DEPARTMENT: COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND MEMETICS
The mind is the final battlefield. This department studies and combats threats that attack perception, memory, and sanity. They develop counter-memetic agents, inoculation protocols, and therapies to protect personnel from cognitive and informational hazards.
Primary Function: Identification and analysis of memetic and cognitohazardous agents.
Operational Specifics: A unit of 2-3 researchers specialized in recognizing and classifying memes, evaluating their transmission vector, virulence, and psychological effect.
Primary Function: Administration of memetic protection agents and neutralization of informational threats.
Operational Specifics: A team trained to deploy counter-memes, informational hygiene agents, and to administer preventive memetic inoculations to personnel.
Primary Function: Psychological assessment, therapy, and support to site personnel.
Operational Specifics: A therapist specialized in treating post-traumatic stress resulting from anomalous encounters and in conducting periodic psychological evaluations.
Primary Function: Analysis and countering of rival Interest Groups' propaganda.
Operational Specifics: An expert who studies disinformation campaigns and enemy psychological operations to develop effective countermeasures.
Primary Function: Study of the physical effects of cognitive anomalies on the brain.
Operational Specifics: A researcher who uses brain scans (fMRI, EEG) to map the impact of a memetic or psionic agent and develop neurological therapies.
Primary Function: Study and interpretation of dreams and anomalous oneiric spaces.
Operational Specifics: A researcher who analyzes dream activity influenced by anomalies, able to enter and map (with technological support) the subjects' dreams.
Primary Function: Development of mental defenses against memetic and traditional threats.
Operational Specifics: A researcher specializing in the design of mental fortresses and psychological training regimes. They develop the mental defenses that make Foundation personnel resistant to interrogations, psychic torture, and memetic influences.
Primary Function: Design and creation of memetic and counter-memetic agents.
Operational Specifics: An information scientist who is the department's "weapons designer", capable of building engineered memes for various purposes.
Primary Function: Catalog of all known cognitohazards and infohazards.
Operational Specifics: A restricted access database that lists every known perceptive threat, complete with vector, symptomatology, and approved countermeasures.
Primary Function: Archive of benign memetic agents for the neutralization of hostile memes.
Operational Specifics: A collection of images, sounds, and concepts designed to "overwrite" or neutralize the effects of specific memetic infections.
Primary Function: Access to psychological evaluations for all Site personnel.
Operational Specifics: A crucial resource for monitoring staff mental health, identifying vulnerabilities to anomalous influences, and assessing suitability for missions.
Primary Function: Study of symbols and universal narratives for the creation of memes.
Operational Specifics: A psychological and anthropological database of Jungian archetypes, used to create memes and counter-memes with maximum effectiveness and resonance.
Primary Function: Approval for controlled exposure of Class-D to cognitive threats.
Operational Specifics: The necessary ethical authorization to test the virulence of a new meme or the effectiveness of a countermeasure on human subjects.
Primary Function: Authorization for the use of a memetic agent as a tool or weapon.
Operational Specifics: The rare authorization, which requires the approval of the Ethics Committee, to intentionally infect a target (e.g., a leader of an Insurgent Group) with an engineered meme (e.g., one that induces paranoia or loyalty).
Primary Function: Protection from directly transmitted cognitive visual hazards.
Operational Specifics: Special glasses that contain a microprocessor capable of analyzing the visual field and censoring dangerous images or symbols in real time.
Primary Function: Individual protection from hostile telepathic and psionic influences.
Operational Specifics: A helmet coated with a miniaturized telekill alloy that offers significant resistance to thought readings or direct mental attacks.
Primary Function: Administration of "memetic vaccines" to personnel.
Operational Specifics: An auto-injector kit containing slow-release counter-memes to immunize personnel before a high-cognitive-risk mission.
Primary Function: Creation of an area protected from auditory or environmental memetic influences.
Operational Specifics: A device that emits a low-intensity audio or visual signal that saturates perceptual channels, making it difficult for hostile memes to take root.
Primary Function: Detection and measurement of psionic activity in an area.
Operational Specifics: A set of deployable sensors that map the presence and intensity of psionic energy, locating the source of a telepathic transmission.
Primary Function: Neutralization of targets via a lethal cognitohazardous agent.
Operational Specifics: An image or a sound highly classified that, if perceived, causes an almost instantaneous cardiac arrest. Its use is extremely limited and requires higher authorizations.
Primary Function: Isolation of individuals or data infected by a memetic agent.
Operational Specifics: Procedures for blocking access to files, isolating personnel, and decontaminating systems to prevent the spread of a memetic infection.
Primary Function: Preventive protection of personnel against specific memetic threats.
Operational Specifics: The administration of a counter-meme or a chemical agent to render personnel immune to the effects of a known anomaly.
Primary Function: Therapeutic intervention within the dream spaces of a subject.
Operational Specifics: A procedure that allows an oneirologist to guide a patient through a dream to resolve traumas or remove anomalous influences.
Primary Function: Active combating of anomalous disinformation in the public.
Operational Specifics: An action plan to spread counter-narratives and cover stories on civil media to neutralize the propaganda of a rival group.
Primary Function: Standard methodology for classifying the dangerousness of a memetic threat.
Operational Specifics: A formal checklist that assigns a risk score to an anomaly based on virulence, transmission vector, and effect lethality.
Primary Function: Secure analysis of memetically active artifacts.
Operational Specifics: An acoustically, visually, and electronically isolated room, where researchers can analyze dangerous objects using remote manipulators.
Primary Function: Conducting psychological tests and therapies.
Operational Specifics: A wing of the department designated as a medical office, designed to make staff comfortable during evaluations and therapy sessions.
Primary Function: Study of memetic effects in a secure virtual environment.
Operational Specifics: A laboratory where, through a neural interface, it is possible to test the effects of cognitive agents on an A.I. consciousness or on simulated brain models.
Primary Function: Total isolation of a subject for psionic analysis.
Operational Specifics: A float tank in a soundproofed and dark room to isolate a subject from all external stimuli, in order to study their latent psionic abilities or remove memetic implants.
Primary Function: Detection and analysis of Auditory and Cognitive threats.
Operational Specifics: A Site-wide system that constantly analyzes the sound environment, detecting non-Euclidean patterns or memetic frequencies. The primary asset for understanding an anomalous sound.