Venus is a resort planet. While no terraforming has been undertaken, the upper atmosphere provides comfortable conditions, with temperatures cooler than the surface and with atmospheric pressure at tolerable levels. Using technology retrieved from SCP-████, the Foundation has constructed sets of aerial cities unlike anything else they have to offer. Luxurious, gleaming, expensive. It's the Foundation's reward for those in the solar upper class who follow full compliance with their rules, and they make it known.

Home.

Formerly. By the time the Veil collapsed the Foundation had come to the realization that, with threats such as SCP-3848 events looming, the only route out is to leave. Colonization steadily lowered the population on Earth and, once the evacuations of the 2030s and 2040s ended, only half of the now interplanetary world population was left. With ED-K Lethe events those left don't even realize that they lost.

What had been built is falling apart. The abandoned containment sites have fallen into disarray, releasing anomalies into the emptied world or turning anomalous themselves. Nature is returning through the collapsing cities. While the Foundation allows people to "revisit" by controlling and watching through the eyes of drones on the surface, the threat of Lethe mind-wiping is enough to ward off any potential return trips. The planet is now left to the paranormal, the few humans left behind, and nature. We no longer have our birthplace.

Luna Korea

Luna Korea is a lunar nation and a giant in interplanetary politics. Initially formed by South Korean lunar colonies in the 2020s and 2030s, its territories rapidly expanded, using networking between corporations, allied governments, and lunar mining companies to accumulate massive amounts of resources and capital. The capital and largest city is New Seoul, built inside the Marius Hills lunar lava tube, sealed off from the outside environment. The central government is entirely run by the Eun M1 Presidential AI.

Tensions with the Foundation are high. The Veil's loss broke the trust between South Korea and the Foundation, which had not informed the nation on the hazards formerly in neighboring North Korea. Subsequent Foundation expansion has been taken as a threat to national security, resulting in laws criminalizing any Foundation activity in Luna Korean territory — a safe haven for those who have fought against Foundation control. To avoid interplanetary political backlash no direct action by the Foundation has been taken, though undercover intrusions are performed frequently.

Mars is humanity's first stop from Earth. The sudden activation of a temporal weapon on the Martian surface reverted the planet to a state from millions of years in the past, a state where the planet was lush and habitable, ripe for easy colonization. A perfect replacement for Earth in the event of apocalypse. Civilian travel is opened by the Foundation and the native Martian inhabitants, resurrected by the temporal incident, are enlisted for their insight on the landscape. The first interplanetary colonies rise.

In the decades since, the United Mars settlements have turned to slums. Foundation-run megacities span the coastlines, housing those who can't afford to move to better-off space stations, anomalous individuals cast out from their prior homes, people who simply have no other options in life. The control is tight and monitoring is everywhere. Areas of limited Foundation influence in the form of independent settlements and nations in the deserts past the coasts, though few are stable. All attempted revolutions have failed.

The Foundation is careful that they stay in power, no matter what the circumstances may be.

Following the exodus of the taronyu, the species quickly begins to colonize and terraform the Jovian moon of Callisto. Callisto had been one of the next planned colonies of the Foundation, and was given to the taronyu to settle. Ironically, the taronyu government (known as the Tìhawnum) is resistant to Foundation control and influence over the colony.

The first colonies were little more than the docked spaceships that the taronyu used to leave Mo'ara, but a full city was established by 2036, four years after their arrival to Callisto. Terraforming is slower, but the moon becomes fully inhabitable (with an artificial sun and atmosphere) by 2065. A cloned ecosystem that mimics that of Mo'ara is reintroduced to Callisto in 2085.

Callisto is governed by the Tìhawnum, which have transitioned from a Foundation analog with the goal of preserving taronyu life into a proper democracy, following the destruction of every other taronyu institution.

Past the planetary colonies is a sprawl of space stations, spanning a range of orbits between the worlds and around the sun. In the Inner System these are ordered, registered with the Foundation and compliant to their every rule. In the Outer System it's a chaotic mess.

Some stations are Foundation-run, serving for containment, civilian life, or for imprisonment. Some are independent, being entire nations or single states in wholly space-borne countries. Some are designed for those who have fled Foundation rule or are working against it. Some are bases of criminal operations. Some are abandoned.

For over a third of humanity, this is now home.

Neptune is under full Foundation control. Shipyards and containment satellites and security outposts riddle its orbit, constantly on patrol for intruders. While the station density isn't as high as it is for planets such as Mars, the security is far tighter. The operations being run here can't be found by the public.

