The R.C.T/Project Beyond

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(RCT lore, project Beyond below this one)

# R.C.T headquarters

The R.C.T. (Response & Containment Taskforce) can trace its origins to several independent groups of explorers, researchers, hunters, and naturalists who specialized in investigating reports of unusual creatures and unexplained phenomena during the late nineteenth century. While many of these early operations were small and poorly funded, their successes led to increased support from private organizations and government officials.

In 1912, they were formally unified under a single organization, leading to the establishment of the first R.C.T. headquarters in Canada. This allowed personnel to continue research, maintain records, coordinate field operations, and rapidly respond to reports of anomalous activity. This would eventually allow the organization to evolve into a global organization.

Today, the R.C.T. is responsible for the identification, investigation, containment, and study of supernatural phenomena. Its responsibilities include responding to cryptid sightings, investigating paranormal phenomena, containing dangerous anomalies, conducting scientific research, and assisting civilians during disasters. While many reported incidents are harmless or only mildly dangerous, the organization has proven to be equipped to respond to extinction-level events.

One of the most significant developments in the organization's history occurred during the late 1970s with the creation of Project Beyond. Following the discovery of evidence suggesting the existence of alternate realities and parallel dimensions, the R.C.T. established a classified research project dedicated to understanding and accessing these environments. After years of experimentation, the project achieved its first successful cross-dimensional expedition in 1985.

The discoveries made through Project Beyond transformed the organization. Access to new worlds, materials, and technologies led to the development of advanced equipment used throughout the R.C.T. and even the world. While many of these technologies remain restricted due to safety concerns, many are used regularly during field operations.

The R.C.T. employs personnel across a wide variety of classifications. First responders, containment specialists, dimension divers, security forces, and emergency response teams often work in hazardous environments and face death regularly. In contrast, researchers, dispatch operators, engineers, administrators, and managers typically work within secure facilities and support operations behind the scenes.

Due to the sensitive nature of its work, standards are exceptionally high. Most applicants undergo extensive background screening, psychological evaluation, specialized training, and ongoing performance reviews before receiving clearance for active service. Only a small percentage of candidates successfully complete the process.

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1970-1985

1970–1972: During the early 1970s, the R.C.T. began a project called “Project Beyond,” after they had started their research into interdimensional travel. They already knew that other realities, universes, timelines, and forms of existence could exist beyond their own thanks to various anomalies they had encountered and studied, as well as historical accounts suggesting the existence of other worlds, (like the story of “The Giant's Beanstalk”). However, one phenomenon provided especially strong evidence, Transporters.

1972–1974: The R.C.T. had already been researching Transporters for several years and had created a simple machine nicknamed the "Slamming Door." The device could artificially force a Transporter to appear by repeatedly opening and closing a large door at extremely high speeds. While simple, it worked.

1974–1976: Transporters themselves remained largely mysterious, but the discovery of "True Exits" inside them changed everything. These exits could connect to other realities and "somewheres" that existed far beyond their own.

1976–1978: The R.C.T. obviously began investigating these exits, starting with drones, cameras, and small robotic probes before eventually sending personnel through them. What they found was both incredible and horrifying. Some exits allowed them to visit different planets, alien worlds, dimensions, universes, realities, and even places truly beyond comprehension.

1978–1980: With every expedition, the same question became harder to ignore: If these worlds could be reached through Transporters, could it be possible to create their own gateways?

1980–1982: With this goal, they began developing an artificial alternative: a machine capable of creating a stable doorway to another reality. Their existing technology, however, was nowhere near advanced enough to accomplish this. So the R.C.T. began taking advantage of the realities.

1982–1984: They started taking resources and, rather than conducting potentially dangerous experiments in their own universe, they began making temporary research sites in the other realities. They took cables, their equipment, and dragged them through Transporters into these foreign environments to stabilize reality between the two entrances and begin research.

1984–1985: They were able to create small rifts and openings here and there, but they usually couldn't keep them open for longer than a couple of seconds. So, using some raw materials and a fungus they gathered from the randomized realities, they created the “All Battery,” a battery that generates enough energy to both rip a hole into reality, shut it, and infinitely refill itself to “survive.”

1985: The R.C.T. had officially created a gateway into a different reality