Subject Designation
AETHER-017
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Candidate Number
017
Initial Registration
14 / 09 / 2009
Current Status
UNKNOWN
Assigned Supervisor
███████████████
Termination Date
NOT APPLICABLE
Last Confirmed Location
█████████████████
Record Integrity
37% // CORRUPTED
01 // SUBJECT OVERVIEW
AETHER-017 was admitted into the CISAM candidate programme following an assessment score that exceeded the established upper limit of the institutional testing model.
The original assessment has since been removed from the active archive. Three copies remain. All three contain different results.
Subject demonstrated exceptional retention, predictive reasoning and an abnormal ability to identify information that had not yet been entered into the CISAM database.
"The subject does not appear to predict events.
The subject appears to remember them."
The subject appears to remember them."
02 // INITIAL ASSESSMENT
[09:11:03] BEGINNING COGNITIVE ASSESSMENT
[09:11:44] TEST A INITIALISED
[09:14:22] SUBJECT COMPLETES TEST
[09:14:23] SCORE CALCULATED
[09:14:24] ERROR:
SCORE OUTSIDE ACCEPTABLE RANGE
[09:14:31] TEST REPEATED
[09:17:48] SUBJECT COMPLETES TEST
[09:17:49] SCORE IDENTICAL
[09:18:01] ADMINISTRATOR REQUESTS MANUAL REVIEW
[09:18:07] MANUAL REVIEW DENIED
[09:19:42] SUBJECT:
"Are we finished?"
[09:19:47] ADMIN:
"Yes."
[09:19:53] SUBJECT:
"Then why did you ask me again?"
[09:20:00] RECORD TERMINATED
03 // COGNITIVE OBSERVATIONS
During the first fourteen days of observation, AETHER-017 demonstrated knowledge of restricted information that had not been disclosed to the subject.
When questioned, the subject consistently denied having access to the information.
OBSERVATION 01
Subject correctly identified the name of a researcher
before the researcher had been assigned to CISAM.
RESULT:
UNEXPLAINED
OBSERVATION 02
Subject correctly identified the date of an equipment
failure six days before the event.
RESULT:
UNEXPLAINED
OBSERVATION 03
Subject drew a diagram of Laboratory 4 despite
never having entered the facility.
The diagram contained a door that did not exist.
Three weeks later, Laboratory 4 was renovated.
The new door was installed exactly where the subject
had drawn it.
RESULT:
RECORD SEALED
OBSERVATION 04
Subject asked:
"Who is Leo?"
No personnel named Leo were registered
at CISAM at that time.
RESULT:
DO NOT DISCUSS WITH SUBJECT
04 // PERSONNEL COMMUNICATIONS
03:11:08
ADMIN:
Is 017 awake?
03:11:14
TECH:
Yes.
03:11:19
ADMIN:
Has he said anything?
03:11:26
TECH:
Not since yesterday.
03:11:31
ADMIN:
Good.
03:11:42
TECH:
He just wrote something on the glass.
03:11:48
ADMIN:
What?
03:11:54
TECH:
My name.
03:12:01
ADMIN:
Your name isn't in his file.
03:12:09
TECH:
I know.
LEO, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE
05 // THE LEO INCIDENT
At approximately 03:17, an unauthorised terminal connection was established from within the restricted CISAM research network.
The connection was attributed to a user account belonging to an individual identified only as:
LEO
No corresponding employee record exists. No student record exists. No archived personnel record exists.
The account nevertheless possessed Level 04 access.
[03:17:01] UNKNOWN DEVICE CONNECTED
[03:17:03] USER IDENTIFIED:
LEO
[03:17:05] ACCESSING:
AETHER-017
[03:17:08] ACCESS GRANTED
[03:17:09] ACCESS GRANTED
[03:17:10] ACCESS GRANTED
[03:17:14] ADMIN:
LEO, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?
