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Anteverse 188 is regarded by GATE researchers as a stable self-nucleated spatial 'exception'. Believed to be a refuge outside our universe, it may constitute an actual Anteverse, but those studying it argue whether it technically qualifies - seeming to exist precisely nowhere, there is nothing detectable beyond its bounds. Optical measurements indicate the glass is between 10 and 15 meters thick, but no data has been successfully garnered beyond that. Neither can it be directly exited. As such, the entity is currently classified as an 'exception'. Dr. Martin Jessup notes that Anteverse 188 may bear similarities to Anteverse 11's superpositional state. That is not to say one cannot leave. TransRecon Team 4 noted an intense density of perforation signatures connecting several locations on Earth. These are frequent enough to have 'imprinted' on the local continuum, and appear to cluster seasonally, as if heavy perforation traffic occurred regularly, for certain brief periods.

Anteverse 188's origins have provoked an unusual amount of debate among GATE researchers. The region appears to represent an 'idealized space' brought into being by forces unknown, and governed by laws that GATE staff are yet to fully fathom. At some stage in A188's history, it would also seem that a secondary entity was introduced: IS-0127, one of the more curious - and potentially dangerous - subjects yet encountered by GATE. Further, Anteverse 188 appears to present a psychical hazard. The first GATE scientist who visited Anteverse 188, Dr. Simon Harkness (TransRecon Team 4), seems to have become compelled to don specific festive clothing items and return to the location. He now refuses to leave, except on certain dates - and then only briefly. No amount of intervention, restraint or therapy has managed to persuade him otherwise. At this time, Dr. Harkness is checked in on bi-weekly by project staff while further investigation continues. Dr. Martin Jessup has speculated that the psychical threat of IS-0127 is part of its fundamental nature: in 'forging the Snow Globe from an internal blueprint, memory or mental image', its creator ignored their own 'subconscious vectors', which also formed a part of the creation. IS-0127 may therefore have been, Jessup suggests, 'accidentially instantiated in the same act of creation as the Snow Globe itself'. In contrast, Dr. Daria Kale has proposed that Anteverse 188 is little more than an elaborate trap mechanism, created by or for IS-0127 itself, to imprison or liquidate another, unidentified entity. In her words, 'the A188 / 0127 complex suggests a lethal lure or attempt to ensnare some unknown organism, of which IS-0127 is either a predator or, possibly, nemesis.' There have been a handful of reported sightings of a secondary humanoid entity, tentatively designated IS-0105-B, but no contact has been made. Options for further investigation are currently before GATE's Research Ethics Committee.