RPC-452 - RPC Authority

RPC-452

Project Personnel Info

Assigned Facility: Site-076

Director of Research: Dr. Haigen Heinz Dr. Henry Clarence

Assigned MST(s): N/A¹.

Director of Containment: Dr. James Herold

Registered Phenomena Code: 452

Containment Rating: Gamma

Lethality Rating: Orange

Temporal

Containment Protocols: Authority personnel assigned to RPC-452 are to monitor reports of recovered missing persons within Grand Teton National Park. Recovered individuals reporting contact with RPC-452 are to be detained and transferred to Site-076 for post-encounter interviews. Following interview procedures, affected individuals must be administered amnestics and implanted with falsified memories to facilitate successful reintegration into society.

The Authority is coordinating with the U.S. National Park Service to disseminate disinformation campaigns concerning RPC-452. Fabricated missing persons reports have been issued to distort accurate disappearance statistics.

AET-452² has been assigned primary responsibility for the study of RPC-452. Following recent incidents, an RSS³ unit has been attached to AET-452 to provide security during ongoing investigations.

Description: RPC-452 is a phenomenon localized within Grand Teton National Park and is theorized to account for approximately 25% of missing persons cases reported in the region. Testimonies from recovered individuals consistently describe the anomaly with highly uniform details.

Affected subjects frequently report an initial sensation of being observed or pursued by a predatory animal immediately prior to the onset of RPC-452’s anomalous effects. Documented manifestations include:

Abrupt cessation of all ambient sound within the affected area.
Complete disappearance of local fauna.
Dissipation of the previously reported sensation of being observed.
Sudden appearance of a golden luminescent fog, signifying the subject’s transition into RPC-452-B.
The manifestation of RPC-452-A.

The sequence of these manifestations varies between individual encounters.

RPC-452-A is described as a humanoid entity suspended within three intersecting, continuously rotating rings. Its apparent size varies between observers. Witness descriptions of RPC-452-A’s composition vary, though the most consistent accounts describe it as being composed of refined gold or radiant light. In all documented encounters, RPC-452-A extends its right arm to indicate the subject while remaining stationary at the center of RPC-452-B.

RPC-452-B is a finite pocket reality hypothesized to be generated by RPC-452-A. RPC-452-B manifests as a precise replica of the environment occupied by the subject immediately prior to transition. Its borders are consistently described as a dense, opaque black fog.

Subjects are unable to identify the exact transition point between baseline reality and RPC-452-B. Recovered individuals report re-emergence into baseline reality through one of three methods:

Physical contact with RPC-452-B’s border.
Loss of consciousness (including sleep) within RPC-452-B.
Remaining within RPC-452-B for a precise duration of one hour.

Subjects transitioning back to baseline reality reappear at the same physical location they previously occupied within RPC-452-B.

Temporal progression within RPC-452-B is markedly accelerated. Collected data indicates that one second within RPC-452-B corresponds to approximately one day in baseline reality.

Discovery: On January 1st, 1991, Thomas J. Lawson and his 12-year-old son, Jacob D. Lawson, were camping in Grand Teton National Park when they were attacked by an Ursus americanus⁴. Thomas, armed with a baseball bat, successfully repelled the animal, sustaining only minor injuries. During the altercation, Jacob fled the area in a panic and subsequently disappeared. Despite extensive search efforts conducted by local rangers and law enforcement, no trace of Jacob was discovered. Official search operations were formally terminated on May 1st, 1991.

On January 25th, 2000, hikers Yousef and Jain Jones discovered a lost child along their usual route. The child was escorted to a local ranger station and subsequently identified as Jacob D. Lawson. Notably, Jacob had not physically aged since the day of his disappearance in 1991. An Authority agent, operating under the cover of local law enforcement, was dispatched to investigate and, if necessary, retrieve Jacob for further study. The following interview was conducted between the assigned agent and Jacob.

Jacob D. Lawson Interview+

Access Granted-

Interviewer: Agent Simon

Interviewee: Jacob D. Lawson

Date: 01/25/2000

Agent Simon: Hello Jacob. I am officer Duncan. How are you feeling?

Jacob can be heard sobbing.

Jacob D. Lawson: Not good. I want my dad. Is he okay? Where is he?

Agent Simon: Your dad is fine son. You just gotta answer some of my questions before I can hand you off to him.

Jacob D. Lawson: Really?

Agent Simon: Really.

Jacob snorts audibly.

Jacob D. Lawson: Okay.

Agent Simon: Alright. Jacob, your dad says you guys were attacked by a bear. What happened?

Jacob D. Lawson: I was scared. I didn't mean to run, but I just did. Please don't tell my dad I ran because I was a coward.

Agent Simon: Jacob, Jacob, I won't be telling your dad anything. Relax.

Agent Simon: Can you tell me what happened after you ran?

Jacob D. Lawson: I don't know what it was, but something else started chasing me. I really don't know what it was, but I could hear whatever it was chasing me right behind me. So I ran faster and more into the woods.

Jacob D. Lawson: Then, it all went silent. I turned around and saw nothing. It's weird because I know whatever was chasing me was close.

Jacob D. Lawson: And then I saw that weird black fog. At first I started to panic, but then I saw… it.

