BLACK ANNEX ADDENDUM // OMEGA-VAULT 6
OPERATION ICE DAGGER: INFECTUS BIOFORM DOSSIER
CLASSIFIED – OMEGA-TIER ACCESS ONLY
DO NOT TRANSMIT – DO NOT REPLICATE – DESTROY AFTER REVIEW
TO: Command Directors – West, Central, and East
FROM: Archivist M. LeClair, Department of Containment & Recovery
DATE: October 22, 1997
SUBJECT: INFECTUS – Addendum to OPERATION ICE DAGGER
SUB-CODE: THETA-ZERO-ONE “INFECTUS” – Bioform Threat Dossier
I. INTRODUCTION
The following dossier represents a classified addendum to the Operation Ice Dagger final brief, provided under Omega-level security clearance. The contents herein are not to be digitally stored, replicated, or referenced in any interdepartmental correspondence.
This material is provided by request of the Tri-Command to clarify the true scope and nature of THETA-ZERO-ONE: INFECTUS, beyond the limited details included in the original mission summary.
The data below has been assembled from:
Extensive documentation from Unit 731, Site 10-Kyokko
The Jael Winterbourne debrief, conducted 15 days post-recovery
Recovered Task Force Kestrel audio logs
Internal post-retrieval research conducted between 1945–1996
The documentation details an archaeological dig site in Manchuria at the end of WWII. An artifact of extraterrestrial origin and extreme age was found and transferred to Site 10-Kyokko, one of several Unit 731 biological and chemical warfare sites. There, Unit 731 studied the artifact and subsequently lost containment.
Task Force Kestrel, a team of highly trained OSS operatives, infiltrated the site and neutralized the threat—but at great cost. All but one Kestrel team member died, sacrificing themselves to contain the entity.
It is critical to note: entire research teams, Phoenix branches, and containment divisions were lost in the years following retrieval. This is not exaggeration—it is a matter of historical record.
II. PHOENIX LOSSES – POST-RETRIEVAL
The initial phase of Infectus study (internally referred to as the “Cold Cell Initiative”) resulted in the following:
43 Phoenix personnel absorbed during the containment breach of Vault 3-C (1947)
Termination of monitoring systems due to irreversible data corruption (1948)
Full decommissioning of a bio-circuitry wing after the entity mimicked control node architecture and attempted to override purge protocols (1951)
Memory compromise in two senior researchers—both became cognitively unstable, claiming they were “not alone in their own thoughts”
Complete psychological collapse of Containment Chief Henrick Lozano, who self-immolated inside a sealed vault after stating:
“It’s using my voice now. And my skin… is it my skin? I can’t tell.”
In response, Phoenix established new containment protocols that introduced the following operational precedents:
The OMEGA-Vault system
The no-computer zone law
Triple-phase cryogenic isolation
In short: Infectus changed the way we do containment.
III. BIOFORM CLASSIFICATION – INFECTUS
Codename: INFECTUS
Designation: THETA-ZERO-ONE
Origin: Unknown
First Contact: Pingfang District, Manchuria, 1945
Composition: Polymorphic nano-crystalline structure; semi-organic, semi-mechanical
Dormancy: Estimated millions of years
Growth Phases:
Mycelial Tethering – Fiber-thin tendrils seeking life and energy
Spore Bloom – Airborne dispersal; mimics snowfall, fog, or ash
Mobile Camouflage Phase – Imitation of small organisms (rats, birds, fish, etc.)
Complex Mimicry Phase – Perfect simulation of higher lifeforms and inanimate objects
Genetic Synthesis – Once sufficient biomass is collected, the entity assembles a colossal polymorphic form using dominant local genetic materials. This is its true form.
Key Abilities:
Complete mimicry of any object, animal, or human down to the cellular level
Voice and behavioral replication, including emotional nuance
Database functionality: At its core, the entity possesses an internal database of genetic and inorganic matter blueprints. The structure contains over 23 million unique species records and 180 million individual genetic entries.
I cannot stress enough the importance of this discovery. There is an entire catalog of extinct alien species inside.
Ambush intelligence: Known to reproduce screams or simulate injured humans to lure responders
Sensory & Environmental Cues:
Victims report overwhelming cold at the moment of initial contact
Can generate high-fidelity sound patterns, including but not limited to: industrial machinery, ambient natural sounds, breathing, digestive noises, animal calls, and human speech. Its mimicry of sound appears limitless.
