Area 51 Blacksite -

Location: Deep beneath the Papoose Lake bed (the real "Area 6" adjacent to Groom Lake). Date: Operational from 1961. Officially, it "does not exist."

The Varuna Protocol is shut down in 1991. But the sphere is too dangerous to move. It stays in The Vault. area 51 blacksite

The military realizes: the sphere isn't a machine. It's a neural interface . It doesn't speak; it broadcasts . Location: Deep beneath the Papoose Lake bed (the