ADI Collection

**¡ALTO!**

**The Collections Archive is strictly CLASSIFIED. Access by non-authorized personnel is PROHIBITED under Technocratic law. Violators will be located, detained, and subject to full prosecution before a Court of Council.**

**Councillors seeking access to the Collection must be AUTHORIZED by a CBURA coordinator with the requisite premature clearance level. Visitors and Councils may only access files for premature viewing of their authorized clearance level or lower.**

## The Collection

*"The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land..."*

-Thomas Huxley
There is a collection in a building in a department in a nation in a world filled with secrets, anomalies, and unknown variables.

True.

False.

There are many collections in many buildings in many departments in many nations across many worlds, all of it filled with secrets, anomalies, and unknown variables.

False.

True.

There is the Collection, whose parts are spread across continents and whose files are a spiderweb of computer servers, reel-to-reel tapes, and manila folders. It is hosted by CBURA, who is hosted by the United Technate of the Americas, who is an organ of the Technocratic Combine.

True.

True.

There is the ADI Collection, a sprawling database of information and evidence, anomalous reports and paranatural incidents. It is an intelligence retrieval and containment organization without peer, a national and transnational organization devoted to securing the truth of the world at any cost or price. Its agents and informants are worldwide, and its dossier of raw knowledge, technology, strange information, and anomalous materials is one of the largest in the world. Foreign mechanisms hundreds of years old that are mere years from reaching endpoint, corpses formed from materials unlike any other on Earth, official published documents detailing counterfactual histories, autonomous sentient machines...the list goes on. Within the Collection, there are files that promise strange and terrible truths, that portray the modern world as no more than a thin eggshell of falsehood over a vast chasm of eldritch yolk...and the eggshell as beginning to crack.

It is CBURA's mission and duty to collect this data, these artifacts, those terrible truths. And they are well-equipped for it: the evidence within ADI cannot be secured or contained by nice suits and briefcases full of cash. They must be found and controlled via force, physical or otherwise. While the Network sends civilians with hunting rifles and cameras to die at the hands of monsters and the men and women overlooking the Y Files hunt ghost stories and cultural myths with pens and pistols, CBURA Investigators arm themselves for war and containment. They make raids into foreign regions once feelers have picked up an anomaly, bombing regions with radio-jamming devices and if need be engaging other agencies in order to acquire their target. At home their task is easier, constantly crawling over the land for leads and intercepting foreign spies for information and evidence.

And once they have collected the data or the anomaly, they will bring it back...back to the Collection, to be secured, stored, and then poured over or experimented on for information. For the purpose of the ADI Collection is not merely to hide, but to reveal; to manipulate and peel away the thorns of the rose that is truth, to hasten the time when they may reveal it to the public. Civilian Councils may even attempt to penetrate the ADI, using its acquired knowledge and information to further humanity's understanding and humanity's power.

In the time that the Collection has been active, there has been much to acquire.

### ADI-024: Immortal Horse

**Object #:** *ADI-024*

**Object Code:** *Seguro*

**Object Security:** *ADI-024 is to be housed in a stable near to the Laboratorio Stables in L5-'Sol', and is to be provided and cared for by an equine veterinary specialist as an un-anomalous horse for the purposes of physical and mental wellbeing. This includes a sufficient and varied diet as identical to that fed to Technocratic warhorses so as to encourage healthy tissue and muscular system development and regrowth, exposure to adequate sunlight and social contact with un-anomalous horses, and regulated access to a free-roam environment in addition to daily exercise routines. All testing on ADI-024 is to be conducted with the supervision of aforementioned equine veterinary specialist in a prepared separate stable.*

*After Experiment Log 024/A-27091966-23-582, usage of intravenous and inhalant anesthetics has been officially declared PERMISSIBLE for use when conducting tests on ADI-024*

**Abstract:** *ADI-024 is an anomalous member of the species 'Equus ferus caballus', informally known as the domestic horse, bearing the typical traits and a similar genetic lineage to that of the Italian Maremmano breed. The specimen stands at approximately 16.3 hands high with almost uniform dark chestnut colouration. Irregular patches of both dun and roan hair patterns have been exhibited in areas of skin regrown after tissue samples were taken: this is currently believed to be an indicator of possible genetic error in the regenerative process. DNA sequencing reveals extensive mutation in the genetic makeup of the individual, above the normal variation exhibited in un-anomalous specimens.*

