Elis gets employed at MIRR as an astronomer/data analyst. His job is to make sense of the ✨mysterious signal✨ that's been picked up by MIRR's satellites. While the world is slowly falling to pieces, he's sequestered away by MIRR and placed in a strange and remote facility "for his safety".

Hmm or wait! Maybe it's like this: they're a Mirr WhiteWolf (tm) genderless synthetic clone thing that they mass produce at that facility. Still a data analyst. Technically illegal biotech. There could be a twist that the same alien crystal thing that made Featherbite is what animates the whitewolves.