Pharos Institute

The Pharos Institute was a scientific organisation experimenting with telekinesis. Specifically, it investigated the potential of the MITRE headset to amplify telekinetic energy with explosive results.

The technology behind the MITRE headset may well have originated off-world.

One of the scientists working at the institute was Professor Rivers. The institute was also assisted in it's research by Nathan Goss, an arrogant boy genius who was in fact Korst Gogg Thek Lutiven-Day Slitheen of the family Slitheen in disguise.

An "original" of Nathan Goss may or may not have existed.

Sarah Jane Smith broke into the institute and stole a headset 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 nearly brought The Moon into a collision course with the Earth, but disaster was finally averted by Mr Smith, whom Sarah Jane had disabled with a virus and reprogrammed. (SJA: The Lost Boy)

The next year Sarah Jane went there to find a comet that landed in Germany 700 years before 2009. Rivers thanked her for dealing with Nathan Gross as she did not know that danger that he posed. She took a sample opf the comet in order to defeat the Pied Piper. (SJA: Day of the Clown)