*ADI-024's anomalous properties are exhibited after being injured via either external or internal sources: rapid cellular regeneration, an ability to regrow lost body parts, and the ability to perform biological functions past the point of termination for un-anomalous lifeforms. Minor damage or moderate damage to individual areas of the body will regenerate and 'regrow' within hours: damaged skin will be replaced with new skim, fractured bones will have soft and hard callus form, blood will clot and then dissolve, and punctured organs will grow new tissue. Severe or extensive damage will take days, and in the case of major limb loss (such as in Incident Report 024/2, where the right foreleg had to be amputated), it may take multiple weeks of recuperation for ADI-024 to recover. The source of the energy and material used to regenerate ADI-024 at such an anomalous rate appears to be the organism itself: Medical checks taken during long-term recovery times for severe injuries show high fatigue and increased metabolic rates in ADI-024, as well as a much higher nutrient intake when possible. It appears that ADI-024 decelerates its activity and consumption in other parts of its body to accelerate regrowth: this however has the downside of causing artificial malnutrition during and after the recovery. Beyond these properties, the dating of certain teeth samples reveals a lifespan above and beyond that of un-anomalous horses, and indicates a strong possibility of negligible senescence. For all intents and purposes, ADI-024 is functionally and biologically immortal.*

*ADI-024 was recovered on the border of Colombia and Venezuela on the 19th of September 1963, and was officially inducted as an ADI on the 8th of October, 1965 along with ADI-001 through ADI-053. First sighted by infantry elements of the Ejército Venezolano patrolling in Táchira, ADI-024's anomalous properties were realized after it had been shot at by said infantry elements for food, who upon recovering the animal discovered that even after being shot in the head it was still breathing. After it had recovered fully by the next morning, the soldiers sent it back to the Central University of Venezuela, after which due to pre-existing agreements it eventually passed into the hands of the Collection.*

**Current Declassification Date:** *XX/XX/1993*

**Civilian Access:** *Civilian Project Councils with Level 7 clearance and below are allowed viewing rights to ADI-024, situational access to byproducts of ADI-024, and access to files lodged under the ADI-024 crossreference folder. Civilian Councils with Level 3 clearance and below are allowed situational access to ADI-024 for the purpose of study and experimentation when overseen by ADI personnel.*

*As of 01/08/1969, the following Councils are currently CLEARED for access to ADI-024:*

* **Level 1/Project Gaia's Bounty/Tissue Engineering Council -** *Purpose: To take donor tissue from ADI-024 in both normal and regenerative states, with which to test viability as a potential source for future in vitro meat product.*
* **Level 2/Project Tlaloc's Gift/Heart Transplantation Council -** *Purpose: To extract heart from ADI-024 in order to study post-removal organ regrowth as well as observe eugenic transfer of hypothesized 'regenerative sequences' to pig heart and results.*
* **Level 6/Project Bone Sword/Exoskeletal Development Council (ACCESS TO BYPRODUCTS ONLY) -** *Purpose: To gather discarded samples of keratin growth from ADI-024 for use in experiments on potential stimulation of keratin as replacement for chitin in exoskeletal development.*

### ADI-077: Monkey Soldiers

**Object #:** *ADI-077*

**Object Code:** *Bruja*

**Object Security:** *KEEP THAT STUFF LOCKED UP TIGHT*

**Abstract:** *MONKEYS WITH GUNS MAN*

**Current Declassification Date:** *XX/XX/2006*

**Civilian Access:** *Civilian Project Councils with Level 5 clearance and below are allowed viewing rights to ADI-077, situational access to byproducts of ADI-077, and access to files lodged under the ADI-077 crossreference folder. Civilian Councils with Level 3 clearance and below are allowed situational access to ADI-077 for the purpose of study and experimentation when overseen by ADI personnel.*

*As of 01/08/1969, the following Councils are currently CLEARED for access to ADI-077:*

* **Level 3/Project Iron Man/Cybernetics Council -** *Purpose: To submit ADI-077 to cross-examination of their external and internal cybernetic components as well as compare them to Syndicate variants to potentially integrate these components to Technate machinery.*
* **Level 5/Project Mind Reader/Primate Neurobiology Council -** *Purpose: To obtain a psychological profile of ADI-077 which can help in mediating ADI-077's behavior to help make primates more pliable for further research.*

## Selected Organizations

There are more anomalies in the world than there are held within the confines of the ADI Collection, and the Collection is not the only organization seeking and tracking them. There are many groups in the world that would take these truths as their own, to possess them or sell them, utilize them or secret them, create them or destroy them. Some of them are hostile agencies, others secret groups that desire to keep hidden from the world, and others yet minor groups or societies that are as varied as the anomalies they search for.

In any case, it has been deemed necessary for CBURA and the ADI to compile a dossier of the most notable organizations present in the field today and the Collection's stance on them, whether for the purposes of aligning their goals and designs with the greater Combine or disrupting their ability to act against the Collection in case of hostilities.

