VALORANT Protocol

The is an independent, covert operation from Alpha Earth founded and set up in response to First Light, consisting of Agents from all around the globe. Their mission is to keep the world safe from dangerous situations involving radianite.
==History==
===Founding===
In response to a mysterious event, known as First Light, that affected the entirety of a near future Earth, an unknown shadow organization founded the secretive VALORANT Protocol, which pulled together agents from all over the world. Brimstone and Viper were the Protocol's first two agents and earliest members, with Brimstone becoming its leader and Viper his second-in-command. Omen is also known to have played an important part in the VP's founding.Game Informer's VALORANT preview exclusive.Reddit Narrative AMA: VALORANT's foundersReddit Narrative AMA: Omen and VALORANT's origin
VALORANT's task was to keep the world safe from dangerous situations involving radianite and ensure that no cataclysmic disasters would occur.The Story of VALORANT so far
=== Early operations ===
The VALORANT Protocol would go on to recruit more agents to their cause, with each agent being given a number in the order that they joined. These Agents consisted of radiants and other individuals equipped with technology, with all of them coming from a wide spectrum of backgrounds ranging from crime to the military. By around 10 AFL, the Protocol had recruited at least 10 agents during their existence (up to Jett). Some of these agents had quickly risen up the ranks, with Sage, VALORANT's 7th recruit, being identified by Protocol top brass as an individual with significant leadership qualities. During these early days of VALORANT, information was strictly kept on a need-to-know basis and even agents themselves were compartmentalized.VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Early VALORANT operationsDUALITY taking place 10 years after First Light.
At some point, the VALORANT leadership learned about the existence of the Omega Earth, but chose to withhold this information from newer recruits.
During an undisclosed period, the Protocol's eighth agent was reported to be absent indefinitely. Despite this, VALORANT continued their operations as normal. 
=== Initial defense against Omega Earth ===
In 10 AFL, VALORANT sent Phoenix to Venice in order to stop an unknown radiant from planting a device known as the spike, but he was unsuccessful in doing so. The resulting spike detonation caused multiple chunks of the city to become suspended in the air. A day afterwards, international news media began reporting of the disaster while at the same time, a similar attack occurred in Rabat, with the Protocol sending a strike team consisting of Killjoy, Viper, and Phoenix in order to handle the situation this time. While the team was successful in creating a defuser that prevented the spike from detonating, Phoenix had an encounter with his Omega counterpart, which prompted the VP to start sharing information after the incident. Agents within the Protocol started to meet each other in person for the first time and the senior leadership began to brief the younger agents about what they knew regarding Omega, a major change from how the organization used to operate. VALORANT continued to hire agents after these events.VALORANT - DUELISTS Cinematic.VALORANT - DUALITY Cinematic.DUALITY taking place a day after the events of DUELISTS.VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Skye's induction
At some point following the Venice incident, VALORANT established a forward operating base on a floating island that was once part of the Italian city. This base would serve as the training grounds for the Protocol agents, with Brimstone and Cypher setting up their individual offices within the facility. 
By the time that Yoru, the Protocol's 15th recruit, joined the organization, there was a known operation wherein they were successful in fending off a spike attack from Omega agents in Bennett Island. Reddit Narrative AMA: Retake's place on the timelineVALORANT - RETAKE Cinematic.
