Registered Phenomena Code: 948
Object Class: Neutralized Alpha-Black (Utility)
Hazard Types: Pending Review
Containment Protocols: Due to the sensitive nature of RPC-948, duplicates of RPC-948 (designated as RPC-948-A to RPC-948-E RPC-948-D) are to be created and stored within the following installations; Site-002, Site-007, Site-014, Site-016, and Site-042. Access to these select-locations' containment are to be restricted to personnel below Level 5 clearance.
Additional authentication may be required to be approved by the installation's respective Regional Site.
For security reasons, the current whereabouts of RPC-948 is to be only disclosable to personnel under a need-to-know basis. Unauthorized personnel who discover RPC-948 are to be promptly questioned, and amnesticised as per protocol.
Mobile Specialized Team Lima-5 ("Terras Irradient") is to be established as per basis of Protocol Backwatch. Selection process of MST Lima-5 is to be considered under the oversight approval of the Office of Ethics and Review. On yearly basis, a designee within Lima-5 is to be selected and permanently designated as RPC-948-2 to utilize RPC-948 in the event of the activation of Protocol Backwatch.
Selection process for a designated RPC-948-2 are to be approved by the Directorate. In addition, Further process is to be approved unanimously by all incumbent Regional Directors.
In accordance to Protocol Backwatch, selected personnel that are cleared are to undergo rigorous background checks, and monitored at all times. In the event that RPC-948-2 has expired, RPC-948-2 is to be immediately replaced at the discretion of the Director of the Office of Ethics and Review or a staff with Level 5 clearance.
Containment Update ██/██/████: Mobile Specialized Team Lima-5 has been disbanded as per orders of the Directorate.
Information pertaining to Lima-5 is to be strictly expunged from the database, and archived by the Office of Information Records and Security. (See Addendum 948.04)
Containment Update 07/06/████: Following the events on June 7, and the subsequent breach of RPC-042, RPC-948 was destroyed in the process. As a result, RPC-948 was designated as Neutralized by Head Researcher Dr. Pierre Roberts.
Subject for reclassification to a higher clearance, contact your local OIRS archivist for further information. - Dr. Pierre Roberts, OAS.
Containment Update ██/██/2013: Following the events on [REDACTED], RPC-948 has been redesignated as active. (See Addendum 948.06)
Containment Update 17/06/2019: As the result of the destruction of Site-014, reduplication of RPC-948-E has been rejected as per orders from Northern Command's Regional Director.
Description: RPC-948 is a silver-plated pocket watch that was originally invented by Peter Heinlein. While its unclear when RPC-948 first manifested, it's speculated that Peter Heinlein developed RPC-948's properties by smelting some metals from Christopher Columbus's compass, used in his maiden voyage to the Americas in the late 1490s. It has not been determined why this material choice has resulted in anomalous properties.
RPC-948-2 refers to the user of RPC-948, who has the capability to utilize its anomalous properties.
Closer inspections revealed that the caseback of RPC-948 contains small drops of red fluid and iron, biologists have determined it to be human blood cells. However, this fluid alters in every occurrence when an RPC-948-2 instance expires. As a result the fluid fluctuates into dust particles until the manifestation of an RPC-948-2.
Previous experiments with test subjects who've been instructed to fracture RPC-948, whether the use of tools or by hand, subjects report to feel unwell and enounce a quote by Christopher Columbus in Latin. After continuous repeats of this phrase, the subject's anatomy degrades within seconds this causes their tissue and skin to pare, including their biological structure.
Within a 2-5 second period, the biological structure and anatomy of the subject disintegrates into dust particles, but does not appear to include the skeletal structure. Their clothes and skeletal mass remain intact while RPC-948 remains clutched within their hands.
According to Latin translators, the quote repeated by subjects translates as; Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.
The button within the pendulum cannot be activated by any other subjects aside from RPC-948-2. However, forceful activation of RPC-948 revealed that the minute-hand increases the current time to 5 minutes. While this does not cause any changes to the subject, this does however have an impact on RPC-948-2, whom ages to 5 years. It is to be noted that continuous, forceful activation of RPC-948 will cause the subject to age as well, excluding RPC-948-2.
When RPC-948-2 winds the hour-hand in reverse at a full 360° degrees, RPC-948-2 will be sent back 24 hours prior. Not winding it to the full degrees will not cause time to reverse, and will instead affix itself back to the 12 o'clock hand. It is unknown what occurs afterwords, but according to a written testimony from a previous instance; RPC-948-2 will retain their memories and loose possession of RPC-948, which will be relocated to where it was last placed 24 hours prior.
While not under the influence of RPC-948, RPC-948-2 is unable to disclose sensitive information for 24 hours. In doing so will cause RPC-948to manifest and influence RPC-948-2 and regress their conscious. A separate consciousness develops and will attempt to terminate those who've been divulged.
If for some reason that RPC-948-2 expires prior to their attempts to undo the alterations to the timeline, RPC-948 will manifest once more and influence one or more subjects, designated as RPC-948-3, that have been divulged by RPC-948-2 to undo the alterations.
