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Oppy (full name Doctor Ophelia Turner) is a main character in Pacific Drive.
She is one of the three characters that regularly talk to The Driver on their radio to progress the story, give hints and comment on their performance in the Zone.
Oppy is one of the last remaining members of ARDA's Research and Development department living inside the Zone.
Her husband, Doctor Allen Turner was also involved in ARDA's Research and Development department and, by all accounts, was incredibly supportive of Ophelia's work on LIM technology, even when it should have caused strains on their marriage.
History
Dr. Ophelia Turner was born on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington in the year 1919, but eventually left the Peninsula in order to pursue her love of Physics.(source: Chiaki Saruhashi, Frequency File #2, Part 2)
In November of 1946, at the age of 27, she returned home to the Olympic Peninsula after allegedly failing to make a splash in the academic world.(source: Chiaki Saruhashi, Frequency File #1, Part 2) She then constructed a personal laboratory in the basement of her home. Shortly thereafter, she supposedly produced the first ever LIM wave (modulated radio waves which were supposed to be able to control matter in seemingly supernatural ways).(source: Chiaki Saruhashi, Frequency File #2, Part 2)
After her discovery of LIM waves, Dr. Turner and some of her friends spent four years testing new applications for the waves.(source: Chiaki Saruhashi, Frequency File #2, Part 2)
She officially co-founded the Society for Resonance Research officially on September 16th, 1949, alongside Dr. Reginald Stanley Robinson and other academics.(source: SRR Meeting Minutes #1: Founding) The group, having expanded its size and activity in the intervening years, eventually attracted attention from the U.S. Department of National Security by September 1951. (source: SRR Meeting Minutes #7: Emergency Session)
In 1955, the federal government took interest in LIM technology, quickly seizing both the area where Dr. Turner lived and the very concept of LIM technology. not only the physical area where Dr. Turner and her scientists live, but the entire concept of LIM technology. A new governmental branch is established: ARDA (Advanced Resonance Development Authority). Dr. Turner is then ushered in as the head of the Research and Development department.(source: Chiaki Saruhashi, Frequency File #2, Part 2 and Frequency File #3, Part 5)