Advanced Research Department

The Advanced Research Department or ARD was an extension of Practan College at St Oscar's University on Dellah. (PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!) The Department Head was Professor Santos Silvera, (PROSE: Mean Streets, The Medusa Effect, Tears of the Oracle) and its security chief was Jarl Kendrick. (PROSE: Mean Streets)

The Department's only entrance was a pair of black doors that were constantly guarded by two Goll (PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!, Dragons' Wrath, Mean Streets, The Medusa Effect) and watched by a security camera. Legends held that the building was kept in continual darkness and used by alien researchers. The projects in the Department brought Dellah money from off-planet. (PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!)

The Department was hired by DevCorps to find a solution to the psychopathic side effects of the Project's genetic manipulations. (PROSE: Mean Streets) Another of the Department's projects involved the spaceship Medusa. (PROSE: The Medusa Effect)

Forsyth Kerven was a historian and archivist at the ARD. (PROSE: The Medusa Effect)

After the invasion of Dellah by the Gods, (PROSE: Where Angels Fear) the Advanced Research centre was the last part of the university left standing. (PROSE: Tears of the Oracle)