People of the Institute

The case files name 61 people. 18 of them have a page of their own here, which gathers every file and journal find that names them; they stand in the order the files first name them. The rest are listed in the roster below.

Director Ilse VargaState engineer who built the site; the first DirectorYears 1 to 20 Viktor BrandtForeman of the shaft crew that found T-001Year 1 Mara OkaforCorporal of the first guard; head of the response team; trainer of the surveys and the runsYears 1 to 46 Jonas BergNight technician of the sealed levelYears 5 to 46 Dr Selma KaderThe Institute's physicistYears 2 to 23 Aron MellNight guard of the observation wing; taken by the mirrorTo year 9 Tomas RehnTechnician from year 11; led the first survey and the retrieval runs; head of research; keeper of the catalogueYear 11 on Director Hanne LindThe second DirectorYear 20 on Lina DahlSurveyor and survey lead; Dahl's rule bears her nameYears 24 to 40 Viktor SaarSurveyor and survey leadYears 25 to 30 Dr Hanna EkMedical officer of the surveysYears 25 to 35 Erik HaldenResponse team officer; field team leader; head of the response team; the wardenYears 29 to 48 Ruth AbelSurveyor; later the technician who tested the objectsYears 29 to 40 Anneli SundPlanned and led the lost expeditionYears 30 to 32 Petr LaskSurveyor of the lost expedition; kept its bearingsYears 30 to 32 Kerstin HolmThe Institute's liaison on the space agency's flightsYears 38 to 44 Ines VarroLeader of the colony's survey teamYears 42 to 43 Sami LehtoResponse team; wore the maskYears 45 to 48

Others named in the files

These people are named in one file or a few. Each number opens a file that names them.

Name	Who	Years	Files
Ove Lindqvist	Shaft crew; the first to put an arm into T-001; watchman until his death	Years 1 to 26	T-001, T-014
Private Dag Sorensen	Response team; crippled by the first rift brute; trained the new guards from his chair	Year 2 on	T-003
Gunnel Ahl	Tunnel worker; survivor of the second crew in the service tunnels	Year 4	T-004
Halvard Nyqvist	Shift engineer of the tunnel crews	Year 4	T-004
Benny	Tunnel worker; lost in the service tunnels	Year 4	T-004
Ekdahl	Night staff; among the first to hear the echo	Year 5	T-005
Irja Palm	Cleaner; lost to the echo	Year 5	T-005
Lisbet Krantz	Technician; cut the first sample of the growth and worked the first burn	Year 7	T-006
Guard Holt	Guard on the burn crew	Year 12	T-006
Rune Falk	Day guard; met the mirror	Year 9	T-007
Hans Berglund	Archive clerk; found in the room that pulls	Year 14	T-009
Elsa Moberg	Stores clerk; kept the stores log	Year 15	T-011
Nils Ostrow	Guard; fired unheard in the silent room	Year 17	T-012
Dr Arvid Sjö	Researcher of the biology lab; died of cold	Year 18	T-013
Dr Maj Ekelund	Researcher of the biology lab; died of cold	Year 18	T-013
Lennart Vik	Guard; missing in the records room	Year 20	T-014
Ingvar Tell	Guard; killed among the replays	Year 21	T-015
Bo Ringdahl	Guard of the observation wing	Year 23	T-016
M. Kask	Surveyor	Years 26 to 30	T-022, T-023, T-029
J. Rask	Surveyor	Years 26 to 30	T-023, T-024, T-025, T-026, T-028, T-029
Oskar Nyberg	Surveyor; the first surveyor lost beyond T-001	Year 27	T-024
E. Strand	Surveyor; struck by the statue	Year 29	T-027
D. Fors	Surveyor; killed by the choir	Year 30	T-029
Sofia Hedman	Quartermaster	Year 31	T-030
Aho	Surveyor of the lost expedition	Year 32	T-031
Mo	Surveyor of the lost expedition	Year 32	T-031
Elin Brask	Surveyor on the fourth search	Year 33	T-032
K. Moen	Surveyor on the fourth search	Year 33	T-033
Mats Ekholm	Surveyor on the retrieval runs	Years 35 to 40	T-036, T-039, T-040, T-042
Ilja Korhonen	Surveyor on the retrieval runs	Years 36 to 39	T-038, T-040
Sven Aalto	Quartermaster of the runs	Year 38	T-040
Haas	Response team; lost in the hangar	Year 41	T-043
Lindqvist	Response team; lost in the hangar	Year 41	T-043
Ruben Achterberg	Technician of the launch site	Years 41 to 42	T-044
Dana Okonkwo	Surveyor of the colony; taken by the burrower	Year 42	T-045
Sofie Lund	Night technician of the sealed level; kept the last camera log	Years 43 to 48	T-046, T-055
Jan Ferreira	Crewman of the launch site; among the first infected	Year 44	T-048
Greta Vinter	Hunter; gave the first account of the toxic wolves	Year 45	T-049
Brandt	Response team; bitten in the forest, lost on the sealed level	Years 45 to 48	T-049, T-050, T-053, T-055
Kowalczyk	Response team; bitten in the forest	Year 45	T-049
Ole Sandberg	Response team; lost at the nuclear plant	Year 46	T-051, T-052
Leah Mbeki	The Institute’s doctor	Year 46	T-051
Mats	Survivor on the wall of an island home; died of the toxic mutant’s blow	Year 48	T-056