Orbital Area-11

Orbital Area-11 is Extrasolar Activities Division HQ. On the advent of the Lang Distortion Drives, the Foundation found that their FTL ships would commonly be tugged into the strongest gravity wells at their destination as they arrived. For ships returning to the edge of the solar system, this would always be Neptune. Ships launched from there and returned there.

With the planet being a hub for extrasolar travel, it was only fitting for EAD to construct their main base there. The station runs no containment of its own, instead being a massive command center in constant contact with probes and researchers traveling across the galaxy. The Astronomy Department operates in the station as well, checking in on their arrays of telescopes. Orbital Area-11 is the Foundation's eye on the sky, on lookout for what lies in the extrasolar expanses ahead.

Zeta-01

Location of Interest Zeta-01 is an extradimensional city-state with entrances strewn throughout the cosmos with a massive extraterrestrial population. The locale has picked up hundreds of groups and entities, ranging from the evacuees of war-torn star systems to groups of wandering tradescreatures. Dozens of layers segment the interior, containing ranges of atmospheres and compositions to accommodate a range of species. The main entrance within the Solar System is in the Kuiper Belt, though others exist.

Since the 2040s the Foundation has managed extraterrestrial immigration from Zeta-01 into the solar system. All travel is directed through Transit Compound Naught-11, built into the cavern walls encompassing Zeta-01, and exits via Way at the Red Zeta Kuiper Belt outpost. From there ships distribute the arrivals throughout inner system areas. On occasion, some are recruited into the Foundation.

More importantly than simply managing immigration, though: managing Marshall, Carter & Dark. Next to Saturn the organization has a heavy influence, not directly impacting the communities there but rather enlisting them for aid. How much alien tech they've attained this way is unclear. All that's clear for the Foundation is that they need to be on constant watch, lest they obtain something they should never have control of.

Within a 50 light-year radius of Sol is the Bubble. The region of space is bounded by the furthest distance Foundation FTL ships had reached by 2040, and it encapsulates our resident stellar neighborhood. Compared to the surrounding space it's had far lower activity, ensuring humanity was not wiped out by stellar conflict early on, though it is far from empty.

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• Alpha Centauri B ("Toliman") — A star surrounded by an abnormal gravitational field, masses of debris, and a graveyard of ancient, emptied generation ships.

• Luyten b — A terrestrial planet orbiting Luyten's Star, host to the now extinct Luytenian civilization and the remnants of the K-Class event that wiped them out.

• Mo'ara — A once lively planet, now a graveyard world. Was shattered by a series of apocalyptic events and abandoned by the native species, the taronyu, who have entered the Sol System.

Globular Cluster Terzan 2 is a dense star cluster, ~28,000 ly from Sol and orbiting the Milky Way within the galactic core. The region is one of the most active interstellar regions in the galaxy, the short distances between star systems enabling fast transit for transportation, colonization, and combat. It's also host to among the largest extraterrestrial Ortothan sects and a war that has been waged for as long as the Foundation knows. See the Groups tab.

Manned exploration of Terzan 2 is in progress.

Lang Distortion Drives were the first FTL engines invented by the Foundation. Through a series of heavily redacted deific bargains, the schematics for a set of propulsion rituals were obtained, which, once put into use, sent the very first human interstellar vessels to the stars.

The methods the engines use are unusual. In order to bypass the speed of light the engines actively break the laws of physics. Activating the propulsion rituals triggers ontokinetic phenomena that shatters reality in a shell around starships, accelerating them towards their destination at rates otherwise impossible in normal reality. The Lang Drives shred the rules to force themselves to work.

However, the Lang Drives aren't stable. At low multiples of c the engines function properly, but when their velocity goes too high? They glitch. Several ships have been slingshot out of the galaxy and out of the Local Group, crews have succumbed to endlessly looping temporal anomalies, and several vessels have shot through reality itself. Even at normal speeds the occasional error can send a ship into an ontokinetic death plunge. Understanding how the propulsion rituals work to avoid glitches is out of the question — they're too complex and nonsensical for even the best engineers to comprehend. No repairs can be made.

The 2020s saw the greatest use of the Lang Drives. As glitch after glitch emerged through the 2030s, ships using the drives were all but abandoned by the end of the 2040s. The replacement came in 2047, in the form of Bifrost Superluminal Engines.

