Numerical Name: Alpha-09
Codename: Ghosts of Gaia
Motto: “Defendit numerus” (There is safety in numbers)
Garrisoned Site: N/A
Roles: Special Reconnaissance, Overwatch, Guerilla Warfare, High-Value Target (HVT) Extraction, HVT Assassination, Long-range Combat, Asset Retrieval, Infiltration, Fast Mobilization
Established: December 1898
Description: MST Alpha-09 “Ghosts of Gaia” is an extremely covert and exclusive strike team that operates solely in remote environments. Units of the Ghosts are constantly mobile, never staying in a single spot for more than a day and staying far away from Authority sites and all other civilization. Only the Board knows the current location of Alpha-09 squads, and even the identities of Alpha-09 personnel are unknown to everyone except a couple of the Global Directors. Only a few Authority personnel have even seen an active operative in the wilderness. Alpha-09 specializes not only in remaining hidden from enemies but disappearing completely once the job is done.
MST Alpha-09 operatives are extensively trained to fulfill their required roles, and are tested via an expedition into the wilderness. During this excursion, they must survive for at least two months without Authority assistance and with only their standard-issue knife. Supplies are assumed to be delivered to the team via random air drops in the wilderness. No unauthorized individual has ever spotted an active Alpha-09 operative and lived to tell about it.
NOTE: Those who wish to enlist MST Alpha-09 for assignments are to contact radio frequency █████. Do not expect a response. Static is normal.
Taskforce Composition
MST Alpha-09:
- 1st Platoon (Grassland): +45
- Squad A ("Hills"): +9
- Squad B ("Cheetahs"): +9
- Squad C ("Grass"): +9
- Squad D ("Bison"): +9
- Squad E ("Meerkats"): +9
- 2nd Platoon (Forest): +45
- Squad A ("Trees"): +9
- Squad B ("Hawks"): +9
- Squad C ("Caves"): +9
- Squad D ("Wolves"): +9
- Squad E ("Owls"): +9
- 3rd Platoon (Desert): +45
- Squad A ("Sand"): +9
- Squad B ("Snakes"): +9
- Squad C ("Oasis"): +9
- Squad D ("Lizards"): +9
- Squad E ("Fennecs"): +9
- 4th Platoon (Aquatic): +45
- Squad A ("Waves"): +9
- Squad B ("Sharks"): +9
- Squad C ("Coral"): +9
- Squad D ("Jellies"): +9
- Squad E ("Dolphins"): +9
- 5th Platoon (Tundra): +45
- Squad A ("Ice"): +9
- Squad B ("Seals"): +9
- Squad C ("Bergs"): +9
- Squad D ("Bears"): +9
- Squad E ("Foxes"): +9
Total Forces: +225
NOTE: A Squadrons focus on guerilla warfare with non-anomalous forces, B Squadrons with HVT assassination and long-range combat, C Squadrons with HVT Extraction and Overwatch, D Squadrons with Asset Retrieval and Infiltration, and E Squadrons with Special Reconnaissance.
Armaments
Standard Firearms
- Combat Knife: USMC Mark 2 Ka-Bar combat knife
- Pistol: H&K USP .45 / Sig Sauer P229 / S&W .38 Special Snubnose
- Rifle: AAC Honey Badger / AS Val / AKM
- SMG: H&K MP5SD / PP-19 Bizon / FN P90
- Shotgun: Serbu Super-Shorty / Saw-Off Double Barreled / Ithaca Model 37
- Sniper: Walther WA2000 / Accuracy International AWS / Remington Model 700 (.338 Lapua)
- Anti-Materiel Rifle: MICOR Leader 50
NOTE: Weapons that can be suppressed with additional suppressors or flash hiders usually are.
Completed Missions
Mission Name: Operation Woodstock
Status: Complete Success
Date: January 28, 1905
Description: Before the official founding of the United States Forest Service, GD-██ was to meet privately with United States president Theodore Roosevelt in the town of Isla la Notte, Vermont, where the president had been known to vacation in the past, about the embedding of Authority agents within the new agency in order to more quickly and efficiently ascertain the locations of several anomalous areas of the United States. The night before the meeting, GD-██ learned of a large, dedicated force of anti-government radicals who knew of Roosevelt's vacation in Vermont, and were planning to attack and kill Roosevelt while he slept. GD-██ made a gamble, and called upon the relatively new Ghosts to defend the president.
