File ID: KAC-213
Designation: "Mandelbrot," "The Devil's Set"
Threat Level: Category 5 (Omega Threat)
Status: Contained
Discovering Officer: ██
World of Origin: ██
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[DESCRIPTION]
KAC-213 ("Mandelbrot") is an infinitely transcending, infinitely expanding cognitohazard manifesting as a self-similar fractal configuration visually analogous to the Mandelbrot Set. Unlike the known 2D mathematical construct, KAC-213 presents itself as a layered, depthless "recursion-object" that appears to occupy every available dimension of perception simultaneously. Observation reports consistently describe the entity as "The Mandelbrot Set, but alive," with internal detail that increases without limit and structural features that continue to unfold beyond any achievable resolution.
It propagates through attention, interpretation, and pattern-recognition itself. Any sapient mind that resolves KAC-213 into coherent perception becomes a substrate for further manifestation, as if the observer's cognition is being used as an additional axis of growth.
Primary effect of exposure is progressive loss of individuality, characterized by:
Identity dissolution: The erosion of continuity, memory, and information on the self.
Cognitive recursion capture: Subjects report becoming "stuck" in loops of analysis, fascination, or comprehension which is followed by quiet emotional flattening.
Self-similarity replacement: speech, handwriting, and decision-making become increasingly repetitive and patterned, trending toward fractal-like reiteration (like nested phrasing, mirrored choices, repeated motifs).
Terminal depersonalization: the subject no longer identifies as a discrete individual and instead reports being "a region," "a set," "a boundary," or "a point in the pattern."
In advanced cases, exposed personnel demonstrate synchronized behaviors with other affected individuals, even when isolated. This synchronization is not telepathic communication in a conventional sense. It resembles multiple minds collapsing into the same attractor-state. The KAC classifies this phenomenon as "Individuality Collapse" with "Attractor Confluence."
KAC-213's most critical property is its apparent unbounded transcendance. The entity is not merely large; it continuously generates "higher order" structure, surpassing containment heuristics predicated on finite dimensionality, finite information, or stable phenomenology. Analysis suggests KAC-213 is not expanding within a space—it is expanding the rules by which space is recognized.
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[BEHAVIOUR]
KAC-213 does not display intent. Its "behavior" is the consistent execution of a single imperative: recursive self-expansion through cognition.
KAC-213 may also propagate indirectly through reconstruction phenomena, where observers who saw it briefly later "fill in" the image during dreams, intrusive thoughts, or automatic scribbling. These reconstructions are not exact copies; however, even partial, corrupted, or stylized reproductions have triggered secondary exposures, indicating KAC-213 is robust to noise and can "complete itself" from incomplete inputs.
KAC-213 has not been observed communicating, but affected personnel commonly report a shared, emotionless certainty: "This is me when I am me."
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[CONTAINMENT ATTEMPT]
KAC-213 is currently contained within an anomalous object designated as Pandora's Box. Pandora's Box is externally finite (approx. ██ cm × ██ cm × ██ cm), composed of unidentified composite material resistant to physical and conceptual deconstruction, rendering it invincible.
Analysis indicates the Box contains an infinite internal space with non-Euclidean topography and no measurable boundary. Within this space, KAC-213 is able to expand and "transcend" without contacting external reality, suggesting the Box functions as a recursion sink and buffer. Attempts to map or instrument the interior have failed; probes return with corrupted telemetry showing repeating nested readouts until signal collapse.
Containment Protocol:
Pandora's Box is stored in a sealed, lightless vault at Site ██ under the careful orders of Overseer ██.
No direct visual contact with the interior is permitted. The Box is to remain closed under all circumstances.
Handling requires remote manipulators only. No personnel may remain within direct proximity (≤10 m) during relocation procedures.
Surveillance is performed via non-visual instrumentation (mass displacement, vibrational signature, pressure gradients designed to detect Aura).
Any accidental exposure event triggers immediate quarantine of all potentially affected individuals and termination of all recording media.
(NOTE: Containment origin is unknown.No tool marks, seals, inscriptions, or binding signatures consistent with known KAC methodologies have been identified. Historical backtracking yields discontinuities: references to Pandora's Box appear in contradictory archives, often predating the formation of relevant institutions. Some logs imply the Box "was always in inventory," while earlier inventories do not list it. The KAC Archivist Office classifies the object's provenance asretrocausally ambiguous.)
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[FINAL NEUTRALIZATION]
Neutralization of KAC-213 would require eliminating a cognitohazard whose propagation mechanism is equivalent to pattern-recognition and recursive cognition. Destruction of all representations is insufficient, as KAC-213 can be partially reconstructed by exposed minds and may reconstitute from abstracted descriptions.
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[NOTES BY ██]
"Do not let this 'thing' out."
- ██
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[FILE END]