Dr. Martini

1. Summary

Dr. Martini is the D6 scientist who leads the Phenomenal Remapping Hypothesis, the view that the Skull Helmet acts on aspects of conscious experience more fundamental than ordinary neural processing. He is convinced, and says openly, that the helmet is extraterrestrial technology.

2. Identity

• Name: Dr. Martini.
• Position: a scientist of D6's Skull Helmet research.
• Position in the dispute: the principal advocate of the Phenomenal Remapping Hypothesis.

3. Personality

He is intellectually forceful, outspoken, and dismissive of colleagues whom he considers excessively conservative.

4. Background

What he argues, and how his colleagues receive it, is described with the hypothesis. See: Phenomena › Qualia And Anomalous Information.

5. Role in the Story

His interpretation is one of the competing explanations the player reconstructs from D6's records; the game establishes none of them as correct. See: Artifacts and Technology › Skull Helmet.

6. Relationships

• The supporters of the Neural Reorganization Hypothesis: his intellectual opponents within D6. See: Phenomena › Qualia And Anomalous Information.

7. Gameplay Role

The disagreements he takes part in appear in internal correspondence, meeting records, scientific annotations, and personal research notes.

8. Open Questions

• His fate in the 1999 catastrophe is not defined.
• Whether he is Researcher B of the D6 internal discussion transcript is not defined. See: In-World Documents › D6 Research Division Internal Discussion Transcript.