For viewers, consider it a refresher course at the start of the new season. The Swan station was the first discovered by the fictional survivors of Oceanic Flight After an entire season of living off of the land and remnants from the plane wreckage, finding this station provided food, soap, showers and even a record player — a radical shift in livability.
At the heart of this station an electromagnetic charge had to be manually diffused every minutes, creating dramatic tension until one survivor took it into his hands to let the timer run out. The Staff station contains a nursery as well as associated medical equipment. It has helped fuel speculation of possible diseases either created on or meant to be cured on the island. One pregnant survivor was abducted early in the series and taken to this station to be monitored.
It is not clear whether the station was established for pregnancy-related or simply general medical purposes. The Pearl represents an experiment within an experiment: a psychological study performed on people who believed they were themselves studying others. Ultimately, they never knew that their reports went forever unread. The Arrow is a relative mystery. The station still had power and light, operated by some kind of switchbox.
No Arrow-specific Orientation Film was found, but an aborted take was shown being filmed. The tail section survivors of Oceanic Flight lived here before merging with the middle section survivors. See also: Horace Goodspeed. According to its orientation film , the Swan was originally a laboratory "where scientists could work to understand the unique electromagnetic fluctuations emanating from this sector of the Island". However, after an " Incident ", a protocol had to be followed in which two people would take shifts pressing a button inputting the Numbers into a Computer every minutes for days, at the end of which time replacements would arrive to take the place of the previous inhabitants.
It was located in the southern region of the Island, about a mile inland of the crash of Flight There was a fail safe switch, whose function if activated still remains mysterious.
The switch was activated and the station imploded following the discharge. See also: the Hatch Swan Exterior. The station itself existed in three parts.
The outside was a paddock for cows ; inside was a living area, some storage, and a computer room. Underneath a rug was a door to a lower hatch area. The Flame was also rigged with a self-destruct feature consisting of C-4 explosive wired throughout the lower level. When Locke entered the code "77" into the Flame's computer, the self-destruct sequence was initiated and the Flame exploded soon after Kate and Locke left.
See also: " Enter 77 ". There was also a hidden camera present in the Pearl, indicating they and not the Swan residents were the subject of the experiment. The station consisted of a corridor with an octagonal tunnel leading down by ladder to the outside and one large, octagonal room, in which nine television sets were fed live surveillance pictures. There appeared to be damage to this station: missing panels in the roof, loose wires, boulder in room.
There were no living quarters for the Pearl's personnel, as they only served in eight -hour shifts. However, there was a still-working toilet in a room placed left in the station.
See also: "? It was also visited by Juliet and Sun when they went to find out the date of Sun's conception " D. According to the station's position in the blast door map, it appeared to be located in the western portion of the Island. No Staff-specific Orientation Film was found, and unlike the Swan and the Arrow stations, there was no "Quarantine" warning on any of the doors of the station. See also: Station explorers.
See also: " Through the Looking Glass, Part 2 ". See also: " The Other Woman ". See also: " ". Lostpedia Explore. Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? View source. In the s, Dharma detected special electromagnetic properties beneath the island's surface and began drilling into the ground to learn more. Upon breaching this pocket of energy, however, the electromagnetism became unstable, leading to what became known as "the Incident. Desmond Hume was the last man to take this job and, after failing to input the code within the allotted time, he triggered a fail-safe procedure that destroyed the Swan and negated the electromagnetism completely.
After blowing open the hatch and finding Desmond still plugging away, the Lost survivors use the Swan as their main shelter, since the station's long-term worker shifts meant the station was designed to be comfortable, well-stocked and homely. One of the Swan's blast doors has an ultra-violet map of the island painted by Dharma members Radzinsky and Inman.
Discovered in Lost season 3, the Flame is a communications station, featuring a large satellite dish on the roof that could send messages both across the island and to the outside world, as well as receive broadcast transmissions from across the globe. The network of cables found on Lost 's island can all be traced back to the Flame and the station was rigged with C-4 explosives to prevent its technology and resources falling into the hands of the Others.
Following the Dharma purge, the Flame was inhabited by the eyepatch-clad Mikhail and this is who the survivors meet when they first arrive at the station. One of the Flame's key components is a computer loaded with a rudimentary chess game but, as Locke discovers, victory allows the user to send out certain special codes, including requests for supplies and "77," which triggers the destruction of the Flame station.
The Pearl is essentially an isolated surveillance station that can monitor other Dharma facilities across the island, but later served as part of a wider psychological experiment. Since the Pearl was built entirely underground, the entrance is marked by a question mark symbol shaped into the jungle grass using salt.
Pearl employees were encouraged to observe and make notes on their colleagues over at the Swan and this discovery convinced Jack Shepard that the inputting of numbers to prevent an unknown catastrophe was nothing more than another Dharma study.
However, those working at the Pearl were later revealed as the true test subjects, and their observation notebooks were implied to be part of Dharma's mental testing. After filling their notebooks with data, the Pearl's staff would send them away via pneumatic tube, however a group of survivors later find these capsules abandoned at a dump site, suggesting Dharma had no real interest in observing the mental state of those at the Swan. Another vital function of the Pearl is to automatically log accepted codes and system failures that occur at the Swan, and this is how Desmond proves the cause of Oceanic 's crash.
One of the final stations to appear on Lost , the Orchid's exterior posed as a botanical research facility with a large greenhouse, but its true purpose was the development and study of time travel. The Orchid is built over a far more ancient chamber containing a frost-covered wheel that harnesses the natural energy of the island to manipulate time and space, and the Orchid's experiments revolve around this same energy source.
Dharma's tests in this field were largely conducted on rabbits, which were sent milliseconds out of time, but it's later suggested that similar experiments were conducted on polar bears and possibly even human corpses. Despite being able to power Lost 's time travel , the underground energy available at the Orchid was said to pale in comparison to the pocket of electromagnetism present beneath the Swan station.
Located deep underwater, Dharma's Looking Glass station will most likely be remembered as the scene of Charlie's tragic death , in which the character risked everything to warn his friends about a troublesome transmission.
The Looking Glass served as a secondary communications outpost, but performed a very different function than that of the Flame station. Lost 's island was notoriously difficult to navigate and with Dharma relying on submarines to ferry in new scientists from the outside world, the Looking Glass sent out a beacon that would guide the vessels towards the island.
The Others also use the machinery at the Looking Glass station to jam communications between the Oceanic survivors and the outside.
After the Dharma stations were taken over by the Others, Ben Linus pretended to his followers that the Looking Glass was flooded, but secretly had a small team working there in order to maintain the disruption of communications. The Staff acts as one of several medical facilities the Dharma Initiative constructed on the island, although since generic, unnamed infirmaries are also seen, it's likely that medical research was also conducted at this site.
Workers at the Staff were responsible for ensuring newcomers were injected with a certain vaccine, although it's never clear what disease the jab supposedly prevents, suggesting a deeper experiment may have been taking place.
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