Gravitas

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.

## 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

* **Position**: Director
* **Aliases:** Jackie, Director
* **Security code:** A001
* **Appears in:** Moved Rats, Employee Processing, Revisited Numbers, Nucleoid Article, Byproduct Notes, Possible Applications, Planetary Echoes, Director's Notes, Re: Implant Database\_Request, Re: Objectionable Request, Campus Newspaper Article, Time's Arrow Thoughts
* **Mentioned in:** Personal Journal: B556, Pipedream, Personal Journal: B556, Duplicant Memory Solution, Polite Request, Preliminary Calculations, Personal Journal: B111

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

* **Position:** Head of Bioengineering Department
* **Aliases:** brainmap.AI
* **Security code:** B111
* **Appears in:** Employee Processing, Moved Rats, Pipedream, Revisited Numbers, Sunflower Seeds, Planetary Echoes, Campus Newspaper Article, Re: Objectionable Request, Re: Have you seen this?, Re: Implant Database Request, Log entries, Research Notes, Personal Journal: B111
* **Mentioned in:** Personal Journal: A046, Personal Journal: B556, Welcome, New Employee

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

* **Position:** Technician, possibly Engineering
* **Security code:** B556
* **Appears in:** Ants, Personal Journal: B556
* **Mentioned in:** Re: dr. holland's dog, Personal Journal: B111

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
* **Mentioned in:** Personal Journal: B835

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

### Dr. Devon Mason

* **Aliases:** Devon
* **Mentioned in:** Re: devon's bloggg, Vacation Request Approved

Dr. Mason 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. Mason is referred to as "they" in Re: devon's bloggg, so it's likely that Dr. Mason 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

* **Position:** Information and Statistics Department
* **Aliases:** Ellie
* **Security code:** A435
* **Appears in:** Office Cake, Revisited Numbers, Results from Atomicon, Re: devon's bloggg, Hiiiii!, Re: dr. holland.27s dog, Re: MY PENS, Preliminary Calculations, Re: omg the janitor, The Laws of Thermodynamics

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

* **Position:** Information and Statistics Department
* **Aliases:** Joshua
* **Appears in:** Office Cake, Re: devon's bloggg, Re:\_dr. holland's dog, Re: omg the janitor

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

* **Position:** Physics Department
* **Aliases:** Marie or Mi-Ma? (More likely Mi-Ma, given her grey hair)
* **Security code:** A046
* **Appears in:** Personal Journal: A046, RE: To Otto - Spec Changes,

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

* **Aliases:** Nikola
* **Mentioned in:** Email\_content#Hiiiii.21: Hiiiii!

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

* **Position:** Physics Department
* **Aliases:** Otto
* **Security code:** B327
* **Appears in:** Office Cake, Personal Journal: B327, Personal Journal: B556, RE: To Otto - Spec Changes, Spec Changes
* **Mentioned in:** Personal Journal: A046, The Laws of Thermodynamics
* **Possibly appears in:** New Security System?, They Stole Our DNA

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

* **Position:** Janitor
* **Aliases:** Stinky
* **Appears in:** Cleaning up the Mess
* **Mentioned in:** Re: omg the janitor

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

* **Position:** Personnel Coordinator
* **Appears in:** Welcome, New Employee, Re: Have you seen this?

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

* **Position:** Bioengineering Department
* **Aliases:** Bubbles
* **Security code:** B835
* **Appears in:** Personal Journal: B835, In Space

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 (likely in Artificial Intelligence Programming)
* **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
* **Appears in:** Rubik's Cube Artifact

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

### Dr. Ren Sato

* **Position:** unknown
* **Aliases:** Ren
* **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

* **Position:** Geology department
* **Aliases:** Harold
* **Mentioned in:** Tornado Rock Artifact

Dr. Moreson theorized that the tornado rock could have been a geode that failed to form any crystals inside. the paper that he wrote about the subject is stated to be a likely factor in him being hired at Gravitas