=== The Omega Project===
At some point, the experiments being done by Kingdom Corporation and Kingdom Industries at the Everett-Linde Research Lab in Santa Fe County caused an event wherein the surrounding environment was split in two halves, affecting the area for miles beyond the facility, which drew the attention of a VALORANT Protocol agent. Around 10-11 AFL, the organization as a whole became interested in Everett-Linde, and one known operation sent Viper and Cypher to the now-destroyed lab in order to secure blueprints for a full Alpha-Omega teleporter that the facility had been using. Obtaining these blueprints would allow the Protocol to build their own cross-world teleporter and finally be able to travel to Omega Earth. After a full sweep of the facility however, retrieving information about the teleporter was unsuccessful, despite several data recovery attempts from Cypher.Reddit Fracture AMA: VALORANT's interest in Fracture.Range EP 3 Lore updates
Killjoy began working on constructing a cross-world teleportal despite this, initially using existing Alpha teleportals and what they could gather from Everett-Linde to try reverse engineering, though the proper blueprints needed were eventually provided to her by recent recruit Chamber. The German engineer managed to validate their legitimacy but still found it difficult to find a viable power source needed for the initiative to come into fruition. This prompted Chamber to introduce K-SEC veteran Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez to Brimstone, explaining that her radiant bio-electric abilities could provide the necessary power. With Valdez promptly recruited into VALORANT, Killjoy began making stronger progress on working towards a stable connection between Alpha and Omega. During this time, Astra took some time off between missions in order to attend to her astral guardian duties, so as to ensure that the construction and use of the Alpha-Omega teleporter will not bring any unintended consequences.4.0 Astra Email 
===Secrecy under threat===
As plans were being made for the upcoming missions to Omega however, the Protocol began to face risks from its own home world. Breach reported that conspiracy sites were once again investigating the events that occurred at Venice in 10 AFL, with new surveillance shots of Phoenix and Omega Jett surfacing. Cypher worked to wipe out the footage, but with this latest development and families of the Everett-Linde team also asking Kingdom questions about their missing relatives, Breach expressed concerns about VALORANT's secrecy being under threat and advised that the organization needed to lay low.Range EP 4 Lore updates
Such fears were further validated when Brimstone received an email from an anonymous blackmailer who threatened to expose the organization if she ever found out the Protocol was responsible for the disappearance of someone she knew. Sova and Cypher worked to track down the new threat but with little success. In response, the blackmailer then sent personal messages to some of the Protocol's agents to show off how much she knew about the agents before sending a warning to Brimstone and making further threats about handing such data over to the public. Once Cypher finally gained a lead on the blackmailer's whereabouts being somewhere in Türkiye, a strike team consisting of Sova, Cypher, Chamber, Breach, Neon, and KAY/O was swiftly formed in order to track her down. Narrowing down her location to Istanbul, the strike team eventually tracked the blackmailer to a warehouse where she appeared to fight back as the team was attacked by nightmarish entities. However, being a radiant, she was unable to do anything against one of KAY/O's suppressing pulses, and was apprehended quickly after. She was then taken back to base to be interrogated, where VALORANT were then able to tell her directly that they had nothing to do with her missing man's disappearance and knew nothing of any kidnapping.
With the entire situation now being nothing more than a misunderstanding, the blackmailer was no longer a threat to the Protocol, which also presented an opportunity; their search for her had exposed just how reliant VP was on specific agents for information, and they were looking to recruit more as a result. With there being no more reason for the two to be enemies, VALORANT's senior agents decided to ask if she would join the organization and help them gather information as they made the journey to the Omega Earth. She accepted their offer and was recruited as the Protocol's twentieth agent, "Fade".
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=== First ventures into Omega Earth ===
With VALORANT managing to resolve its standing issues with Fade, the organization immediately resumed work on its plans to venture to Omega Earth, identifying Omega Lisbon as a target destination. Killjoy was eventually successful in completing their Alpha-Omega teleporter, with newest recruit Fade being sent for a test run. Upon her return to Alpha Earth, which confirmed the portal's capacity for future full-staffed missions, Fade also reported about locating a new place of interest for the VP to investigate due to the secrets the location supposedly held. With a final reconnaissance mission to Alpha Lisbon in preparation, the VALORANT Protocol was finally ready to take the fight to Omega.
With suspicions that Omega was taking Alpha's radianite in order to weaponize it, a strike team consisting of Killjoy, Reyna, and Neon was sent to a Kingdom Industries data center in Lisbon so that they could locate the radianite. However, while the team was able to obtain the coordinates for the radianite, they discovered Omega was actually using it for life support systems. Fleeing the site due to the arrival of Atlas and the VALORANT Legion, the Alpha agents also discovered that Omega's VALORANT was a publicly-celebrated operation, in contrast to the covert status of the VALORANT Protocol.SHATTERED cinematic
Further investigations revealed Omega had obtained a new power source of some kind and that they had recruited a keeper for it, an antiques expert called Varun Batra. Hoping to find out what Legion would want with someone who worked with a task force recovering historical artifacts, the Protocol tried to see if they could learn anything by looking into his Alpha counterpart, who worked as a REALM operative. However, their correspondence with REALM revealed their Batra had become a fugitive after he had stolen a priceless artifact himself. REALM also insisted that the investigation was an internal matter that shouldn't be inquired about further by others and that they should stay out of the task force's business, but with Alpha Batra being the key to finding out what Legion and Batra's Omega counterpart were up to, the Protocol was pushed into starting their own search for him. Eventually being able to get into contact with him while he was on the run, an agreement was made for the Protocol to pick him up and save him from REALM's pursuits. It turned out Alpha Batra possessed the exact power source they had been looking into - a bracelet holding immense, ancient power with dominion over water. The fugitive accusations had also been a setup; it was actually a rogue operative of REALM who had tried to steal the bracelet for himself, and Batra had escaped with it before the rogue operative could execute him.Range EP 5 Lore updates
=== Journey into the City of Flowers ===
Following VALORANT's rescue of Varun Batra from REALM's pursuits, the organization was eventually able to hire him as their 21st agent with the codename "Harbor". The Protocol swiftly worked on re-establishing their anonymity, purging whatever links they made with REALM during the ordeal. 
