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Registered Phenomena Code: XXX Containment Rating: Alpha Lethality Rating: White

Aggression Ballistic Climatological Geological Grouped Invisibility Psychotronic Sapient Sentient Transmutation Bio-Hazard Contact Corrosive Electromagnetic Force Explosive Extreme Temperature Radiation Toxic Destabilization Extra-Dimensional Gravitational Teleportation Temporal Auditory Emotional Ideological Info-Hazard Memory Alteration Mind-Control Mind-Regression Sensory Visual Animated Aquatic Digital Ecological Extra-Terrestrial Immeasurable Incorporeal Mechanical Microscopic Organic Regenerative Titanic Tychokinetic Replicating Newtonian Ontological Divine Hallucinogen High Velocity Proto-Mechanical Proto-Newtonian Proto-Sapient

RPC-XXX at █████████ Magnification

Containment Protocols:

RPC-XXX material covering OL-Site-381 is to be left in place. All other instances of RPC-XXX material are to be contained on-site at OL-Site-381 in Secure Locker XXX. Access to RPC-XXX for testing or any other purpose must receive prior written approval from the site director and project lead in writing and requires clearance level 2-XXX.

Description:

RPC-XXX refers to a metamaterial which coats the exterior of OL-Site-381. Its chief effect is to render everything it covers completely invisible to the human eye and undetectable to instruments; the material itself only becomes visible under high levels of magnification.

The following information is classified at level 3-XXX:

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Testing has since demonstrated a second capability. When supplied with an electric charge of ███, the surface of the material becomes extremely resistant to the kinetic energy of projectiles and other incoming objects.

Whilst the exact threshold is currently unclear at this time, testing has shown that whilst slow-moving objects can still impact the material, objects moving at high speed are repelled whilst leaving the material itself undamaged. Projectiles that come into contact with RPC-XXX in this manner are annihilated. The upper limit of this secondary ability has yet to be determined but is known to be below relativistic speeds.

Test Log:

The following is a partial log of testing done involving RPC-XXX.

Test No.: 1
Projectile Type: Wooden Arrow.
Method: Compound Bow
Velocity: 75-90 m/s
Result: Projectile strikes and bounces off material whilst remaining intact.

Test No.: 42
Projectile Type: 9x19mm Parabellum Round (115 Grain)
Method: Semi-Automatic Handgun
Velocity: 350 m/s
Result: Projectile is annihilated.

Test No.: 160
Projectile Type: Tungsten Slug.
Method: Railgun
Velocity: 2,500 m/s
Result: Projectile is annihilated.

Test No.: 433
Projectile Type: Proton.
Method: Particle Accelerator
Velocity: 3% light speed.
Result: Proton collides with the instance and produces the expected reactions.

Experimentation with RPC-XXX involving live subjects has been discontinued following test no. 521.

It is also believed that there is a memetic component to this material as well as those who spend time off-site (any amount of time greater than an hour) gradually starts to forget information about OL-Site 381. This culminates in the subject forgetting the location entirely within 2 hours.

Discovery:

RPC-XXX was discovered along with RPC-381 on ██/██/████ in Loving County, TX, USA. Investigations that ultimately led to the discovery of RPC-381 naturally led to the discovery of OL-Site-381, the exterior of which being coated in RPC-XXX. The effects were not immediately apparent due to the properties of the material but were deduced shortly after discovery of OL-Site-381 itself.

Whilst the region where OL-Site-381 was discovered has a particularly low population density¹, nevertheless some form of additional explanation was needed as interior exploration revealed OL-Site-381 to be somewhere in the region of 4.16 sq km.

Close-up examination of the structure of OL-Site-381 showed that there was a slight discrepancy between the outline of the structure and the visible edge, indicating it was coated in a transparent material.

Study of removed samples have indicated that copyright information and a company logo are engraved on each individual panel of material.² This was determined after those handling the material, who universally reported the material as being smooth to the touch, reported a series of indentations in one of the corners.

Plaster casts were then taken, and the text was then able to be read:

InvisiSteel is the patented trademark of GEAR © 2025

Efforts to reverse-engineer this material are ongoing. Use of this material for defensive and stealth purposes is also being researched at this time.

