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Description: BOREAS MAUVE was discovered by police from --------, --, whilst investigating BOREAS MAUVE-2's suspected involvement in acts of theft and criminal damage in the town. BOREAS MAUVE-2 had been interviewed at the local precinct, and had been fully forthcoming and compliant, denying any involvement in criminal activity. BOREAS MAUVE-2 was unwilling to provide the address of his place of residence, and officers followed the subject into the nearby woods, where the cave system containing BOREAS MAUVE was found. Monitoring Facility Mockingbird intercepted communications between the discovering officers and state police, and Mobile Task Force Omicron-72 "Holy Rollers" were deployed to secure the area. BOREAS MAUVE-2 greeted Foundation personnel on their arrival, and offered no resistance, telling personnel "The Siet-Aramn has been expecting you."

BOREAS MAUVE is a ovoid mass of unidentified mineral material, smooth and unreflective black in appearance, measuring 1.5 metres along its long axis, and 0.85 metres in diameter along its short axis. The object is in constant movement, rolling end over end at a constant speed of 0.88 metres per second along a perfectly circular path 23.7 metres in diameter, moving in a clockwise direction and wearing a groove currently 8 cm deep in the stone floor of the chamber. Attempts to impede this movement are not recommended, as the object will continue along its path no matter what obstacle or obstacles are placed in its path, pushing the obstruction aside or destroying it, and BOREAS MAUVE-2 has advised against "trying to stop the Siet-Aramn from completing its ordained orbits".

Whilst displaying no signs of wear, or any susceptibility to physical damage, BOREAS MAUVE generates a small volume of fine black dust, hereafter designated BOREAS MAUVE-1. The object's primary anomalous effect becomes evident when this dust enters the human body - see BOREAS MAUVE-2.

BOREAS MAUVE-2 is a Caucasian human male of United States citizenship, aged 57 years, who was encountered in the chamber occupied by BOREAS MAUVE on initial discovery. This individual has been identified as Thomas James Caldicott, former United States Air Force, who left the service on medical grounds after a distinguished career and seeing action in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. The most recent medical records available indicated that Caldicott had entered a significant, life-threatening physical and mental decline, suffering from severe liver and kidney damage as a result of sustained abuse of methylated spirits and other alcohol-based liquids not intended for human consumption, but no traces of any anatomical damage were recorded by medical examination of BOREAS MAUVE-2, carried out with the subject's ready consent.

On closer examination, BOREAS MAUVE-2 was found to have a small quantity of BOREAS MAUVE-1 in his blood-stream, and accumulated in his brain, muscle and lymphatic tissue. In addition to their natural functions, tissues thus affected appear to be adapted to filter other harmful contaminants out of BOREAS MAUVE-2's system, and maintain the whole body in peak physical condition. Experiments with D-Class personnel (see Experimental Logs BOREAS MAUVE/D- BOREAS MAUVEA and BOREAS MAUVE/D- BOREAS MAUVEB) and BOREAS MAUVE-2's own testimony have indicated that only a single exposure to this substance is sufficient for its effects to commence. The majority of currently accumulated information concerning the origins and nature of BOREAS MAUVE and its effects come from interviews with BOREAS MAUVE-2 conducted by Director ----------, and transcribed in Appendix BOREAS MAUVE-Alpha.

Appendix BOREAS MAUVE-Alpha: Transcript of interview with BOREAS MAUVE-2 and Director ----------.

Director: Thank you for agreeing to this interview... Mr Caldicott? Or maybe I should call you Captain?

BOREAS MAUVE-2: Sounds like you know my military record. Mister's fine - the other... well, I don't have particularly good memories from the last time someone referred to me by my Air Force title.

(Discussion of BOREAS MAUVE-2's history prior to discovering BOREAS MAUVE omitted for brevity)

Director: So, I guess that brings us to the real matter in question - BOREAS MAUVE, which you've previously referred to as the "Siet-Aramn".

BOREAS MAUVE-2: (nods) No time like the present. Where'd you wanna start?

Director: At the beginning. Tell me how you found the object.

BOREAS MAUVE-2: Okay... I'd just stumbled upon (-), but I was in too bad a shape to put up with police trouble, or the self-righteous town NIMBYs. My guts really hurt - that was the sterno - and I just wanted to find somewhere to lay my head, get just a few minutes of sleep. I came across a cave opening, went in, found it went deeper than I expected. Got it into my head that maybe someone coulda got lost down there, and I might find their wallet, some jewellery...