Curiosity regarding Harbor's bracelet artifact led to revelations about its connections with an unknown entity known as the "Guardians," who built a city on each Earth known as the "City of Flowers" which serves as a multiverse nexus. It is thought that the bracelet relic could also act as a key to enter the city, which in turn would activate the nexus. On Alpha, a map leading to the city was found lying in the Gulf of Khambhat off the Indian coast by REALM, but Harbor disclosed that the city had since been decimated and sabotaged when he traveled to its location. With Astra pointing out that the Omega version of the City of Flowers may still be intact, questions now arose as to what would happen should Ω-Harbor activate their version of the nexus. An analysis conducted by Killjoy led to a grim answer: if Legion powered up the Omega nexus with Alpha's version of the city ruined, nothing would be left to absorb the energy shock which would lead to millions of casualties in α-India. Upon Harbor's urgent request, VALORANT formed a strike team consisting of Astra, Skye, and Harbor himself whose mission was to locate the city on Omega and prevent Legion from ever activating their nexus.
When Astra and Harbor finally arrived at the city (with Skye forced to hold back Atlas troops that were on their trail) and used their relics to unlock an entrance to enter, they found Legion agents already waiting for them as they prepared to activate the nexus, which the Alpha team was ultimately unable to prevent. However, the Alpha team's rapid response and resistance prevented the worst of cases from occurring, and the impact of the nexus' activation did not produce the cataclysmic shock on Alpha that the Protocol had feared would be created.REVELATION6.0 Range Lore
=== Project Landfall ===
Following a tip from Jett of weird things spotted in a neighborhood of Los Angeles, USA, that she decided to check out herself, VALORANT's attention turned to a Kingdom Corporation facility associated with the reports. Soon after, the Protocol had recruited Mateo Armendáriz De la Fuente as its 22nd agent, "Gekko", after his involvement with the facility through his theft of a group of radivores who were regarded as "property" of the facility. The organization helped with covering Gekko's tracks, but that would not stop K-SEC from dropping the case, and their investigations even reached Brimstone through an old K-SEC colleague who contacted the Protocol leader to see if he had heard anything that could help them tack down their "proprietary goods".Range EP 6 Lore updates
Keeping Jett and Cypher posted undercover in Los Angeles, new intel was then obtained about a cargo pickup occurring in Norway. Investigations by Cypher into the team revealed it contained a scientist from the facility who was part of "Project Landfall", and that they were being escorted to a specialized facility called The Vault in Svalbard, Norway, by three elite hunters. Sova meanwhile was sent to scout the Norwegian facility, but found it completely dead save for a faint beacon. On entering The Vault, he came across a Norwegian woman who was all that remained of the pickup team after the rest had been killed by the cargo they had been sent to retrieve (a radivore that had mimicked the form of a bear and broken out of its enclosure), finding her injured having lost her left arm. Coming to her aid, the two returned to Protocol HQ where the woman was fitted with a new mechanical arm and she was recruited as the organization's 23rd agent, "Deadlock".UNMADE
Upon Deadlock's arrival, the Norwegian warned the organization about Landfall's activities and its dealings with an "Interverse". Being seen as a potentially catastrophic threat that risked a "radivore invasion", the Protocol decided that Landfall now needed to be shut down entirely. Brimstone attempted to settle things peacefully by speaking to his old K-SEC colleague who had contacted him to try and get them to understand what was at stake, but they were only shocked instead that Brimstone would ask them to do something that would trash their reputation, subsequently demanding that Brimstone never contact them again. Left with no choice, the Protocol moved to pull the plug on Landfall themselves, travelling to the facility in Los Angeles to shut down the portal to the Interverse that Kingdom was using. Despite security precautions being in place to prevent access to its controls, the agents were able to find another way to shut the portal down as Wingman used it to enter the Interverse, with what followed next resulting in the portal becoming unstable as it began to emit large energy beams before exploding, producing a massive sinkhole in the area causing the facility's car park located above ground to collapse into it. Having successfully forced Landfall to come to an end, the Protocol team then immediately had to deal with an incoming Legion team that had arrived in the city just afterwards, though the Omega agents were able to be repelled.Range EP 7 Lore updatesSunset Reveal Trailer
=== Scions of Hourglass ===
After the events in Los Angeles, VALORANT's monitoring of Kingdom's response revealed that Landfall leadership had also gone missing, but there was no evidence for the Protocol being responsible for this as a result of the portal's explosion. Investigating further, the involvement of anyone from Omega was able to be ruled out, but a residual image of an hourglass symbol was discovered in the facility's security circuits, left over from someone's jamming technology. The symbol was immediately recognized by Omen as being something from his past, but without his memories he was unable to recall anything else about it. While Fade and Sage worked with Omen to try and help him remember his past, Cypher was able to get a lead in the investigation after he reached out to a radiant hitman that was willing to cooperate in exchange for protection from his current employer. His extraction was approved and the hitman was recruited into VALORANT as its 24th agent, "Iso". From this, it was discovered that the hourglass symbol belonged to Iso's now former employer, the Scions of Hourglass, and that they had been assigning Iso to assassinate anyone with connections to Project Landfall's research. Cypher tried to get more intel out of Iso, but he claimed that he had already told Cypher everything he knew due to how compartmentalized Hourglass' operations were.