Bifrost Superluminal Engines are the second generation in Foundation FTL tech: stable, fast, and efficient.

Their methods vary from the rule-smashing of the Lang Drives, instead using loopholes in physics to avoid encountering the speed of light. On engine activation the ships are encompassed in a spacetime bubble, twisting to wholly isolate them from the outside spacetime of the universe. This bubble is then accelerated to faster-than-light velocities, dissipating and returning the ship back to normal spacetime on arrival. The importance of this is that, inside the reference frame of the bubble, the ship never reaches or surpasses light speed. The bubble's twisting of spacetime lets it do the heavy lifting.

The Bifrost Engines still carry catches to this, though:

• The bubble interiors are closed systems. Excess heat radiation from the ships and other waste will accumulate the longer a single FTL jump is in progress.

• The bubble itself is still affected by the gravity of the surrounding universe. For example: if a Bifrost Engine ship tries to jump to a planet near a massive black hole, the ship will be dragged towards the black hole and arrive there, not the planet. The strongest gravity well at the intended destination is going to be the actual destination. Gravity will affect the trajectory ships follow while in FTL transit, too.

• All bubbles encounter something while in FTL transit. The incidence of cognitohazardous phenomena sharply rises, and all crew of a Bifrost ship need sensory isolation in order to shield their minds.

• The engines themselves are massive. The earliest Bifrost Engine Mk.1 comprised 90% of the mass of its ship, dwarfing it in sheer size, and newer models have done little to improve on that.

Non-superluminal travel exists through sets of propulsion rituals performed by the engine — no additional engines are needed for it.

However, there is a far, far greater issue with the Bifrost Engines.

What the engines actually are isn't known.

Information on technical details, the processes used to create the spacetime bubble, and how the Engines are even constructed is left unexplained to virtually all researchers. Any repairs to the engine interior and exterior are carried out by AI aboard the ship. No humans are ever allowed to enter themselves, and any who do are amnesticized and demoted. Even the lead engineers on the engines had their memories on the design project scrubbed.

Something important is being hidden, and the Foundation wants nobody to know about it.

One of the many xenoplants on Mo'ara was SCP-4547-C1, a sapient and psionic species. A taronyu that consumes a specific part of this plant receives significantly enhanced psionic capabilities, allowing them to see a greater world. Their ability to see mental connections is amplified 10,000 fold, as they briefly become host to a powerful soul.

In addition to this xenoplant, there exists a reality alongside our own known as subspace. This is a chaotic realm, one that is almost impossible to navigate and emerge from. It has been hypothesized that a powerful psion would be capable of navigating this realm, but there are no humans with abilities strong enough to do so. They would need to be capable of connecting to thousands of minds, and using those connections as anchors in an alternate dimension.

But while there are no humans with this ability, there are taronyu with this ability.

A taronyu who has consumed SCP-4547-C1 can successfully navigate to the location of another sapient mind they are familiar with while in subspace, as brain waves are reflected from real space into subspace, and then reemerge close to that location, using the inconsistent geometry of subspace to travel faster than light.

There are of course limits to this transportation: the first being the need for SCP-4547-C1, a now extinct xenoplant. Attempts at cloning SCP-4547-C1 are not successful until the late 2060's, and until that time, only stockpiles can be used. Additionally, this method is not useful for exploration - the operator must know a living soul at the other end of their transit.

With the Veil gone, the Foundation has forced its way into an expansionist existence to maintain relevancy in the face of a nonexistent "normalcy." The organization took full reigns over interplanetary colonization during the initial boom of the 2020s, establishing themselves throughout the inner solar system as a source of security, outputting propaganda on the dangers of the anomalous and the occult all the while.

By the modern interplanetary age they are one of the dominant forces of the Solar System. The Martian and Venusian government are effective puppet states, and swaths of space stations are allied to the organization for protection and containment benefits. Limited control over their own personnel has been heightened with the development of neural implants and other monitoring programs. The Foundation refuses to lose its seat of power — what cost this brings is unimportant.

Foundation departments include:

• Exobiology Department — A department concerned with the studying of extraterrestrial life, their culture, their biology, and their origins.

• Extrasolar Activities Division — The chief division that manages all extrasolar explorations and operations.

• Project Heimdall — The first project for investigation into extraterrestrial entities and threats, incorporated into the Extrasolar Activities Division as the Heimdall Council in the 2020s. The Council currently oversees extrasolar alien interactions and diplomacy.