IV. THE PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPONENT
Infectus doesn’t just attack—it studies, then ambushes its prey. It has demonstrated the ability to:
Replicate the voices of deceased loved ones to disarm emotional defenses
Alter its physical form to simulate wounds or distress
Induce paranoia, extreme stress, and sleep disruption
Prolonged exposure to Infectus has been observed to cause:
Personality fragmentation
Identity erosion
Full psychosis
V. STRATEGIC DANGERS
If Infectus escapes current containment, it will not act immediately.
It will study. Learn. Build.
It will appear weak, pitiful, even helpful.
Then it will become us.
Or rather, we will become it—after it takes us over.
Simulations predict a minor containment failure would require sterilization of a 50-mile radius, including all human populations, wildlife, and infrastructure.
An urban outbreak—even in a remote region like the Ozarks—would lead to loss of control within 96 hours, requiring a tactical nuclear detonation. Even then, containment would not be guaranteed.
A full-scale manifestation of its fifth growth stage could initiate a Gray Harvest Event, absorbing enough biomass to achieve planetary-scale mimicry. Earth’s entire biosphere would be lost.
Research suggests this was likely the fate of other worlds before it arrived here.
VI. FINAL STATEMENT
INFECTUS is a mistake we unearthed.
It is not a creature, a virus, or a weapon.
It is a cosmic disease—one that outlived its creators and now waits for us to repeat their error.
It is sickness made sentient.
Recommended Action:
Initiate Vault 6 full incineration purge
Activate seismic collapse protocol
Eliminate all surviving documentation—physical or digital
Detain and debrief all personnel with exposure exceeding 0.4 cumulative hours
Burn the root. Salt the soil. Forget its name. Then move on.
Respectfully,
M. LeClair
Archivist, Department of Containment & Recovery
PHOENIX CENTRAL COMMAND
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PHOENIX COMMAND MEMORANDUM
RE: INFECTUS – COMMAND RESPONSE TO DESTRUCTION RECOMMENDATION
CLASSIFIED – OMEGA PRIORITY
PHX-CMD-RSP-247A
TO: Archivist M. LeClair
FROM: Deputy Director Alan R. Graile
Phoenix Eastern Command – Oversight Division
DATE: October 27, 1997
RE: CONTAINMENT ARTIFACT “INFECTUS” – STATUS OVERRIDE
Archivist LeClair,
Your concerns regarding containment artifact THETA-ZERO-ONE (“INFECTUS”) have been reviewed and acknowledged. Your thorough documentation—including the Black Annex Addendum to Operation Ice Dagger—has been filed accordingly.
Please be advised: while your recommendation for full incineration and structural collapse of Vault 6 is noted, it is disapproved.
The continued containment, analysis, and application of THETA-ZERO-ONE now fall under Project EIDOLON, a cross-divisional directive governed by the Viridian Island Research Complex.
Effective immediately:
All materials, field data, and personnel associated with THETA-ZERO-ONE are to be transferred to Viridian Island under maximum-security escort.
Your department will oversee all containment and transport preparations.
Any required resources are to be submitted via Priority Channel 9. They will be provided without delay. Your operational budget is considered unrestricted.
You are to cease all further inquiry into this matter unless specifically summoned for audit or testimony.
Let us be clear: while your work is valued, the scope of this artifact’s potential exceeds your department and clearance authority.
You were assigned to document the past.
We are tasked with shaping the future.
Should you continue to voice opposition to this directive, your access privileges will be reviewed and may be revoked.
The world is changing, Archivist.
We intend to meet it prepared.
All Hail Columbia.
— D. Director A. R. Graile
Phoenix Eastern Command – Oversight Division
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VIRIDIAN ISLAND RESEARCH COMPLEX
Internal Memorandum – Eyes Only
CLASSIFIED – OMEGA
VIR-COMM-ALERT-77D
TO: Deputy Director Alan R. Graile, Phoenix Eastern Command
FROM: Dr. Emilia R. Voss, Director of Operations, Viridian Island, Oceanus Division
DATE: November 3, 1997
RE: Incoming Artifact Transfer – THETA-ZERO-ONE
Deputy Director Graile,
We have received the classified cargo manifest scheduled for arrival at Viridian Island under Dimensional Isolation Protocol V-I-44. After a thorough review of the submitted biological and incident dossiers—particularly the Black Annex Addendum compiled by Archivist LeClair—I am compelled to formally state:
We are not prepared to accept this.