The squad internally assigned from within the team to carry out the mission realized that they were easily outnumbered ten to one, and so devised a plan; the night of the supposed attack, they waited high in the trees surrounding Roosevelt's cabin with bows and arrows for seven hours. When the radicals arrived at the location, they were met with arrow fire from the trees from all sides. The ensuing terror and confusion resulted in over 50% of the terrorists fleeing the scene and another 25% surrendering on the spot to Alpha-09. Those that surrendered were swiftly delivered anonymously to Secret Service agents in the area, where the radicals confessed to anti-government conspiracy. Roosevelt never knew of the attack or its prevention for the rest of his life. It was during this mission that MST Alpha-09's signature style of combat/operation was created.
Notes: It is theorized that if it were not for the contributions of the Ghosts in this mission, over 20 RPCs would have been discovered much later and in much more dire situations than if they had failed in their mission.
Mission Name: Operation Ranger Duty
Status: Failure
Date: August 31, 1932
Description: Following the discovery of a low-level anomalous creature in the Everglades, Alpha-09 was called in to attempt a retrieval. Capture of the creature was rather quick, but during the wait for back-up forces to arrive and fully secure it, the creature broke out of containment and killed nearly half of Alpha-09's 1st platoon. The strike team was investigated by the Board, and it was found that the structure of Alpha-09's active personnel facilitated inefficiency. Over 70% of personnel assigned to the recovery of the anomalous creature were left with nothing to do, and as such were woefully underprepared when the creature broke containment.
Notes: The outcome of the mission resulted in the reorganization of Alpha-09 into its modern-day structure. It also led to the events of Operation Daybreak.
Mission Name: Operation Daybreak
Status: Success
Date: September 5, 1932
Description: Following the failure of Operation Ranger Duty and the restructuring of Alpha-09, the newly-established Alpha-09-4D "Jellies" and Alpha-09-2D "Wolves" were tasked with the capture of the previous anomalous creature. With the reorganization of Alpha-09 came an exponential increase in efficiency, and the creature was recaptured within minutes. This time, though, Jellies and Wolves had a contingency plan in place, and when the creature tried to break containment, it was brutally incapacitated by both squadrons. The creature was eventually renamed as the archived RPC-███, and faith in Alpha-09 was restored.
Mission Name: Operation Buffalo Herd
Status: Complete Success
Date: November 3, 1954 - November 3, 1955
Description: Head Researcher ████ ████████████ had heard of the success of Alpha-09 in the past with protecting high-value targets, and as such, put in a request in the Alpha-09 radio channel that she was hoping to construct a site in a very anomalous area of North Dakota and wanted protection not just for herself but for the entire staff until foundation of the site was complete and the region became stable. Alpha-09-1C "Grass" set up shop 10km away from the construction site two hours later. The Head Researcher never knew if her request actually went through, but due to the lack of any incidents over the year-long construction and staffing of Site-███, she figured after a while that Alpha-09 had indeed answered her call.
Note: Despite the success in founding Site-███, it was retired a decade later due to the consolidation of RPC sites typical of the 60's. Nevertheless, Head Researcher ████ ████████████ made sure to give credit where it was due.
Mission Name: Operation Pride Rock
Status: Partial Success
Date: February 28, 1970 - March 15, 1970
Description: The mission started out as a simple reconnaissance mission on February 28, 1970. Head Researcher ███████ ██████████ had gotten information out of a captured Church of Malthus disciple (through a slip of the tongue) that two key figures of the Church would be camping together on that day in the Rockies. As such, he dropped a request on the Ghosts' radio channel, and within minutes Alpha-09-2E "Owls" had moved in to observe the two targets. By the end of the night, they had gathered a gold mine in information; the leadership of the Church of Malthus was meeting weeks later in an abandoned steeple to discuss plans on a possible raid against the Authority. As Owl Eyes reported the information to Head Security Officer ████ ██████, the Board of Global Directors ordered that the Ghosts capitalize on this opportunity.
