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Glysterine.
A highly volatile, hazardous and toxic element that is dangerous to any lifeform.
5th July 1992.
North Eastern Siberia
Ust-nera
Russia
Satellites picked up a meteorite impact in north eastern Siberia, a few dozen miles west of a small town called Ust-Nera. This would have been a common every day occurrence in the life of a observer. The small-ish meteorite roughly 10m across impacted a snowy hillside. However, radiation detection instruments aboard the satellites picked up unusually high levels of radioactivity around the impact site. Fearing for public safety, and interests of Project Sentient, Radioactive and Biological Hazardous Material Disposal Group Echo Five Five Two (Bamboo Vipers) were inserted via paradrop into the area and set up a containment field of roughly 20 miles in radius. Instantly noticeable was a green haze around the crash site, primarily made up of Chlorine. The meteorite itself had traces of Silicates, various rocks and a strange unknown element which caused the rock to have green streaks. Strangely, Disposal group E552 reported radiation levels to be increasing, rather than lowering which sparked a panic. The rock was broken into 4 distinct pieces using explosives and loaded into transport helo's and shipped to nearby Siberian Base Red-Forty-Echo before most of it being destroyed in its furnaces. Small amounts of it were shipped to a Research Lab at base site Keter Nine Five Two.
Researchers found this rare element to be highly reactive to oxygen, this is what gave off the green smog as well as chlorine traces,even more so it was reactive to methane which caused it to hurl out radiation at dangerous levels. Still unknown to its sources, it was dubbed Glysterine and put into a vacuum chamber for storage.
Glysterine was a key component in Incident Black Zero, which is detailed below.
--Incident Log 550-44-Echo Black Zero-
Site Keter Nine Five Two
Dubbed 'Black Zero'
Glysterine, which is highly reactive to methane, was being kept in a vacuum chamber at K952 for further analysis. It was in this state for several years before the introduction of the Vorkosis species to the facility, as well as the Stalingrad Spheres, both of which were key components for the incident to take place. The Vorkosis were kept in a methane heavy environment and the Spheres gave out some sort of ElectroMagnetic field. Due to failed protocol, the vacuum securing Glysterine was broken and went un-noticed for several hours. In this time, trace amounts of methane and oxygen were able to get to the Glysterine starting a small reaction, combining this with the Electromagnetic field started an unstable reaction to take place. It was only noticed before it was too late, a nuclear blast occurred.
Staff inside the base tried to suppress the blast but failed, the evacuation only got 1/10th of the staff out in time. The blast itself measured at 340KT, which is roughly the equivalent of a modern nuclear missile, the incident was covered up as a missile payload that had been mis-handled. The site itself could not be entered for a few weeks afterwards, but because of the sensitive data and objects inside, there had to be a recovery mission.
6 Emergency Response and Tactical Battle Groups were called in from various locations for the task.
Team Oscar Lemur One (FireHawks)
Team Bravo Hotel Six (NightStalkers)
Team Zulu Foxtrot Eight (Black Widows)
Team Tango Uniform Nine (Titans)
Team Bravo Whisky Nine (Pioneers)
Team Victor Hotel Three(GhostMen)
All 6 teams were to be deployed to either Retrieve or Destroy various items or lifeforms inside the base at any cost. Their story was rather horrific.
[Story of Incident Black Zero coming soon]
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