• Solar System Oversight Department — A department dedicated to the monitoring of the Solar System as a whole, interplanetary politics, interplanetary logistics, and large-scale anomalous incidents.

The collapse of the Veil brought the Church of the Second Hytoth into greater prominence than it has ever seen in its history. The alien Ortothans in its ranks were among the first aliens made known to the general public, and, as further aliens were encountered, the Church grew in legitimacy and size. The interstellar nature of the Ortothan religion further reinforced their significance in extraterrestrial interactions. As of the 22nd century it is one of the largest religious organizations in the Solar System, only growing further as more extraterrestrial adherents migrate in.

Marshall, Carter & Dark holds a firm grasp on the Outer Solar System. Taking advantage of the Foundation's lack of influence, their originally terrestrial operations were put onto interplanetary scales, managing criminal ventures between worlds while fostering a new clientele of orbital elite. The majority of their operations focus on Saturnian and Jovian space, where territorial conflicts open plentiful opportunities for the recovery of valuable anomalies and for spreading their influence. Heavy focus is on Zeta-01, where bargains with extraterrestrial inhabitants can unlock luxuries never before seen by human eyes.

• Yeong-Hwan Corp. — A private military contractor with a heavy investment in the research and development of occult weapons technology, headquartered in New Seoul, Luna Korea. Contracted as of 2100 to develop a nation-wide security system for Luna Korea.

The Terzan 2 Ortothan Coalition is a loose militaristic alliance of Ortothan civilizations and entities within Globular Cluster Terzan 2. The group is among the largest Ortothan sects in the galaxy, largely confined within the boundaries of the cluster yet still exerting a reach on the outlying space.

The Coalition was founded in response to Twelve Stars, an expansionist civilization native to the cluster. Repeated territorial conflicts in the past built animosity between the two, and as of the early 21st century Twelve Stars launched a massive campaign to eradicate all Ortothan settlements in the star cluster. Primary tactics have been surprise attacks, sending warships through wormholes to prevent tracking and limit preparation time. Further attacks by Twelve Stars ships are known to have occurred outside of the Coalition's territory — the farthest has come from Andromeda.

Despite the force Twelve Stars exerts, it's unknown where they reside. The civilization was known to be an alliance between the civilizations of twelve neighboring stars, but all traces of these stars and their inhabitants have vanished. Their current base of operations is still being searched for, by Ortothans and the Foundation alike.

The taronyu are the second alien species to come into major contact with humanity, after the Martians. They are refugees from the planet Mo'ara, which was devastated by several dozen apocalyptic events. A single bunker contained thousands of taronyu in suspended animation survived until a Foundation exploration discovered Mo'ara and brought the taronyu to Earth.

Since then, they have begun to integrate into Sol System society, primarily settling on the now terra-formed moon Callisto. Taronyu are rare throughout the galaxy, as only a small number survived, but their numbers increase as time passes from their exodus.

Physically, the taronyu are a humanoid species with longer body proportions than the average human - this causes them to generally be taller and more slender than the average human. Their skin tones vary from yellowish-tans to dark greens, all of which are visibly non-human in appearance. They do not have external ears or noses. While they have body hair, it rarely grows more than a few millimeters long and is not generally noticeable.

Aditionally, taronyu have significantly views on sex and gender than humans. The species has six biological sexes, each of which can mate with any other sex. Their views on gender reflect this. In recent history, many humans have used two genders corresponding to physical sexes. In the same capacity, taronyu primarily use six, although these are not the only six genders found in taronyu society. A transgender taronyu might identify as one of these six genders, another less common gender, no gender, or even a human gender such as male or female.

The pronouns most commonly used by taronyu are as follows:

• ne/nem/nir/nemself
• ve/vir/vis/virself
• xe/xem/xyr/xemself
• ce/cem/cir/cemself
• ke/ker/kes/kerself
• tey/tem/teir/temself

• Luytenians — A sapient species with human technological advancement, native to the exoplanet Luyten b. Extinct after a planet-wide K-Class event.

• Zeta-01 Inhabitants — A wide range of species and entities that reside in the Zeta-01 pocket dimension. See the Solar System tab.

• Aetheric Energy — Ambient fields of Elan-Vital Energy encompassing entities and major thaumaturgic workings.

• AICs — Foundation-operated artificial intelligences. See Technology Index.

• Aspect Radiation — Concentrations of Elan-Vital Energy with the intensity to alter reality.