Director: Enough to buy you the next drink?

BOREAS MAUVE-2: Yeah, pretty much. You're that desperate, you'll tear down the walls of Heaven itself for a sip of something. Even if that something could very easily kill you. Ye gods, the stuff I've drunk in my time...

Director: And then, you found the object...?

BOREAS MAUVE-2: (chuckles) Yeah. Came to a cave with a pretty flat floor, and there it was, rolling along its path, grinding a rut in the rock. Not for one second did I go "Hold on, what the fuck is this? I better get outta here!" I just went, heh, ain't hurtin' me none, so I just found a spot to lie down, and before I knew it, I was asleep. There was something... soothing, I guess, about the sound of the Siet-Aramn rolling along.

Director: And when you woke up...?

BOREAS MAUVE-2: Wasn't as straightforward as that. It all started while I was sleeping. I had... wouldn't call it a dream, as such. More of a... well, a vision. I knew I was asleep, but everything I saw, and felt - all so... real.

Director: Tell me what you saw.

BOREAS MAUVE-2: I... I was flying through what had to be space, real Star Wars like, stars blurring and stretching out around me. Next moment, I stop dead, and I'm hanging there in space, looking into a patch of the purest black I've ever seen. Now, my plan for the tail-end of my time with the Air Force had always been to try out with NASA, maybe get to the moon, or Mars - in the end, wasn't gonna happen, but I'd still read up on space, astronomy, and this thing looked a whole heap like what you'd expect a black hole to look like.

I barely had time to work out what I was seeing before I started... "falling", diving down towards this dusty grey planet, with oily black clouds stretched across it, kinda like the bands on the surface of Jupiter. Without slowing, I came down to ground level, then down into tunnels, carved deep into the planet - twisting, winding tunnels that eventually came to a great big dome-shaped cavern. In there were dozens of Siet-Aramn, all moving in their own circles, some clockwise, others anticlockwise, never touching. They were all moving around a larger, stationary version of a Siet-Aramn... the Akul-Siet. The First And Greatest.

Director: How did you come to know these names?

BOREAS MAUVE-2: I was just getting to that. As I watched the Akul-Siet, I could actually see that it was rotating on the spot, very slowly, clockwise, and... and knowledge just... appeared in my mind. "Akul-Siet, the life-blood manifest of existence; the shadow between stars. Siet-Aramn, the drops of blood shed to bring life into the universe..."

Director: It sounds as though you're describing dark matter, or what theoretical physicists would refer to as such.

BOREAS MAUVE-2: I guess you could say that, yes.

Director: And these... droplets of dark matter, they possess intelligence? Their ability to communicate would seem to indicate-

BOREAS MAUVE-2: I didn't say that anyone, or anything, spoke to me. It was... a kind of communication unlike anything I've known before. Maybe no-one has ever felt it before. It was... was kinda like music - y'know how a particular chord can "pluck at your heartstrings"?

Director: I believe I do. Maybe similar to the sensation of someone "walking over your grave"?

BOREAS MAUVE-2: Yeah - something you feel, or experience, but it bypasses your senses. You "feel" it simply because it's there, it exists.

The interview continues from BOREAS MAUVE-2 waking from his "dream-state", and discovering the anomalous effects of BOREAS MAUVE. He documents at length his increased vigour, restored physical and mental health, and subsequent interactions with the populace of the town of --------, Maryland. BOREAS MAUVE-2 routinely runs the 11 miles to town and back every day, and engages in casual work as a convenience store bagging clerk, an assistant in a local thrift store and provides free bicycle repairs and maintenance for the community. He is generally well-regarded by the populace, although some suspicion has arisen surrounding his inability to provide a home address, leading to the involvement of local law enforcement and the discovery of BOREAS MAUVE.

Experimental Log BOREAS MAUVE/D-BOREAS MAUVE A: D-Class test subject entered BOREAS MAUVE chamber, and remained there for 162 minutes, 11 seconds, having been welcomed and offered  refreshment by BOREAS MAUVE-2. Subsequent blood tests confirmed presence of BOREAS MAUVE-1 in subject's system, and following a standard rest period, D-BOREAS MAUVE A reported increased vitality and bodily health, and described a dream-like experience matching the one detailed by BOREAS MAUVE-2.

