The Expedition

The Expedition is a group mentioned several times in FTK's twisting of Touhou's narrative.
== Overview ==
This section mentions lore related to the decanonized koisherminal.carrd.co website.With no mention of an actual name or proper title, "the Expedition" was an excursion into Gensokyo with involvement from the United States governmentThe group overseeing the Expedition was called the United States Center of Abnormal Efforts (USCAE), according to koisherminal.carrd.co/evacuation. 
The general phrasing of the Expedition implies it was mostly scientifically minded, albeit there were subsects who were resource-minded, given that engineers and electricians tasked with maintaining presumably in-Gensokyo outposts appear to co-exist with researchers. The Expedition's workforce encompassed biologists, scientists, technicians, and engineers, among presumably a myriad of other jobs.https://koisherminal.carrd.co/#evacuation Therapy was advised for people of faith, suggesting that it also had a team of therapists and pediatricians.
At some point, apparently due to a mixture of native retaliation and a sour mood in the air, the Expedition said "fuck it" and GTFO'd from Gensokyo, leaving behind various tech despite their thorough evacuation plan including the elevators that the player uses to navigate in FTK and FTK2. If FTK1's environmental storytelling is to be taken as fact, then the process to ditch the fantasy-land and cut their losses didn't do so well, given the player managed to find their sealed entrances and reach Gensokyo to escape a crisis happening above-ground.
== In the Games ==
Although the Expedition came after FTK1's release and wasn't integrated into the lore, trace remnants remain and persist into FTK2:
* Something Malicious's industrial appearance in FTK1, despite being an ULTRAKILL joke, could also be a way of showing that the Expedition clearly had facilities built into Gensokyo designed to last a while.
* The elevators they left behind are clearly their biggest remnants.
* One of the terminals Yukari writesThe pink text, name-drop of Reimu, and the fact she's in the fucking skybox of the level obviously indicates this is Yukari writing. in the Void Palace mentions a group of people who went down to Gensokyo and left after having a "curiosity-killed-the-cat" moment. The elevators are maintained by both the KAF, and apparently kappas. This could be the Expedition.
* The KAF appears to have been either built off work the Expedition presumably left behind or built as a mockery of the Expedition's failed efforts to research Gensokyo, given it's stark, sleek appearance and maintenance of the "Elevaders"; which presumably are one way to think of what the Expedition's buildings probably looked like.
* Jane Doe, a non-canonical character created by Marecrisium to represent the player, is apparently wearing a stolen Expedition uniform.
== Trivia ==
* They are a whole-sale reference to the Hell expeditions in ULTRAKILL's lore, being people who investigated a place beyond their comprehension, paid the price, and elected to cut their losses and scram; albeit not before bringing with them adverse effects.
* Steps 3 and 4 of the evacuation protocol are respectively called "The Trial" and "Outside the Wall", after songs off the album The Wall by Pink floyd.
* If the Koisherminal website's to be taken as fact, then the Expedition's logo seems to resemble a Terraria hellevator, a long vertical shaft into the core of the Earth, surrounded by the petals of a flower.
== References ==
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