- See also: Niantic Inc
The Niantic Project is a think-tank formed by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), an American intelligence agency that works in fringe science, to study a recently discovered quantum phenomenon, Exotic Matter (XM).
The NIA suspected that this Exotic Matter (XM) affecting human behaviour so they assembled a diverse team of artists, scientists and academics to study it.
Like all of the NIA's projects the Niantic Project was named after a sunken ship.
Research and Development[]
The Niantic Project created a scanner (now also known as Ingress) to detect and harness Exotic Matter (XM). Using it they found that Exotic Matter (XM) has been around us for a very long time and that it enters our world through special places, "Portals". People have been feeling the portals for millennia and marked them with art, temples, monuments etc. but they never knew why they were doing it.
It turned out that there is a signal in the Exotic Matter (XM) that touches the human brain and that it can inspire and awaken creativity in some people but others only sense fear and distrust in it. Out of this two factions formed, the Enlightened 
that see the Exotic Matter (XM) as an opportunity and the Resistance 
that sees it as a threat.
Incidents[]
Eventually the scanner leaked and started spreading. The NIA covered it up, disguising it as a game called Ingress.
During "Epiphany Night", a technology test gone wrong everyone in the lab got exposed to dangerours high levels of Exotic Matter (XM). Two researchers Devra Bogdanovich and Roland Jarvis tried to escape but NIA security forces caught up with them in Zurich.[1][2]
Locations[]
- Niantic Project Laboratory (Geneva, Switzerland)[1]
- ADACORE Data Center (Geneva, Switzerland)[3]
- Janus Lab (Geneva, Switzerland)[4]
- Niantic Project Facility (Geneva, Switzerland)[5]
- Niantic Research Facility CERN (Geneva, Switzerland)[6]
- Lima Lab (Geneva, Switzerland)[7]
Members[]
- Dr. Devra Bogdanovich (Quantum Biologist/Head of the Niantic Project)[8]
- Roland Jarvis
- ADA (full name: A Detection Algorithm)
- Victor Kureze[9]
- Dr. Ezekiel Calvin[9]
- Dr. Yuri Alaric Nagassa (former Researcher)[9][10][11]
- Dr. Oliver Lynton-Wolfe (Researcher)[4][9][12][13]
- Jay Phillips (Director of Security)[14]
- Ken Owen (Narrative Management)[14]
- Misty Hannah (Research Subject)[3]
- Henry Bowles (Lead Developer)[15]
- Dr. Martin Schubert[6]
- Carrie Campbell (aka. 'Klue'/Semiotician/former Researcher)[16]
- Henry "Hank" Holland Johnson (former Researcher)[17][18]
- Dr. Stein Lightman (former Researcher)[11]
Referances[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Classified dossier about Devra Bogdanovich and Roland Jarvis from the NIA's "NIA Persons of Interest"-Database
- ↑ Ingress Video: "The Ingress Story" (5. Nov. 2018) [YouTube]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Transcript of recorded phone call
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Transcript of recording in Janus Lab
- ↑ Transcript of surveillance video of Niantic Project Facility
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Newspaper article about death of Dr. Victor Kureze
- ↑ Transcript of recording in Lima Lab
- ↑ Classified dossier from the NIA's "NIA Persons of Interest"-Database
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 E-Mail from Victor Kureze to Dr. Ezekiel Calvin
- ↑ E-Mail from Dr. Yuri Alaric to Dr. Devra Bogdanovich
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Transcript of intercepted phone call
- ↑ E-Mail from Dr. Lynton-Wolfe to Dr. Ezekiel Calvin
- ↑ Chat between Oliver Lynton-Wolfe and Zeke
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 Transcript of recording in Office of Jay Phillips
- ↑ Transcript of recording in ADACORE Data Center
- ↑ Transcript of intercepted E-Mail
- ↑ Transcript of intercepted phone call
- ↑ Transcript of intercepted E-Mail