It's currently unclear to as how many times has RPC-948 been used as per accordance to Protocol Backwatch, recorded cases of which have been expunged by the Office of Information Records and Security. This includes details of events that have been altered, albeit in some cases they've not been recorded due to unspecified reasons.
Addendum 948.01: Discovery
Doug,
The OIRS just released us a copy of nine-four-eight's history. There's a bit of inconsistencies here and there, but we're going to try and figure out what's hidden in these black bars. Like, seriously. There's a lot of black bars in these! Below should be it's history, but I can't guarantee you that it'll be accurate.
I'm gonna try push a C-23M form, and try get the unredacted variant.
- Archivist Amelia, Directorate for Historical and Psuedohistorical Studies
In June 2, 1944, an incident occurred at Hilsea Barracks where American and British troops were involved in a shootout that resulted in numerous casualties. One such casualty was a Corporal Mike Weaver. According to the Special Investigation Branch, Corporal Weaver attempted to warn their C.O. of a concerning outcome that lead to the Normandy operations to a military failure.
Following this, Corporal Weaver murdered their C.O. and was apprehended by British personnel. It's unclear what happened to Corporal Weaver, but he was shot during the incident. The Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) was forced to cover up the incident, and eventually halt Operation Overlord for two days.
However, on June 8, SIB reported that Corporal Weaver's possessions were stolen. An unknown individual was last seen carrying with a briefcase out of Hilsea Barracks, and was seen on the day of the incident. It's unclear whether this individual was a member of the Provost Corps, but an unnamed lieutenant stated that they were with Army Intelligence Corps when they took over the possessions.
Two days later, an unknown package was sent and received by Dr. Harri Victor. The package contained RPC-948 and a small letter instructed for Dr. Victor to keep the object away from certain demise. Following this, RPC-948 was contained onsite.
Addendum 948.02: Protocol Backwatch
Dear Amelia,
Your request has been accepted, and the following document is attached below. However, restrictions were applied to this document as it has been declared as Administrative eyes only. Redactions and removal of certain sections were applied to maintain security.
For further questions, email me if you can.
- Office of Information Records and Security, John Garner.
PROTOCOL BACKWATCH
ADMINISTRATIVE CLEARANCE
PROPOSED BY: Dr. Nicholas S. Rieper
APPROVED USE BY: ████████
DETAILS: Protocol Backwatch (O.P 081964) is a continuity of operations plan developed in secret by █████████████. The purpose of the protocol is to tackle and curtail catastrophic events that may lead to ███████████████, as outlined in O.P 036104.
In the event that Protocol Backwatch is activated, Mobile Specialized Team Lima-5 are to report to their posts and initiate the following procedures:
- ███████████████████████████████████████████████
- ████████████████████████████████████████
- ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
- ██████████████████████████████████████████████████
If succeed, RPC-948-2 are to document and submit the "events" to their superior within 48 hours. Amnestics are to be applied following submission, and RPC-948-2 is to be terminated if deemed a security hazard.
[SECTION REMOVED AS PER ACCORDANCE TO OIRS POLICY]
Addendum 948.03: Incident ██/██/████
Description: During a catastrophic containment breach that involved RPC-042, numerous researchers were tasked with moving RPC-948 to another part of the facility at the orders of Head Researcher Dr. Kane.
While in mobile, RPC-042 came to their direction and attacked the researchers, resulting in numerous casualties and the destruction of RPC-948 by RPC-042. According to Security Officer Millerson, a loud noise and flash erupted from RPC-948 that caused personnel near it to age, and the structure to corrode at a fast rate. It lasted at about 2-3 seconds, RPC-042 didn't appear to be affected by it.
In the aftermath of this incident, Site Management redesignated RPC-948 as Neutralized.
Notes: The following document has been partially redacted at the orders of GD-9.
- Office of Information Records and Security
The following is a security footage between Dr. Amanda Page and Dr. Philip Kane. Three hours after the incident.
Interviewer: Dr. Amanda Page, Office of Ethics and Review
Interviewee: Dr. Philip Kane, Office of Analysis and Science
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Page: [Door shuts] Sorry Philip, had to deal with an insubordinate "idiot" that caused today's event.
Dr. Kane: No, no. It's fine. [Chuckles] I was just trying not to die.
Dr. Page: [Reaches out to Dr. Kane's palm] I'm sorry.
Dr. Kane: [Sighs] It's fine. I got summoned by the Board a few hours ago.
Dr. Page: Oh shit. What'd they say?
Dr. Kane: They wanted to know what happened with nine-forty-eight. They weren't happy to say the least.
Dr. Page: Are you getting audited?-
Dr. Kane: No. They were just .. disappointed. Right now, things are going to get change with Backwatch. Such a waste of potential.
Dr. Page: Hey, hey. It's bureaucracy, we win some and loose some.
Dr. Kane: [Sighs] You're right.
Intercom: Dr. Philip Kane, you are needed at the Office Wing.
Dr. Page: Darn. I could've just stayed here with you.
Dr. Kane: Sorry. I'll see you around Amanda.
