Emil Salastas

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## Physical description

### Gender

Male

Emil Salastas is a character in QIA.

## Biography

Salastas is the Senior Analyst in charge of the Cortex at CERN.

Salastas had been handpicked by Erik Draper to run the Cortex, having impressed the Vice-President a number of times with his unwavering loyalty ("Echelon").

In October 2019, he picked up an as-yet unidentified report concerning Agent Sarah Cunnington, which he immediately brought to his superior. As a result, he was charged with putting a surveillance detail on Agent Cunnington, and gathering intelligence on her past, present and future. ("Manchester")

In late November, he received new intelligence concerning the 1811 Incident. Consequently, Agent Cunnington was summoned to Geneva for further investigations of the irregularities concerning her missions. This was in fact mostly a ruse concocted by Erik Draper, who wanted to meet with Sarah again; Draper ordered Salastas to monitor the invasive tests being run on her by Doctor Gessner and to intervene at a specific time, allowing Agent Taylor to rescue her. Later, Draper also ordered Salastas to increase the surveillance operation on Agent Cunnington. ("Geneva")

Unbeknownst to him, Agent Taylor - who had managed to manipulate his way into the Cortex to visit Salastas - planted a device enabling a direct uplink from the Eye to Director Hall's office in London. ("Geneva")

In May 2020, Draper tasked Salastas with accompanying fugitive Sarah Cunnington on a mission to Rome in 1981, to disrupt the surveillance equipment of the London Field Team and help exonerate Jack Harringer. This marked Salastas' first ever Jump ("Northolt").

As a consequence of this mission, Sarah was caught and arrested. Brent Hall cut a deal with Salastas to testify against her in his trial, which he did, in return for immunity for his own part in the crime. Salastas did not, however, sell out Draper, as he stated that the deal only entailed testifying against Sarah, not anyone else ("Justice").

During Erik's coup against Georges Bouchan, he tasked Salastas to find out who had purged the Eye's central archive of all records pertaining to Jarrad Foley. However, when Salastas came to present his findings, he revealed that the person responsible was Erik himself, though this was revealed shortly afterwards to have been the work of Bouchan, who had also manipulated the records and Salastas to pin it on Erik. ("Life")

### Future

At some point in the future, Salastas will hand over a dossier of information relating to Pariahs to Jack Harringer in the year 1937, in exchange for a large sum of money. Among these are documents relating to the mass-production of Pariahs, by CERN, in the year 2027, signed by himself, Jonas Gessner and Philip Walker. After handing the documents over, he will then witness Jack's murder at the hands of a Pariah, who retrieves this dossier, and will subsequently be arrested by local police. The documents will eventually end up in the hands of Erik Draper in the year 2020. ("Season One Prologue", "Echelon")

## Appearances

### Season One

"Season One Prologue", "Manchester" *(uncredited)*, "Geneva"

## Trivia

Salastas is rumoured to have unreciprocated feelings for one of his assistants, Janice Villanueva. ("Geneva")