The UNWD Failsafe Codex

:"You think I want to keep this? I've coralled nearly a hundred of the world's most powerful beings into one place. I don't have a choice." - Jonah Gordonson, explaining the purpose of the Failsafe Codex.
The UNWD Failsafe Codex is a document entailing the UNWD's plans to shut down or manipulate any given agent if it was absolutely necessary. It was created shortly after the recruitment of Agent 28, Solaris. The information within not only serves the purpose of triggering an agent's highest level of power in a dire situation, but also how to deal with them if they become uncontrollable or turn towards evil.
== Basics ==
=== Appearance ===
The codex is a pair of 160-page hardcover spiral-bound black notebooks. They are tied together with standard brown twine. Each page is narrow-lined with a small left margin. To the unaware viewer, they would appear cluttered and useless, fattened by copious sticky notes and bookmarks, some pages crumpled or dog-eared with use. Inside, Gordonson's notes are written in a neat, small font, dotted with annotations and additions.
=== History ===
After recruiting Solaris, the UNWD experienced a few events in which they experienced difficulty curbing the occasional Juggernaut episode, triggered by an attack on Solaris' goliath sunflower. Gordonson initially wrote notes on how to curb or redirect Solaris' power, or how to deliberately trigger it in the case of a dire emergency, but realised two crucial things: it was manipulative and cruel to purposefully trigger an agent's stress-induced power for the purposes of using it to clear a situation, and that it also was sometimes the only option.
Following this realisation, Gordonson took to noting down these conditions for all applicable agents in the form of a digital document, but after the Autopilot Incident resolved to copy his notes longhand into a spiral-bound notebook. With the growth of the UNWD, this turned into two notebooks, and they became a point of dread and paranoia for Gordonson, who eventually sealed them in a locked box in the deepest parts of the UNWD's vault so that the codex would never fall into the wrong hands. He would return to it periodically to add to it, and - rarely - to call upon the information within.
== Contents ==
The contents consists largely of an agent's name written in black ink, then 2-3 pages on how to use the most dangerous part of the agent's power to aid in a final-ditch effort in an otherwise hopeless situation, written in red ink, or how to shut them down completely (and nonfatally) in blue ink. Advice on how to terminate the agent fatally is written in pencil. While not every agent has an entry, or may have only their name and a few notes, many agents are unknowingly listed within its depths.
=== Categorisation ===
Agents' powers in the Failsafe Codex are categorised in five ways. The categories are Battery, Linear Weapon, Radial Weapon, Memetic and Other. These are separate to the methods of containing or countering the agents, and are instead methods to utilise their powers in an all-else-fails scenario, often to the agent's detriment.
==== Battery ====
The agent's power, when overloaded, can be used to generate fuel or electricity. This category primarily includes SCORCH and Sarky.
==== Linear Weapon ====
The agent, overwhelmed with power or external stimulus, can be used as an unstoppable force in one direction, such as Juggernaut Solaris cleaving a path to his sunflower.
==== Radial Weapon ====
The agent can be used to clear an area based on radius, similar to the detonation of a bomb. SCORCH is also featured in this category, as are theories for Stella's ultimate power threshold.
==== Memetic ====
The agent can be used as a psychological weapon to induce altered states of consciousness or emotion in others for purposes of incapacitation. An example would be Dreamboat or Mindwipe, though the latter does not have a confirmed entry.
==== Other ====
Agents whose powers have multiple, unique or otherwise unspecified uses, such as Coughlin Quickley as a living portal, Jack Russo as an endless font of possibilities, or the various effects of Alkaev's Seraph Suit.
=== Known Entries ===
The following are agents confirmed to have entries in the Failsafe Codex.
* Chaos Master. His powers are involuntary and difficult to control, but he can be shut down through over-exertion, triggered by overloading his Pink Powers with constant, chaotic stimulation.
* Chikin Bob and Elephant Bob. One will stand down if the other is incapacitated and under extreme threat.
* Eden October. In a pinch, October's liquid body can be released into a water supply to dilute but spread out its healing effect in the case of a mass medical emergency. This would stabilise but not totally heal a large number of patients, but would likely injure or destroy October. Gordonson also notes that due to their low body temperature, it may be possible to safely keep October in cryogenic stasis if needed, but the caveats would be that they'd remain aware throughout the process and that if the ice melted at all, October would be able to escape through liquid form.
* Stella. Pendanti and cabbage.
