The Cryo Preservation Archive was constructed during Gelime’s golden age, a monumental testament to the Great Inquiry. Designed to store biological samples in absolute zero stasis for future study, it was a holy site of The Axiom. This facility embodied the preservation of knowledge against the relentless entropy of time, a beacon of scientific and cultural reverence.

However, three years ago, a darker chapter began with General Kaelen Thorne's seizure of the archive. Under the guise of infrastructure stability, the Dominion converted its lower levels into a clandestine weapons testing ground. Their aim was to weaponize the planet's industrial solvents into a potent bio-acid, capable of melting through the heavy armor of the Trade Constellation’s enforcers.

This act was a profound violation of every tenet of Gelimian culture, twisting a symbol of preservation into an instrument of destruction. Six months ago, the facility abruptly went dark, its operations ceasing without warning. The official Dominion report attributed the blackout to a structural collapse caused by seismic activity.

Yet, whispers of the Null Hypothesis paint a different, more chilling picture. It is believed a sympathizer scientist, adhering to the moral imperative of the Collective Understanding, sabotaged the thermal regulators. This act caused the acid vats to boil over while the cryo systems went into overdrive to compensate, transforming the facility into a frozen toxic tomb.

Following the disaster, the Dominion sealed the heavy blast doors, leaving their research and potentially their researchers trapped inside. Fearful of the political fallout, they mounted neither a rescue nor a cleanup operation. Today, the Cryo Preservation Archive remains critically unstable, heavily contaminated, and under strict quarantine.