Our current secure storage modules were designed for passive materials and theoretical phase anomalies, not for an active, polymorphic, sentient biocrystal with a documented history of containment breaches, cross-domain mimicry, and cognitive contamination.
Let me be absolutely clear:
INFECTUS is not a curiosity to be stored. It is weaponized extinction.
And I strongly recommend that it not be housed at Viridian Island.
We are a physics-forward facility. We study and build portals. None of our personnel are trained to handle an organism that can infect a floor tile or become an undetectable copy of a person.
You are asking us to place this entity into a dimensional buffer—a space not fully observable, not fully testable—and expect it to remain dormant.
You are betting that it will stay asleep inside a box that was never designed to hold a nightmare.
I urge you to reconsider.
Infectus belongs in permanent cryogenic stasis, not in proximity to a functioning aperture array capable of transdomain transmission.
I understand this directive comes from above. I understand resistance may result in reassignment—or worse. But you asked for our cooperation.
This is our response.
If anything goes wrong, there won’t be time to contain it.
The best we’ll be able to do is warn the mainland before we’re gone.
Respectfully,
Dr. Emilia R. Voss
Director of Operations
Viridian Island Research Complex, Oceanus Division
AUDIO TRANSCRIPT
Recorded by facility sensors and compiled for Phoenix Eastern Command
November 3, 1997 – 21:47 Local Time
Location: Dr. Emilia Voss’s Private Office, Sub-Level 19
VOSS (on phone):
He’s out of his fucking mind.
[silence on the other end]
VOSS:
Did you read the same memo I did?
“Dimensional storage”? I don’t need to remind you that “storage” implies inanimate objects—not something that’s actively rewriting matter on a subcellular level.
DR. EZRA CALLEN (voice-only):
It gets better. He wants it housed in Annex C. Just a reminder—that’s the same array where we had the breach last quarter.
VOSS:
Oh, excellent. Let’s just throw an end-of-the-world party there. Maybe set up a gift shop across from it too!
[pause]
Sorry. The gallows humor’s just... how I deal with the horror of all this.
CALLEN:
I know. I feel the same.
We’re prepping the containment area in Lab Seven now. Triple-layer cryogenics, active magneto-suspension—just like the protocols say. It’s the best we can do on short notice.
But Emilia… this is bad.
Like “call your lawyer and write your will” bad.
VOSS (pacing):
Worse than bad.
This thing learns. That’s what LeClair’s report says. Mimics everything. Organic, synthetic, psychological patterns… voice, memory, emotion.
It makes you think it’s your brother.
Your favorite book.
The voice in your head telling you you’re safe.
If we make just one mistake—we’re fucked.
CALLEN:
Yeah.
It’s not just mimicry.
This could trigger the end.
And I mean THE END.
The kind of end where everyone’s dead and no one’s left to wonder what happened—or how it happened so fast.
[brief silence]
CALLEN (softly):
I’ve got people threatening to quit.
Kerrigan locked herself in the biosuit chamber when she found out what was coming.
I don’t blame her.
But don’t worry.
I’ll take care of it.
VOSS (dryly):
Well, tell her to pace her breakdown.
We’re all in this together—and we’ve got a monster to babysit.
[sound of a cabinet opening, a bottle being retrieved]
[Voss pours herself a drink—Lagavulin. No hesitation.]
CALLEN:
You know this was supposed to be a particle harmonic lab, right?
String theory. Gravitational edge modeling. Maybe even earn us a Nobel if we got lucky.
Now we’re a goddamn prison.
VOSS:
We’re not a prison, Ezra.
We’re a gamble—and a bad one at that. One with long-ass odds.
And we’re stuck.
We have to comply.
CALLEN:
Comply or die.
So this is self-preservation now.
I’ll let the rest of my team know they’re in for some long hours.
[Voss pauses. Swirls the glass.]
VOSS:
Thanks, Ezra.
I’ll make sure everyone gets a little extra stipend for the overtime.
I know it’s not much, considering.
God help us.
CUT TO:
A blinking light on the island’s southern docking bay monitor.
TRANSFER: THETA-ZERO-ONE — EN ROUTE
ETA: 08:19 HOURS