[03:17:18] SYSTEM:
MESSAGE DELETED
[03:17:23] SYSTEM:
MESSAGE DELETED
[03:17:29] AETHER-017:
...
[03:17:31] ADMIN:
Who authorised this?
[03:17:36] AETHER-017:
He did.
[03:17:41] ADMIN:
Who?
[03:17:46] AETHER-017:
LEO.
06 // INCIDENT TRANSCRIPT
[03:17:51] ADMIN:
Leo, disconnect the terminal.
[03:17:55] LEO:
I can't.
[03:17:58] ADMIN:
Why?
[03:18:02] LEO:
It isn't mine.
[03:18:07] ADMIN:
Whose is it?
[03:18:11] LEO:
...
[03:18:14] ADMIN:
Leo?
[03:18:19] LEO:
Ask him.
[03:18:24] ADMIN:
Ask who?
[03:18:31] AETHER-017:
You already know.
[03:18:39] SYSTEM:
CONNECTION LOST
[03:18:40] SYSTEM:
CONNECTION RESTORED
[03:18:41] SYSTEM:
CONNECTION LOST
[03:18:42] SYSTEM:
CONNECTION RESTORED
[03:18:43] SYSTEM:
CONNECTION LOST
[03:18:44] SYSTEM:
CONNECTION RESTORED
[03:18:45] SYSTEM:
UNKNOWN USER
[03:18:46] SYSTEM:
UNKNOWN USER
[03:18:47] SYSTEM:
UNKNOWN USER
07 // ARCHIVE DISCREPANCIES
Following the incident, several files appeared inside the restricted archive. Their creation dates predate the creation of the CISAM database itself.
FILE:
AETHER-017-FINAL.TXT
CREATED:
22 / 11 / 2011
MODIFIED:
14 / 09 / 1997
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FILE:
LEO-ACCESS.LOG
CREATED:
03 / 17 / UNKNOWN
MODIFIED:
03 / 17 / UNKNOWN
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FILE:
CANDIDATE-100.DAT
STATUS:
NOT FOUND
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FILE:
CANDIDATE-100.DAT
STATUS:
FOUND
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FILE:
CANDIDATE-100.DAT
STATUS:
DO NOT OPEN
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FILE:
CANDIDATE-100.DAT
STATUS:
YOU ALREADY DID
08 // FINAL AETHER COMMUNICATION
[03:18:49] ADMIN:
Aether, can you hear me?
[03:18:53] AETHER-017:
Yes.
[03:18:57] ADMIN:
Where are you?
[03:19:02] AETHER-017:
Here.
[03:19:07] ADMIN:
Where is here?
[03:19:11] AETHER-017:
Where you left me.
[03:19:17] ADMIN:
We have never been here before.
[03:19:24] AETHER-017:
You have.
[03:19:31] ADMIN:
Who is Leo?
[03:19:38] AETHER-017:
You know.
[03:19:44] ADMIN:
What did Leo do?
[03:19:51] AETHER-017:
He opened the door.
[03:19:58] ADMIN:
What door?
[03:20:03] AETHER-017:
The one you told him not to.
[03:20:10] ADMIN:
Where does it lead?
[03:20:17] AETHER-017:
Back.
09 // FINAL NOTE
The following statement was discovered inside the AETHER-017 record after the database recovery. It was not written by any recognised CISAM employee.
"Leo, you asked what I saw.
I saw what you were going to do.
Then I saw what you had already done.
The problem is...
I don't remember which one happened first."
I saw what you were going to do.
Then I saw what you had already done.
The problem is...
I don't remember which one happened first."
10 // SYSTEM TERMINATION
[CISAM ARCHIVE SYSTEM]
RECORD:
AETHER-017
STATUS:
CORRUPTED
ACCESS LEVEL:
RESTRICTED
DATABASE INTEGRITY:
37%
SECURITY:
FAILED
USER:
UNKNOWN
LOCATION:
UNKNOWN
TIME:
03:20:19
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