Eventually however, Iso came forward with the truth of why he had joined the Protocol. All this time he had still been working for the Scions of Hourglass undercover with a mission to assassinate Omen. He had been biding his time for the right opportunity to complete his mission, but his observations of the Protocol as he got to know them more caused him to reflect on the differences between them and Hourglass, with the Protocol appearing as an actual force of good. Now turning his defection from a deception into reality, Iso proceeded to inform Omen about the assassination order, and with more intel he was able to provide, VALORANT allowed Omen to pursue this link to his past by tracking down Iso's former boss. Cypher and Iso first went to Casablanca, Morocco, to take down an Hourglass cell there that Iso had worked with, where they were able to learn that the boss would be at another Hourglass base in Jakarta, Indonesia. The two agents were then joined by Omen and Sova as they made their way to Jakarta.7.12 Range LoreRECKONING
At the Scions of Hourglass' skyscraper base in Jakarta, Omen entered the building alone, going through every guard on his way up to the penthouse, while the other three agents provided support. At the penthouse, Omen found the boss and confronted him, demanding him to tell Omen about "Shrouded Step", a term that had been found in Iso's assassination order. The boss however was able to reach a handheld device before Omen could stop him, activating a machine built into the ceiling that trapped Omen within an area of energy that began to work on ripping him apart. With Omen contained, the boss then not only complied with Omen's request, informing him that Shrouded Step was a simple kill directive, but also began to talk about Omen's previous role as an assassin for Hourglass known as "Ghost", back when the organization's old mission was to keep the discovery of radianite a secret before it became public knowledge. All of these reveals meanwhile triggered flashbacks for Omen to one particular mission where he had been ordered to assassinate Sabine Callas, now his fellow Protocol colleague Viper. As his memory of these events came back to him, Omen realized this was the mission responsible for turning him into what he was now. He had failed in his attempt to kill Dr. Callas, having been hit with a vial of chemicals in the face as she defended herself, and he had then ended up trapped within a test chamber. As he had tried to break out, Dr. Callas had then activated it, turning the man Ghost into the phantom Omen. As the boss finished taunting Omen and attempted to destroy him by powering up the machine to full, Sova fired a large energy blast into the penthouse at the machine, destroying it and freeing Omen, who jumped at the boss, grabbed him, and took them both through the window before teleporting back up to the penthouse, leaving the boss to fall to his death.
