Project Argonaut was a group dedicated to investigation of exotic locations and Strange Places encountered by agents of the Æon Society. It was a sister organization to Project Talos (unusual objects) and Project Cyclops (flora and fauna). Much of their research was on locations previously collected into the Babel Dossier, or on locations destined to end up listed there.
History[]
Argonaut was initially founded to catalogue interesting and exotic locations discovered by the Æon Society, ranging from rare-but-mundane discoveries such as crystal caverns, to bizarre Strange Places where other dimensions overlapped our own.
After the disappearance of Project Talos, director Jason Falconeri created a new joint splinter initiative between Cyclops and Argonaut in 1963: Polyphemus.
Much of Argonaut's esoteric research was handled under Polyphemus, while the main body of the Project focused increasingly on more mundane applications, after it was brought under the Triton Foundation in 1986. Their goals expanded to cover research on geology and ecology that might yield valuable data for Triton's pharmaceutical research.
Background Information[]
- In Greek mythology, an Argonaut was a one of a band of 50 heroes who joined Jason on the ship Argo to fetch the Golden Fleece. Like Odysseus' ship in the earlier Odyssey, the Argo travels to many strange locations while on their journey.
References[]
- TC: Storypath Tasty Bit: Polyphemus, p. 1
- TC: Trinity Continuum: Aberrant Rulebook, p. 109