Unit 00: "The Blackguard Program"

"There are no monsters in this world, not anymore.

we've either put them down,

locked them up,

or have them on our payroll"

- High Military Commander Ivan Krukov

The Blackguard Program
One of the oldest known Organizations in the unknown universe. Unknown, because not even the Imperator himself truly knows, not fully. The Blackguard Program specializes in Isolating, Neutralizing, and Studying anomalies of Paranormal Nature. This has ranged over the years, from them capturing superstitious urban legends, to them stopping world and even system ending events, to them being the front runners for alien contact and different dangerous anomalous life within the Gothic Constellation.

The Program is a utterly Clandestine organization, so secret, not even the Imperators know, some totally, others only partially. The only man connected to the government who does fully know, is High Military Commander Ivan Krukov, being the frontrunner and main liason for it. Currently only listed as Unit 00, with records and audits showing only small Research and Development, the Blackguard Program is responsible for some of the biggest breakthroughs in CIS Military History. Chemrail technology, Hyperlane knowledge, and knowledge on the Aether can all be traced back to the program- for those who are in the know.

As of now, The Blackguard Program not only monitors anomalies, but keeps a tight eye on society and currently political developments at the request of HMC Krukov. This involves leading suspected parties hunting them on trails, possibly neutralizing, investigating threats, and helping to develop some of the most dangerous future technologies no one in the CIS or Gothic Constellation knows about

History
The Blackguard Program's origins are unknown, but we do know it was founded before the early years of our first Imperator, when Rodrenar cultists attempted to open a warp to the Aether. Such a rift, that was only closed when the Imperial Commandant Sataun Wulf journeyed in, and close almost immediately after. To this day, the Blackguard Program suspects Sataun Wulf was successful, however, has not yet been able to track his whereabouts or fate.

The Blackguard Program's history is mostly black ink for files within their ranks, and completely unknown by the general public. The Program had a hand in learning the biology and origins of the mysterious native Val reptile known as the "shadow raptour", with chameleon chamo technology research that would end up being used by Imperial Military Force Recon scouts. The Program also helped to curb many anomalous threats from the far winter north, which aided in keeping may northern settlements that would grow into hive citys, safe.

The Program was responsible for helping to discover the location of Maldarian Authoritarian State leader, Var Stal, and delivered accurate data to the Iron Confederates so casualties would be minimal. The Program also helped to relay information and data during the Tulan Extinction War, helping Krukov to refine his plan and prepare back up contingencies based upon their variables. They also helped discover the Tulan Super Soldiers in the Black Ring forest, and helped IC Task Forces to avoid another rift opening. After the Tulan Extinction War, they helped to reverse engineer and steal many Tulan Technologies to help jump start the CIS' technological advancement. Such technologies, helped to launch the Imperial Space Program.

Today, the program has been assigned to help discover and research anomalous entities in the galactic space of the CIS and outwards. This includes stunning yet unnerving precursor sites, mysterious craft, and even more mysterious attacks on CIS Galactic Frontiersmen, merchants, and miners.

Personnel
Details: The CIS Blackguard Program is to secure and contain elements, Objects, and anomalies associated with the Paranormal. While Extraterrestrial and Scientific associated Anomalies are dealt with the CIS' Science Department, and the CIS Military if needed. the Blackguard Program is a disconnected branch of the CIS, made to deal with possibly dangerous, and uncontrollable Paranormal threats to Rejik. The Foundation was founded in [REDACTED], after the [REDACTED], by Commander [REDACTED].

 Staff: 


 * Overseers - Info: The top class and supporting higher up staff of the Program. The Overseers do everything from organize experiments, to help maintain control of more deadly anomalies, to keeping the program hidden and running. The Overseers are chosen from the most elite, calculating, and dependable of those available to the CIS, some even recruited from places within the rest of the UCSR. The Overseers are made to swear a pact of loyalty, as well as cutting their previous ties to their former lives, making them disappear from the planet entierly. They are the top tier of the staff, second only to the commanding CIS officials in charge of the project, and therefore have top class access.
 * Candidates - Info: The Candidates are the lowest, and most expendable level of Personal for the Program. Mostly made up of Prison Convicts, ones of death row, aswell as murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and other low life scum of the CIS' Prison Population. The Program's Candidates are used to help conduct experiments, like interacting with dangerous objects, interacting with anomalies, and going into deadly situations. The Candidates are kept in cells inside of the installations, only being let out in a case of a needed job. Items they're allowed to carry are flashlights, and batons, firearms and other, more lethal equipment are to only be given when needed.

