Global Dynamics

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Global Dynamics, also known as the Eureka Advanced Research Facility, describes the main research center as well as the organization that runs it in the town of Eureka in the American science fiction drama Eureka. Its name may be a reference to General Dynamics, a primary Pentagon contractor.

[edit] Description

Global Dynamics is described in the pilot as being responsible for the development of all major technological breakthroughs in the last 50 years, with the products of its research having been used in both commercial and military applications. Security is understandably tight at the facility; Allison Blake describes the cloaking forcefields and other safeguards as being so cutting-edge that "Area 51 wishes they had our security."

The facility is developed into several departments, or "sections." Each section covers different projects, though Section 5 is the only one mentioned thus far as covering a specific field; in this case, military technology. There are at least nine different sections.

It is the dominant employer in Eureka, almost to the point of monopsony, and hence Eureka is effectively a company town. So pervasive is Global Dynamics' influence over Eureka that most in the town just call it "Global" in conversation.

[edit] Section 5

Section 5 is the most restricted section within Global Dynamics. Like the rest of the facility, it is located deep underground and has the latest and most dangerous technology. In the pilot, a scientist stole some of the latest technology contained within it to build a tachyon accelerator, a device which can create a tachyon. In "Alienated", Stark allows a congressman in charge of Global Dynamics' federal funding to view a mysterious scientific phenomena of unknown origin buried deep within Section 5 that has "the potential to change everything." Even Stark, ordinarily a very technical and scientific person, acknowledges that the origin of the mysterious artifact may be supernatural.

v • d • e Eureka
Characters	Beverly Barlowe \| Allison Blake \| Colonel Briggs \| Jack Carter \| Zoe Carter Henry Deacon \| Douglas Fargo \| Jo Lupo \| Nathan Stark \| Jim Taggart
Other	Episode list \| Global Dynamics \| Artifact