For the eyes of Administrative Command and those with special clearance ONLY.
Unauthorised personnel will be interrogated and terminated.
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| Supposed depiction of CTA-137 by artists in Ancient Greek when it briefly passed over. |
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Contained Anomaly: CTA-1371
Object Class: Ignotus2.
Containment Procedures: Due to the constant shifting of CTA-137's location, the use of anomalies has been allowed by Administrative Command. Project ██████ hopes to construct boosters on all sides of CTA-137 to keep it in the Antarctica region. A permanent research station has been constructed and a research team has been stationed there permanently3.
Description: CTA-137 is an ancient, anomalous human settlement similar to a city. It is extremely large4 and due to its anomalous technology is capable of floating 600 metres above ground. Despite it seeming to predate any known human civilization certain aspects of its architecture appear to resemble skyscrapers5. The deciphering of its ancient language appears to determine that CTA-137 was once known as "██████████", translating roughly to "The City Of Light" or "High City".
It seems to have been split into multiple parts depending on occupation with its centre acting as its Citadel. Although anyone could seemingly enter its Citadel, only dukes, duchesses, nobles and the homeless could be in it for more than 24 hours. Intelligence from its research team seems to indicate it had at least 200,000 occupants at its height, most of which were blacksmiths, engineers, bakers and farmers.
in the centre of its Citadel is a highly advanced castle-like structure built of an unknown material that has proven immune to any attempts to cut through. It has various chambers and labyrinths that appear to6 shift in structure, making mapping impossible. Various paintings are mounted on the wall all of one elderly, male individual wearing a Crown and7, carvings on the wall depicting various wars, people and anomalies such as an enormous tentacled beast in the clouds, a sword with words (roughly translated to "kill") hovering around it Many reptilian creatures with alligator-like heads are present. Connections with currently contained anomalies are being investigated.
Due to CTA-137's existence before any recorded history, its knowledge of anomalies is brought into question. Its founding and its decline are unknown and, furthermore, the many wars that seem to depict human tribes being at war with each other (and other anomalous entities) bring all known history into question. The technology in CTA-137 seems to prove previous contact with the anomalous and usage of anomalous technology seems to imply they used anomalous technology to win their war with the anomalous beings in question.
Addendum 137-A: Due to the carvings of the "reptilian creatures with alligator heads" being similar to CTA-985. It was interviewed about its knowledge of CTA-137, naming it directly as ██████████.
Interviewer: AD-03.
Interviewee: CTA-985
[BEGIN LOG]
AD-03: Hello CTA-985, I am here to ask you a question about some of our recent discoveries.
CTA-985: Fine… What do you wish to ask me?
AD-03: In previous interviews, with Dr. Smiths, you mentioned you do this because of what we'd done to your kind. Your species.3 You've refused to explain, claiming we know.CTA-985: You do.
AD-03: Do we? In that case, does the city ██████████ mean anything to you?
CTA-985: (does not reply, but is noticeably surprised)
AD-03: Does it surprise you, that we know of this, more so does it mean anything to you?
CTA-985: Perhaps. Or perhaps not.
AD-03: (He activates the shock collar on CTA-985 - It screams out in pain) You do.
CTA-985: Fine… It does.
AD-03: Then go on, please.
CTA-985: My species once lived side by side with yours, when yours still scavenged in the day afraid of the things it did not understand. The things you did not understand were our prey. My species knew little of your human, they were akin to fairytales. Small cave dwellers who came in the day with sticks with points and rocks. We thought little of them.
AD-03: Yet we lived in sky cities?
CTA-985: Not then. One day you came to notice that the night was like the day, Only darker. You came out from your caves in tribes and began to hunt that which you feared. Beasts in the clouds you paid no mind too as you hunted and hunted and hunted. Like us. We were unified, unlike you, but we didn't take notice till you took our first. I remember the day I and my kind came across the bodies of our own, we learned of your murder, and we took to ending you for it.
AD-03: And that was the war?
CTA-985: Yes. Your species was little of note even in this 'war'. Till the end, we took you out in small tribes. But one day you … joined together. In one tribe calling themself "█████" translating roughly to… humanity. You used the anomalies you had and … burned us.
AD-03: Figuratively?
CTA-985: Literally. You burned us, sliced us up, and fed us to the monsters in the sky who were all too happy with their new change in hunters. You weren't nearly as good at it as we were. Our population of 33,729 dead in a day.
AD-03: And then??
CTA-985: That is as far as I know. I was led to the middle of the ocean and threw in, I could not swim.
AD-03: Then how did you recognize the name of the city?
CTA-985: It was the last thing I saw, as I floated down and down that is what I saw. Your city flew above, and only one word was spoken by one of yours who threw me into that ocean. The name of your city. Is that enough for you?
AD-03: Quite. Thank you, CTA-985.
CTA-985: You are not thanked. Goodbye.
[END LOG]
Closing statement: CTA-985 was transferred back to containment and AD-03 founded Project Eternal Life8