Editing Second Restoration of D'ni (section)

=== Jeff Zandi, Yeesha, and unauthorized explorers ===
On [[December 9]], 2002, [[explorer]]s who had not been authorized by the DRC to enter D'ni began arriving from the surface. In less than a month, there were over 100 of them. These explorers were being let into D'ni by Jeff Zandi, with the assistance of [[Atrus]]'s daughter [[Yeesha]]. The DRC scrambled to provide neighborhoods for them to stay in, quickly expanding beyond [[Bevin]] to [[Seret]], and then to other neighborhoods of similar design. Explorers told DRC members that they had received a special [[Book]] from Yeesha that took them to the Age of [[Relto]]. 

Over the next year, unauthorized explorers continued to pour into the cavern, and the DRC did what they could to accommodate them. In addition to the areas made available by the DRC, Yeesha also provided explorers with access to [[Age]]s and small spaces in D'ni that the DRC had not yet completed. The slow pace of the DRC's restoration efforts, coupled with their lack of communication with these explorers, frequently frustrated them. By the end of the year, small groups had begun to demonstrate and protest. One group in particular caught the attention of a DRC contractor named [[Douglas Sharper]]. Sharper, who had been tasked with restoring the Age of [[Teledahn]], was not entirely happy with the conduct of his employers either, and he took the group's leader, [[Brian Fioca]], under his wing. Together, they staged a protest in Ae'gura where they tore down the barricades blocking off access to the [[Kahlo Pub]]. As a result of this protest, the DRC stripped Sharper of his control over the restoration of the [[Great Tree Pub]] in Ae'gura's [[J'taeri district]].

Also in late 2003, Phil Henderson returned to the cavern. He told explorers that he had met Yeesha and been to many other Ages. He began to espouse a belief that the DRC's restoration was incomplete, mirroring the feelings of both Elias Zandi and Yeesha that a ''spiritual'' restoration was needed, not simply a reconstruction of buildings. Sharper, who saw in Phil a way to advance his own agenda, attached himself to the former restoration engineer. Soon the pair were inseparable. They took to spying on the DRC's meetings in the [[Tokotah II]] building by using a small "[[spy room]]" in the adjacent building. Access was provided via a [[bahro stone]], and egress was made possible by [[Phil's Relto]] Book.