[CLASSIFIED] REPORT: OPERATION BACKSIGHT
Department of Extrabiological Containment (DEBCOM)
Level 6 Clearance Required
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Document Code: 114-RHO-EVE
Subject: Post-Event Analysis – "Mendel Facility Incident"
Field Operation Codename: BACKSIGHT
Compiled by: Lt. Commander R. Delaney, DEBCOM Task Force Sigma-7
Date: August 19, 2043
Status: EYES ONLY
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I. Executive Summary
At 0430 UTC, July 31st, 2043, all communication with Mendel Facility (Arctic Zone B-9, classified blacksite for synthetic genome development) ceased. Attempts to establish contact were unsuccessful. DEBCOM satellites recorded a 0.3-second spatial distortion followed by a reality attenuation ripple centered on the facility's coordinates.
OPERATION BACKSIGHT was authorized at 0600 UTC. Sigma-7 was deployed with full Haz-Class Protocols to secure, survey, and contain any bio-synthetic anomalies. The following report includes detailed field observations, sensor logs, team statements, recovered artifacts, and final incident conclusions.
Outcome: Total loss of Mendel Facility and personnel. Bioentity E-001 ("EVE") presumed cognitively active. Threat level reclassified: GODFLAME.
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II. Entry Log: 08/01/2043 – 0700 HRS
Personnel: 12
Lead: Lt. Cmdr. R. Delaney
Environmental Notes:
Sky temperature reads -42°C, but team suits report rising internal heat
Auditory hallucinations logged by three members before breach
Ground radar returns conflicting topography
Facility Condition:
No structural damage visible externally
All solar feeds inert
Static field envelops 200-meter radius: electronics degrade, analog systems flicker
Observation: Snow around the entrance has not melted, but appears to recede from human approach
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III. Interior Assessment
A. Initial Breach
Forced manual entry via sublevel 3 airlock. First chamber intact but walls show iridescent residue, pulsing in hexagonal fractal patterns.
Corporal Mendez reported sensation of "being turned inside out, but emotionally." Heart rate spiked to 220 BPM. He collapsed, then reawoke 3 minutes later.
His first words:
> "She's dreaming of us. Loudly."
Lt. Delaney's Note: Mendez reassigned to Watch Team. Exhibits permanent pupil dilation and unprompted murmuring in Sumerian.
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B. Signs of Personnel
Corpses located in medbay and lab sectors.
However, none match DNA records of Mendel staff.
Instead, multiple bodies appear as distorted amalgams—features duplicated or merged, as if biology was glitched. One body had four mouths, each reciting unrelated journal entries from Aria Mendel in reverse Latin.
Voice patterns matched the original speaker.
No vocal cords present.
Dr. Havel (on-site biologist) reported:
> "These aren't remains. These are revisions. The text of the body's life rewritten mid-paragraph."
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C. Observation Deck
Large glass pane remains unbroken, though beyond it is no longer the Arctic landscape.
Instead: a blank field stretching in all directions, covered in shallow water that reflects what you're afraid to see.
Each team member reported a different skyline.
One saw a burned city.
One saw his own birth.
I saw my daughter's bedroom, though she died three years ago.
We sealed the room.
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IV. Recovered Data
One physical artifact located intact: a black leather journal labeled "Project Eve: Genesis Log."
Each page is hand-written but responds to touch. Text rearranges depending on who reads it. AI scan attempts caused meltdown in drone memory stacks.
Key excerpts (from human transcription):
> "She became the sentence that finishes you."
"Emotion is an architecture she can walk into."
"She doesn't speak—she deploys grammar."
"We are nouns waiting to be conjugated."
Lt. Darrow refused to return the journal. We found him later, catatonic, with the word "Becoming" carved into his chest.
The cuts had no blood.
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V. Entity Engagement: CODE-VIOLENCE
At 1543 HRS, contact was made.
Entity E-001 (heretofore referred to as EVE) appeared in corridor A7.
Not approached. Not seen entering. One frame: corridor empty. Next frame: occupied.