### SO-007: The Y Files

Originally a bureaucratic sub-branch of INTERPOL formed in the late 50s to collect and catalog cases the parent organization found too unsolvable, unacceptable, or unbelievable to store within its main database, the Y Files has since expanded into a small but dedicated task force headed by the FBI whose mission from recovered reports is to monitor international events and phenomena for signs of paranatural activity or potentially 'escaped' scientific projects. While the full extent of Y Files personnel and the anomalous data they have contained is unknown, counter-monitoring and covert investigation indicates they have only a limited number of field-ready personnel, with only two field teams encountered multiple times in past operations (see *Fichero Y Files/Subfichero Pessonal/Registro Field Team "True Believers"* and *Registro Field Team "Fringe Theorists"*).

Though nominally maintaining a neutral stance with regard to international affairs in line with the tenets of its parent organization, the Y Files has a noted political connection to the international organization known as the Allied Nations, with its base of operations and collected data housed in Geneva. As such, field teams under their jurisdiction found operating within Technocratic space or in ADI-secured areas are to be monitored and tracked while they are active in the area as a potential liability. However, members of the Y Files in the majority of encounters have exhibited a lack of effective in-field coordination or training: they are a low-priority threat unless there is reasonable suspicion that a field team might acquire an actual ADI.

The Y Files have never engaged in direct confrontation with ADI forces, and are not considered an active threat to Technocratic civilian safety. There are several incidents however in which ADI agents monitoring Y Files field teams were engaged by hostile forces of a third, unknown group that of August 1969 have not been encountered outside of Y Files-involved cases (for more information, see *SO-009: The Contortium*)

### SO-012: KGB Division "A"

Division "A" of the KGB is a paramilitary covert operations force that, from past encounters with the Collection, is dedicated to the monitoring and destruction of anomalies within the Soviet sphere of influence and espionage. Though information on the KGB Division "A" is scant given lack of present ability to penetrate Soviet information networks, the organization is suspected to have been formed shortly after World War 2 by Premier Anatoly Cherdenko. The Division seems to have been drawn from a number of other organizations that were either shut down or purged shortly after Stalin's death, though CBURA has only been able to gather solid evidence of two of them (see *Fichero 'Ministry of Experimental Science'/Subfichero Projyecto/Registro "Mozg"* and *Registro "Meteor"*).

Division "A" takes a salt-and-burn approach to both anomalies and other selected organizations in past encounters in-field, preferring whenever possible to destroy paranatural sources and evidence of them as well as silencing individuals associated with said anomalies. Their tactics and equipment exhibit similar traits to GRU Spetsnaz, including widespread usage of the BAK-58 bullpup assault rifle, KM-21 shotgun, and EX-07 cyclotron rifle, and they have been known to make use of Soviet military vehicles disguised as civilian models. It is a testament to their experience and ruthlessness that ADI recovery of anomalies from the Upper North American East Coast is only 64% of expected acquisition rates, even taking into account renewed activity by Unionist-loyal branches of Lincoln's Own Militia.

In-field interactions with Division "A" have been as a whole hostile, as most encounters between groups have taken place in neutral territory with both tracking the same anomaly. Those interviewed during the few occasions on which ADI and KGB forces have collaborated report that the Division finds the Collection suspicious and contemptible for seeking to exploit anomalous items rather than destroy them outright. However, the ADI's association with the United Technate and current geopolitical currents means that the Division is currently willing to respect the authority of the Collection in sovereign territory, if not in neutral countries.

In-field forces encountering Division forces in Technocratic territory are to officially report their existence to the nearest ADI location before intervening and warning them away: any hostile action is to be countered with an immediate lethal response. When operating in a neutral locality or in a Soviet zone of influence, agents are to remain undetected if possible and to engage neutrally with the presumption of possible hostile action. In cases where an ADI or Division target is to be eliminated rather than contained, the offer of mutual assistance may be warranted.

### SO-017: Echidna Exquisites LLC

A major player in the international market for 'novelty items', the Echidna Exquisites LLC is a subsidiary of the Mediterranean Syndicate dedicated to the retrieval and auction of exquisite and potentially anomalous objects. Formed in 1966 from a merger of several antique shops, occult stores and historian groups, Echidna operates out of a number of public branches situated in both Sprawls and several major international port cities (see *Fichero Echidna Exquisities/Subfichero Ubicaciones*). Investigative teams and interrogated buyers report that transactions of non-anomalous materials are held inside at the stores themselves, while anomalous objects are purchased by mail and delivered to the buyer's home by anonymous individuals. The cost of the artifacts themselves vary according to the rarity, historical value and nature of the anomaly, with the most expensive known artifact ever recorded being the "Midas Transmuter" costing 7.8 million lira.

