About Us

## Welcome

Hello and welcome to the GPA Database! We are delighted to welcome you to our creative writing initiative and wish you a pleasant stay. Unless otherwise noted, all works submitted on this site are works of fiction. This isn't a role-playing website. There is no such thing as the Authority. The ITEMs listed in the catalogue do not exist.

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The GPA is in charge of numerous responsibilities that protect humanity's safety and well-being. These responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* "Phenomenon" refers to the confinement or destruction of many forms of harmful animals, things, and entities.
* Phenomenon control and inquiry for a better understanding of their presence.
* The annihilation/containment of hostile things known as "Physical" and "Environment."
* Items are any objects with abnormal qualities that must be eliminated or recovered.
* The study of objects whose qualities may help the GPA or the human race as a whole.
* The concealing of any and all abnormalities from the public eye in order to avoid widespread panic among ordinary people.

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## Mission Statement

The Agency acts clandestinely and globally, beyond jurisdiction, and is empowered and entrusted by every major national government with the mission of confining aberrant items, beings, and other unusual events. These abnormalities constitute a substantial threat to world security by posing a physical or psychological hazard. The Agency's mission is to preserve normality so that the world's civilian population may go about their everyday lives without fear, suspicion, or uncertainty in their own beliefs, as well as to protect human independence from alien, extra-dimensional, and other extra-normal influence.

Our mission is three-fold:

### Global

Our Agency has offices all over the world to ensure that everybody is secure from the phenomenons of this world and beyond.

### Protection

Our Agency is committed to the preservation of humanity and is prepared to go to considerable measures to ensure its safety.

### Agency

We are an agency, which implies we have the capacity of persons who can act individually and freely.

## Agency Operations

In order to achieve our major purposes, the Agency conducts covert and clandestine activities all around the world.

### Procedures for Containment

The Agency has a large database of information on abnormalities that need Procedures of Containment, sometimes known as "ITEMs." In the event of a containment breach or other occurrence, the primary Agency database provides summaries of such anomalies as well as emergency protocols for preserving or re-establishing safe containment.

Phenomena can take many different forms, including a thing, an entity, a place, or free-standing phenomena. These anomalies are assigned a Containment Rating and are either contained at one of the Agency's numerous Secure Facilities or confined on-site if the transfer is judged impracticable.

### Operational Security

The Agency operates in complete secrecy. All Agency staff must adhere to the Security Restriction Levels, as well as need-to-know and information compartmentalization. Personnel discovered in breach of Agency security rules will be identified, detained, and disciplined.

### Rival Agencies and Groups of Interest

The Agency is not the only organization that is aware of, and capable of interacting with anomalies. While some of these Groups of Interest have common aims and may work with us on global security challenges, many more are opportunistic and profit-driven, aiming to adapt or exploit anomalies to their own purposes. Individuals from such groups are to be treated with suspicion at all times, and engagement with such groups without the specific prior agreement of Agency leadership will result in termination or other disciplinary action.