 Security: 


 * Praetorians - Info: The main manpower backing the Program's Security Force, the Praetorians are the first to be called when a threat, escape, or other danger to the Program's various facility's turn up. They're armed with incredibly Advanced Armor, allowing them several combat advantages, aswell as exoskeletal systems built into the armor to give them an advantage in a fight. The Praetorians are extremely skilled in Firearms, Hand to Hand, and melee combat.


 * Juggernauts - Info: The Heavy Manpower for a Heavy Class Escape, attack, or experiment happens within the Facility is the Juggernaut. The Juggernaut's armor is incredibly reinforced, using advanced Combat Armor Plates, exoskeletal features, and shockabsorbing armor layers woven into the incredibly huge suit. The Juggernaut's are referenced as 'Walking Tanks', heavily armored, they're incredibly effective when fighting against hordes like in Incident [REDACTED], where they were faced with fighting hordes of [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED] in the [REDACTED] Facility.


 * Jaegars - Info: Used for scouting out locations where dangerous anomalies have been reported, used in taking down ones in public with their stealth capabilities, and taking down threats quietly in facilities when necessary is the Jaegars. The Jaegars aren't as heavily armored as other The Praetorians and Juggernauts, with their armor and tactics centered around skirmishing and stealth. Cloaking armor modeled after the Shadow Raptours is built into their suits, allowing them incredibly camouflaging when needed.

"The Primal"
Creature Name: "The Primal" (Name Deemed to it by [Ret.]General Stal)

Bio: the first instances were recorded during the 1st CIS Fascist war, 'found' in Maldarian Fascist prison camps. They were something reported to be found in barracks where militiamen began to simply shoot the prisoners and throw them in mass body piles. from accounts from militiamen, and records from the camps logs, the barracks throught the day and night heard walking, banging, screaming, and moaning coming from within the body barracks. Though the Fascist officers denied these as simply prisoners who survived, Militiamen who were sent in to deal with them, either did not return from the small 20 x 10 meter buildings, or were frantic, defected, or committed suicide after exiting.

These anomalies were also recorded during Tulan Extinction war, Operation: Tulan Insubordination, and the recent experiment: [REDACTED].

Records from the experiment, where they were supposedly 'released', tells they are what happens to the mind, when it's stretched to the brink of insanity and death, and are allowed to be released and seap out of the 'Aether'. The primal are recorded to be hideous, their descriptions changing drastically, however are told to be what happens to a person, either [REDACTED], Maldarian, [REDACTED], [REDACTED] when this type of horrific treatment occurs.

Questioning from the army group commander who oversaw the purge of The Aether Isle, General Marius Stal, refused to comment on the topic, however he implied that Tulan camps not only on the Isle, but across the Tulan Heartland were subject to these anomalies appearing.

"Aetherites"
Creature Name: "Aetherites" (Name given to it by unknown Infantry Gunnery Sergeant)

Bio: These creatures are the only known entities to come from the plane known as the "Aether". The 'Aetherites' As they've been called are extremely dangerous, originating from a different plane of existence known as the 'Aether'. These creatures appeared after the Tulan Extinction War, in the deep caverns known as the 'Aether Isle'. The 5th Elite Legion, which became the basis for what would be known as the 'Hellfire Corps', were established to take point and fortify the Aether Isle after Tulan drone forces had been destroyed. However, from what was theorized to be the mass bombardment by Imperial Air on the Isle, large hills were broken, and underneath one were a Tulan bunker laid, a large, stone and metal cavern ran underneath.

