Day 232:
Our escape day is tomorrow, and Zero called me to her room. The data files had been loaded on her computer. However, she said some of the files got corrupted. Although, she didn’t know which ones. I will be recording all data files in this diary. Even upon the event of my death, the world should know what we saw in these files. I will be recording even the corrupted files that we could only glean part of.
The files were sorted by each containment level and the date, starting from the earliest. Or so we thought, the dates were redacted.
Containment Level 2
Date: ███████
Admin’s Log 2
Fourteen days recorded thus far on Anomaly ???-S?. I may not have the funding needed for a proper quarantine, but I have isolated it in a small capsule to prevent the recursive failure on Laeva. Periodically, it has fluctuations of foreign energy, with a strange type of particle recorded that I have never seen before. Yet, that energy signature itself seems incomplete. When it is out of containment, it releases air saturated in those incomplete elements, that I have noticed to be almost sentient. As if….searching for something. More analysis is needed.
Containment Level 2
Date:███████
Admin’s Log 5 – Particle Analysis
There are no signs of growth from ???-S?. Native particles decelerated as they neared ???-S?’s, as if resisting entry. The few that did make contact, stretched impossibly thin and dissipated immediately. Whether that was a form of transport, or the side effect of a theorized Spatial Disruption Zone, is yet to be seen. Sensors show that trace radiation from it are not native to this plane. Frequency: 1019
Impossible by known cosmological standards.
Containment Level 2
Date: ███████
Admin’s Log 7 – Audio Phenomena
Recording devices captured low-band murmurs. Not mechanical. Not geological. Audio slowed by approximately 743x reveals cadence, almost language-like. Spectrogram indicates harmonic structures consistent with vocalization.
In its own way, it is speaking.
Containment Level 2
Date: ███████
Admin’s Log 16 – Temporal Shift
Chronometers stationed at varying distances show desynchronization. Clocks nearest lag behind, proving my hypothesis that time is thicker here. It seems one second at its edge equals 1.07 seconds outside the field. Small, but compounding. Matter entering it may not return synchronized with our continuum.
Is it folding through space and multiple layers of chronology? Further investigation is needed.
Containment Level 2
Date:███████
Admin’s Log 33 – Psychological Effects
As mentioned in Log 21, I was able to acquire the funding and construction necessary to house a facility by making a deal with a Zagra Dahia. Grieving the loss of his wife, and having a daughter with an incurable disease had made him desperate. I was able to construct a better quarantine containment zone under the guise of a new “project” he tasked me with. Nevertheless, with new staff and equipment I have been able to learn about more varying effects.
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Personnel stationed within visual range report insomnia, fixation, and the sensation of being observed. Subjects or personnel that hold gifts exhibit empowerment on their abilities, and a state similar to euphoria. The interactions recorded have led me to believe it is releasing a substance akin to dopamine that reacts positively with the Parallax lobe. Yet I have observed with some others that it disrupts the electrical signals sent from the Parallax lobe that allows for ability usage.
I have not yet found the cause of the disparity.
Containment Level 2
Date: ███████
Admin’s Log 52 – Reinforced Containment
We have deciphered some of the message that was continuously sent. After painstakingly translating frequencies, parsing the signals, and eliminating all other electromagnetic interference, we have uncovered only two words. “Life” and “Velara”.
I searched for the meaning of the word or any uses of it in history, but as of writing this I have found none. The day will come when we will decipher the message fully, but that time is not now. This “project” I have been assigned may work in tandem with ???-S?’s current state. Further exposure has led to erasure in cells and severe mutations in DNA.. So, as of this log, I have increased the containment level, and will no longer expose the subjects Mr. Dahia has been giving me to the anomaly. I must learn to alter the DNA myself in this stage, This may be the key to my apex. To my True Terrestrial.
Upon looking at the files related to the rift, we stood there stunned. Many of the admin logs were corrupted so we couldn’t get the full picture, but I could glean multiple things. But I will only speak of one here. If the red mist that is toxic to everyone originates from this rift, does that mean there is another one in my homeland? I kept these thoughts in my head as we opened up the Containment Level One files. Most of them were encrypted or corrupted, and there was only three available data logs.
Containment Level 1
Date: ███████
Admin’s Log 13 – Birth
After the 1798th recursive DNA splice, Subject 02 now resembles a human. By taking Subject 0000’s DNA samples, and using her body as a template to appease the grieving father, I successfully created a blueprint for the biomass to form into. It entered it’s incubation phase, and then grew within expectations, however there is one problem. IT is hollow. There was a crucial design flaw somewhere. I do not know if it was due to the consistent exposure of ???-S?, but that was the only way to construct it with the DNA of all of the merged creatures. In theory, and based off of my readings, it should be able to freely alter its own DNA, but it needs a base form. The only successful thing about its creation is that it can now take biomass without altering it’s outer shell. Inside of IT, is only a fleshy mess that hardly function as organs. Nor did it grow a brain.
I theorize it may have something to do with the broken genomes all throughout it. I need not a monster, I need a human! The truest one! One to herald the next age of evolution!
Containment Level 1
Date: ███████
Admin’s Log 22 – Breakthrough
I’ve done it! I’ve found what Subject 02 needs per Subject 0001’s suggestion. I was fearful of █████,more ███████ DNA to its genome blueprint, but it exceeded my expectations! It is not even sentient yet and it is already ███████████████████. When it takes in ████ into it’s shell, it discards ██████████████████████████████! Not even I know the capabilities of its evolution. I do not know how much more it needs, ███ █████ █ ████████████████ it will know. Saner men would be fearful, and that is EXACTLY why ██████████ ██████████. Some will call it an abomination, but none will be able to deny that SHE is the Perfect ███████!
We did not understand most of the previous log from its garbled explanation alone, but it all became clear in the last one we were able to read. Once we read it, Zero told me to leave, and I could still hear her muffled cries as I left the room. As I walked down the dreary hallways, my vision blurry from the stream of corrupted information that entered my brain. I could only think of one thing. One. Thing.
No matter what. We escape tomorrow.
Containment Level 1
Date: ███████
Admin’s Log 29 – Cycle 3
Subject 0485: Successfully Merged
Subject 0081: Successfully Merged
Subject 0013: Unsuccessful, discarded
Subject 0218: Successfully Merged
Subject 0035: Successfully Merged
Subject 0063: Successfully Merged
Subject 0011: Unsuccessful, discarded
Subject 0832: Successfully Merged
Subject 0446: Successfully Merged
Subject 0369: Successfully Merged
Subject 0513: Successfully Merged
Subject 0010: Unsuccessful, discarded
Subject 0761: Successfully Merged