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OPERATION SUMMARY

Operation Designation FALLEN

Tasking Division MTF Omega 1

Overseeing Officer Captain Justice

Field Command Officer

• First Lieutenant Blackwood

Secondary Officer Present

• Second Lieutenant Preliminary

Primary Location Site (REDACTED), Omega 1 Tribunal Records Wing

Mission Type Ethics documentation audit, cognitohazard exposure, internal correlation

Clearance Level Omega 1

1. Objective

First Lieutenant Blackwood was assigned to an internal review of outdated ethics-related after action reports submitted by deceased Foundation field personnel. The review was procedural, aimed at maintaining archival integrity. During this task, Blackwood encountered the report of Agent Rowe, a former Mu 13 operative and personal acquaintance.

Rowe’s death had been ruled non-anomalous and ethically unfortunate, but inconsistencies in his final statements drew Blackwood’s attention. What was intended to be a quiet afternoon in the records wing became something far more disturbing.

This would mark the fourth death of a former teammate directly followed by cognitohazard exposure. Previous events are documented in Operations New Front, Crimson Clue, and Death’s Door.

2. Incident Onset

While reviewing Rowe’s case file, Blackwood accessed a linked document labeled "Post-Field Clarification." Instead of a transcript, the screen filled with black and a single line of slow-fading gray text:

You left the door open.

Within seconds, Blackwood stopped moving. Second Lieutenant Preliminary, returning from a supply check, found him seated, unresponsive, eyes wide.

Blackwood then collapsed. Preliminary secured the terminal, initiated a lockdown, and stood watch until assistance arrived.

3. Cognitohazard Encounter

Blackwood later described awakening in a twisted reflection of the Tribunal Hall. The space was not aged but distorted—chairs floating inches above the ground, support columns folded like paper, light sources bleeding into each other.

Rowe sat silently at the center of the room, holding a file. Behind him stood a mirror. It reflected only Blackwood—no Rowe, no hall, no evidence of the scene around him. Only himself.

He could not move. He could not speak. But the mirror did not need to. The air around it seemed to whisper into his lungs.

This makes four.

He awoke with a bitten tongue, trembling hands, and a silent certainty that something unseen had been watching through the glass.

4. Pattern Recognition

This incident mirrors three prior cognitohazard episodes tied to Blackwood’s investigative trail:

• Operation New Front — artifact and betrayal tied to early Mu 13 operations

• Operation Crimson Clue — Iota 10 operative found dead under falsified report

• Operation Death’s Door — cognitohazard letter triggered noir hallucination

Each case involved a former ally. Each followed a posthumous discovery. Each revealed a presence that does not forget.

This marks the fourth.

5. Personnel Reflections

Preliminary

"Whatever it is, it is not just a pattern. It is watching him work. Every report he opens, every line he reads, it’s waiting for the moment he sees too much."

Blackwood

"Rowe was the kind of man who never let his badge speak louder than his conscience. Maybe that’s what killed him. Maybe that’s why I keep reading. Because someone has to remember the names."

Addendum

Inside a forgotten pocket of Rowe’s audit file folder, Preliminary discovered a torn scrap of laminate, presumed to be part of an old personnel ID. The back had been etched with a fine black pen, the lettering uneven, likely written in haste. It read:

The badge will blink. Then burn.

Omega 1 preserved it as evidence. FALLEN is resolved. New field rotation assignments to follow.

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