• Basic Empyrean — A human-comprehensible and -usable interpretation of the Empyrean language, commonly spoken by entities within specific higher-dimensional regions. Combines the interpretation of psychic broadcasts, symbolic physical gestures, spoken words, and rune crafting.

• Celestiobiology — The study of higher-dimensional organisms and entities.

• Demon — A catchall term for a wide array of occult entities, often harmful in nature.

• Demonics — Technology integrating demons to perform its functions.

• Ectoplasm — A semi-corporeal fluid which constitutes some spectral entities. In small quantities the substance is invisible to the naked eye, requiring the induction of an electric current to emit visible-wavelength light (ectoillumination), but in massive amounts turns wholly observable.

• ED-K Lethe Events — Incidents of mass information loss instigated by SCP-3848, selectively deleting specific concepts from the minds of humans in terrestrial regions.

• Elan-Vital Energy — Ambient particles generated by all entities possessing a mind, most noticeable in living organisms, which can be manipulated to achieve alterations to reality. The exact process generating them is unknown.

• Humes — An arbitrary measurement system defining how difficult it is for an aspect of reality to be altered via ontokinesis; in other words, a measurement for how "stable" reality is at a given point. The value of 0 Hu is defined by the hume value of a special pocket dimension (UX-003) with an extremely high coefficient of manipulation (a low stability) in comparison to baseline reality. Tools for measuring humes, such as Kant Counters, are calibrated with readings taken from UX-003 and the region they are to be used in (known as local humes, denoted Hu_L). As it is a quicker judge of ontokinesis, local humes are the most common metric for regional measurements. Worth noting is that hume stability does not correlate to lessened anomalous phenomena; it only correlates to the relative restrictions placed on ontokinesis. See ontokinesis and ontokinetics.

• Infosphere — When plural, subsets of the noosphere containing specific information. When singular, it often refers to the totality of human information, digital or otherwise. See noosphere.

• The Noosphere — The non-physical sphere containing all information. Concepts, thoughts, and memetic phenomena are a fraction of what exists in the noosphere. See infosphere.

• Ontokinesis — A poorly-understood and highly potent method of reality bending. From what researchers have discerned, ontokinesis stems from the ability for a conscious mind to connect to the utmost root layer of reality and "reprogram" it, cascading changes upwards into alterations of the physical world. While incapable of taking effect directly in the manner of psionics or thaumaturgy, successful reprogramming can massively revise the world around the mind and, if taken far enough, revise the entirety of their perceived reality. This lends itself to a byproduct effect where the mind becomes more resistant to revisions of the same nature — they are more hard-coded into the root. See ontokinetics.

• Ontokinetics — The study of ontokinesis and the processes giving rise to its occurrence. While the cause is undetermined, it is understood that, by reaching into a root layer underlying all of reality, select minds can revise its code and grant themselves a greater influence over reality as a whole. This layer further permits the addition or removal of select privileges to aspects of reality — privileges restricting or enabling the ability for them to be easily manipulated at the root. The resultant ontokinetic "stability" emerging from these privileges is measured by the humes system.

• Ortothan Extraterrestrial Language (OEL) — A language of extraterrestrial origin, spoken by adherents to the Ortothan faith and the Church of the Second Hytoth. Due to a purported divine act, the language has remained highly consistent across all interstellar variants of it, making it one of the most versatile means of communication with alien entities.

• Paratechnology — Technology which integrates the anomalous into its design and can be readily replicated.

• Postorbital lobe — A lobe of the human brain which handles direct observation and manipulation of informational phenomena, forgotten by the whole of humanity due to SCP-3848. Colloquially known as the "third eye."

• Psionics — A reality-bending practice making use of additional informational capacity and processing power attached to the mind of the user (known as a psionic or psychic). By tapping into this information, they are able to make immediate changes to the physical world, often in highly localized and directed bursts. This practice also enables the similar connection of users to the minds of other entities, variably independent of physical contact yet generally restricted by physical proximity.

• Reality Bending — A catchall term for any phenomena that manipulates reality in a paranormal way. Often used in association with ontokinesis. Individuals who perform reality bending are known as reality benders.

• The Root — Or root layer; a base layer underlying all of reality that encodes and defines every operation occurring above it. Select minds can connect to the root and edit it to adjust different privileges, altering themselves and their surroundings. See ontokinesis, ontokinetics and humes.

• Sols (SOL) — Units of Solar Standard Currency. In use by Foundation-managed territories and associated regions; not ubiquitous across all areas.