MST Bravo-04 "Siberian Tigers" was deployed alongside Alpha-09-2A "Trees" and Alpha-09-5B "Seals" to raid the compound while the meeting occurred and take out the leadership of the Church in an attempt to cripple the GoI. When Bravo-04 asked to meet with Alpha-09 to discuss a plan of attack, they were told by the Board "not to worry," and that they could expect "no resistance" when they arrived. Trees set up outside the base two days before the meeting, staying hidden in the trees or underneath the snow with snipers. When the Church arrived at the steeple on the day of the meeting, they brought multiple guards with them in order to prevent any interruptions. Said guards were armed with a low-level anomaly that they used to sense when one of their own was taken out. Minutes before Bravo-04 had arrived to raid the compound, Alpha-09-2A took action and timed their shots in such a way that the guards had no way to react. The Tigers arrived on the scene to find twenty dead bodies already waiting for them. The raid began shortly after.
Bravo-04 stormed the steeple in the middle of the Church leadership's meeting and opened fire, taking out four of the figures before the remaining two latched onto an anomaly that allowed them to phase through the strike team. As they made their escape, they ran out to the Church-owned vehicle out front and were able to start the vehicle and begin driving off. Unbeknownst to the Church leaders, Alpha-09-5B were waiting for them. The two reached the edge of the woods before the car stopped, the tires flattened due to sniper fire. As Bravo-04 ran outside, they were met with two more dead bodies. The two strike teams were applauded by the Board for their accomplishments.
Notes: Despite the success in eliminating several key figures of the Church of Malthus, the remaining leaders who weren't present at the meeting were able to repair the damage done to the GoI over a significant period of time. As such, the Church is still stable and active to this day.
Mission Name: Operation Jackalope
Status: Complete Success
Date: July 21, 1991
Description: Dr. Malcolm Sinclair, Director of Anomaly Containment at Site-002, learned of a truck driver who was (possibly) unknowingly carrying Amazing! Co. products across the Sonoran desert. Info was dropped on the radio channel, and Alpha-09-3D "Lizards" moved in once the truck had stopped at a remote gas station. The squad had put aside time for when the driver was in the Waffle House eating to raid the truck and remove the anomalous goods, but not even that amount of time was needed, as total retrieval of all Amazing! Co. assets only took two minutes. By the time the driver came back to his truck and took off, Lizards had anonymously delivered the anomalous items to Installation-002. The driver never suspected anything.
Notes: The truck driver was later brought in by a separate MST for questioning about said shipment. As per usual, he knew nothing of the anomalous cargo his truck was carrying.
Mission Name: Operation Bushfire
Status: Ongoing
Date: October 1, 2018 - present
Description: Following the desertion of former MST X-Ray-6 "Annullifiers" operative Marion Valérie Riviera, the Board of Global Directors has ordered all Alpha-09 operatives to stay on full alert. Operation Bushfire has two goals:
- To possibly apprehend Riviera should she try to escape into the wilderness.
- To restrict Riviera's possible travel routes solely to urban/populated areas.
At the moment, Riviera has not been located.
[ALERT: OTHER OPERATION DETAIL REPORTS ARE RESTRICTED TO LEVEL-5 SECURITY CLEARANCE]
Assigned RPCs
Registered Phenomena Code: XXX-J
Object Class: Alpha-White
Hazards: Aggression Hazard, Aquatic Hazard, Climatological Hazard, Ecological Hazard, Extra-terrestrial Hazard, Geological Hazard, Ballistic Hazard, Organic Hazard, Regenerative Hazard, Sapient Hazard, Sentient Hazard, Bio-Hazard, Contact Hazard, Corrosive Hazard, Electric Hazard, Explosive Hazard, Extreme Temperatures, Magnetic Hazard, Radiation Hazard, Toxic Hazard, Chronological Hazard, Extra-dimensional Hazard, Gravitational Hazard, Immeasurable Hazard, Anti-Physical Hazard, Tychokinetic Hazard, Auditory Hazard, Ideological Hazard, Info-Hazard, Memory Alteration Hazard, Sensory Hazard, Visual Hazard
Containment Protocols: Containment of RPC-XXX-J is very simple. Upon containment breach, RPC-XXX-J will hold up a certain number of fingers. If RPC-XXX-J is seen holding up only one (1) finger, agents are to execute Protocol JJ76D-7LF4-D9SS-K3DD "One Finger". If two (2), Protocol OO65B-3FE4-K9GG-W3HC "Two Finger" is required. Procedure KK93A-9GQ2-B3FF-V4MP "Three-Seven Finger" is to be performed if RPC-XXX-J holds up three (3) or seven (7) fingers, and Procedure WW91D-6BG4-K1LL-B4CK "Four Finger" is to be performed if five (5) fingers are held up. Protocol FF46A-2V6J-F4TT-D1CK "Eight-Ten Finger" is to be performed for nine (9) fingers, and Protocol BB19G-5AG9-N9PE-N1SS "All Finger" is to be executed in any circumstances it holds up four (4), six (6), eight (8) or ten (10) fingers. If RPC-XXX-J does not hold up any fingers, Procedure WW31L-5HI7-W3RR-F5KD "F██k It" must be performed. Operatives seeking re-containment of RPC-XXX-J must perform the appropriate procedure/protocol within the span of one (1) minute, otherwise re-containment of RPC-XXX-J becomes impossible.