The CIS Infantry send a platoon into the tunnel which had been exposed, inside, it revealed a large Tulan base sprawling within the Island. However, as it would soon be revealed, the CIS Infantry had no idea what they were walking into, as they scoured rooms, upon rooms of horrific experiments. From early generation Tulan Clones, to horrific experiments done by Vladimir Ranek's 'Nightmen' Secret Service, they finally reached a large chamber, only halfway down into the facility. The CIS Infantry found a sort of ring, upon activating it, it opened what we believe to be a portal to the Aether. The Ring was Stone, old, with markings, much different than the Tulan tech hooked up.

However, before the men could realize, [REDACTED] Poured from the Portal, swarming, swooping, and moved with unnatural speed as they attacked the Soldiers. the infantry fought back, but bogged down, tired from War, and all around unequipped, they were forced to fall back as many were killed fleeing. The 5th Legion held the creatures at the mouth of the Tunnel, in a battle that is currently classified, labeled as [REDACTED], and is currently identified as a cell of surviving Tulan soldiers attacking the soldiers, they held the tunnel's mouth.

The Creatures were pushed back when a large detachment of Juggernauts were sent to the scene. The heavily equipped soldiers and their armor were able to overwhelm the creatures, eventually pushing them back to their portal, and turning it off. The Portal Ring has been moved to Site [REDACTED] for further use, and the facility has been covered up, with a large portion of the Island walled off and a Military Installation built on top.

"The Undying God"
Creature Name: Frederick (Given by Doctor Malak)

Bio: "Frederick", also referring to himself as "The prince" is a telepathic, incredibly powerful being sitting in a different layer of dark space outside of the Gothic Constellation, outside of the Galaxy.

In an experiment authorized by [REDACTED], Program Scientists used the Anomaly listed as the "BLACK BOX" to attempt a "Ripple" project. After scientist Doctor Malak had noticed that psionic waves from the Black Box had been shooting off into a realm still unknown to them, facility researchers used their monitoring equipment to send a new signal out throughout the Black Box. To their surprise, one of the monitors came back with a response.

The being currently called "Frederick" by Doctor Malak, was isolated to a small monitor with a keyboard, it was a basic DARKNET code, a simple command prompt screen. The being revealed that the Psionic Ripple had been felt thousands of lightyears from facility [REDACTED] 's location. Frederick vocalized he had been waiting for people with a high level of technological standing to assist him, and after much debate, Overseer [REDACTED] and Liason [REDACTED] sat down at the terminal and talked with it.

When inquired about how it could speak our language:

Frederick:

>Your ping alerted me to your people

>I reached out and met your researchers

>Met their minds

>Read your people

>You seemed familiar

>I then realized I had already met someone like you

Overseer [REDACTED] attempted to ask who this someone is, Frederick gave no answer.

Frederick claims he's a being beyond their understanding, his physical form is both microscopic and gigantic. He only speaks through the telepathic psionic waves, and the only way the terminal is contacting them is through a sort of psionic sonar.

When inquiring about the exact nature of it, Frederick warned:

Frederick:

>You should be very careful

Liason:

>Why is that?

Frederick:

>It works like a sonar wave in that it seemed to shoot out for thousand if not millions of light years

>however

>Thats millions of lightyears between us

>If I was able to reach it

>other people would be able to as well

>And they now know where you are

"The Svartkannibaali"
Creature Name: Svartkannibali ("The Black Cannibal" in old Imperialik)

Bio: Having originated on [REDACTED] since before the founding of the [REDACTED], The Svartkannibaali has frequent appearances. The most common is that of a pale, thin, 8 - 9ft tall creature, with jagged nails/teeth and skin pulled tightly against it's bones. The Svartkannibaali is hyperlethal, with several members of [REDACTED] having died in it's capture. It has been sighting on [REDACTED] by [REDACTED] for several thousand years. The true nature of it is unknown, on theory is that it is what happens when a person becomes taken and possessed by a being from the [REDACTED]. Another is that it's a natural creature, and not that of demonic possession, a symptom of [REDACTED]'s dangerous fauna.

"The Molten Man"
Creature Name: The Avatar (name the being has called itself, has been deemed it's official name)

Bio: Discovered in [REDACTED], just before [REDACTED]/[REDACTYED]/[REDACTED]. The Molten Man is a 6ft man, bipedal, who's appearance is that of the surface of molten lava exposed on the surface. It's skin looks like that of the dark, cooling crust of the magma, while lines and gaps of still raging molten dot it's body. The Molten Man was discovered on [REDACTED], where [REDACTED] members promptly contacted officials after it had engaged in contact with [REDACTED] during the [REDACTED] incident.

