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by The Union of Socialist Republics of Northern Overture. . 5 reads.

GRU-P File - Known Siren Facilities


RECORDING OF ALL SIREN SITES KNOWN TO THE UNION OF SOCIALIST REPUBLICS OF NORTHERN OVERTURE

File authored by General Secretary of State Affairs Sovetsky Soyuz, Diector of the Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije razdeleniye Psikhotronika (GRU-P) Sovetskaya Belorrusiya and Master Agent of the GRU-P Kronshdtadt

20/01/2001



Preamble:

The Sirens have been a persistent threat to our continued operations in the Northern seas for well over a century.
They were first discovered during the Vynnh-Eisenblut War of 1899, when they sunk a battleship line of the Ironblood Navy. It is known to us that the Dämmerung Foundation intervened rather quickly, censoring all records of the fleet even existing, as well as using a very primitive and dangerous anti-mnestics which resulted in the untimely death of 7,000 civilians.

Since the inception of the Kansen project, many of our kind have asked the utmost basic questions about purpose a sapient being can bring forward. For that, we need to study where we come from - that being, the Sirens; since the Tesserat technology is but a reverse-engineering of the Siren technology. The project Light of Dawn attempted to bring forth such an answer, but it was quickly foiled by Siren meddling.

Since then, in the intervening years, the Kansen fleets of the Northern Overtures have found and repurposed many ancient Siren bases. We have, also, cleared many more of their infestation.
And all of this effort has been made possible thanks to the sacrifices of the many Kansen of the Northern Overture.

Relevant Site 01: "Arcana Sanctum":

Believed at first to be Siren facility, this underground base was later found to be an ex-Foundation site.
Built at the end of the 19th Century as a secluded place to study an eldritch being who we know very little about, this fortress was protected by the most advanced technologies at the time. Several field generators, powered by steam engines, secreted a field of the most dangerous anti-mnestic substance ever discovered; a crystaline marrow that naturally forms at the depths of the seas, which reacts into this anti-mnestic substance when exposed to hydrochloric acid at below-0ºC temperatures.
Arcana Sanctum was coated in this substance, making any would-be observers (even Sirens) oblivious to the presence of the actual base. This, however, had multiple adverse affects on the crew stationed below the seas, which in turn caused a fatal accident somewhere in the 1910s. The base was then abandoned.

When we discovered the base, there was clear signs of Global Occult Coalition activities. The site had been repurposed by the Foundation's competing anti-anomalous organization into a base that operated outside the established consensus reality, meaning that Arcana Sanctum was not fully inside our universe, neither outside of it.
The site was abandoned in 1947, after an event we have no knowledge about. Subtle inquiry into Foundation liaisons has not produced any tangible answers; and more direct questioning might result in active military retaliation by one of our strongest allies.

Studies carried into the remaining documentation of Arcana Sanctum indicates that something of large proportions happened in 1947, which probably had universal repercussions. *
*: It is likely some sort of reality altering event happened, as the universe itself changed course and corrected itself. We have no possible way of knowing about this, however - this is just mere speculation.

We know Arcana Sanctum became fully operational under Foundation lead once again in late 1980s. Secretary of State Sovetsky Soyuz was summoned to the interior of the base in 1997, alongside PNS Yamato and DNFV Ishtar, for a meeting with Foundation Byblos Council -01 - a man known as 'Aaron Siegel'. The meeting was about an unimportant object of interest the Foundation believed to be linked to ODA-1 "The First Man".

However, in 1951 the Northern Overture lead an operation into the exploration of Arcana Sanctum. This expedition was directed by battleship Sovetskaya Belorrusiya and battlecruiser Poltava. It also saw the deployment of cruisers Kirov, Tallinn and Ochakov and destroyers Gremyashchy and Udaloi.
A containment perimeter was established, as well as appropiate, now-obsolete containment procedures. The facilty was highly infested with suspiciously obsolete Siren models.
In 1972, Commander ░░░░░ of the Torham United States Navy agreed to cooperate with Belorrusiya and Kirov in order to gain a deeper understanding of the facility. The mission was intercepted by the Dämmerung Foundation and the base came under their jurisdiction shortly after that. Ten year laters the base became operational.

Relevant Site 02:

This unnamed site sits well inside the Arctic circle. Discovered by Kansen Lazo (a Chapayev-class Light Cruiser) with the use of sonar pings during mine removal operations, Site 02 sits partially underwater while also being buried inside an anomalous, never-melting iceberg.
Kansen submarin Obninsk was dispatched to the zone, and she quickly discovered the site to be in an advanced state of disrepair. An engineering crew was assembled under direct orders of Sovetsky Soyuz, and Site 02 was dismantled piece by piece for later study.

Study of the components present in Site 02 revealed significant information on the operative capabilities of the Siren menace:

  • Sirens are directly connected to some sort of central computing unit. This CCU does not operate in any similar fashion to human-made servers and/or databases, as it pulls most of its computing power from off-universe sources. It also operates at vastly faster-than-light speeds, with datatransfer estimates situating its speed at around 9,029,103,291,632.92 YB/s (that being Yottabyte, a unit equivalent to 10 to the power of 9 petabytes).
    These transfer speeds work wireless over thousands of kilometers.
    It is believed these CCUs were present mostly for older, more obsolete Siren models.

  • Siren 'programs' or 'protocols' refers to the general structure of the Siren hierarchy. All models are replacable to an extent, specially the lower-ranking models such as Purifiers, Executioners or Observers.
    All Siren models can be assembled and distributed around the world in an instant.

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