Addendum:

The following information is classified at level 3-XXX:

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Since the initial discovery of RPC-XXX, several caches of the material have surfaced elsewhere. Below is a partial log of noteworthy instances:

No.	Location	Description
1	Bouvetøya, Antarctica (Norwegian Dependency)	A small research hut covered in RPC-XX.
2	Alert, Nunavut, Canada	Small research complex ██ miles ██ ° ███ from CSF Alert covered in RPC-XXX.
3	Llanfairpwllgyngyllgogerychwyrndrobllllantysiliogogogoch, Isle of Anglesey, Wales, UK	A storage shed containing several sheets composed of RPC-XXX.3
4	Olympus Mons, Western Tharsis Rise, Mars	An abandoned, underground bunker built into the side of the mountain. It's outer walls are constructed of RPC-XXX.

Research into the owners and/or operators of these facilities and their connection with New Paradigm Industries is ongoing, although preliminary evidence implies an origin from outside baseline reality due to altered Anderson Coherency Scale readings as well as other abnormalities including: human remains found fused to the walls, human remains found with their orifices sewn shut and their eyes removed, and symbols in an unknown language apparently written in human blood.

Various documents collected from the above listed locations contained references to numerous unknown events, persons, and organisations believed to exist in dimensions outside our own. Notable excerpts are included below.

Excerpts from document XXX-0218 found at location 4: -

We should be close. If the reports are to believed, we are within 300km of the anomaly. That obviously leaves a lot of ground to cover but this is the closest we have ever been to discovering an interdimensional gateway. Again, this is all theory, but all the readings match what is expected given our models. It only took us 30 years, $6 trillion, and a multinational effort to get to Mars, but we're here.

We're getting closer! We were able to triangulate where to start digging and thus begins the next stage of the mission. Now we dig. Mission control have apparently given the all clear to start breaking ground and we were told to expect the construction crews to arrive within the next 6 months. We may not be the first ones to walk on the Red Planet, but we might be the first to step foot into another universe!

Well, the building crews have arrived from earth and started building the observation bunker. Bought a bunch of strange see-through panels with them. I don't remember that being part of the briefing but then I suppose it's on a need-to-know basis and I don't need to know? Pretty suspicious if you ask me, but I'm not the mission lead. If it was super classified, then either I would never have been allowed to know, or I'd be dead.

So, apparently, the see-through panels are some kind of active camouflage. Why we need them on Mars is anybody's guess. I mean, who are we going to run into up here? Or are they afraid that the Russians or the Chinese are going to do something? The Second Cold War ended 30 years ago. Anyway, they finally gave us a briefing about them. All they said was not to touch them once they're set up. Something about electromagnetic forces reacting with the anomaly? Weird.

It's been two years since we first arrived, and we finally found it! An interdimensional portal! Except this one's not naturally occurring like the boffins back home surmised. How do I know? Well, the giant metal ring in the centre of a cavern kind of gave it away. But that's as much as I know since the military have taken over the project. Something about 'international security' or some such baloney.

I don't know what they're doing with the portal to try and get it to work, but weird things have started happening. Nothing too strange at first. Things would go missing somehow and others would swear blind they hadn't seen it only for it to turn up days later in other locations. I found Torsten one night just standing in the hallway staring into nothing. Took him awhile to realise I was there but when he snapped out of whatever trance he was under, he just mumbled something about needing to 'focus' on "his purpose" and just walked off. Two days later he just went missing.

Whatever is going on, the higher ups are keeping their mouths shut. This even though more people have started going nuts. People cutting themselves, talking to themselves; wild mood swings. If it weren't for the other things going on, I'd say it was the isolation, but there's something else going on, I can feel it.

I can hear them. Voices in the dark. Ancient and malevolent. Cold whispers; murmurs of ruin and chaos. Am I losing it, or did we just open up the gates to hell?

Based on this and other recovered documents, it is surmised that electromagnetic interference from the instances interacted with inter-dimensional energy from the portal, resulting in the total loss of all personnel and the resulting dimensional shift into our baseline reality.

Footnotes

1. (0.036 inhabitants/sq km)

2. Each panel is approximately 4' x 4' (1.21m x 1.21m) in area, with an approximate thickness of 5" (12.7cm)

3. Notably, this structure was not itself covered in RPC-XXX.

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