Following the events in Jakarta, Omen left the Protocol on extended leave to recover and come to terms with everything he had learned. Despite his request for VALORANT to not follow his whereabouts during this time, Cypher was able to quickly locate him after his arrival at a library in Edinburgh. He discovered that Omen had been after an Hourglass journal there, before Omen then sent a message to the Protocol to inform them that he had met someone he thought they'd want to meet. A handover was arranged, bringing the journal into VALORANT's possession as well as its latest recruit, "Clove". Clove immediately got to work assisting Cypher with decrypting the journal, which led them to uncover the location of the "Elder Grotto", a secret Hourglass base in Jan Mayen. A strike team was sent to the island, where they were able to seize control of the Elder Grotto from the Scions. With the facility secure, investigations into the site revealed that the SoH had been erasing the history of radiants from public records, whose existence actually dated back centuries before First Light.Range/Lore/EP8
==Operations ==
The VALORANT Protocol is completely independent, though they do require a backer to fund their technology. Their existence is kept hidden from the rest of the world, with the Protocol making sure any traces are scrubbed from the media. Aside from their enemies on Omega, only one other organization on Alpha appears to know of their existence, the Scions of Hourglass. The Protocol's base of operations is also kept well hidden, with it located on a remote volcanic island.Reddit Narrative AMA: VALORANT's backer4.01 Breach email
New agents who join VALORANT must leave behind their past lives and occupations, though they can still keep in contact with close relatives. Most agents are still able to go out in public thanks to the Protocol's methods for erasing, obscuring, and modifying info about them in the public sphere, though for agents with more troubled pasts and infamous reputations this takes more effort to achieve in order to let these agents no longer have to hide from the public, potentially with unwelcome costs. New agents are given a call sign to protect their identity and are required to refer to all other agents by their own call signs. Agents are also expected to be professional and battle-ready at all times. Previous regulation also discouraged agents from fraternization as workplace relationships can create complications, but after a romantic relationship developed between agents Killjoy and Raze, policy was updated to allow agents to have personal attachments to each other at their own risk.VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Policies for new agentsMethods to letting VALORANT agents not have to hide in publicReddit Narrative AMA: VALORANT call signsReddit Narrative AMA: Fraternization within VALORANTVALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: Fraternization within VALORANT (Discord link)VALORANT Lore Discord Narrative AMA: VALORANT regulations6.01 Viper Email
Whenever the VP has been seen in action, it has mostly been in response to spike threats. At times, leadership has appeared to keep some of the information behind their missions, such as the identities of the perpetrators, on a need-to-know basis for their agents. VALORANT usually sends out strike teams of about five agents, though occasionally they have responded to attacks with smaller or larger teams. Some missions have also used a secondary team, referred to as "Team 2", to investigate an area after the primary strike team has completed their initial mission there.Reddit Narrative AMA: VALORANT strike teams
===Missions===
Mission 	Assigned agents 	Report
Venice Mission 	(Field) (Comms) 	
* Phoenix is assigned to prevent a sole VALORANT Legion agent, Ω-Jett, from planting and detonating a spike in the city. 
* Phoenix chases the hostile through the streets of Venice to prevent them from planting a spike but eventually becomes unable to stop this from happening after being fatally shot. He is revived by his radiant powers later on.
Rabat Strike Team 	 	
* The team is assigned to prevent a sole VALORANT Legion agent from planting and detonating a spike at a radianite refinery in the city.
* Killjoy is the first agent to arrive on site along with her turret and starts to analyze the active spike. Phoenix and Viper arrive soon after aboard a V/LTR to assist. Killjoy and Viper confer about how to create and operate a device that can prevent the spike from detonating.
* Phoenix attempts to apprehend the hostile as they try to defend the spike but is caught off guard when it is revealed that the hostile is an identical version of himself. Viper comes to Phoenix's aid, forcing his Omega counterpart to retreat from the site.
* Killjoy is able to successfully defuse the spike using a defuser powered by a Radi-Core from her turret, with the help of Phoenix to superheat it.
S22 Strike Team 	 	
* The team is assigned to prevent a VALORANT Legion strike team (Ω-Cypher, Ω-Jett, and Ω-Viper) from detonating a spike at the site. They arrive to find the spike has already been planted and the Omega agents are falling back from the site.
* Yoru attempts to riftwalk into position but is forced to reveal himself when Phoenix initiates combat against the hostiles despite Yoru's advice. Yoru saves Phoenix from being shot by Ω-Cypher and then draws Ω-Jett towards him, leaving only Ω-Viper to deal with Phoenix.
* Phoenix enters an isolated fight with Ω-Viper and is able to eliminate her.
* Yoru and Ω-Jett fight over the planted spike, with Yoru eventually outmaneuvering Ω-Jett to incapacitate her and allow him to defuse the spike. He eventually finishes off Ω-Jett when she picks herself up and shoots Phoenix from behind, with Yoru hitting her by shooting through Phoenix’s body. Phoenix immediately revives afterwards.
The Omega Project: Everett-Linde Recovery Team 	 	
* The team is assigned to sweep the Everett-Linde facility.
* Cypher attempts to recover data from the facility’s Alpha-Omega teleporter, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
The Omega Project: Building a functional Alpha-Omega teleporter	 	
* The aim of the project is to cross over to Omega by constructing a functional Alpha-Omega teleporter.
* Killjoy initially only has standard Alpha teleporter blueprints to use as a reference, and she also needed a suitable power source, prompting her to apply for more funding. She eventually receives the Alpha-Omega teleporter blueprints from Chamber, and her power source in the form of a radiant, Neon.
* Killjoy and Neon work on rebooting the portal, with plans beginning to be made for operation details once on the ground at Omega.
* Killjoy reportedly becomes more lax with her own safety protocols over time, prompting Neon to raise concerns to Brimstone.
* Inquiries are raised over removing Neon's limiters on her surge protector in order for her to produce the amount of power required. Neon rejects this request and makes it clear they will not be removed.