While Echidna appears to be formed out of a fondness for the bizarre and to appeal to hobbyists, enthusiasts and collectors of the unknown, the company also possesses a significant foothold on the black market, owing to the effectiveness of their retrieval squads and networks of middlemen in the movement from country to country. Uncovered sales records have indicated that Echidna has sold historical items to wealthy individuals usually of Greco-Roman origin (see *OOI-085: Forge of Hephaestus* and *OOI-086: Sword of Damocles*, among others). Recently, however, they have started to branch out to artifacts from other cultures, namely of Mesoamerican (see *OOI-087: Mayan Calendar*) and African (see *OOI-084: Egyptian Book of the Dead*) origin.

Relations with Echidna have been mixed: although there have been several past cases where Echidna retrieval squads assisted ADI agents in securing ADIs, the decentralized nature and number of mercenary forces working for Echidna means that any interaction with them in the field must be handled on a case by case basis. There have been two instances in recent years in which ADI containment sites were breached by forces later identified as being employed by Echidna as retrieval squads: in both instances, neither group was aware of the Archivos and was only informed that there were potential artifacts to be found warehoused in the area. As such, retrieval squads encountered in the field are to be treated as freely disposable for the purposes of both hostilities and temporary partnerships when necessary to acquire an ADI or other task. For retrieval, field agents are to maintain the standard operating procedure of disguising as interested buyers in order to acquire preliminary data before engaging Echnidna forced in hostilities. Should there be evidence of Echidna field teams or middlemen rotating anomalous items through Technate territory, agents are to engage the individuals involved and retrieve the anomalous artifacts at all costs. If an anomalous item is auctioned to an individual according to uncovered sales records, the individual in question is to be secretly brought in to a Panopticon to be held for questioning and the surrendering of the said anomalous item. Usage of non-lethal, and when needed, lethal force may be warranted at extreme cases.

### SO-042: The Network of Truth Seekers

The Network of Truth Seekers is a cell-based, non-partisan organization that consists of conspiracy theorists, parapsychologists, cryptozoologists, survivalists, amateur historians and the like under the leadership of an individual who calls themselves the Third Eye (see *SI-048: The Third Eye*). The Network, according to informants, is reported to have been created in 1968 by an alliance of numerous conspiracy groups already existing, including the most prominent ones (see *DSO-017:"The Truth Salad Philosophy", DSO-009: "Freedom Underground" and DSO-010: "The Lone Gunmen"*). Based on their current actions, the Network focuses on the retrieval and exposé of evidence of factional intelligence on top-secret projects, paranormal and extraterrestrial incidents, shadow organizations and the war against supranational bodies it deems to be the "shadow cabals" such as the Allied Nations and the American Unionists. The Network appears to operate through clubhouse-based cells, with the Third Eye serving more as an ideological leader while entrusting actual command to the clubhouse leaders themselves.

The Network fields one military wing (see *Fichero Network/Subfichero Armada/Registro Military "Warriors of Truth"*) that also acts as the covert ops and reconnaissance force for the organization. As observed from collaboration between forces as well as hidden informants, Network 'warriors' possess above-average intelligence gathering and reconnaissance capabilities particularly in the field of atmospheric and biological phenomena. Military-wise, however, the Warriors are below-average due to the poor quality of their small arms and lack of effective military or communicative training (it is estimated that only 11% of the Warriors are qualified to carry firearms). Their vehicles are usually either modified civilian designs or independently constructed vehicles: individual non-affiliated cells may also make use of Confederate or MIR vehicles if operating in concert with said forces.

Though in-field interactions with the Network varies from cell to cell, the Network's relationships and connections with the greater United Technate and CBURA makes establishing positive relationships with Network forces far easier than with other groups of interest to the ADI. Several Network cells are currently in open collaboration with the ADI to secure several anomalous sites in North America, while other cells have in the past acted in conjunction with ADI investigators to counteract the efforts of Talon, Echidna, and Thule forces attempting to operate in Technocratic space. Agents sitting in on the Network's ruling council have confirmed that as of present the Network is not aware of their involvement in ADI operations: the 'Third Eye' and other top ranking members believe said cells are instead working with regular CBURA field agents to gather and document paranatural phenomena.

The Network is deemed not a major factor in the monitoring and retrieval of anomalous entities or items: while their information gathering and retrieval is formidable and their work with CBURA indispensable, they lack the personal competency and investigative capabilities necessary to contain and protect anomalies without extensive damage to the anomalies or themselves. As such, Network cells encountered in-field are to be approached as friendly, questioned as to their presence, and then encouraged to partner with the field team for so long as their presence or reconnaissance is necessary. Queries as to the purpose of the ADI are to be met with as truthful an answer as possible given the circumstances, in particular presenting evidence of hostile groups in the area if any have been previously encountered. If it is suspected an agent will encounter a Network cell on a particular assignment, copies of CBURA records due to be declassified within a one-month time period can also be supplied for use as barter material.