KV-31

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**The Low Proximity Magnetic Distortion System** (LPMDS) or **Project KV-31** for short, is a large machine doorway that connects Reality and the Backrooms. The exact workings of the machine is withheld from the database, but what is known about it is that it works using electromagnetic fields to distort and deform the fabric of reality to a point in which the area around the door appears to Noclip and create a permanent entrance to the Backrooms. The original purpose of the machine, according to Async: was to create unlimited storage and residential space for future needs, however, priority moved to exploring and experimenting the dimension, before further expansion could be achieved. However, after several incidents within the dimension, proof of interferences within normal reality, as well as the death of vice-director of the KV-31 Project, Ivan Beck by the hands of an inhabitant of the dimension, the program was shut down and the KV-31 Project abandoned, and government funding going to the Project was cut off, by the Department of Energy. As of March 3rd 2001, Async has been deemed a redundant group within the Backrooms, though some rogue groups appear to be affiliated with them in some way, and some conspiracy theories state that the KV-31 is capable of moving from location to location, and that it has simply moved to another further, or undiscovered place within the Backrooms.

## History

### 1980s

Construction of the LPMDS was begun on August 4th 1986, and annual tests of the machine would take soon following its construction. The first two tests of the machine were apparently used to only calibrate and to test the functionality of the machine. The first two tests would also take accurate measures of what the machine could and could not handle, how much power it needed to properly run, as well as at what point it would have too much power. The third test of the machine was the first real attempt to open up a gateway to another dimension and was supervised by the Department of Energy. The test was a failure yet proved that it could be done, and additional safety measures such as enhanced support beams and structural components, and some other apparently classified objects that were introduced into the chamber.

Tests four and five were similar to one and two, in that they were calibration tests and were used to see what the machine could and couldn't handle. It also told them what went wrong with the test. Finally, on the sixth and final test on October 17th 1989; with no supervision from the Department of Energy, the team managed to open a portal to the Backrooms through the LPMDS. However, intense damage to the chamber, as well as the surrounding facility and area of Santa Cruz was sustained. The blast from opening the portal caused a magnitude 2.5 earthquake in the nearby area of the facility. This event was the cause of the Loma Prieta Earthquake.

### 1990s

After the sixth and final test of the KV-31, the KV-31 Project was extended into a full-scale research endeavor of this new dimension, as ordered by vice-director of the project Ivan Beck. Later that year, missing persons reports skyrocketed after the sixth test. These were later identified to be thresholdpoints across the Pacific coast of North America. These threshold areas would cause users to fall through reality and into the Backrooms, a direct consequence from discovering the Backrooms. Threshold areas were identified all over the coast of America and as far inland as the south west. Damage control was initiated to try and plug up these thresholds, and reduce the number of missing persons resulted by them, nicknamed Project Plug-up.

Other than dealing with the rising amount of missing persons, various expeditions were assigned to go into the Backrooms and explore. The majority of these tests were benign, and came back with only bits of interesting architecture and some neat photographs. Nothing substantial was found until around February of 1990, when the body of a deceased man was uncovered with a substantial amount of mold on him. The mold -- after an autopsy report -- was found to be that of a mutated strand of Hay Bacillus.