* The project is put on hold when the threat of a blackmailer becomes a higher priority. Once VALORANT are able to clear up the misunderstanding and even recruit the blackmailer as an agent, the Protocol's focus immediately switches back to Omega.
* The teleporter is soon able to creates stable connections to Omega terminals. Fade is sent on a test run to an Omega city, with her safe journey there and back confirming the teleporter's ability to transport passengers between worlds. From this test, a new location of importance is brought up for them to look into, both by Killjoy from transponder data she received and by Fade after she learned it was a place of secrets to the Omega city's citizens.
Istanbul Strike Team 	 	
* The team is assigned to apprehend a blackmailer that has gotten hold of the Protocol's sensitive information.
* The team scouts Istanbul for multiple days before tracking the blackmailer down to a warehouse.
* Sova's comm is cut off from the rest of the team, and he moves in without backup from his team. Cypher and Neon are sent to reestablish connection but are attacked. Breach and Chamber also move in to reinforce the team.
* With the Ground team distracted, the blackmailer attempts to escape but is stopped by KAY/O who takes her down with a suppressive pulse, deactivating her radiant powers.
* The team successfully detains the blackmailer and takes her back to base for interrogation.
α-Lisbon Reconnaissance Team 	 	
* The team is assigned to scout the layout of α-Lisbon in preparation for their missions to its Omega counterpart.
* The team also tests a dimensional radiometer there in order to calculate the Alpha-Omega mesh.
** It confirms the radianite fabric in α-Lisbon is strong.
Ω-Lisbon Strike Team 	 	
* The team is assigned to locate where Omega is stockpiling Alpha's radianite. The VALORANT Protocol suspects Omega wants to weaponize it.
* The team arrives at a Kingdom Industries data center in Ω-Lisbon through an Alpha-Omega teleportal, but it is then shut down by a squad of Force Atlas soldiers. Neon and Reyna fight against them while Killjoy hacks into a terminal.
*Neon and Reyna are split up when Neon's surge protector gets damaged and Ω-Viper separates Reyna from Neon to enter an isolated fight with Reyna.
*Killjoy locates the radianite and begins downloading their coordinates. She investigates further into exactly what Omega wants to do with and discovers it's not for a weapon but for life support systems.
*Neon goes into overdrive due to her busted surge protector, releasing a large energy pulse that shuts down the data center's servers.
*Reyna hunts down Ω-Viper but is stopped by Neon just as Reyna is about to get a kill shot on Viper, as the team cannot stay around the data center any longer.
*The team makes their escape from the data center without the portal, with their new route leading them into a Lisbon comic book store.
**It's revealed there that the Omega counterpart to the VALORANT Protocol, VALORANT Legion, and their agents are publicly celebrated on Omega.
The Search for Varun Batra 	(Intel) 	
* The agents are assigned to keep track of a REALM convoy pursuing fugitive Varun Batra, starting from the Indian west coast.
* Following Batra's escape from the mangroves around Bangladesh, he leaves behind a scene from a fire fight he had with REALM, with REALM's spent bullets being left there in an ordered state resembling a semi-circle.
*Cypher discovers that REALM exists only on Alpha Earth, with no known counterpart on Omega. 
* Following Batra's escape from Bhutan, he continues to face down several REALM operatives at once, with witnesses from the scrapes speaking of towering walls of water and waves crashing through their ranks.
*Cypher hacks into REALM's database and retrieves an audio recording of a conversation between two REALM operatives who were part of a convoy. He also retrieved images of one of Batra's scrapes with REALM. 
* The Protocol is able to speak directly with Batra and arranges to pick him up somewhere around Delhi.
* Brimstone arrives in Delhi on a VLT/R to pick up Batra, saving him from a final REALM pursuit.
The Journey to the Omega Nexus 	 	
* The agents are assigned to travel to Omega and go to its City of Flowers in order to prevent Legion from activating the Omega Nexus.
* Atlas quickly becomes aware of the Protocol's intrusion in Portugal, forcing the agents to split up.
*The team later reunites in an undisclosed forest. However, with Atlas' pursuit slowing the team down too much in their goal to locate the Omega Nexus, Skye chose to hold the enemy forces back on her own while Harbor and Astra push forward with their journey. Skye's efforts resulted in large amount of casualties for the Atlas forces. 
*The strike team loses communications with Protocol command, prompting Brimstone to declare a holding pattern for the rest of VALORANT until connections can be re-established. 
*Harbor and Astra manage to arrive and enter the City of Flowers, but found themselves encountering a Legion strike team. 
**Despite the Alpha agents' fierce resistance, they are unsuccessful in preventing Legion from beginning to activate the Nexus, however their rapid response prevents a complete activation.
