Critical Asset

A Critical Asset is any object, person, creature, entity or location that is determined to have characteristics which in some fashion are either a danger to or critical for the rebuilding of the United States in the post-apocalyptic world. These unusual manifestations of the paranormal and the unusual can occur anywhere at any time, or in instances where any of a countless variety of variables combine.

It is the existence of these subjects, and the danger their very existence can pose to the stability and safety of civilization and the human race as a whole, that the Centre exists. Its function is to locate, identify, contain and study these manifestations both to protect civilization from them, to shield it from awareness of their existence, and to better enable its operatives to combat the dangers and risks that these subjects can represent.

Critical Assets come in four classifications within Centre operations -


 * Designation Benign - Any CA that has been appraised by the Centre and found to not merit further study or special containment. Similarly, this classification is assigned to any PCP object that has been destroyed.


 * Designation Safe - CAs that may be effectively and reliably contained.


 * Designation Euclid - CAs in which the accurate prediction of behavior patterns, or the effect they may have, cannot be unerringly predicted. This can be due to the item being sentient, behaving outside existing scientific knowledge, or its nature simply being poorly understood. They will mandate stringent containment protocols, despite failing to pose the same existential threat a Designation Keter object would.


 * Designation Keter - CAs that demonstrate vigorous and active hostility to human life and civilization or a serious danger to space-time stability. They are capable of causing extreme damage and instability in the event of a containment breach.