The Dark Dreamer Project, initiated by RDA scientist Dr. Cordell Lovecraft, is known as the precursor to the Avatar Program.
The project was designed for transmitting mental processes – “thoughts” – to humans at a distance. With the basis of the project in place, Lovecraft was ordered to apply the project to interspecies communication. And thus, the Avatar Program was born.
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- Pandorapedia - The Avatar Program article