Deployment authorisation confirmed. Six-contractor recovery team dispatched to the Cormorant Complex. Objective: contracted recovery of anomalous material, designation AM-1.
Incident record // recovered
Recovered incident record // Cormorant
A six-contractor recovery team entered a deferred industrial site under an ordinary contract. The file is closed. The relay is still transmitting.
Cormorant-2. Day one. Reactor's been cold for years but the warning lights still cycle — Vey says residual charge, I say nothing down here should still be deciding to warn anybody. We hold at the spine tonight. Tell the next rotation the hard cover's real. Use it.
CORMORANT-2 // recovered channel
Cormorant-3. We sheltered from the whiteout in the vault ring. Sasha swears one of the pods fogged from the inside while she watched. Occupancy register says the pods have been empty since decommission. The register also says we checked in yesterday. We arrived today.
CORMORANT-3 // recovered channel
A terminal near the objective displayed the squad's own vitals feed — including the wound status of a contractor who had not told anyone she was hit.
SITE TERMINAL // unattributed event
Site interference rising across all channels. Record integrity degrading. Withdrawal recommended.
Cormorant-1, last entry. It's not a nest. Nests hold young. This holds drafts. Every level up, the shapes get closer to right. We found suits from teams ARG never listed on level three — and level four is wearing them better. Vey and Sasha stopped answering an hour ago, but I can still hear them. They're rehearsing. If ARG sends anyone else: the extraction bonus is not. Worth. The—
The recording continues for nine minutes. The voice does too, but the words stop being his.
CORMORANT-1 // recovered channel
MSG RECEIVED CORMORANT-1. STATUS UPDATED: TEAM CORMORANT — NON-RECOVERED. SITE STATUS: DEFERRED. BONUS CLAUSE: VOID. RELAY WILL REPEAT THIS MESSAGE UNTIL ACKNOWLEDGED.
ARG RELAY // repeating
- Official status
- Non-recovered
- Recovered status
- Continuing
- Team size
- Six contractors
- Surviving records
- Partial
- Contamination
- Expanding
- Location
- Cormorant Complex
- Contract reference
- CR-77-19
- Team route
- Interference zone
- Extraction bay
Warning: cognitive contagion risk
Exposure to recovered records may cause disorientation, memory bleed, or psychological distress. Recovered material may contain inconsistent or unauthorised data. Proceed with caution.
Aphelion Recovery Group
A licensed deep-site remediation contractor, returning compromised industrial assets to human use. Safety record: award-winning. The definition of incident is maintained by Legal.
The Cormorant record
A six-contractor recovery team entered a deferred site under an ordinary contract. Status: non-recovered. The file is closed. The relay is still transmitting.
AM-1
Anomalous Material, class 1. Recovery commands premium rates. Questions about its origin are referred to Legal, and remain referred.