This triggered a system failure and released a massive magnetic surge that caused Flight 815 to break-up in mid-air and crash on the Island.

Kelvin introduced Desmond to the protocol, which he described as 'saving the world.' He didn't share further details about the Swan, including the Incident and the fail-safe key, until a drunken conversation years later.ĭesmond killed Kelvin outside the station on Septemand returned too late to push the button in a timely fashion. Radzinsky committed suicide, leaving Inman alone and awaiting a replacement until Desmond Hume landed on the Island in 2001. Stuart Radzinsky, the station's designer, was running the protocol in the early 1990s, when Kelvin Inman joined him.Īfter the Island's natives eliminated the DHARMA Initiative, Radzinsky and Inman continued pushing the button. It was recommended that they work in alternating shifts in pushing the button. In case the protocol failed, the Initiative installed a fail-safe that would destroy and seal the leak with unknown consequences for whoever activated it.ĭHARMA assigned personnel to the station in teams of two for a tour of duty lasting 540 days. The protocol had to run within a 4-minute period every 108 minutes - a countdown timer tracked this time, and an alarm sounded during the 4-minute window. An excessively large buildup could lead to a global catastrophe. The Initiative designed the Swan protocol to discharge the amassed energy. Following this incident, an electrical charge continuously accumulated at the Swan site. A nuclear device also entered the pocket, further complicating matters. The Swan was originally designed for experiments, but during construction, the DHARMA Initiative punctured the research site's electromagnetic pocket.

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