The [REDACTED] Islands

Presenting to the world as an ornithological research station, the GATE Finial Observation Facility is the organization's most recently established institute. Situated on the [REDACTED] Islands, the facility's site was chosen for the extraordinary convergence of geomagnetic and telluric forces that meet approximately 6 kilometers offshore and 3 kilometers deep, beneath the seabed. While even more intense loci are theorized to exist deeper in the planet's interior, no site known on the Earth's surface presents a more intense force nexus this close to the surface.

The [REDACTED] Islands are the site of a megalithic trilithon structure whose creators remain unknown. Precisely how such an edifice was produced and erected in this place, and by whom, is a topic of active study. Its age is believed to be approximately 6000 years, although evidence of even earlier activity exists at the site, resulting in ongoing 'discouragement and disruption tactics' against non-GATE researchers being carried out by its operatives stationed there. Its purpose is theorized as solar observation and measurement, possibly connected to the geomagnetic maxima, which modelling suggests spikes dramatically every [REDACTED] years.