to solve humankind's problems, and takes severe risks rather than allow Dr. Broussard to take more time to do research. It is possible that the Director was directly related to the fracturing of Earth, starting the events of the game.

Jacquelyn Stern's office smelled strongly of artificial lemon, and the newspaper clipping of her and Olivia's time travellers' party was hung on the wall. She kept a picture of herself and Olivia at their college graduation in her desk, and wore thick glasses. She had a secret taste for gingersnaps.

Dr. Olivia Broussard

Dr. Olivia Broussard was the head of the Gravitas Bioengineering Department, and college friend of Director Stern. When she was onboarded, a copy of her genetic makeup was taken. At first she was deferential to the Director's orders, but later on she was increasingly uncomfortable with the ethical situation, and eventually quit from the colony project. She displayed a fond spot for some duplicant lab rats she had printed. Later on, the Colony AI is revealed to have been based on Dr. Broussard's brainmap.

Olivia and Jacquelyn threw a time travellers' party when they were undergrads, though nobody showed up. Olivia didn't seem bothered by this turn of events, stating that "It just meant more snacks for us!".

Dr. Holland

Dr. Holland was an employee at Gravitas, likely in the Engineering department. He worked on battery capacity and power, and was severely stressed by the need to prove results, to the point of having some minor mental breakdowns. The Director's personal attention didn't help matters, either. However, Dr. Broussard pushed him to take a break, and he felt much better afterwards. Also, he got a pet dog.

Dr. Banhi Ansari

  • Position: Robotics Department
  • Aliases: Pipsqueak, Banhi
  • Security code: B997
  • Mentioned in: Personal Journal: B835

May have been the "B.A." mentioned by the Robot Arm Artifact.

Dr. Devon Ross

Dr. Ross was an employee at Gravitas. They ran a food blog, Toast of the Town, that was nominated for the Blogjam Awards. Dr. Summers followed that blog.

The dupe Devon is referred to as "they" and their gender marker is X, and Dr. Ross is referred to as "they" in Re: devon's bloggg, so it's likely that Dr. Ross was nonbinary. In addition, dupes are referred to in a de-individualizing manner, such as "a Catalina", "this Burt", "Frankies are", "every Ren", they are often referred to as one of mutliple, but Devon's description is in singular form and still uses "they" to refer to them.

Dr. Ellie Jones

Dr. Jones was an employee at Gravitas, working in the Information and Statistics department, possibly as the department head. She was a notorious gossip, as evidenced by her email exchanges with Dr. Summers, and greatly enjoyed glittery things.

Dr. Joshua Summers

Dr. Summers was an employee at Gravitas, working in the Information and Statistics department. He was a friend of Dr. Jones, and often talked with her over email. Dr. Summers enjoyed Dr. Holland's food blog.

Dr. M. Sklodowska

Dr. Sklodowska was an employee at Gravitas, working in the Physics Department. She was one of the older employees working there, but was hired relatively recently. She had trouble using electronic devices, including email, and her friend Mr. Kraus helped teach her how to properly reply to an email thread.

Dr. Nikola Techna

Dr. Techna was an employee at Gravitas. He had spiky blonde hair and stole food from the communal fridge. Dr. Jones insinuated that she would delete his files if he didn't stop.

Mr. Otto Kraus

Mr. Otto Kraus was a PhD student and an employee at Gravitas. He was insecure and anxious, and had crippling student loan debt. He asked Dr. Summers why he was friends Dr. Jones, thinking she is mean.

Mr. Gunderson

Mr. "Stinky" Gunderson was a janitor at Gravitas. His nickname alludes to the fact that he tends to always have sweaty armpits and strong body odor. He was aware of the fact that Gravitas was conducting cloning experiments. Dr. Summers considered him a good janitor.

Personnel Coordinator

The Personnel Coordinator at Gravitas, whose name we do not know. They expressed concern about the company's bad PR to the Director, but she instructed her to ignore the articles and decline to comment when asked for statements.

Dr. "Bubbles" Bubare

Dr. "Bubbles" was an employee in the Bioengineering Department. She was college friends with Dr. "Pipsqueak" Ansari, who is also the reason the staff at Gravitas took to calling her Bubbles. Though she was aghast at the nickname at first, she and Dr. Ansari quickly reconnected and became best friends. Dr. Ansari also taught Bubbles how to do her hairstyle. Incidentally, the duplicant Bubbles has the same hair style as the duplicant Banhi.

Dr. Ashkan Seyed Ali

  • Position: unknown (most likely in robotics, possibly in ai development or bioengineering)
  • Aliases: Ashkan
  • Security code: unknown
  • Appears in: A Paradox, Pristine Fossil Artifact

Dr. Ali wrote a paper in which he noted a robot behaved like "a puppy that was lost in a teleportation experiment weeks ago", which alerted Dr. Broussard, who reviewed his work. Therefore he blew the cover-up of the Teleportation experiments which Jackie kept secret from Dr. Broussard since she disagrees with their moral and ethical implications. He is also noted as creating a technique to artificially create fossils, which is dubbed "The Ali Method"

Dr. Robin Nisbet

  • Position: unknown
  • Aliases: Nisbet
  • Appears in: Magma Lamp Artifact

Designs for the Magma Lamp are attributed to Dr. Nisbet.

Dr. Travaldo Farrington

  • Position: unknown (presumably in nuclear physics)
  • Aliases: Travaldo
  • Appears in: Radioactive Mood Ring Artifact

Dr. Farrington wrote his PhD thesis on "Novelty Uses for Radiochromatic Dyes".

Dr. Dylan "Nails" Winslow

  • Position: unknown
  • Aliases: Nails
  • Security code: B040
  • Appears in: Rubik's Cube Artifact

Dr. Winslow was once a regional Rubik's Cube champion.

Dr. Ren Sato

  • Position: unknown
  • Aliases: Ren
  • Security code: B083
  • Appears in: Moldavite Artifact

Dr. Sato once owned a piece of rare, museum-grade moldavite before it was stolen by an unknown individual. He suspected Director Stern but never was able to prove it.

Dr. Harold P. Moreson

Dr. Moreson wrote a paper theorizing that the Tornado Rock may have been a rare form of geode which failed to form any crystals inside. This paper is considered a likely factor in his hiring. His son, Calvin, was expelled from Brighthall Science Academy for "instigating a vitriolic verbal assault" against a guest speaker from Global Energy Inc, a company which occupied his home nation and led him to attend Brighthall as a refugee.

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