DEPARTMENT: ANTIMEMETICS
How do you fight an idea that erases itself? The Antimemetics Department is a ghost division whose existence is known to only a few. They fight threats that are conceptually invisible, that erase the knowledge of themselves. They operate on mnestic drugs to remember what the world forgets.
Primary Function: Investigation and neutralization of antimemetic threats in the field.
Operational Specifics: A unit of 3-4 agents constantly under the effect of mnestics, trained to operate in logically unstable environments and to trust their protocols more than their senses.
Primary Function: Research for "gaps" and inconsistencies in Foundation and public databases.
Operational Specifics: A team of analysts that does not seek information, but its absence. They examine archives in search of paradoxes and missing data that indicate the presence of an antimeme.
Primary Function: Cleaning of an area or an object from antimemetic residues.
Operational Specifics: A team that uses "idea killers" and other technologies to erase the residual traces of an antimeme, making an area conceptually safe again.
Primary Function: Development and production of drugs that improve memory retention.
Operational Specifics: A researcher who synthesizes the various classes of mnestics (W, X, Y), the drugs that allow personnel to resist antimemetic effects.
Primary Function: Reconstruction of deleted events through the analysis of consequences.
Operational Specifics: An investigator who applies reverse logic to theorize the existence and nature of an antimeme by analyzing the "scars" it leaves in reality.
Primary Function: Psychological support for personnel exposed to antimemes.
Operational Specifics: A psychologist specialized in addressing the unique trauma resulting from memory loss, paranoia, and dissociation caused by these threats.
Primary Function: Active combat of antimemes through the creation of mental constructs.
Operational Specifics: An individual with a rare psionic ability to "think" concepts so powerful as to resist antimemetic annihilation, acting as a living anchor.
Primary Function: Keeper of the known antimemetic threats database.
Operational Specifics: The only individual authorized to consult the "Negative Register", maintaining a constant knowledge of all forgotten threats. Requires a continuous dosage of mnestics.
Primary Function: Database of all known and and contained antimemetic threats.
Operational Specifics: An isolated database, accessible only under the influence of Class-X mnestics, that contains the information that the rest of the Foundation has forgotten.
Primary Function: Early warning system for data corruption.
Operational Specifics: A software that constantly scans the Foundation's main database in search of logical errors, missing files, or paradoxes that could indicate an infection.
Primary Function: Guidelines for all Foundation personnel on antimemetic security.
Operational Specifics: A document distributed to all staff that teaches how to recognize the symptoms of an antimemetic exposure and to report them immediately.
Primary Function: Administration of anti-cancellation drugs.
Operational Specifics: The standard kit for every agent, containing pre-filled syringes with Class W mnestics (short-term resistance) and Class X mnestics (long-term memory).
Primary Function: Defense against antimemes that alter the perception of reality.
Operational Specifics: A small device that emits a subliminal signal (auditory or tactile) that constantly reminds the user of a set of fundamental truths (their name, their mission).
Primary Function: Writing of physical notes resistant to antimemetic alteration.
Operational Specifics: A special ink infused with a conceptual anchor that makes the erasure of written information extremely difficult, both physically and mentally.
Primary Function: To make an object or an idea "heavy" and difficult to erase.
Operational Specifics: A device that, when activated on an object or in an area, increases its "conceptual mass," making it a fixture in memory and reality.
Primary Function: Deletion of a single concept in a limited area.
Operational Specifics: An antimemetic weapon that, when activated, "kills" a specific concept (e.g., "the color blue", "the number 4") from the mind of anyone within its range of action.
Primary Function: Detection of areas affected by antimemetic erasure.
Operational Specifics: A sensor that does not detect the presence of energy, but its anomalous absence, identifying "holes" in the informational fabric of reality.
Primary Function: Methodology for leaving oneself clues during an operation.
Operational Specifics: A doctrine that teaches agents to leave a series of apparently disconnected but logically consequential clues to reconstruct their actions after an antimemetic exposure.
Primary Function: Removal of a deep antimemetic infection by a team.
Operational Specifics: A drastic measure that foresees the total amnestization of a team, followed by a controlled re-implantation of only the necessary memories, purged of the hostile agent.
Primary Function: Containment of an anomaly by making it impossible to conceive.
Operational Specifics: The application of an antimeme "shield" around an anomaly to make it cognitively invisible and thus harmless, until it is observed with mnestics.
Primary Function: Daily check of personnel's memory integrity.
Operational Specifics: A series of questions about obscure but verifiable facts that all the division's personnel must pass every day. A failure indicates an exposure.
Primary Function: Identification of an antimeme through the analysis of its effects.
Operational Specifics: An investigative procedure that ignores the cause and focuses on the consequences, reconstructing backwards the nature of an invisible threat.
Primary Function: Spreading of an idea or benign memory to counteract an antimeme.
Operational Specifics: The use of an engineered meme to rapidly spread a memory or an idea (e.g., "nothing strange happened that day") in a civilian population. It is a proactive and large-scale version of memory implantation.
Primary Function: Spread of an idea or benign memory to counter an antimeme.
Operational Specifics: The use of an engineered meme to rapidly spread a memory or an idea (e.g., "nothing unusual happened that day") in a civilian population.
Primary Function: Access to information that the rest of the Foundation does not know it has.
Operational Specifics: A special authorization that allows the Director to access data and resources that have been deleted from all other databases for security reasons.
Primary Function: Approval for the complete erasure of a staff member's memory.
Operational Specifics: The ultimate authorization to subject an agent irrecoverably compromised by an antimeme to a total "Clean Slate" procedure, erasing their entire identity to save their life.
Primary Function: Production and storage of antimemetic drugs.
Operational Specifics: A high-security laboratory where mnestics are created and stored, the lifeblood of the division.
Primary Function: Secure analysis of antimemetically active objects.
Operational Specifics: A room designed to be "difficult to remember" or to locate, protecting the rest of the Site from what is being studied within it.
Primary Function: An analog backup against digital and mental erasure.
Operational Specifics: A vault containing documents written with indelible ink and other physical media, as a last resort if the digital "Negative Register" were to be compromised.
Primary Function: A device that reveals the immediate consequences of an event that has been cancelled.
Operational Specifics: An anomalous artifact that, when pointed at an area, does not show the antimeme, but the "ripples" it has left in reality (e.g., an echo of the bullet that was fired, the heat signature of the body that has disappeared). It is the ultimate investigative tool for the department.