Agent Simon: It?

Jacob D. Lawson: Yeah, it's a bit hard to describe, but there was this man, but it wasn't really. The man was floating an- and he was floating in the inside of these three circles that were spinning around him.

Agent Simon: You saw a floating man?

Jacob D. Lawson: I know it sounds stupid, but you gotta believe me.

Agent Simon: Hey, I believe you. Can you please describe the man?

Jacob D. Lawson: I don't know. He just looked like a man.

Agent Simon: Well, were there any features that stood out?

Jacob D. Lawson: I think, yea- no, I know, the man was made out of gold.

Agent Simon: Gold?

Jacob D. Lawson: Yeah, gold.

Agent Simon: Were you able to talk to this man?

Jacob D. Lawson: I did. I asked it as many questions as I could, but I think it only answered one?

Agent Simon: And what was that?

Jacob D. Lawson: I asked: Will I be okay? And it said "yes". I don't know how it spoke with no mouth, but I think it talked to me.

Jacob D. Lawson: I think it spoke in my voice.

Jacob D. Lawson was transferred to Site-076 for further study. Medical and psychological examinations revealed no anomalous properties. Authority researchers theorized that Jacob had entered an alternate reality through a localized spatial threshold located within Grand Teton National Park.

Authority reconnaissance teams were dispatched to the area in an attempt to locate the anomaly encountered by Jacob Lawson. No anomalous threshold was identified. Lawson was subsequently returned to his family, who were administered amnestics and implanted with falsified memories to facilitate reintegration.

Over the following years, additional recovered missing persons presented similar testimonies consistent with alternate reality displacement. On 09/04/2002, the phenomenon was officially designated RPC-452, and AET-452 was established to coordinate long-term research.

Addendum: On 09/06/2015, Dr. Haigen Heinz, lead researcher of AET-452 and acting director of the RPC-452 project, disappeared while conducting fieldwork in Grand Teton National Park. Search-and-rescue operations failed to yield any trace of Dr. Heinz or his equipment. He was officially declared MIA on 11/12/2015.

On 12/24/2022, an unmarked civilian vehicle approached Site-076’s outer security checkpoint. The driver was identified as Dr. Heinz. Despite seven years having elapsed in baseline reality, Dr. Heinz was found in identical condition to the day of his disappearance, exhibiting no biological aging or degradation. Dr. Heinz claimed direct contact with RPC-452-A.

The following is a debriefing document authored by Dr. Heinz and submitted to Dr. Clarence:

Access File+

Access Granted-

Prior to my disappearance due to RPC-452, I was investigating areas where subjects that had encountered the anomaly had returned to baseline reality. As usual, I was taking samples from the area Jacob Lawson was found when I felt I was being watched. I looked around me to see if anything was there, but I saw nothing. I packed up my belongings and hiked back to my vehicle. That's when I heard the footsteps. The cracking of twigs and leaves behind me. I turned around to see nothing.

I think it was the lack of seeing something that unnerved me. I knew something was following me. I knew something was watching me. It was hiding somewhere. I ran and whatever was following me ran as well. I tried to get a look at it while running, but all I could see were glimpses of a form that would escape my field of view the moment I turned my head. Its footsteps were gaining on me rapidly and in my panic I slammed into a tree.

Luckily I was able to move out of the way before that thing crashed into the same tree I had hit. I used the opportunity to get a good look at the creature, but its form seemed to twist around the tree until it was fully concealed behind the tree. I ran and I ran for God knows how long.

When I finally stopped running I had finally noticed I no longer heard the sounds of the creature following me. In fact, I heard nothing at all. The winds, the calls of birds and wild animals, even my own exhausted breath had been muted. And that is when I noticed it.

The golden fog. And RPC-452-A floating between two large trees. At first I was hesitant, but I resolved myself to approach the entity. I was no more than 5 meters from RPC-452-A when I felt the movement of air created from its rotating rings.

The reports we have on this thing do not do it justice. Its surface was metallic, but also liquid and shifting. There were these runes and symbols that would bubble up to its surface only to sink back into it. The rings had these structures that resembled eyes and even with the constant motion of the rings, they managed to stay locked on me. Its head was covered with a crown, but each time I blinked its shape would shift into a new design. Viewing this effect actually gave me a migraine.

I stood there. Awestruck at this thing. It pointed at me with one outstretched arm. I spoke then. I asked it a single question.

What are you?

It remained silent. I repeated myself over and over again. My body was exhausted from the energy wasted in running. My chest ached in pain, but I kept asking the same exact question.

What are you?

I continued to ask the exact same question. And then it spoke.

The words did not come from the entity itself, but from within my head. It used my own thoughts to answer me.

Guardian.

With all my energy then wasted, I collapsed and fell asleep on the ground. When I awoke I found myself back in baseline reality. I wandered for thirteen miles until I found my car. It was rusted, covered in leaves and dirt. A vast difference from its pristine condition when I first arrived in the area. My license plate was stolen too. Fortunately, the car still worked and I drove my way to Site-076.

Dr. Heinz is currently confined to Site-076's psychological ward in order to assess psychological fitness. Dr. Clarence has been promoted to the Head Researcher of AET-452.

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