For the most part, The Molten Man is nonhostile, even going so far as to request conversations where program personnel would sit and chat for several hours. The only recorded moment of hostility was during pre-program contact, where "The Avatar" (as sit calls itself) took direct fire contact from [REDACTED] soldiers. None survive, except The Avatar. It claims to be the living core of [REDACTED], with signs showing an increased and never ending amount of [REDACTED] energy stemming from it.

"The Kyrani Plague"
Creature Name: The Kyrani Blight (Nickname deemed by clean up crews)

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"Minaz"
 Creature  Badass Name: John 'Minaz' Urnz

Bio: "Johnathan Urnz", the name the program gave to the man, or simply as he likes to be called 'Minaz' is a seemingly Omnipotent, Interstellar traveler/watcher that appeared years before even the CIS Northern Wars.

The sightings began after several garrison commanders would see a man, not matching the description of soldiers, appearing and disappearing at will. Minaz was encountered one day by a patrol of CIS Infantry in the far northern frontier of Val, all the way back just before the great northern wars. He was seen, riding into battle against several Diar wolves, on the back of a tamed Shadow Raptour. Another Sighting was several years into the war, where a group unit encountered a completely ransacked and bloody Rodrenar encampment. Minaz was sitting alone in the mess hall, when questioned he merely commented how the [REDACTED], as he put it, had done a number on this place.

Minaz had several appearances throughout the more recent wars, he was recounted by the 6th legion, which held out against the Tulan Invaders during the battle f the Imperium, in which the 6th Legion held out against Tulans whilst defending the Old Imperial Palace. He was also seen in the background of a photo with Frederick Jork and Var Stal, and met many figures in person such as Var Stal, Ivan Krukov, and Lincoln Raine IV.

He was secured by the Program near the end of the Tulan Extinction War, however, he came willingly. Minaz as told to the program by himself, is an Omnipotent being, who can seemingly be anywhere he likes, his true origin of power as a conduit or nexus, left unknown. He has said to have appeared far earlier than when the program first listed, claiming to have met Sataun Wulf, The First Imperator, and saw the battle of the black pass first hand.

Minaz wears a unique type of armor, saying it's his choice of form. When asked about the meaning of 'Choice', he then morphed into a Tulan Soldier, a Hellfire Corpsman, a Rodrenari Maid, and a form he referred to as "The Man In Waiting", before changing back to normal.

When pressed about the program needing to know his secrets, Minaz declined stating he was only kept here as long as he wants. When asked again, Minaz disappeared, his containment only really lasting 2 weeks. The Program is still looking for him to this day, although he was recently sighted on Tarkyn, and outside the lunar base on Val's moon, where no gravity or oxygen existed.

"The Black Box"
Item name: 'The Black Box'

Bio: The Black Box was the first, and currently the most dangerous anomaly item the Blackguard program has recovered. It's first sighting was recorded [REDACTED] years ago in [REDACTED], The Box was found in the most northern part of the CIS. The Anomaly could be seen, turning the ground and air around it into a strange, Dark and Purple Matter, when Shadow Raptours in the nearby area were threatened they attacked. Only when the Box responded, it turned one into Ash, and sent a sort of black stick figure construct to immediately slaughter the other. The Construct was killed, and the Box had been managed to be taken back to Facility [REDACTED].

Upon moving it to it's current room, a 20 x 20 Room with 3 meter Concrete and Steel walls, the Box being levitated on a Hyper Composition pedestal in the center of the room. Currently the exact Composition is largely unknown, only that the ash and matter on the ground and air had been recorded to have a high composition of a still largely unknown material. "Dark Matter' the compound that makes up 75% of our known Universe. Currently the Black Box is contained, though some experiments have been planned and are taking place.

Security Containment: MAXIMUM, 20x20 Solid Steel - Concrete Composition walls, Full Juggernaut detachment on duty at all times. Only High Access level permitted to enter.