Fig. 1: Bureau Archives. Curated by the Division of Borgesian Library Sciences and the Antiquarian Archival Order.

HISTORY OF THE BUREAU

The origins of the Bureau of Exploration are murky at best. Some of the Bureau’s archivists believe that it was founded as a secret subset of the Department of the Exterior; others, that it is an esoteric order descended from medieval occult universities; yet others, that it began as a myth or urban legend, and sometime and somehow materialized into physical existence.

Its departments are endless in number, its protocols are byzantine, its objectives obscure, and it is funded by annually-renewed government grants long forgotten in paperwork labyrinths.

Fig. 2: Archival photograph of one of the alleged founders of the Bureau discovering the land upon which to construct Headquarters, c. 1921.