Attempts to purge BOREAS MAUVE-1 from D-BOREAS MAUVE A's body were unsuccessful. D-BOREAS MAUVE A terminated.

Experimental Log BOREAS MAUVE/D-BOREAS MAUVE B: Test Subject D- BOREAS MAUVE B spent 18 days in medical isolation, until sufficient blood had been collected to perform a full-volume transfusion. Subject was then sent to BOREAS MAUVE's chamber, and remained there for 143 minutes, 28 seconds. BOREAS MAUVE-2 acknowledged the presence of D-BOREAS MAUVE B, but did not engage in conversation - during the whole experimental period, BOREAS MAUVE-2 was only seen to shake his head, and walk away.

On return to the testing facility, and following a standard rest period, D-BOREAS MAUVE B began to manifest the expected effects of exposure to BOREAS MAUVE-1, and also experiencing the previously recorded dream-state. D- BOREAS MAUVE B was then thereafter subjected to a full-volume blood transfusion, using the collected blood. All continuous anomalous effects ceased, and the subject returned to baseline condition, with the exception of any and all previously recorded medical conditions, eliminated by the presence of BOREAS MAUVE-1 in the subject's body.

Appropriate amnestics were applied to D-BOREAS MAUVE B, and the subject was returned to the active D-Class staff pool, following a standard period of quarantine.

Addendum: At the end of Experiment BOREAS MAUVE/D-BOREAS MAUVE B, BOREAS MAUVE-2 approached site security and requested that they pass on the following message to Director ----------: "At least you let that poor boy live this time. Maybe there's hope for you after all."

Incident Report BOREAS MAUVE/Exodus: On --/--/20--, the presence of a previously unrecorded shadowy shape - designated BOREAS MAUVE-3 - was detected in BOREAS MAUVE's chamber by the on-site security cameras at --:-- hours. BOREAS MAUVE-2 approached BOREAS MAUVE-3 , nodded respectfully, and is reported to have said "So, it's time, I guess."   BOREAS MAUVE-3 then approached BOREAS MAUVE, extended a humanoid upper limb towards the object, and touched it. The camera feed was interrupted for 28 seconds, and when transmission resumed, BOREAS MAUVE, BOREAS MAUVE-2 and BOREAS MAUVE-3 had disappeared.

Mobile Task Force Omicron-72 were immediately dispatched to secure the site, but no trace of BOREAS MAUVE or its related entities were recovered, apart from BOREAS MAUVE-2's personal belongings.

Following this incident, all collected instances of BOREAS MAUVE-1 have lost all anomalous properties, and now appear to all scientific tests to be nothing more than finely powdered graphite.

Additional: Incident Report BOREAS MAUVE/Ararat: On --/--/20--, a report was received by the Foundation concerning an engagement between local military and members of a pseudo-religious group referred to as "The Daughters of Siet-Aramn" in the -------- region of Northern India. Military forces suffered -- fatalities and -- serious casualities, and all opposition forces were eliminated.

The opposing force appears to have been comprised of six adult females, ages between 16 and 43 years, all reported as possessing "exceptional speed, agility and resistance to injury". Local sources are reported as saying that the 16-year-old female was known to them, and had been born without lower legs. The body recovered had its full compliment of fully functional limbs.

Further details are very limited, but further investigations revealed a chamber at the centre of the group's compound with a 19.3 meter diameter perfect circle carved into the floor. No object matching the description of BOREAS MAUVE was reported, or recovered.

BOREAS MAUVE/Ararat - Supplemental On --/--/20--, Project Director --------- received an envelope containing photocopies of documents recovered from the site of Incident BOREAS MAUVE/Ararat, supplied by persons unknown. These documents are hand-written, and are mainly in the local dialect, but some passages are written in English. These read:

"The Siet-Aramn calls, and we answer."

"Siet Drachnae awaits. We stand guard in readiness for her coming."

"We shed our blood for The Blood. We shall not be found wanting."

"The Siet prepare for the time of rising. Longbow has sent us the word."

According to Director ----------, "Longbow" was the call-sign used by BOREAS MAUVE-2 during that individual's time in the United States Air Force.

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