MTAC maintains a standardized threat classification system used across Vesper City and the surrounding region to determine:
response scale,
containment authorization,
evacuation priority,
media suppression level,
and acceptable collateral damage thresholds.
The public only knows fragments of the system.
The full classification structure is heavily restricted after multiple corporate and governmental scandals involving concealed incidents throughout the Vesper Region.
Threat classifications are not based solely on destructive capability.
MTAC evaluates:
adaptability,
intelligence,
propagation risk,
thaumic instability,
civilian casualty projections,
infrastructure compromise,
psychological impact,
and containment feasibility.
A smaller intelligent threat may classify higher than a larger destructive entity if containment risk is severe enough.
Tiger-Class incidents represent dangerous but manageable threats capable of causing serious civilian casualties or district-level disruption if left unchecked.
Most MTAC deployments occur at Tiger-Class.
Examples:
heavily armed gangs,
rogue spellcasters,
moderate supernatural entities,
unstable summoned creatures,
organized smuggling rings,
illegal mutation subjects,
localized reality tears,
or enhanced serial killers.
Expected Response:
Standard MTAC tactical teams,
spell suppression units,
aerial surveillance,
localized evacuation,
limited media containment.
Civilian Advisory:
Shelter in place unless evacuation orders are issued.
Typical Survival Rate:
High if response time is rapid.
Dragon-Class incidents threaten entire districts or major infrastructure systems.
These threats typically possess:
large-scale destructive power,
advanced magical capability,
extreme durability,
or organized support networks.
Examples:
elder dragons,
major gang wars,
catastrophic reactor instability,
dimensional breaches,
hostile military-grade entities,
high-order necromantic outbreaks,
or coordinated corporate warfare events.
Expected Response:
Full MTAC mobilization,
armored strike divisions,
aerial interdiction,
corporate military coordination,
district lockdowns,
emergency transit suspension.
Civilian Advisory:
Immediate evacuation recommended.
Typical Survival Rate:
Moderate.
Infrastructure losses expected.
Demon-Class incidents involve threats considered exceptionally difficult to predict, suppress, or contain.
These threats often possess:
regenerative capability,
rapid adaptation,
corruption effects,
memetic influence,
infiltration potential,
or exponential escalation patterns.
Examples:
biomass organisms,
viral thaumic entities,
rogue artificial intelligences,
reality-corrupting anomalies,
autonomous cursed systems,
apex predators,
or intelligent extradimensional infiltrators.
Demon-Class threats are notorious for:
escalating during containment,
compromising response forces,
and surviving supposedly lethal countermeasures.
Expected Response:
Specialized containment teams,
thaumic quarantine zones,
infrastructure isolation,
lethal force authorization,
media blackouts,
and emergency corporate oversight.
Civilian Advisory:
Avoid all contact. Report unusual biological, behavioral, or environmental anomalies immediately.
Typical Survival Rate:
Low without immediate evacuation.
Chimera-Class incidents represent entities or phenomena capable of destabilizing entire metropolitan regions.
Containment often becomes secondary to survival.
Threats at this level frequently:
evolve during engagement,
ignore conventional physical laws,
weaponize infrastructure,
spread uncontrollably,
or destabilize the Weave itself.
Examples:
Crimson Sovereign incidents,
city-scale biomass outbreaks,
uncontrolled dimensional convergence,
self-replicating thaumic plagues,
emergent living infrastructure,
ancient sealed entities,
or catastrophic Arcflow cascade failures.
Expected Response:
Total district quarantine,
military-grade deployment authorization,
anti-catastrophe protocols,
orbital or siege-class weapon consideration,
cross-corporate emergency cooperation,
mass civilian evacuation,
possible district sacrifice authorization.
Civilian Advisory:
Flee immediately. Ignore property, employment, or transit restrictions.
Typical Survival Rate:
Extremely low inside active zones.
God-Class designations are rarely acknowledged publicly.
Many officials deny the classification exists at all.
God-Class threats are considered capable of:
collapsing megacities,
destabilizing planetary infrastructure,
permanently altering reality,
triggering mass extinction,
or fundamentally rewriting metaphysical law.
Most documented God-Class entities are ancient, poorly understood, or believed extinct.
Examples:
awakened cosmic entities,
complete Arcflow collapse events,
unrestricted dimensional invasions,
continent-scale thaumic corruption,
Sovereign Choir civil conflict,
fully autonomous reality-consuming systems,
or entities predating modern civilization itself.
Expected Response:
Total governmental emergency powers,
global thaumic coordination,
forbidden weapon authorization,
archival continuity protocols,
continuity-of-civilization initiatives,
and acceptance of catastrophic casualty projections.
Civilian Advisory:
No reliable public guidance exists.
Typical Survival Rate:
Unknown.
Among veteran MTAC personnel, an old saying persists:
“Tiger means dangerous.
Dragon means run.
Demon means pray.
Chimera means the city’s already dead.
And if they say God-Class?
Nobody’s coming.”