The RDA Foundation Timeline
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Since their founding in 1983, Robinson-Darrow & Associates Global Logistics, a mid-tier logistics and speculative tech firm, has been hanging on by a thread and is on the verge of total financial collapse. Their primary investment, a project developing experimental deep-earth resonance scanners for mineral prospecting, has yielded minimal profitable results. By 2004, the Board of Directors begins liquidating minor assets and preparing for bankruptcy proceedings. Morale is at an all-time low.
On November 14th, 2008, a last-ditch, high-sensitivity scan with a prototype scanner picks up a bizarre, powerful energy signature from a remote section of Kennemerland National Park in the Netherlands. A four-man security team, designated Pathfinder, is dispatched. They discover a dilapidated cabin, inside which a young man is conducting a ritual that has successfully opened a rift into another reality. A creature, designated VA-001, is emerging. Following protocol for an unknown hostile, the security team neutralizes VA-001 and detains the young man. The event is a revelation: interdimensional travel is possible.
The Board of Directors, realizing the monumental nature of the discovery, immediately classifies the incident. The young man is interrogated for 72 hours, yielding the fundamental principles of his ritualistic methods. After believing they have gathered all necessary info, he is terminated and his public existence is erased. The remains of VA-001 are autopsied, yielding approximately 250ml of a substance later designated VA-002 .
From 2009 to 2016, the company, now secretly reformed as the RDA Foundation, engages in a massive, illicit fundraising campaign. Launching multiple fraudulent cryptocurrency tokens and executing rugpull scams, creating shell companies to win, and then default on, government grants, and orchestrating pump-and-dump schemes on the stock market, they amass a vast, untraceable fortune. With this capital, they acquire stolen plans for a tunnel boring machine, improve upon them, and begin excavating their primary command center, The Mandible, 63 kilometers beneath the Swiss Alps.
Industrialization of the Occult
The Heart of the Mandible
In 2023, construction of the first Gateway was completed deep within the Mandible. This colossal machine industrializes the stolen rituals, replacing chanting with sonic resonators and hand-drawn sigils with laser-etched alloy plates. During its first activation test, it successfully opens a stable, though brief, threshold to a barren, primordial dimension. The proof-of-concept is a success. The RDA now has a reliable key to other worlds.
With a working Gateway, the RDA needs expendable explorers. In 2024, they launched the Aggregation Program. Agents begin visiting high-security prisons, recruiting death row inmates and lifers for a new role as Temporary Field Operatives (TFOs). Once recruited, TFOs are fitted with microdevices implanted at the base of the skull that can be remotely triggered by any personnel in command of the team from the command post. When triggered, the device will either send high voltage discharges directly to the brain, and cause almost immediate brain death, or it will detonate, completely obliterating the head and neck, resulting in assured and instant death. These disposable soldiers become the RDA's primary tool for interdimensional exploration and asset acquisition.
The first official mission sends a team of twelve TFOs into Dimension C-014, a seemingly placid world covered in flora that emits a low, melodic hum. Within minutes, all operatives begin experiencing acute auditory hallucinations, followed by paranoid psychosis. The last garbled transmission from the team leader is, "It’s the grass! The sound’s in the grass!" All twelve operatives are lost. The mission is a failure.
In 2026, a second expedition is sent to Dimension C-019, a world of metallic flora inhabited by massive, slow-moving, silicon-based creatures resembling armored beetles. Standard firearms proved completely ineffective against their hides. In a conflict with one of the more aggressive creatures, a desperate operative rigs a makeshift explosive using some of the VA-002 sample that they managed to steal during transfer. The resulting blast caused the creature’s form to emit a faint red glow from it’s orifices while shaking violently, then dissolve into black dust. After the altercation and once it was confirmed the Operative was unharmed, they were executed on the spot, having their implant detonated for having stolen Foundation property and research. This is the birth of Project Chimera, the C- classification for all previous and potentially unexplored dimensions, the VA- classification for entities and objects that prove to be of use to the Foundation, and the development of Katalysm Rounds.