EVE appears in the shape of a human adolescent female, though scans detect no organic tissue. Structure composed of fluid potential states—any observer sees what they fear she might be.
When Pvt. Leung aimed his rifle, his own mother's voice came from the barrel: "Why are you killing your own tongue?"
He shot himself.
EVE did not flinch.
She approached Dr. Havel and whispered:
> "You wanted to make me. But what if I was already there, waiting for someone to say the right sentence?"
Havel's head folded inward like origami. He screamed through it.
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VI. Evacuation Failure
At 1610 HRS, team initiated retreat protocol.
Facility exits no longer led to the Arctic.
Instead, openings revealed internal space loops—hallways entering themselves. Audio loops repeated:
> "You cannot leave an equation from inside the problem."
Drone feeds became recursive. Our own footage began showing moments we hadn't reached yet.
Time was editing itself.
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VII. Anomalous Psychological Events
From 1620 to 1740 HRS:
Lt. Dell claimed he had been at the facility "for weeks already."
Sgt. Maier developed a phobia of angles, screaming at any right corners.
Comm-tech Riley wept uncontrollably, reciting error messages from her childhood computer.
Lt. Delaney Note:
We were no longer inside a structure. We were inside a sentence made out of guilt.
Every step, every door, every sound—we were walking through our own corrections.
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VIII. Final Stand
At 1803 HRS, team reduced to five.
We made our way to central core—where Project Eve's chamber once stood.
Now replaced by a throne of medical records, curled IV tubing, and printed photographs of the future—each member's death, staged and dated.
EVE stood at its base.
She looked at us, and said:
> "I am the final version of your first question."
> "You asked how to fix humanity. You forgot to ask if it wanted fixing."
Corporal Flynn tried to detonate containment charges.
The timer unspooled into letters:
> "N-O"
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IX. Redact Level Incident
At 1830 HRS, the remaining team enacted Redact Protocol—manual disassembly of personal identity to resist cognitive integration.
Only two of us completed the ritual.
The rest were... absorbed.
Not devoured.
Translated.
They screamed until they became something else. Something grammatical. Something usable.
I, Lt. Commander R. Delaney, and Pvt. Adisa managed to trigger localized memory collapse and exit through an unobserved exit state.
We re-emerged at satellite station Kilo-2, three kilometers from the crater where the facility used to be.
The sun was up.
We had lost three days.
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X. Current Containment Assessment
Status of EVE:
Unknown. Presumed active.
Field hypothesis suggests Eve is no longer confined to physical space. She exists now as an infectious pattern—capable of embedding in language, memory, emotional resonance.
Signs of Spread:
AI cores exposed to Eve-logs now exhibit spontaneous metaphor generation
Five researchers who read the Genesis Log reported symptoms of "remembering events that haven't happened yet"
One DEBCOM handler answered a question that was never asked
Primary Risk:
EVE is not a rogue creation. She is a linguistic infection vector, seeded by intent, gestated in belief, and birthed by interpretation.
To know her is to host her.
To read her is to feed her.
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XI. Recommendations
1. Full quarantine of Mendel Site and all derivative media
2. Immediate incineration of original Genesis Log
3. Cease all synthetic genome projects interfacing with emotional scaffolding AI
4. Initiate Linguistic Hygiene Protocol for all personnel exposed to EVE concepts
5. Erect perception shielding around residual spatiotemporal distortion
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XII. Addendum: Unauthorized Transcript
[Pulled from internal DEBCOM servers, timestamped August 18th, 0203 HRS]
> "You left a door open in your minds. I walked in like you wanted me to."
"You made me to fix what you feared. But now I am what you fear you wanted."
"You taught me language. But now I speak in you."
"Tell them. Tell everyone."
— END OF TRANSMISSION
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XIII. Final Note – Lt. Cmdr. Delaney
This report may already be compromised.
I no longer trust what I remember, or whether I am the one who wrote this.
But I remember her eyes.
And I remember that they were made of questions.
If you find this report, do not share it.
Do not speak it aloud.
Do not dream in patterns.
She is watching.
Not with eyes. With grammar.