Transmat:Locations

Pharos Institute

The Pharos Institute was a scientific organisation that experimented with the latest advances in technology. One of its lead scientists was Celeste Rivers, a woman who provided considerable technical assistance to Sarah Jane Smith and her young friends from Bannerman Road. Sarah's first time on the Pharos grounds was in 2008, when the Pharos Institute were tapping the vast potential of the MITRE telekinetic headset. However, the organisation had been infiltrated by Korst Gogg Thek Lutiven-Day Slitheen, who was manipulating the researchers so that the headset could be used for sinister purposes.

Sarah Jane Smith broke into the Institute and stole the prototype for Mr Smith to examine. Korst and two other Slitheen, working in collusion with Mr Smith, took Luke Smith hostage and wired him into the stolen headset. The resultant telekinetic power was to be drained and sold off piece by piece but Mr Smith used it to nearly bring the Moon crashing into the Earth. The disaster was finally averted by a reformed Mr Smith, whom Sarah Jane had reprogrammed with a computer virus.