The Black Box

The headquarters of the Division of Scientific & Technology Investigation is one of the most heavily guarded locations in the galaxy. The Black Box is a massive, 6 mile cube of Warsteel designed with the sole intention of preserving humanity.

Description
The Black Box Prime is a cube of thousand foot thick laminated warsteel (nearly 35 cubic miles of warsteel), protected by planetary grade battlescreens, Layers of molten rock, Temporal stabilization, dimensional anchors, temporal/dimensional resonance fields, a bleeding edge EWAR suite, psychic screens, and an extremely inhospitable environment around it's entrance. The black box is capable of surviving a direct blast from a supernova. The black box is also extremely secretive, protecting it's locations, it's sites, and it's very existence.

Internally, it is secured with Warborg patrols, every electronic system is protected by VIs, a singularity and antimatter self destruct is built in, and individuals are completely isolated. There is only one entrance, buried under a mountain in an extremely inhospitable region, possibly Australia. Mat-Trans systems link it to ancillary sites scattered throughout the galaxy, which cannot be accessed outside of the prime Black Box. They are heavily defended, hidden, and durable.These systems can be given to valuable individuals as research sites.

The black box operates under hundreds of names and shell corporations for budget requests and releasing information to the public. It is associated with the TerraSol Military Intelligence Agency. It is completely self sufficient, capable of removing itself from time and space during times of war, only communicating by secure quantum link. People who die in the black box are fed to reclamation systems.

Goals and Directives
The Black Box's sole purpose is to preserve humanity. They have no ethical or moral directives, and conduct harsh research when needed. The Warsteel of the Black Box has become imprinted with screams of pain and suffering. The Black Box releases beneficial information and research, and has on occasions revived extinct species. However, they only do this as a result of research into why the species went extinct. They conduct groundbreaking research into every known subject just in case it will be useful. Terran Descent humans and allied race researchers work in it, but allied races are not permitted to leave or communicate out.

The black box would expend any resources to do so, including purchasing companies, issuing pardons, and offering "unlimited resources."

Researchers of every type are found in the black box, including mathematicians and social scientists; criminal backgrounds or moral defects are not considered an issue. Mantid staff members are raised and educated on site.