Thimphu Strike Team 	 	
*The team is assigned to prevent a VALORANT Legion strike team (Ω-Cypher, Ω-Killjoy, Ω-Omen, Ω-Raze, and Ω-Skye) from planting and detonating a spike at a temple in the city.
*Most of the Protocol agents head out to confront the Legion team when they arrive, but Phoenix goes off on his own to the wrong side of the site thinking that they would attack another part of the temple instead.
* As the Protocol agents hold the site, Jett is able to kill Ω-Cypher, but as Legion pushes forward Viper sustains an injury to her shoulder and Sova is killed by one of Ω-Raze's grenades, as Jett fires back with another kill onto Ω-Killjoy.
* Phoenix eventually rejoins the rest of the team, and together they send Jett and Phoenix forward on a counter push to eliminate Ω-Raze and Ω-Skye.
* Sage then heads to another part of the temple as Ω-Omen attempts to plant the spike there, preventing the plant and forcing him to teleport away and leave the spike behind.
Svalbard Mission 	(Field) (Intel) 	
*After receiving intel about a cargo pickup happening in Norway for Kingdom Corporation's Project Landfall, Sova is assigned to follow the pickup team to their destination, a facility in Svalbard, Norway.
*Cypher obtains details on the pickup team, consisting of three elite hunters from the Ståljeger organization and a Project Landfall scientist.
*Sova arrives at the facility to find it completely dead, but then detects a faint beacon. He enters and discovers the aftermath of an attack, with all the pickup team dead except for one remaining survivor, one of the Ståljeger operatives who had lost one of her arms in the attack.
*Sova rescues the operative and returns with her to HQ.
Los Angeles Strike Team 	 	
* The team is assigned to shut down an Interverse portal located in an underground chamber within Kingdom Corporation's Los Angeles facility.
*After entering the room with the portal and dealing with all personnel inside, Gekko, Deadlock, and Sova are tasked with shutting the portal down while Brimstone and Reyna hold back incoming Kingdom security. Gekko also summons Wingman.
*The portal's systems are unable to be accessed after retreating staff had locked down the controls. Utility used against the portal also fails to successfully block the pathway.
*Wingman then comes up with an idea to go into the portal himself while carrying Deadlock's nanowire accelerator. After taking some convincing, Deadlock agrees and Wingman jumps into the portal with it.
**The portal then starts to become unstable as it emits massive beams of energy, forcing the agents to retreat, before it eventually explodes, releasing an energy beam that goes upwards through the ceiling and into the facility car park above ground, creating a huge sinkhole.
*The agents exit the facility towards the sinkhole, where Gekko reunites with Wingman after the radivore had managed to make it back to Alpha's dimension. They then observe teleporter exits materializing on the other side of the sinkhole, as a VALORANT Legion strike team arrives on a mission to obtain α-radianite.
**The Protocol team is able to repel the Legion team.
Jakarta Strike Team 	(Team 2) 	
*The team is assigned to track down Iso's former boss from the Scions of Hourglass to be interrogated by Omen.
*Cypher and Iso take down an Hourglass cell in Casablanca, Morocco, that Iso had worked with and learn there that the boss would be at an Hourglass skyscraper base in Jakarta, Indonesia.
*The full team then travels to Jakarta, with Omen entering the skyscraper alone while the other three agents provide support.
*Omen makes his way to the penthouse where he finds and confronts the boss, but the boss activates a machine that traps Omen within an area of energy that begins to work on ripping him apart.
**With Omen contained, the boss then taunts Omen with information about his previous role as an assassin for the SoH known as "Ghost".
**All of the boss' reveals meanwhile trigger flashbacks in Omen to one particular mission where he had been ordered to assassinate Sabine Callas.
***As his memory of these events come back to him, Omen realizes it was the outcome of this mission that was responsible for turning him into what he was now, as he had failed in his attempt to kill Dr. Callas and had been trapped within a test chamber that she had then activated, turning the man Ghost into the phantom Omen.
*Sova fires a large energy blast into the penthouse at the machine to destroy it and free Omen, who proceeds to take the boss through the window and leaves him to fall to his death.
*A second team is later sent to investigate the base.
**They find that Hourglass had scrubbed and abandoned the base.
Jan Mayen Strike Team 	(Team 2) (Team 2) (Team 2) (Team 2) (Team 2)	
*The team is assigned to secure the Scions of Hourglass' Elder Grotto base underneath the island of Jan Mayen.
*Clove, Iso, and Omen fight off the Hourglass guards at the base, and the Elder Grotto is eventually secured.
*More agents are then sent to the Elder Grotto to further investigate the site and recover samples.
