R-0017

 Relic #:  R-0017

 Safety class:  Γ (could materialize its parent organization and have bad effects)

 Usage class:  Identification

 Physical description:  An ID card for "HC-1", with the logo of an "Anomalous Research Authority" and "High Command Clearance". None of these entities are known to exist, though they can manifest.

 Anomalous properties:  R-0017's effect comes in three phases, which are outlined below. Only enough experimentation was done to verify the information sent by the donor of R-0017. For the more severe effects, predictions were made by speculative historians in the guild. As such, this information is to be considered necessarily incomplete, and it is only to be used as a general guideline.

Phase 1 begins with holding R-0017, at which point a subject will now believe they are HC-1 and have an important duty. They will congregate to the supposed headquarters of R-0017-1, known by them as the Anomalous Research Authority. Any perceptions of the actual location of these headquarters will be changed to be a building with R-0017-1's logo emblazoned on it.

Phase 2 manifests 24 hours after Phase 1. In this phase, a subject will become much more talkative, attempting to convince others of R-0017-1's existence. The subject will subconsciously manifest ideatic triggers through speech, which compel those who process them to go to R-0017-1's headquarters while believing they are also in High Command and have important duties.

Phase 3 manifests after 15 subjects have gone through Phase 1 as a result of Phase 2. Ideatic triggers and compulsion hazards start manifesting near the locations of affected subjects, further spreading R-0017-1's believed existence. During this phase, physical evidence of R-0017-1 starts manifesting.

This includes further memorabilia and memories gained by supposed Task Force and Ethical Procedures Committee members, reaching the scale of actual anomalous events and objects being created to be contained by R-0017-1 members.

Phase 4 is the spontaneous restructuring of reality to otherwise include R-0017-1. When the amount of affected subjects reaches 100,000, a gigantic restructuring period commences to ground R-0017-1's existence as an actual organization, including the presence of a detailed organizational structure and recognition by many Num company aggregators.

After this period of restructuring, R-0017-1 has been fully materialized as an existent organization. The last major event to be materialized is a supposed conflict with the Hunters as the result of Operation [REDACTED BY GUILD MASTER], which slowly diminishes the Hunters' causal influence as it materializes and memories form.

The only way to set back any of these effects is to cause mass amnesia regarding R-0017-1's existence, which demanifests the retroactive reality and memory changes beginning in Phase 3.

 Special safety notes:  R-0017 is not to be handled or otherwise used at this time. A constant anti-informational effect is to be circulated worldwide once every 37 days to prevent re-manifestation of R-0017-1.

 History:  R-0017 was first recovered in a building now believed to be the headquarters of R-0017-1. The researchers there claimed that R-0017-1 was almost obliterated from causality following an incident with ARA-301555. R-0017 was given to the Hunters 3 days later. Further research can be seen in addenda.

 Addenda:  It has been proposed by Doctor #### that R-0017 is actually a trace item from a reality shift which deleted R-0017-1's existence, due to its thoroughness and grounding of R-0017-1's existence. This hypothesis is now deemed likely, following a debate between #### and [REDACTED].