Okay, so you're high up in some U.S. acronym agency, and your boss's boss' boss calls you into his office. Inside, you're given a briefing by some scientists and some intel people. The gist of it is that they have definitive proof that something like time travel or trans-dimensional travel exists. Moreover, there are huge associated risks. They need a group to: A. cover up people (and things) disappearing/appearing to and from god-knows-where B. set up a system to detect and assess non-native beings (which may already be here) C. support fundamental research into this phenomena D. analyze materials and technologies retrieved
Basically: inter-dimensional alien wizards are a reality, and you have just enough experience and anonymity that you could act as head of the division that has to deal with it.
What do you name this new program and any sub-compartments? Where will your headquarters be located? What special security considerations will you implement as SOP? What's the parent agency - NSA, DoD, CIA? Where will you recruit agents from? Any ideas on how you're going to tackle your objectives?
Jayden Reyes
bump
Blake Collins
Make it as public as possible, with as much transparency as possible.
Suddenly everything has become a metric fucktonne easier because there is no masquerade to keep running which would have needlessly eaten far to much of our time, resources and logistics for literally no reason what so ever.
Now that we a public we can freely access further resources and have a VERY large pool in which to hire further research talent. Also means we can freely work alongside outside agencies and organisations like CERN.
Oh, sorry, did I just ruin your supa sekret time spys idea?
William Allen
Basically this.
If it's one group of wizards, that's the time to send in a special ops team to close the hole (hopefully peacefully) and eliminate the problem. If people are getting sucked into Narnia left and right, and you already have ET running around on Earth, attempting a coverup is worse than suicide.
I'd craft a carefully-worded press release to be read by the president themself hopefully in this reality it's somebody level-headed and not our current PE. We'd then start a bonds drive to attempt to gain additional funding for researching this topic, while teaming up with other world powers in mutual cooperation for Earth defense.
Trying to be top-secret works in movies, but it's quite bad in real life. You're limiting your talent pool, spending precious resources on preventing exposure instead of defense or containment, and you're likely to be criminally liable when something goes wrong and all is revealed. It's best to tackle a problem like this head-on.
Jonathan Miller
If it's not an existential threat, you'll be sacked instantly and replaced with somebody who didn't fall for the globalist meme and who actually has the slightest concept of "nation" and "country".
It's not us versus inter-dimensional alien wizards. It never is. It's us versus China versus Russia versus whoever the fuck else might want a piece of the pie.
Pay attention to the news once in a while.
Julian Ross
Once it's out, it's out. No amount of sacking or denial is going to stop that.
Gavin White
It's called "The Laundry" and it is a great RPG, go check it out OP.
Juan Ramirez
Open-Sourcing is actually a great way to make sure everything is vetted properly.
A ton of secret projects run into problems because they just don't have the appropriate QA.
Like those spy balloons the US sent over the soviet union: some fuckup included metal rods exactly the right size to be resonant with the soviet radar. Then the soviets rounded up the balloons, and used their radiation hardened film to make moon probes.
Luke Hernandez
I think that the existence of other realms is by definition an existential threat, unless they're all stuck in the medieval era or something. Even in that case it's likely best to go public with the information after you already have a solid lead, because the benefits are simply so large.
Noah Nelson
>because the benefits are simply so large A problem might be cultists, though. How would religions take the existence of other planes? What if you had people who were now actively 'trying to summon the angels', you know?