• Taronyu — An extrasolar alien species and one of the more major alien species in the Sol System. Refugees from a dead world rocked by apocalypses.

• Thaumaturgy — An occult practice in which users (thaumaturges) manipulate reality via sources of Elan-Vital Energy to reach desired effects.

• Ways — Interdimensional portals opened via thaumaturgy, accessing specific pocket dimensions and planes of reality.

• AICs — Artificially Intelligent Conscripts, human- or superhuman-intelligence entities created by servitor rituals. Unlike standard servitors, which are beings independent of a set medium, these are directly implanted into databases, existing in a digital form where they can be reprogrammed and copied. Common uses for them are in logistics and the operation of FTL vessels. All AICs are under Foundation control.

• Bifrost Superluminal Engines — The most advanced and stable FTL systems the Foundation has developed, using secretive thaumic processes to isolate entire ships from local spacetime and launch them at superluminal velocities. See the FTL Travel tab.

• Brennan Thaumometric Satellite — A satellite in low Earth orbit built to detect major anomalous particle phenomena, namely those associated with large-scale thaumaturgic incidents. Its schematics have been the basis for interplanetary observation outposts of the same nature.

• ED-K+ — A coding language developed for Schulman Devices. Scripts encoding mental pathways are loaded into a device and are injected into subjects, altering their minds accordingly.

• ED-K++ — An advanced version of the ED-K+ coding language. With it, Foundation personnel equipped with a Personnel Identification Implant can have the information on their identity, their "self," saved as a modifiable text file.

• Geas — Memetic agents which force those who are exposed to follow a specific set of rules and guidelines.

• Holograms — Three-dimensional projections of light. As suspending light is impossible with existing technology, claytronics — nanoscale programmable particles — are used as a substitute, creating wireframe visuals of the intended projections. These are reactive, reconstituting if a physical object is passing through, but can still be destroyed. Advances beyond the wireframe visuals are made over the decades. True suspended light holograms have been seen among aliens, though the mechanisms behind these are undetermined.

• Kant Counters — Mass-produced tools used to measure the hume levels of a target area. Readings are performed by exploiting the observer effect under ontokinetic circumstances; subatomic particles from the target are detected and trigger a stable, looping quantum phenomenon contained within the counter. Mechanical detection of the phenomenon paired with the innate ontokinetic influence of human thought result in a measurable variation in the phenomenon, which is then compared to baseline behavior to determine a hume value. See humes, ontokinesis, and ontokinetics.

• Lang Distortion Drives — The first FTL systems ever obtained by the Foundation. Superluminal travel is achieved by directly breaking reality with sets of highly convoluted rituals. Extremely prone to glitches. See the FTL Travel tab.

• Personnel Identification Implant (PII) — Networks of nanoscopic neural implants placed into high-level and critical Foundation staff. By using the device to save copies of personnel's identities, written in ED-K++, the Foundation can retrieve personnel from SCP-4069 after death, add mental attributes, and rewrite personality facets. Cases of noosphere-related information corruption have prevented mass usage.

• Schulman-NY Programmable Mnestic Devices — Devices initially constructed by Marshall, Carter & Dark and sold to the Foundation for reversing mental damage caused by ED-K Lethe events. By injecting specialized fluids into the spine, ED-K+ scripts can manually add new information to the brain, including replacements for what SCP-3848 has erased and new personalities favoring Foundation obedience. Largely disused following the development of Personnel Identification Implants and the final evacuation of Earth.

• Scranton Reality Anchors — Machines integrating the extricated brains of reality benders (referred to in this context as "operators") to artificially perform ontokinesis. Specifically, they are used by the Foundation to increase the ontological stability of select locations or targets, modifying the reality root layer to grant greater protections where specified. While original models were massive in scale, the technological has since been compressed to portable forms, though these are far less effective for wide-scale stabilization. Models programmed to alter reality into preset states instead of stabilizing exist but are seldom used, owing to the high risk of error. See humes, ontokinesis, and ontokinetics.

• Thaumic Communication Gateways — Artificially created Ways that act as a means of interstellar communication, bypassing the speed of light. See the FTL Travel tab.

• Xyreaux-Schulman Extension Component — A peripheral for the Schulman-NY Programmable Mnestic Device which allows users to locate alternate-reality versions of themselves. Produced by Marshall, Carter & Dark with limited distribution in Zeta-01.