During containment, RPC-XXX-J is to be kept in a 15m x 15m x 15m standard humanoid containment cell, unless it is a Friday, in which case it is to be kept in a 10m x 10m x 10m holding cell along with all class D personnel. This is only the case if it is not the second Friday of the month. If so, RPC-XXX-J is to be kept in the locker of Dr. ████████, unless it is an odd month out of the year (January, March, May, etc.), in which case it is to be walled-off in a 15km x 15km wooded area approximately 1600km from any human population, guarded by 75 Authority personnel, armed only if it is July or November. If it is January, only 60 Authority personnel, between 80-90 years of age, are allowed to guard RPC-XXX-J. If it is the third week of December, RPC-XXX-J is to be stored in a 17GB flash drive. RPC-XXX-J cannot be stored within the same flash drive twice, otherwise it will permanently break containment. If it is 2300 hours local time on the last day of the year, RPC-XXX-J is to be stored in GD-██'s house, underneath the bed next to the sex toys. Should RPC-XXX-J interact with any of these objects, it will cause an ΩB-Class "Holy S██t We're F██ked" scenario to occur, muddling re-containment efforts significantly.
RPC-XXX-J is to be fed Russian rats/mice infected with herpes, switching between the nine (9) different breeds each hour of feeding. This is unless it is 1700 hours local time, in which case RPC-XXX-J is to be fed 50 gallons of goat's milk unless it is Saturday, in which case it is to be fed only 25 ounces of human breast milk. At 1234 hours Hawaii–Aleutian Standard Time (HST), RPC-XXX-J is to be fed a mushroom-topped pizza margherita with a side of panzanella and truffle-topped risotto, with a desert of one live female human child, between 5-10 years of age, with a 25% German, 25% Ashkenazi Jewish, 50% Polish ancestry, drizzled in vodka bought from a small-town American liquor store for no more or no less than exactly 147.32 British pounds, and topped with exactly six (6) Japanese fugu prepared correctly by a chef from Zimbabwe. This is unless it is the first week of the month during January, August, or November, in which case, RPC-XXX-J is to be fed rocks.
While in containment, RPC-XXX-J is allowed to kill one human sacrifice every month, unless it is April, in which case RPC-XXX-J must ritualistically kill sixty-seven (67) baby lambs in the span of five (5) seconds out of the first day of the month or it will permanently break containment. During these killings, all Authority personnel at Site-██ are to chant "Dies iræ, dies illa Solvet sæclum in favilla, Teste David cum Sibylla." the entire time, only switching to a full rendition of Tom Jones's "It's Not Unusual" after seven (7) repetitions of the former chant. The chant is to be ended by monotonically saying, "I can name that tune in one note." Failure to correctly perform the chant or a break in composure during the chant will cause RPC-XXX-J to permanently break containment.
Description: RPC-XXX-J is a god of death, humanoid in appearance and standing 10 meters in height. It is not known which religion RPC-XXX-J belongs to, only that it has the capability to cause great death with a blink of the eye, being a death god. RPC-XXX-J's death abilities, however, are negated while in containment, making it practically harmless. Containment procedures being easy as they are for RPC-XXX-J, it has been designated as Alpha-White.
RPC-XXX-J has an ability that allows it to escape containment once every five (5) seconds. The origin of this ability is unknown, but it doesn't really matter that much since RPC-XXX-J is so easy to contain. Every millisecond that RPC-XXX-J remains out of containment, the lifespan of every person in the world is reduced by five months. After ten seconds of continuous containment breach, RPC-XXX-J This means that containment of RPC-XXX-1 is a necessity. Given the ease with which RPC-XXX-J is contained, the most the entity can do is actively turn assigned Authority personnel into specimens of Pandalus borealis (pink shrimp) while it is fucking their spouses.
