On the surface, it appears to be a humble elevator shaft, but it leads down to the submerged ruins of the ancient Zeboim Civilization. Bishop Stone, a member of the Ethos Society, was digging in this region in order to find Kim Kasim's lab and, more importantly, his 'daughter', Emeralda Kasim, a young girl made entirely out of nanomachines. He intended to take her to Karellen in Solaris, who would harvest nanomachines from her and use them to further the M Project, the revival of Deus.