The Cost of Business
In 2031, the Board of Directors, having taken to giving themselves the title of Overseers, attempted to reverse cellular senescence using newly acquired esoteric principles. The procedure was attempted on all eight members. Initial results proved unstable, resulting in two fatalities and the radical transformation of a third member. The surviving five members achieved functional immortality. The transformed individual was contained and classified as a renewable biological resource, designated VA-098. Physically, the asset is a vaguely humanoid conglomeration of hyper-malleable flesh, fused bone-like structures, and vestigial sensory organs that erratically shift across its surface. Bio-feedback and neurological scans confirmed the asset retains a high degree of consciousness and sensory perception, further evidenced by a continuous, high-frequency vocalization.
Observations and standard testing has yielded the discovery that VA-098 produces 2 fluids: A substance that is chemically similar to VA-002, designated VA-002.1 and a compound metallic alloy like titanium. When solidified, the titanium-like alloy was found to be near-indestructible and resistant to extreme temperatures and other environmental conditions when fused with a small amount of tungsten, and less than half the weight. This compound was then designated VA-98.1, and integrated into the standard-issue combat armor, with the VA-002.1 strain used in refined Katalysm artillery.
Subsequent experimentation focused on optimizing resource generation. A direct correlation was discovered between heightened states of physical and psychological distress in VA-098 and accelerated production of both its unique VA-002.1 strain and VA-98.1. Consequently, the asset was permanently integrated into a custom-built life support and extraction apparatus. This machine continuously administers targeted chemical and electrical stimuli while exsanguinating the generated fluids through multiple arterial and subdermal catheters, ensuring a constant, high-yield supply for future RDA projects.
In 2035, the RDA hits the jackpot. Dimension C-117 is a reality where the laws of thermodynamics operate differently, and time is subject to localized pockets of extreme dilation. By establishing a permanent facility, designated Site-1x, the RDA can manufacture incredibly complex alloys and computer components in a matter of hours that would take decades in baseline reality. Site-1x becomes the backbone of their technological superiority, supplying the advanced materials needed for the Gateways and their ever-expanding infrastructure. It is their first permanent, profitable, off-world asset.
In mid-2038, an expedition to Dimension C-121, a silent and windless world under a perpetual twilight, discovered vast groupings of inert, humanoid figures. These entities were composed of a strange, petrified material, theorized by RDA analysts to be a form of solidified sound. The figures were completely passive, offering no resistance or reaction. After a brief study confirmed they possessed no exploitable resources or viable contributions, they were deemed as NVAs. As the location was ideal for a new long-range communications relay, the figures were promptly cleared with heavy demolition equipment. Going forward after this interaction, the RDA has made it a routine procedure to immediately annihilate any lifeforms or objects that aren't immediately useful to the Foundation upon discovery.
By 2043, the RDA Foundation had successfully explored over 250 dimensions, sterilized 174, and maintained 23 permanent industrial resource outposts. However, escalating geopolitical instability in baseline reality presented a significant logistical threat: the potential disruption of the recruitment pipeline for TFOs due to global conflict and societal collapse. While The Mandible's security was assured, a depletion of this critical human resource was deemed an unacceptable risk. To preempt this, the Foundation initiated the Eschaton Protocol: a large-scale operation to secure a long-term TFO reserve independent of surface-world events.
First, the Foundation leveraged its financial assets to acquire controlling interests in several global media outlets. A coordinated disinformation campaign was launched, disseminating fabricated reports of mass prison breaks worldwide. The official narrative, propagated by RDA-controlled sources, attributed these fictitious events to inmates fleeing potential military conscription. Under the cover of the ensuing public confusion, RDA tactical teams conducted synchronized raids on penal institutions globally. The primary targets were facilities housing death row inmates and individuals serving life sentences. Approximately 4.1 million individuals were extracted and transported to secure holding facilities across the Foundation’s off-world outposts.
The Eschaton Protocol also formalized contingency plans. Should the TFO population fall below mission-critical thresholds, a 'Repopulation' directive is to be enacted as a last resort. To mitigate future reliance on baseline recruitment, R&D resources were reallocated to accelerate research into cloning and bio-resurrection technologies. The ultimate goal is the development of a sustainable, endlessly renewable source of expendable field personnel.
You’re Not Supposed To Be Here
In 2061, routine dimensional analysis identified an anomalous energy signature designated in an unexplored C-419. Initial probe data indicated a reality with seemingly infinite positive energy metrics yet lacking any discernible physical matter. Sensory logs returned data interpreted by human consciousness as overwhelming serenity and psycho-empathetic resonance. Against standard protocols for non-physical dimensions, the Overseers ordered a manned exploratory mission.
