Eastern Commission on The Anomaly
Eastern Commission on The Anomaly
The Eastern Commission on The Anomaly was one of the three independent regional investigative bodies formed early in Illuminatian history for the purpose of studying the events that led to the termination of the Lucidus mission and the subsequent settlement of the Neonisi planet.
The commission was organized specifically to engage in its own original research to learn more about the scientific causes and technical consequences of The Anomaly and to form its own conclusions about the implications of the theoretical mechanisms and astronomical hypotheses best suited to explain The Anomaly.
The newly-founded Illuminatian government established the Eastern Commission along with the Northern Commission and the Western Commission concurrently with one another but in complete isolation from each other. This was done to ensure completely independent research and results that stood upon separate merits. Secretly, the Illuminatian government also wished for the commissions to surreptitiously provide insights regarding suspected differences between the three known multiversal duplications of Lucidus survivors in Illuminatia by way of examination of potential investigative results that might diverge from those of a given commission's two companion commissions.
The Eastern Commission, along with the other two commissions, began its work within dozens of AU of the introduction of human settlement to the Neonisi planet.
The Eastern Commission was composed exclusively of researchers and assets derived only from the geographic region occupied by the First Multiversal Duplication. Exclusivity of the origins of the individuals operating all facets of the commission to within the same multiversal duplication was non-negotiable. Additionally, all research, observation, and fact collecting was required to take place within the territory occupied by First Multiversal Duplication survivors. This territory was generally confined to the areas adjacent to Randall Bay which would later largely become part of the Randall Bay Megalopolitan Complex, including settlements and inland areas south of the Timmons Range and north of the Modal Peninsula portion of the southern Transilluminatian Range. This region was the most geographically restricted of the three commissions, as the Lucidus modules from the First Multiversal Duplication all landed much nearer to one another compared to those of the Second and Third multiversal duplications.
Much like the other two commissions, the Eastern Commission was able to make observations and arrive at conclusions that were largely the same as its peer commissions but which varied in a limited variety of minor ways. It is not entirely understood what characteristics of the First Multiversal Duplication population might explain these differences. Yet the Eastern Commission, along with its companion commissions, were able to provide some insight into temperamental differences among the three multiversal populations that later became more evident to sociologists and cultural anthropologists.