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Outbreak Event Documentation

This document represents a reconstructed account of the Outbreak Event, compiled from partial logs, personnel testimony, survivor statements, and Vigil-X Consortium command records. All timestamps, identities, and locations have been altered or removed for containment purposes.

NOTICE: This document contains cognitively filtered language. Certain causal links, technical specifics, and observational descriptors have been intentionally omitted or softened.

I. Pre-Incident Conditions

Prior to the Outbreak, the site operated under full containment stability. No active hostile entities, no structural breaches, and no anomalous escalation indicators were recorded.

“It wasn’t a prison. It wasn’t even a weapons site. It was a room built so that nothing *had* to be understood.”
— Site Systems Engineer (Post-Event Debrief)

All safeguards functioned as designed. The anomaly remained inert. Failure did not originate from the anomaly itself.

II. The Sabotage

The initiating event was not a breach, malfunction, or external attack. It was a coordinated internal action carried out by two unidentified individuals, presumed to be low-level security staff.

Multiple protective systems were disabled in sequence, not simultaneously, indicating intent and understanding of procedural dependencies.

“They didn’t open a door. They turned off the things that made the door safe to look at.”
— Vigil-X Technical Operative

III. Perceptual Contamination

The anomaly did not change state. Human perception did.

Once cognitive dampening failed, personnel were exposed to unfiltered reference structures. The resulting condition is now classified as Perceptual Contamination.

“We weren’t attacked. We realized something — and that realization hit harder than any weapon.”
— First Response Operator

Several individuals lost consciousness without physical injury. Others continued operating while cognitively compromised.

IV. Collapse of Conventional Response

Military doctrine failed almost immediately. Engagement protocols assumed hostile intent, spatial consistency, and human-scale causality — none of which applied.

“I pulled the trigger because that’s what the manual says. The mistake wasn’t firing. The mistake was understanding why it didn’t matter.”
— Infantry Operator (Later Reclassified as Survivor)

The operational area was redesignated from Breach Zone to Contamination Zone, reflecting the non-physical nature of the threat.

V. Vigil-X Activation

Vigil-X Consortium assumed control once it became evident that continued exposure posed an existential cognitive risk rather than a tactical one.

“Our objective was never secrecy. It was survivability — cultural, psychological, and biological.”
— Vigil-X Command Briefing (Excerpt)

Rank, affiliation, and legal status were suspended. Exposure level became the sole classification metric.

VI. Survivors & Compensation

Individuals exposed beyond defined thresholds were classified as Survivors, regardless of military or civilian status.

“They told me I wasn’t being paid for what I lost — but for what they were making sure I never tried to remember.”
— Civilian Survivor

Compensation, relocation, medical care, companions, and memory filtering were deployed as stabilization tools rather than rewards.

VII. Controlled Forgetting

Memory loss associated with the Outbreak was not considered a side effect. It was a containment mechanism.

“Whatever they made us forget — they did it because letting us remember would end badly for everyone else.”
— Former Soldier, Exhibit-Z

Survivors retained emotional residue without context: calm without cause, fear without image, relief without explanation.

VIII. Closing Assessment

The Outbreak was not caused by an anomalous entity. It was caused by human interference with systems designed to protect humanity from itself.

“The anomaly didn’t need containment. Human comprehension did.”
— Vigil-X Internal Doctrine Summary