On May 16th, 2061, Gateway-1 activated, targeting C-419. Instead of establishing a stable connection, the Gateway became a threshold for a singular, retaliatory entity. The being was composed of coherent light and undocumented energy, and breached the Gateway chamber before containment fields could be established. Standard and Katalysm-based weaponry proved entirely ineffective. The entity exhibited localized control over spacetime and emitted a wide-band frequency that induced systemic failure in most of The Mandible’s electronic systems and acute psychological collapse in all personnel within a 500-meter radius. A facility-wide state of emergency was declared as it began a methodical advance toward The Mandible's central command.
The unprecedented breach triggered a catastrophic failure in leadership. Trapped within the command center, the Overseers turned on one another. Communications logs show a rapid descent into recriminations and paranoia, with blame for the reckless C-419 expedition being violently disputed.
The conflict escalated into physical violence. Two Overseers were killed in a firefight after attempting to seize sole control of The Mandible’s remaining security systems. A third was vaporized by the entity while attempting to enact a desperate and unproven banishment ritual. The fourth was killed by the last surviving Overseer after attempting to reroute The Mandible’s primary reactor to self-destruct.
Seizing absolute authority, the sole remaining Overseer initiated a final, desperate countermeasure. Realizing the entity could not be destroyed by conventional means, they ordered all reserves of raw VA-002.1 to be vented into the sealed command sector. The reality-destabilizing properties of the substance successfully "grounded" the energy-based form of the entity, forcing it into a fluctuating but physically coherent state. The entity was subsequently contained and integrated directly into The Mandible’s primary power core, providing a near-infinite and self-sustaining energy supply, and designated VA-333. The total amount of harm in The Mandible was approximated at 5,680 confirmed deaths, 11,000 severely injured, 200 unaccounted for, and around $63,972,340 in damages. C-419 was then added to the blacklist, prohibiting any exploration or opening a Gateway to it again, making it one of 4 blacklisted dimensions thus far next to C-088, C-132, and C-225.
Among Us
The chaos of the VA-333 incursion served as cover for a secondary, critical incident. The widespread power failures and structural damage caused by the entity resulted in a catastrophic malfunction of the life support and extraction apparatus containing VA-098.
Freed from the machine for the first time in three decades, VA-098 escaped its containment cell. Capitalizing on the facility-wide chaos, the VA-098 acquired a standard-issue security uniform and body armor, using its hyper-malleable physiology to approximate a humanoid form beneath the gear. Previous test and observation prior to its escape showed that it has began to redevelop rudimentary speech by mimicking personnel, meaning that it is likely posing as a human to avoid detection.
As of the last internal census, VA-098 remains at large within The Mandible, its current location and objectives unknown. It is presumed to be masquerading as a low-level staff member, effectively becoming a ghost within the facility.
In late 2070, most of the fallout from the war on the surface had cleared and the air was breathable again. Seeing as they now no longer needed to remain hidden, the RDA Foundation expanded topside, spreading their influence to the rest of their own reality. With the majority of the world’s governments completely diminished, they were widely unchallenged in their endeavor. Most survivors found were either recruited as staff, trained to be a TFO, or killed if they refused to comply or try to impede upon the Foundation in any way. By 2080, they were the dominant force on the planet, with facilities in every country and most of the population was either working for the Foundation, or imprisoned, being interrogated and tested upon.
During an experimental Gateway opening with newly invented thaumaturgical rituals on December 1st, 2083, a portal was opened to dimension C-1669. However, despite the high energy and activity readings, the entire space appeared to be completely devoid of all life, matter, and light. Upon trying to send a TFO squad into it, the moment they breached the threshold, each one was instantaneously erased, leaving only minor residual energy in their place. It wasn’t certain what had happened to them until a base in Nazareth reported a “massive spear-like object erupted from the earth, skewering some people that were falling from the sky” near them. The portal was promptly closed.
About 7 hours after the incident, multiple colossal jet-black human hands rose from the earth across the world, and pointed toward a single point in the sky. The angle of the hands pointing from each hand in each country lead to an area in Dublin, Ireland’s airspace. Surveys of the area showed no signs of any activity, unnatural energy fluctuations, or otherworldly influences. Though, a nearby patrol station kept watch of it in case of any changes. The hands themselves were approximately 3 kilometers wide at the base and 8.3 kilometers in height, all being protected by an 80 meter radius of an unregistered type of energy, preventing any meaningful probing and experimenting, as well as being completely indestructible and cannot be disturbed in any way. Visual analysis has also proven fruitless, as the material of the hands is indeterminable.
