why isn't there a hub? This is the perfect place for anomaly acquisition reports.
also, seems like this department's job description is awfully similar to the Office of Analysis and Science. Both departments seem to focus on the analysis of anomalies to gain a better understanding of them.
Surprisingly yes, Research Division does research things. It's a common theme in the research departments.
Unironically though, the Bureau researches the unknown and develops new science, the Office studies the known more in depth. And what kind of hub do you mean?
I was just saying that I was expecting something with the word "acquisition" in the name would be more closely related to processing new anomalies, you know, an in-deph analysis of its abilities, guaging its level of cooperation, etc. maybe a processing document that gets passed onto the containment engineers to help them develop the proper containment protocols.
as for the hub thing, behold (although, re-reading the BoA page, it seems like some of the branches I gave the Keballic Department, such as comparative religion, would line up more closely with other departments.
"Memetic objects are those that decode themselves from memories, or alter perceived information about themselves."
Shouldn't this be changed to:
"Anti-memetic objects are those that decode themselves from memories, or alter perceived information about themselves."
No, memetics are the ones that you can't see. Anti-memetics allow you to see the memetic things.
it's technically both
Both terms were lifted from SCP originally, and have kept the same meaning in RPC use. Memetic is essentially anything that could be considered a cognito-hazard, info-hazard or sensory-hazard. It has to do with information. Experiencing or obtaining information about a memetic anomaly can trigger an anomalous effect. Anti-memetics, on the other hand, refer to anomalies that erase themselves from people's memories such that they are undetected. Mnestics is the SCP term for stuff that combats anti-memetics, but it hasn't been used in any RPC article. It's the opposite of amnestics, being that instead of erasing memories they prevent memories from being erased. It seems that viderics can act as mnestics for anomalies that block information about them by preventing your perception of them, but would not work against anti-memes that affect memory. I'm sure we can come up with an original word for mnestics. Something related to memotics I think.
Keballics aren't referenced in a single canon article so I'm not sure how they even tie into this or what they are, or if there even is a definition.
The pattern covering the body of the RPC-974-2 has anti-memetic properties, making the RPC-974-2 undetectable without use of viderics or other special means.
Huh! I guess I am using the anti-memetics term incorrectly here. Will have to fix that
974 uses viderics slightly incorrectly in that instance. In proper use the pseudo anomaly itself is not memetic in any way, but the brain is the thing blocking that information, as opposed to an anomaly that does not let itself be perceived by the brain at all. In this sense you are right that they can act as mnestics would, but they do so with a different mechanism of action.