Research Facility Zeta

Research Facility Zeta is a special facility located near Halcyon Tower. It is a facility with a reputation among the residents of Typhon as a particularly dangerous place to work, "home to untold horrors that cannot be destroyed, and can barely be contained."

The nature of the containment of these creatures is detailed in "A Very Safe Position". Each of the holding pens for these creatures has a set amount of time which researchers and caretakers are allowed before they must exit; any longer, and Ærolith Dynamics must assume that they have been somehow compromised. Each pen has a chamber which acts like an airlock, which must be passed through to enter or exit the holding pen, that seals automatically when the allowable time has elapsed. Steel catwalks above the pens allow overseers to monitor caretakers, and determine in difficult cases if there is a chance that the residents below have been compromised. In cases where the risk may exist, caretakers and researchers inside the sealed chamber are executed by the overseers, who can depressurize the entry chamber. In the event that the overseer feels that a caretaker is not at risk of compromise despite the amount of time in the holding pen, the overseer can also choose to release them. Despite their role in making these decisions, the overseers are not told what is inside the holding pens.

The average lifespan for caretakers at Research Facility Zeta is two days. As of "Judgement Day", the standing record was seventeen days, at which point the resident in question was transferred to Argos Tower.

In "Do Not Stop Running", when an object struck Halcyon Tower, some of the containment facilities in Research Facility Zeta were damaged causing an emergency situation in the tower.