Sub-Continuum Force

The **Sub-Continuum Force** (stylized **SUB-CONTiNUUM FORCE**) is an inter-dimensional group contracted by The Time Dialer to help find the Space Time Continuum Task Force. The group is made up almost entirely of former Central Intelligence Agency operatives who retired in the Dominion of Muri in the 1980s. The SCF was introduced during the Ghost Stories series which occurred in parallel to the Golden Phantom series.

## Background

Prior to being inducted into the SCF, the members lived on the southern pacific Dominion of Muri which was formerly being used by the U.S. military as a southern watchpost on Soviet ICBMs. As the tensions began moving further from Oceania and closer to Europe, the U.S. military withdrew its assets from the island. Some soldiers who had already established personal relationships there decided to stay and live in Muri which had now adopted a very westernized culture.

When Soviet military personnel began using the island as a covert testing facility for their research experiments, the former U.S. servicemen and operators became suspicious of the Soviet's activity on the island. Strange anomalies began occurring near populated villages and missing people were being reported, which made the former CIA operatives suspect foul play. After banding together in groups to search the vast jungles for Soviet technology that may have been left behind, one of the groups went missing in action. Thus the events of Ghost Stories Episode 1 unfolded.

### Induction into the SCF

Following the events of episode 1, the group met The Orb who warned them of great danger to their world. It explained that an apocalypse was in the works and that it needed the help of brave soldiers who could help find a group of people for it. This group of people was later revealed as being the Space Time Continuum Task Force operators who had been warped to The Cogworks in order to fight The World Builder. The Orb promised that if they could help it find the STCTF and slow down the anomalies occurring in their timeline, it would be able to stop doomsday from destroying the whole world. The men agreed and were subsequently warped away to be explained the details of their roles in the SCF.

## Missions

* "Blink", Dominion of Muri March 1984: The ex-CIA group investigates the presence of Soviet scientific facilities on the island in relation to strange anomalies and missing locals.
* "Missing Pieces", South Vietnam April 1977: The SCF operators travel to a southern region of Vietnam where a former Soviet human testing facility existed to try gathering clues on the whereabouts of the STCTF and why the anomalies were occurring in Muri.
* "Crankbait", Pripyat October 1986: During an alternate timeline where the cold war ends in a worst-case nuclear war between the US and Soviets, the SCF must track down a large Epochium signature in Chernobyl during one of the final battles of that timeline before the apocalypse.
* "Checkmate", Dominion of Muri March 1984: The SCF follow the now fractured timeline and return to Muri where they attempt to locate and extract Jozef Kharov to help The Orb find the STCTF.

## Disbandment

During the events of the Checkmate mission, the Time Gate only had enough energy to warp four people. The team chose three members to take Kharov and warp back to The Orb, leaving the rest presumably doomed in the unravelling timeline. The three remaining members delivered Kharov to The Orb, marking the end of the SCF.