The Shadow Committee, an anonymous group of hackers primarily based in Turkey that emerged in the decade before the Collapse. While they were adept at infiltrating systems and harvesting data, their real achievement was the creation of a hyper-realistic virtual world that simulated the feelings of real life better than anything that had come before it. Created as a secret garden of virtual delights for the founding members of the Shadow Committee, whispers about it became legendary in elite online communities, eventually drawing the attention of both Dr. Marcus Taylor and Friday Adeyemi. It was Dr. Taylor who had the idea to use the architecture that Gölge Komitesi had created as the basis for the Everreach, the utopian virtual world that unites the bunkers of the Ark. Nobody is entirely certain what happened to Gölge Komitesi following the Everreach coming online. It is presumed that many of their members died in the Collapse itself, although many are almost certainly lurking within the Everreach, either in the four factions or a secret one of their own. While it is said that those who were in Gölge Komitesi feel proud that they helped create the Everreach, there are rumors that others resent the incursion on a world that was supposed to be entirely their own.