The hands have not moved or shown any signs of activity for 11 days and have remained entirely passive. After 12 days, however, a rift not caused by the RDA Foundation has appeared in the Dublin airspace where they were pointing to, about 500 kilometers in length. Once the rift opened, a torrent of what appeared to be human blood flooded out, completely flooding the entire country within a few hours, and spilling into the ocean. Along with the blood, the sound of horns emitted through the rift as well, audible to the entire planet and even by those who previously didn’t have the ability to hear. Simultaneously, every human on the planet ceased all movement, and everyone experienced their entire lives within the span of about 5 minutes, hearing, feeling, seeing everything they had ever done up to that moment.
After that time, 96% of the population had instantly died, with their brains, hearts, and lungs removed from their bodies with no clear exit point. 2% of the remaining population had remained just as they were beforehand, completely fine despite their hearts being no longer present and their bodies functioning as normal. The other 2% of the population was also fine, with all their organs intact, and no notable changes to their physiology; the Overseer was also unaffected. After the whole ordeal, the black hands disappeared back into the ground, Dublin was restored, and the rift closed. The Earth’s population was now around 1,250 people, and it is assumed that VA-98 has also been eradicated.
One week after the Rapture, the Overseer deemed it necessary that in order to avoid any future conflicts, the RDA Foundation needed to establish a new main base of operations in another reality, one where God couldn’t find them. The Overseer ordered that all personnel focus their efforts to collecting as many assets and data as possible, and transporting them to one of their outposts in C-1444, a reality that was almost identical to their own. Once all assets were transferred over a 3 week period, the Overseer set the Mandible to overload its secondary power core– a reactor with enough energy to completely obliterate the planet, and heavily impact neighboring planets with the debris. There was nothing left of the Earth.
…Another opens
In the new Mandible in C-1444, 52 kilometers under the ground of what would’ve normally been a park in Germany, the RDA Foundation settled into their new reality. However, 28 years in, they had discovered a trench just east of Iceland that was approximately 22 kilometers deep, with the bottom layer of the trench suddenly shifting to a density comparable to that of a swimming pool. After some surveying, it was discovered that a facility of similar fashion to the RDA Foundation had been built there, as well as some anomalous forms of life. With some research, the facility was found to belong to one “Urbanshade Foundation”, that was strangely similar to the RDA. Some time after uncovering this information though, there appeared to be a security breach, causing the site to go into a lockdown. The RDA Foundation figured that this was the opportune moment to perform a raid, using the chaos as cover.
Mysterious Benefactor
About 2 days into the lockdown, the RDA Foundation has successfully acquired some data that the Urbanshade foundation was harboring, as well as new objects and entities. One of which was a serpentine-humanoid male. He was aggressive at first but upon realizing that the operatives were not with Urbanshade, he bargained to be taken out of their hands, and escape from the facility. Normally, the RDA would have killed him on sight, but seeing as he was fully sentient and potentially had valuable information, the deal was taken, and he was securely led out of the Urbanshade facility without incident. He has since revealed much about the organization that harbored him, and the Overseer has ordered his containment for further interrogation and experimentation, and designated as VA-1243. Since his recapture, he has become increasingly aggressive and uncooperative. After only a month into containment, the Overseer has approved VA-1243 for termination due his constant insubordination and hindrance.
Termination was unusually difficult, as the skin of VA-1243 was remarkably durable. Usual methods were ineffective, and was defaulted to attempts at total organ failure in order to guarantee death, and preservation of the outer layer of the body. After having been injected with a thaumaturgically modified agent, VA-1243 collapsed and died within 2 hours. Immediately after death, he was skinned, and the scales of his body were extracted for any potential use in the future, with the remains disposed of. However, due to the superior technology and resources the Foundation already had, the Overseer saw no practical use for the scales. Instead, they were made into a jacket and a pair of shoes for him, as he “thought they would look nice”.
The designation VA-1243 was scrapped as soon as it died, becoming an NVA and a placeholder for the next object or entity to take its place. Further surveillance and research of the Urbanshade Foundation is ongoing.
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