Editing D'ni Restoration Council (section)

=== 2006 – 2008 ===
Eventually, the DRC acquired a new source of funding from a venture capitalist named [[Cate Alexander]]. Ms. Alexander was not a terribly popular figure. The DRC took issue with her interest in results over safety, and the explorers took issue with her no-nonsense attitude, and her generally dismissive behavior when it came to community concerns. No one could argue, however, that Cate was not effective in achieving the results she sought. Almost like clockwork, the DRC opened a new area or Age to the public roughly once a month for nine months.

The new DRC was also much more accommodating and trusting of the use of Relto Books by explorers. Several of the DRC Council members had elected to take Yeesha's first [[Yeesha's_Journeys#First_Journey|Journey]] by this time, and several Ages were even released without any sort of Linking Book back to the [[Nexus]] or to the cavern, counting on all explorers having immediate access to their own escape mechanism. Still, despite their ubiquitous use throughout the explorer population, some decried the DRC's apparent lack of concern for safety in not putting back-up links to the Nexus in every Age they opened, while others took issue with the often shoddy state of the Ages, wondering why the DRC had chosen to release them with what were sometimes rather obvious safety deficiencies ([[Tetsonot]] was a favorite for these sorts of complaints).

The debate over the priority of safety in the restoration came to a head when, in May of 2007, [[Michael Engberg]]'s daughter [[Willow Engberg|Willow]] (or "Wheely", as she was known to explorers) was killed by a [[bahro]] after she stumbled into a hidden chamber, following a series of earthquakes in [[Ae'gura]] which also claimed the life of the friend she was exploring with at the time. Michael Engberg quit the DRC over the incident, and the rest of the DRC Council was left shaken.

As 2007 came to a close, Ms. Alexander announced that she would no longer be funding the restoration effort. Despite an all-out effort on the part of [[Victor Laxman]] and [[Marie Sutherland]], no additional funding could be found, and the DRC once again abandoned their efforts. The cavern was shut down in April of 2008.