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G-210 -- GROUP: EQUIPMENT
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 ELEVATORS
 Elevators are large structures that transfer personnel and materials to and from Gensokyo in a vertical fashion. The elevators themselves consist of a shaft and a base to serve as the site to reach.
 Most elevators pierce through the Great Hakurei Barrier (the large supertensile1 structure that divides Gensokyo from the rest of the world) to reach Gensokyo, and are vertical in nature due to past difficulties in attempting to create horizontal entrances.
 It is widely believed that most Gensokyo natives are unable to 'climb' their way up an elevator shaft, as all tunnels have been fashioned with a very firm material (derived from a steel-like polymer) incapable of being twisted and damaged unless done so with extreme force. Flight was also rendered null through way of ventilation systems built into the shaft that regulate air flow, and can be 'weaponized' by shifting the flow around to disorient a presumed path.
 Due to Gensokyo's boundary system, elevators are notorious for the practice of 'shattering'; often times, their end site will be drastically different from the rest of Gensokyo because the elevator is piercing through a pre-existing boundary, causing massive damage to Gensokyo's fabric of reality.
 Physicists aboard the Expedition hypothesize that the 'new worlds' an elevator creates upon a shattering are actually glances into alternate realities, parallel universes, or otherwise separate and disconnected dimensions; simply because they often do not exist on the same timeframe or even subatomic composition compared to our world. Despite this, no safety issues regarding visiting a shattered location have arisen and generally, most locations seem safe to traverse.2
 While elevators typically are designed to carry small groups and small amounts of resources (owing to their current prototype status), larger elevators designed for depots and storage do exist. Following Hammer Down, all elevators in the Gensokyo region would report back as 'compromised' over the course of the next 72 hours.
 PENDING REVISION
 The Primary Center, which served as a general hub for most elevators on the network, has communicated back a 'compromised' status 2 weeks after the declaration of Hammer Down. An unmanned investigation is being set up.
 1 - It is believed the GHB is fashioned out of a material greatly stronger than carbon, due to the strength needed to perforate holes into it to create an elevator.
 2 - An amendment to the 'Shattered Visitors Theory' (which was described in this same paragraph) includes the possibility that the elevator itself becomes subject to a boundary when it undergoes a shattering event; which is why it doesn't seem to be instantly destroyed (nor do personnel get killed in an equal timeframe) when an incident occurs.