Chaos; Boundless Curiosity's Perilous Allure
Dr. Violetta Caine was always an unusually curious child, constantly taking things apart to see how they worked, sometimes successfully putting them back together again. As she grew older in the 1930s, Violetta's interest in experimental science intensified even as societal expectations for young ladies discouraged such intellectual pursuits. But she resolutely pursued physics and chemistry in university, pioneering new formulations and hypotheses well ahead of their time.
After graduating top of her class, Dr. Caine's unquenchable curiosity could finally be unleashed in her own laboratory. She pioneered new energetic reactions between exotic compounds that pushed boundaries and yielded unexpected results - both wondrous and destructive. Despite cautions from fellow scientists, Violetta relished dancing along the knife's edge of discovery through ever more volatile trials.
In the 1950s, she built a secluded research facility in the New Mexico desert far from prying eyes. There Dr. Caine could conduct even more dangerous experiments on radiation, space-time, and decoding the primal forces underlying our universe. She puzzled together particle accelerators, cosmic ray collectors, and quantum field manipulators of her own unique design.
Late one fateful night in 1956 in pursuit of harnessing cosmic rays to generate boundless energy, Violetta initiated a reaction that cracked open a tiny spacetime fissure. As she desperately tried containing the rupture, a massive explosion erupted spreading chaos energy through the laboratory. Violetta was engulfed along with her reckless dream.
Today it's said that what remains of the demolished laboratory contains lingering "chaos rifts" creating bizarre localized space-time distortions and radiation. Those who dare visit have reported unexplained equipment failures, violent lightning strikes from clear skies, and glowing apparitions that seem to warp and shuffle reality nearby. Some claim to have spotted the crazed ghost of Dr. Caine herself frantically working controls to reopen a rift, heedless of further destruction that might ensue. For boundless curiosity cannot be contained, even by death itself. The restless chaos energy and its source remain...