[END LOG]
Addendum 948.04: Deactivation of MST Lima-5
On ██/██/████, the Authority Registry Oversight (ARO) voted to dissolve Lima-5 at the behest of GD-██, and ordered all of its resources reassigned to other departments within the Protection Division. The Commissioner of the ARO signed off the resolution with the approval from all Global Directors.
Authority Registry Oversight
ADMINISTRATIVE EYES ONLY
Captain ██████,
As you may have heard, the Authority Registry Oversight has unanimously approved to dissolve a unit under your command, designated as Lima-5. All resources and manpower are hereby to be transferred to the following units: [DATA EXPUNGED].
Information in regards to the unit are in the process of expungement at the order of the Directorate, and being carried out by the OIRS.
As for RPC-948, the Directorate has tasked Mobile Specialized Team Delta-1 to secure and oversee RPC-948 temporarily. RPC-948 will be transferred from Site-029 to Site-███ within 48 hours.
- ██████████, Commissioner of the Authority Registry Oversight
Addendum 948.05: Anomalous Reactivation
On March 6, ████, the Directorate redesignated RPC-948 as active. Various sections outlined in the Board Resolution were redacted as instructed by GD-██. A memorandum sent by GD-██ to Harpocrates, the Director of OIRS, detailing instructions to begin expungement of RPC-948's file.
See Attachment 948.05.2 for further details.
Something .. happened. I don't know what, but something big just happened. I've talked to a few folks, especially Amanda, and she couldn't say what it was. Goddammit, I was the assigned senior official for nine-four-eight's research! Fuck. All I heard was nine-forty-eight was active once more.
Like, what? Nine-forty-eight was destroyed years ago- and it wasn't possible. I saw it getting destroyed! God. What the hell is going on at management?
- Dr. Philip Kane, Journal Log 948-██
To: Harpocrates, Director of Information Records and Security
From: Global Director No. ██, The Directorate
Re: RPC-948 Status Conclusion
Harpocrates,
The Directorate has come to the unanimous conclusion to authorize and reinstate Registered Phenomena Code (RPC) 948 as an active anomaly. Information pertaining to its background, and other prevalent information are to be restricted in accordance to Board Resolution (B.R) 028196.
Further details will be sent to you soon.
- Global Director No. ██
Addendum 948.06: Administrative Eyes Only, Level 5-948
BY ORDER OF THE DIRECTORATE
The following file has been restricted to Level 5 access in accordance to Board Resolution (B.R) 028196. Unauthorized viewers will be punished at the highest level. Authentication is to be requested and approved by GD-██ and GD-██.
You have been warned.
Interviewer: Captain Grieves, Mobile Specialized Team Golf-11
Interviewee: Dr. Harold Young, Remnants No. 168
[BEGIN LOG]
Capt. Grieves: That's it? That's all what you're gonna tell me about that.
Dr. Yang: What else am I supposed to tell you? That's all I know!
Capt. Grieves: What about this .. pocket watch? Why was it in a separate, small container with it?
Dr. Yang: [Pauses]
Capt. Grieves: Dr. Yang. What is this pocket watch?
Dr. Yang: It- It's nine-four-eight.
Capt. Grieves: [Pauses, looks at the mirror glass] Wait, nine-four-eight. The fucking thing that was supposed to prevent all of this from happening-
Dr. Yang: It didn't work. I tried- the Directorate tried. We did everything we can, but it didn't work!
Capt. Grieves: What do you mean it didn't work?
Dr. Yang: [Sighs] Look. When Backwatch was carried out after the "Alpha Trigger" happened, nine-four-eight ceased to function.
Capt. Grieves: Ceased to function?
Dr. Yang: Ye-yeah. It just .. stopped. Like, the guy who was supposed to be sent back said that the nine-four-eight's hour hand was moving forward. We didn't know why, but someone from the Physics Department speculated that since the Alpha Trigger was affecting the spacetime continuum, it also somehow prevented nine-four-eight from functioning.
Capt. Grieves: But, does it work in this world?
Dr. Yang: [Looks at RPC-948] I mean, since the Alpha Trigger doesn't affect the inertial systems of other realities .. that's a possibility.
Capt. Grieves: [Sighs] So. There's nothing we could've done? Nothing to prevent it all?
Dr. Yang: .. No. I'm sorry, Captain.
Security footage within the room shows Captain Grieves walking towards the door and knocking twice. Dr. Yang slowly pulls something underneath their shoe, but footage does not discern what it was. Within 1-2 seconds, Captain Grieves looks over at Dr. Yang who is now holding a sharp object to their neck, piercing it deeply to their jugular.
Captain Grieves and a security officer rush to Dr. Yang bleeding on the floor.
Capt. Grieves: Fuck, fuck! Get a medical now!
[END LOG]
Supplementary Notes: I'm not going to say he "deserved" it .. but, killing himself was the right thing to do. Our good people at the other world didn't have to die because of him. I'll send the word to the higher-ups about the remnant nine-four-eight which I hope they'll be astounded for.
- Dr. Nicholas Rieper, Assistant Director for Office of Analysis and Science
