

To combat this new threat, a CIA-backed organization called Requiem was established by the Deputy Director of the DS&A to combat the undead hordes and discover the source of the dimensional breaches. Under Omega Group's orders, Lieutenant Orlov and Officer Medvedev, despite their eventual demises, successfully reactivated the cyclotron, and as a result, caused smaller dimensional tears to open across the world. In 1983, Omega Group, seeking to harness the Dark Aether's power for themselves, came to find the abandoned Projekt Endstation site, seeking to reactivate the cyclotron simply for the repercussions. Zykov was successful, despite his disappearance, and the dimensional tear to the Dark Aether was closed for the time being.

Determined to stop the breach, NVKD Colonel Pavel Lazarev sealed a man by the name of Kazimir Zykov inside the facility in a desperate attempt to deactivate the cyclotron. One week after the facility's abandonment on February 3rd, the site was discovered by the Soviets, who stumbled upon the undead inhabiting the facility and the still-active cyclotron.

Operation Baldr took place on January 27th, with Endstation's personnel evacuating the area and Vogel overseeing the arrival of Task Force Baldr into the other dimension. With the Reich's defeat drawing ever closer, Ulrich Vogel proposed "Operation Baldr", a plan that would send a Nazi army through the Dark Aether to return to an Endstation lab in Berlin sometime in the future. With this sudden breakthrough, Projekt Endstation began redirecting it focus from atomic research to harnessing the power of the Dark Aether, more specifically Exo-Element 1 (later referred to as Aetherium). Five days later, Vogel reports that the cyclotron was now powering itself, and that through the use of observational instruments, the team of Projekt Endstation discovered the existence of the Dark Aether parallel to their own universe. On March 7th, 1944, during the twelfth test run of the cyclotron, the device would malfunction and breach the Dimensional Membrane to the Dark Aether, leading to an infestation of necrotized soldiers, as well as several artifacts bon ded to var ious Elder Gods originating from the Dark Aether activating. The project, helmed by Doctor Ulrich Vogel, was intended to oversee the creation and production of atomic armaments for the war with the use of an experimental cyclotron particle accelerator. On August 3rd, 1943, under the authorization of Doctor Kurt Diebner, Projekt Endstation was established at a remote site in Morasko, Poland.
