The University of Talaris (UT) was “originally established as a joint US–Philippine advanced research campus” and is “the birthplace of IO Fox’s early VDMH-1 cold-fusion work.” It occupies “a gentler valley running from mid-slope down toward a secondary harbor,” and forms Compact Barangay 04 (the “Talaris Technopark”) of The JD Strip.
IO took a research post here after failing to secure an H-1B visa, and it was here he engineered VDMH-1. UT is also the heartland of the technocrat Resonance Coalition (see Talaris Political Factions).