Motuna Bureau

The Motuna Bureau (Anglic: Gateway Bureau) was a clandestine, pseudo-scientific research bureau and think tank that operated within the Council Republic of Veikaia from 1982 to 2001 under the command of researcher and former civil war general Saro Boli Matori. Saro Matori is notable for having no formal academic education and being a follower of mid 20th century Veikan pseudoscientific theorist Esneri Jomori, known for his theory on the existence of a "Shared Human Consciousness" which surrounds planet earth and is composed of the unified subconscious of all human beings. This belief is what led Matori to use his large amounts of political capital to create the Motuna Bureau in 1982, taking advantage of the chaos in government and a lack of oversight from the central authorities. The Motuna Bureau engaged in a number of pseudoscientific research endeavors through its short active period, researching topics beyond the primary objective of accessing the shared human consciousness such as investigation into twin connections, astral projection, metaphysical manipulation of matter, psionics and psychics and many other failed experiments.

The bureau notably practiced human experimentation through the use of political prisoners. Prisoners were dosed with dangerous amounts of hallucinogens and other similar psychoactive substances to help them "achieve higher levels of consciousness" or "reach new planes of existence" according to declassified information. Human experimentation went against the constitution and laws of the Council Republic and was put forwards as one of the main crimes committed by Saro Matori and his team during his trial prior to his execution for corruption and crimes against humanity. The primary reason the bureau existed without any proper government oversight for almost 20 years is believed to be related to the chaotic reconstruction period Veikaia was undergoing at the time and a large number of fabricated successful research reports sent by Matori, which were also used as evidence during his trial for corruption.

In 2000 a massive anti-corruption campaign was launched by the Congress of Councils which targeted a number of major organizations and agencies within government which had been created decades prior, this campaign eliminated a large number of "leech" organizations which had been created for the purpose of corruption. In 2001 the Motuna Bureau was investigated and promptly shut down, with most of its members being arrested and trialed for either corruption, crimes against humanity or both. The bureau's existence was kept secret for two more decades before classified information related to it being released in 2021 as part of a government transparency program, although it's believed a large number of documentation relating to it is still classified.

Some members of the Motuna Bureau avoided prosecution and still remain active within the Veikan scientific community, although they are mostly discredited as frauds. Many books and papers on the topic of the Motuna Bureau and its supposed discoveries have been published through the years both locally and abroad by many authors, particularly its connection with paranormal activity. The Motuna Bureau has influenced a number of pseudoscientific researchers in Veikaia in the years after its official declassification.

Background
The basis for the Motuna Bureau comes from the earlier works of a number of Veikan pseudoscientific self-proclaimed researchers, who proposed a number of concepts steeped in deep Veikan esoteric and cosmist tradition. Concepts such as the "shared human subconsciousness", which were later deeply researched by the bureau in an attempt to weaponize it, were born in the early 20th century and further explored by a number of writers in the mid parts of the century. Benardo Jomori was the first to propose the existence of a shared subconsciousness, which he used to expand his philosophical ideals. If he truly believed in it is unknown, but many of his followers do consider the subconsciousness to be a real physical manifestation of humanity's global subconscious. Years after, many other writers expanded on this belief and deeply entrenched it in the minds of many esoteric and occult practitioners in the Kingdom of Veikaia, one of which was young communist Saro Matori, who came to join the People's Red Front through the Veikan Civil War and amassed fame and respect from his peers while keeping his occult inclinations mostly hidden from Red Front high command.

Matori's beliefs were a mixture of classic Veikan Triuvist-Pagan occultism with Marxist and Najiluvist dialectics, which created strange results. He believed that through the use of occult ritual and metaphysical research the communist party could ensure its victory over the capitalist "world-regime". Secret writings, discovered during his trial for corruption, showed plans for "Communist Psychic Supersoldiers" and other extreme and physically impossible goals, which were attempted during the time the Motuna Bureau was active. Matori's mental health was examined but he was determined to be of sound mind and body, which exacerbated his crimes for the court.