DEPARTMENT: EXTRADIMENSIONAL AND TEMPORAL PHYSICS
The laws of physics are a suggestion, not a requirement. This department deals with anomalies that distort space, manipulate time, or originate from other realities. Their task is to measure, stabilize, and, if possible, seal the fractures in our reality.
Primary Function: Exploration and mapping of extra-dimensional realities.
Operational Specifics: A unit of 3-4 specialists trained in survival in hostile environments and equipped with gear to operate in stable alternative dimensions.
Primary Function: Deployment, calibration, and maintenance of Scranton Reality Anchors.
Operational Specifics: A unit of engineers specialized in the 'hardware' management of the Site's Reality Anchor arsenal. They are responsible for the maintenance, large-scale deployment, and physical calibration of the SRAs to ensure the basic stability of an operational area.
Primary Function: Analysis and intervention on temporal anomalies and paradoxes.
Operational Specifics: An experienced researcher in chronodynamics and theoretical physics, capable of analyzing and proposing solutions for temporal loops, fractures, and other chronological crises.
Primary Function: Mapping of non-Euclidean and extra-dimensional spatial topologies.
Operational Specifics: An expert who interprets probe data to create navigable maps of alternative dimensions or spatially distorted areas.
Primary Function: Operations and advanced maintenance of Scranton Reality Anchors (SRA).
Operational Specifics: An engineer specializing in the deployment, calibration, and maintenance of SRAs, both the Site's fixed units and the portable models.
Primary Function: Mapping and large-scale analysis of the stability of local reality.
Operational Specifics: A theoretical physicist who uses Kant's Quantum Counters to analyze the background stability of an entire operational area. His role is to identify the physical causes of a distortion (e.g., dimensional fractures, temporal anomalies) and predict its evolution on a macroscopic scale.
Primary Function: Detection and analysis of temporal energy fields and chroniton signatures.
Operational Specifics: A specialist trained to use specialized sensors to detect residual temporal energies, identify the source of temporal distortions, and analyze chroniton-based anomalies or technologies.
Primary Function: Archive of all known and mapped alternative dimensions.
Operational Specifics: A collection of maps, environmental notes, and mission reports relating to every dimension successfully explored by the Foundation.
Primary Function: Timeline of all known time alteration events and their effects.
Operational Specifics: A crucial database that documents every paradox, loop, or rewriting of history, used to identify new deviations from the baseline timeline.
Primary Function: Real-time monitoring of the physical constants of the Site.
Operational Specifics: A system that tracks values such as the speed of light, Planck's constant, and gravity within the Site to immediately detect local alterations in physics.
Primary Function: Theoretical models for predicting multi-dimensional behavior.
Operational Specifics: Access to the most advanced and dangerous pata-physical theories for modeling the interaction between different 'branes' of reality.
Primary Function: Comprehensive repository of navigational and environmental data on explored dimensions.
Operational Specifics: An expansion of the 'Atlante' database, containing detailed 3D maps, physics constant variations, known hazards, and potential resources of stable extradimensional locations accessible via Foundation tech.
Primary Function: Measurement of the level of reality (Hume) of an area or an entity.
Operational Specifics: A portable device that provides a numerical reading of reality stability, essential for identifying and classifying Reality Benders.
Primary Function: Measurement of subjective and objective temporal flow.
Operational Specifics: A specialized clock that simultaneously measures baseline time and time perceived by the operator, to detect areas of temporal dilation or contraction.
Primary Function: Survival of "Wayfinder" teams in hostile realities.
Operational Specifics: A self-contained environmental suit that protects from alien atmospheres, minor gravitational fluctuations, and exotic radiations.
Primary Function: Protection of a single operator from fluctuations of reality.
Operational Specifics: A miniaturized, short-range version of an SRA, wearable as a backpack. It ensures that the operator remains consistent with baseline reality, even if the surrounding environment is altered. It has a very limited operating time.
Primary Function: Manned exploration vehicle for navigating hostile or unstable extradimensional environments.
Operational Specifics: A heavily shielded vehicle equipped with short-range reality anchors, advanced life support, and multi-spectrum sensors, designed for Wayfinder teams operating in dimensions where standard TEE suits are insufficient.
Primary Function: Temporary stabilization of reality in a limited area.
Operational Specifics: A standard field-deployable SRA generating a stable Hume field. Primarily used by ETP teams for establishing secure work zones during exploration or large-scale physics analysis.
Primary Function: Prevention and resolution of minor temporal paradoxes.
Operational Specifics: A device that, when activated near a paradox, "dissipates" excess chronon energy, often resolving minor loops or contradictions.
Primary Function: Preliminary data collection from an unknown dimension.
Operational Specifics: A robotic probe that can be sent through a dimensional fracture to collect atmospheric, visual, and energetic data before sending in a Wayfinder team.
Primary Function: Isolate an anomaly or personnel from the standard space-time flow.
Operational Specifics: A deployable device that creates a stable but temporary dimensional "bubble." It can be used to trap an anomaly in a temporal loop or an isolated space, or to protect a team from an ongoing reality-altering event.
Primary Function: Procedures for entry and operation in alternative realities.
Operational Specifics: A set of rigorous rules for Wayfinder teams, including quarantine procedures, first contact protocols, and non-Euclidean navigation techniques.
Primary Function: Isolation of objects or individuals exposed to anomalous temporal flows.
Operational Specifics: Procedures for isolating a subject or an object that travels in time or comes from another timeline to prevent paradoxical contamination.
Primary Function: Procedures for the positioning and activation of Reality Anchors.
Operational Specifics: The rules of engagement for the use of SRAs, defining when and how to activate them to maximize the containment effect and minimize side effects.
Primary Function: Coordinated activation of all fixed SRAs on the Site.
Operational Specifics: An emergency protocol that transforms the entire Site into a "reality fortress" to resist a large-scale ontological alteration.
Primary Function: Neutralization of hazardous temporal residues or paradox contamination.
Operational Specifics: Standard procedures involving localized temporal field generation or controlled chroniton bursts to cleanse personnel, equipment, or areas affected by temporal anomalies, preventing paradox propagation.
Primary Function: Secure study of objects emitting minor spacetime distortions or requiring baseline physics.
Operational Specifics: A standard laboratory lined with miniaturized Scranton Anchors, ensuring baseline physics stability for general research on dimensionally unstable artifacts handled by various departments.
Primary Function: Containment of temporally unstable objects or entities.
Operational Specifics: A room in which the flow of time can be artificially accelerated, slowed down, or stopped altogether, for the study and containment of chronological anomalies.
Primary Function: Creation of controlled access to secure and known dimensions.
Operational Specifics: A fixed device capable of opening a portal to a "base" dimension (e.g., an empty universe) to test equipment in total isolation.
Primary Function: Real-time detection of alterations of reality within the Site.
Operational Specifics: A network of fixed Kant counters that constantly monitors the stability of reality throughout the Site, immediately reporting any anomaly.