TRI Building - Hub

The Hub is the administrative, communications, and dispatch center of the Institute building. Reception halls, briefing rooms, archives, security checkpoints, and freight elevators converge here; personnel, samples, equipment, and data from throughout the building once passed through it. Unfiled documents remain on desks, wall screens cycle through city surveillance images and unrecognized spectra, and internal announcements continue calling departments that have already left. Records from entity research and power systems ultimately flow into the Hub, where communications and freight reports from other levels are also transferred. The Institute's private army uses it as the command core for the entire controlled zone, guarding communications stations, dispatch rooms, and layered checkpoints with its strictest security. The Hub resembles a command center still in operation, but deleted schedules and sealed archives show that many decisions were never disclosed to ordinary researchers.