Addendum XXX-1: Containment Protocols
All personnel within earshot of RPC-XXX-J are required to start chanting
All personnel within Site-██ at the time of containment breach are required to organize in the mess hall, at which point they are to engage in gladiatorial combat while Site Director ██████████ ████████ does his best impression of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. CEO Vince McMahon. The last person slain must stick their hand into the punch clock at the front entrance to Site-██ while Site Director ████████ chants, "You've been a bad ," the blank filled in with "boy" or "girl" depending on what sex the person is not. The chosen person must remain completely composed throughout the process of punching precisely one hundred and nine (109) holes into their left hand, followed by three (3) into their right hand. If the chosen person breaks composure, Site Director ████████ must stick the barrel of a Red Ryder Model 1938 BB gun into the chosen person's mouth while continuously screaming "Do you believe in God?" at the top of his lungs. If the Site Director fails to do this, RPC-XXX-J will permanently break containment. After the chosen person has punctured their hands accordingly, they must kill Site Director ████████ with their right pinky toe before they expire from the immediately fatal wounds they sustained in earlier combat. If they do not do this, or they do not have a right pinky toe to complete this task with, then RPC-XXX-J will permanently break containment.
MST Golf-14 "Just To Suffer" must immediately leave Site-██ and head to the African continent on foot, with kris daggers measuring no longer and no shorter than fifteen (15) meters in blade length. Once there, they must immediately find twenty physically ill children of Ethiopian descent, no older than ten (10) years old. As they shove the blades of the kris daggers up the rectums of these children, they must continuously shout "Heil Hitler" at the top of their lungs. If they fail to do this, for any reason whatsoever, then they must shove the blades of the kris daggers up their own rectums using their legs after shaving the skin off their faces. If they fail to do this, RPC-XXX-J will permanently break containment.
This is the easiest protocol to implement. When RPC-XXX-J holds up the required amount of fingers for this protocol, his eyes will become visible and will flash a certain color. Depending on what color they flash and how many eyes there are that flash it, the following sub-protocols must be implemented by all Authority personnel across the globe simultaneously, otherwise RPC-XXX-J will permanently break containment.
Sub-Protocol Alpha must be performed if RPC-XXX-J has one eye that flashes red. When this happens, personnel must find their first-born children and remove their right hand, offering it up to GD-██ for him to eat. This must be done before 0045 hours on the day that RPC-XXX-J breaks containment, otherwise Sub-Protocol Foxtrot is to be implemented.
Sub-Protocol Bravo
Sub-Protocol Charlie
Sub-Protocol Delta
Sub-Protocol Echo
Sub-Protocol Foxtrot is to be undertaken in the instance that RPC-XXX-J has five eyes that shine magenta. In this instance, Procedures KK93A-9GQ2-B3FF-V4MP "Three-Seven Finger" and WW91D-6BG4-K1LL-B4CK "Four Finger" are to be performed by half-and-half of Authority personnel, respectively. If there is any communication between Authority personnel regarding clarification as to who is performing what procedure, RPC-XXX-J will permanently break containment. Once both procedures are complete, Sub-Protocols Charlie, Delta and Golf are to be performed by thirds of all remaining Authority personnel until RPC-XXX-J is successfully contained.
Sub-Protocol Golf is to be undertaken in the instance that RPC-XXX-J has five eyes that shine fuchsia. All Authority personnel must kill the person standing closest to them at the moment of containment breach. This is regardless of distance between themselves and the "closest" person. If any person fails to complete this task for whatever reason, RPC-XXX-J will permanently break containment. After this task is complete, Sub-Protocol Foxtrot is to be performed by all remaining personnel until RPC-XXX-J is successfully contained.
Sub-Protocol Hotel is to be undertaken if RPC-XXX-J's fifteen thousand and forty-one (15,041) eyes shine white.
Sub-Protocol India is if RPC-XXX-J has zero (0) eyes that shine bright cyan.
Sub-Protocol Juliet is to be implemented in the event that RPC-XXX-J's eye amount and eye flash color do not match any of the above sub-protocols.
Addendum XXX-2: The following is a message sent out by GD-██ to actively-serving personnel assigned to the containment of RPC-XXX-J.
To those who it may concern,
The containment protocols are set in stone. Keep to them. Only an idiot could fuck this up.
Research. Protect. Contain.
- GD-██