Dr. Edna Pierse was the lead researcher of the Parakinesiology Department for the Federal Bureau of Control.
Biography[]
Dr. Pierse believed that the Furnace in the Maintenance Sector was sentient, and even potentially a code omega paranatural entity, claiming that it had talked to her multiple times. Despite this, Head of Research Casper Darling refused to allocate funding to her department, which led her to take investigation of the Furnace "into [her] own hands." She attempted to record one such conversation with the Furnace to prove her point, in which she seemed to believe the Furnace wanted to be "fed" with human sacrifices, though only standard mechanical noises can be heard in the final recording.[1] Nevertheless, Dr. Darling still considered her as a potential staffer for the new Dimensional Research department.[2]
Pierse and her team also investigated the Formation in Quarry Site Beta and built a permanent ritual detection system to assist Rangers in determining when the causal tethers around the Formation were active.[3]