Omega Incursions 	 	
*Three teams are sent to respond to simultaneous Omega incursions across Alpha Earth.
*Cypher, Deadlock, Fade, Jett, and Skye are assigned to respond to the incursion at Ascent.
*Breach, Brimstone, KAY/O, Killoy, and Raze are assigned to respond to the incursion at Sunset.
*Chamber, Gekko, Iso, Neon, and Phoenix are assigned to respond to the incursion at Icebox.
**The team fails to prevent the detonation of a spike at the site.
Seoul Strike Team 	(Comms) 	
*The team is assigned to apprehend an escapee from a specialized Elder Grotto contaiment cell, having been tracked to Seoul, South Korea.
*Jett is isolated from the team and subdued by the escapee.
*Chamber and Yoru reposition to provide support but they are all disarmed by the escapee.
*Omen teleports in and holds the escapee at gunpoint before he stands down, informing her that they want to talk.
==Technology==
*Firearms: The Protocol uses a wide variety of firearms that agents go into battle with.
VLT R.png|One of VALORANT's VLT/R aircraft
VLT-R Schematic Card Large.png|VLT/R schematic
VLT R Instant Deceleration.png|A VLT/R exiting high-speed travel
*VLT/R: The VLT/R, referred to by agents as the Vulture, is a tilt-engine VTOL aircraft used by the Protocol for transport. It is able to instantly accelerate to and decelerate from high speeds, and is also designed to contain an FTL drive for use under specific circumstances. It can also be set to automatic pilot and be controlled while unmanned.VLT/R's FTL drive
**The aircraft bears resemblance to a Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey.
The Games Begin Portal Room.png|The Protocol's Alpha-Omega teleporter
The Games Begin Boundary Glitch.png|The teleporter while hijacked by Max Bot
*Alpha-Omega teleporter: Developed from schematics obtained by Chamber, constructed by Killjoy, and powered by Neon, the Protocol uses an Alpha-Omega teleporter to travel between Earths.
**When Max Bot enacted his revenge on the Protocol, he hijacked the teleporter to make it transport users into the bot's simulated "Danger Dome" arenas instead.
*Spike: The Protocol was able to construct its own spikes by reverse engineering them from the spikes they had obtained from Omega's attacks.
*Cross-dimensional comm arrays: The Protocol uses cross-dimensional comms to keep in contact with agents operating on Omega.
== Agents==
No.	ID 	Name 	Call Sign	Origin 	Classification
01 	 	Liam Byrne 	Brimstone	United States 	Human
02 	 	Sabine Callas 	Viper 	United States 	Human
03 	 	REDACTED 	Omen 	REDACTED 	Radiant*
04 	 	Klara Böhringer 	Killjoy 	Germany 	Human
05 	 	Amir El Amari 	Cypher 	Morocco 	Human
06 	 	Alexander (Sasha) Novikov 	Sova 	Russia 	Human
07 	 	Wei Ling Ying 	Sage 	China 	Radiant
08 	REDACTED	REDACTED 	REDACTED 	REDACTED 	REDACTED
09 	 	Jamie Adeyemi 	Phoenix 	United Kingdom 	Radiant
10 	 	Han Sunwoo 	Jett 	South Korea 	Radiant
11 	 	Zyanya Mondragón 	Reyna 	Mexico 	Radiant
12 	 	Tayane Alves 	Raze 	Brazil 	Human
13 	 	Erik Torsten 	Breach 	Sweden 	Human
14 	 	Kirra Foster 	Skye 	Australia 	Radiant
15 	 	Kiritani Ryo 	Yoru 	Japan 	Radiant
16 	 	Efia Danso 	Astra 	Ghana 	Radiant
17 	 	NONE 	KAY/O 	Alternate Timeline Earth	Cybernetic
18 	 	Vincent Fabron 	Chamber 	France 	Human
19 	 	Tala Nicole Dimaapi Valdez 	Neon 	Philippines 	Radiant
20 	 	Hazal Eyletmez 	Fade 	Türkiye 	Radiant
21 	 	Varun Batra 	Harbor 	India 	Human
22 	 	Mateo Armendáriz De la Fuente	Gekko 	United States 	REDACTED
23 	 	Iselin 	Deadlock 	Norway 	Human
24 	 	Li Zhao Yu 	Iso 	China 	Radiant
25 	 	REDACTED 	Clove 	United Kingdom 	Radiant
===Agent 08===
Very little is known about Agent 08, though they have been reported to be absent, whether that's because they are on mission, on leave, or MIA. Like all other agents, they had their own locker at HQ, however their agent number and ID image had been removed.Reddit Narrative AMA: Agent 08WARM UP
==References==
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