The DHARMA Initiative collapsed or was destroyed off the Island as well, although the details of this remain unclear. Modernized DHARMA logo as seen at Comic-Con 2008. In the MaOfficial Lost Podcast, Carlton Cuse said he did not believe that The Others knew about the Swan station, but acknowledged that they might have observed the Swan through the monitors at the Pearl. Radzinsky committed suicide at an unknown date, and Inman, the last known member of the Initiative on the Island, died September 22, 2004. Other than those DHARMA members who joined the Others (such as Benjamin Linus and Ethan Rom), there are only two DHARMA members on the Island who are known to have survived the Purge: Stuart Radzinsky and Kelvin Inman, who remained in The Swan after the Purge. For example, the polar bears escaped from their cages during the collapse, according to Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse in the Official Lost Podcasts. The Hostiles continue to survive today as the group Danielle Rousseau, the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 and the survivors of the freighter Kahana call " the Others".Īfter the slaughter, some of the DHARMA projects on the Island collapsed. The bodies of those killed in the attack were piled into an open mass grave in the jungle. Staff at The Swan survived, as they were sealed inside their station, and other DHARMA members, including Benjamin Linus and Ethan Rom, survived by joining the Hostiles. The Hostiles launched a toxic gas attack on the Barracks (and possibly other locations) that killed nearly all DHARMA personnel on the Island. Regardless of the cause, the conflict ended on the 19th of December in 1987 or 1992 with an event known as the Purge. The conflict between the two does not appear to have been helped by the appearance of the time shifting survivors in 1974-1977.
#THE DHARMA STORE PROFESSIONAL#
On August 15, 1973, DHARMA and the Hostiles agreed to a Truce, and an uneasy peace existed between them for nearly two decades.ĭHARMA appears not only to have violated the Truce but to have taken steps as the conflict escalated, including devoting one of their stations ( The Arrow) to developing new strategies against the Hostiles, installation of security cameras and other monitoring systems, weapon stockpiles (unusual for a utopian community), and even having a professional interrogator on their staff.
The reasons for the conflict are not known, though Horace Goodspeed stated that the Hostiles were natives to the Island, implying that a conflict could have arisen from DHARMA moving into their territory or intruding on the Island. Not long after settling on the Island, the DHARMA Initiative fought an armed conflict with a group they called the Hostiles prior to 1973. (" Some Like It Hoth") Conflict with natives Off the Island, the DHARMA Initiative's activities were coordinated from Ann Arbor in Michigan. Significant quantities of construction materials, electronic equipment and various vehicles and machinery were brought to the Island during the phase of settlement for the construction of the various DHARMA stations. The Barracks became the center of operation for the DHARMA Initiative on the Island. Within a few years' time, the location was uncovered.Īt some point in the early 1970s, the DHARMA Initiative founded a tiny community on the Island. Since the Island was always moving, the Lamp Post was integral in finding its location. Though this man was only interested in one specific area: the Island. Located underneath a church, the Lamp Post harnessed the unique pocket of energy in that area and used it to find other similar pockets around the globe. However, since The Lamp Post was built in the 1960s, the date of 1970 given by Pierre Chang in the orientation films may be incorrect, or some form of obfuscation.Īccording to Eloise Hawking, an unspecified man used The Lamp Post station in Los Angeles to find the location of the Island in the 1960s. It was financially backed by Danish industrialist and munitions magnate Alvar Hanso and his Hanso Foundation.
History Creation of the DHARMA InitiativeĪccording to various orientation films, the Initiative was founded in 1970 by Gerald and Karen DeGroot, two doctoral candidates at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. 8 Cultural references to "Dharma" and the DHARMA logo.
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