* Coughlin Quickley. Due to Quickley's immense strength and ability to heal, it would be possible only to restrain him with use of constant muscle destruction and sensory deprivation. The codex includes blueprints of an anchored harness that could be used to direct Quickley's rage, and notes that if totally necessary, it may be possible to use him as a living portal to the other colkiverse.
* Solaris. Explosives planted at the base of the sunflower can be triggered remotely to activate the Juggernaut effect. The UNWD is constantly tracking the sunflower's position, and as such can steer difficult enemies into the deadly path of Juggernaut Solaris. However, given the nature of the Juggernaut state, it is likely that Solaris would completely destroy himself while charging through very tough foes, with his body refusing to acknowledge the damage until too late.
* SCORCH. As exemplified by Swbo Bolg, if SCORCH sustains severe damage, she can be used as a dangerous explosive device. However, she can also be used as an energy source due to the light, heat and energy emitted by her fiery body. To placate her in this state, which she has demonstrated before to strongly dislike, a specialised brainwave influence device would be used to induce a dream-like state, leading SCORCH to believe that she is once again living a normal human life, rendering her calm and pliable.
* Jack Russo. The Quadruple Cat Dare command. This is an example of how the Failsafe Codex is a compilation of absolute last-case scenarios, as the Quadruple Cat Dare runs the risk of destroying Russo or permanently erasing his free will and identity.
* Dreamboat. Dreamboat features in several Failsafe scenarios, namely to placate or induce a catatonic state in volatile agents. Dreamboat herself has an entry detailing a means of using her as the core for Sleepyhead MkII, a huge earth-bound machine that would intermittently release sleep-inducing pulses across a radius of hundreds of miles. This would make the area untraversible, but would also make Dreamboat incredibly difficult to remove.
* Green Eye. Through introducing small amounts of mind-altering substances to her coffee blend, Green Eye's already-enhanced suggestibility can be raised to a state where she follows orders in a barely-thinking fugue state. Her constant vibration may also be used as a kinetic energy battery, and if her coffee is switched for decaf she enters a state where she is more lucid but far more aggressive and desperate.
* Sarky. Very similar to SCORCH's entry. Sarky's pages also list notes on the development of Sarcastices, and how the robotic alternative to Sarky may counter her if she were to turn against the organisation.
* Grisha Alkaev. There are notes on how to induce the different Sin States to cause Alkaev's armour to betray him.The primary methods of neutralising or weaponising the Seraph Suit against Alkaev are wrath, envy, pride and despair.
* Nell Nullfield appears at several points in the codex as a last resort counter to powered agents. Though a counter to Nullfield is unlikely to be necessary, Jonah notes that she 'takes care of herself' - absorbing large amounts of power has taken her out of commission before, and could kill her in an extreme case.
* The Warp. Although Jonah has noted down several methods of taking out The Warp by forcing them into their maximum stress level to induce a contained reality collapse, the primary plan is to keep Falters calm and prevent them from entering their Warp form before terminating them with a bullet to the base of the skull.
* Doctor Dogbrain. Even after using an electro-magnetic pulse to disable his technology, Dogbrain is still a proficient fighter. He can be rendered immobile temporarily, however, by exposure to high-pitched sound frequencies (similar to a dog whistle) that are extremely painful to his sensitive canine hearing. Gordonson speculates in the codex that if Dogbrain's head and body were separated, then both parts would stop functioning, but then realised that this also counts for most people, and that Dogbrain is not more vulnerable to decapitation than any other agent.
* Openheart. If Lovelash becomes a threat to the UNWD, then separating her and Artie would kill them both. Gordonson is covertly studying the red cord that connects the two, and how much damage it could potentially take. Though he has noted that implanting a new heart into Lovelash sounds tempting, allowing the UNWD to destroy Artie and allow the girl to live under a strict order of silence, it is unlikely that her body would accept the new organ or survive surgery, given that she has been half-dead for quite some time now.
=== Other Contents ===
The codex also includes descriptors and plans for several 'Failsafe Justifying Scenarios' or 'Doomsday Equivalents'. These are extremely dire but limited scenarios, and are largely products of Gordonson's anxiety given his position; they include possibilities ranging from a second Auto Pilot outbreak to enemies of the UNWD (such as the SGA or Iraz Army) threatening Gordonson's brother, Jordan, and Jordan's wife and young children.
== Trivia ==
* Agent ? is aware of the codex's existence, but not its location or contents. It is one of the very few things that Agent ? is not entrusted with.
* It is also one of the few UNWD artefacts that Gordonson does not trust to be stored by Loch & Keye's Containment and Storage.
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