Officially, Inanis, Resonants or extraterrestrials do not exist.
Inanis anomalies are localized disturbances associated with Inanis phenomena that do not require the visible presence of a physical structure or artifact. They may affect space, time, gravity, perception, memory, electronics, communication systems, or other physical processes in ways that conventional science cannot reliably explain. The name and proposed connection to Inanis are restricted knowledge; ordinary witnesses interpret these incidents without that context.
Officially, Inanis, Resonants or extraterrestrials do not exist.
Anomalies vary greatly in duration, intensity, and observable effects. Some last only seconds and leave no measurable trace; others persist for hours, recur intermittently, or remain tied to a location for years. Recorded incidents have included missing time, impossible distances, altered sensory impressions, signal loss, equipment failure, unusual gravitational readings, distorted reflections, unexplained sounds, memory gaps, and other brief inconsistencies in the environment.
These are examples from different recorded incidents, not a diagnostic checklist. An effect known to have occurred during one anomaly must not be assumed to occur during another. Measurements or environmental changes are present in a particular incident only when they were actually observed, recorded, or otherwise established for that incident.
Officially, Inanis, Resonants or extraterrestrials do not exist.
Human instruments can sometimes measure secondary physical effects during an anomaly, such as electromagnetic interference, timing discrepancies, unusual gravitational readings, corrupted sensor data, or changes in nearby machinery. Such measurements establish only what the instrument observed. They do not establish that an Inanis anomaly caused the reading, nor do they reveal the mechanism behind it.
Ordinary technical failures, environmental hazards, radiation, damaged equipment, sensor errors, or unrelated phenomena may produce similar readings. No combination of these observations is universally diagnostic of Inanis activity.
There is no established scientific quantity corresponding to an “Inanis field,” “Resonant energy,” “spatial leak,” or similar phenomenon.
Experimental systems may be built to search for patterns previously observed during known incidents. Such systems remain probabilistic and unreliable. A positive reading does not prove Inanis involvement, a negative reading does not exclude it, and different incidents may produce entirely different effects.
Officially, Inanis, Resonants or extraterrestrials do not exist.
Most anomalies are subtle enough to be mistaken for technical failure, stress, sensor error, radiation exposure, environmental instability, or simple confusion. Even when several people witness the same event, their accounts may differ.
Unlike confirmed Inanis structures, anomalies can occasionally occur within inhabited settlements. Such incidents remain rare, but they may appear in stations, mines, ships, industrial facilities, or urban areas without any visible alien material nearby. A nearby structure or artifact may be responsible, but no physical source is always found.
Anomalies are more commonly reported in remote excavation sites, abandoned facilities, deep asteroid interiors, isolated moons, and regions where Inanis material has previously been recovered.
It remains unclear whether anomalies are side effects, signals, environmental reactions, failures of human perception, or deliberate manifestations of Inanis activity. Terms used by researchers to describe them are descriptive conveniences, not proof that their underlying mechanisms are understood.
Officially, Inanis, Resonants or extraterrestrials do not exist.
Officially, Inanis, Resonants or extraterrestrials do not exist.
A small, classified research community has accumulated observations of Inanis phenomena, but observation should not be confused with understanding. The general public has no recognized framework connecting these incidents.
Even the best-informed researchers possess fragmented evidence drawn from rare incidents, unreliable instruments, recovered materials, Resonant subjects, and experiments that often cannot be reproduced. They may recognize similarities between events or develop working hypotheses, but no accepted scientific framework explains Inanis, its technology, its anomalies, or Resonant abilities.
Human terminology remains descriptive. Researchers may refer to distortions, anomalies, responses, correlations, activation events, interference patterns, or other observed effects without knowing what physical process produced them. Familiar scientific language does not imply that the underlying phenomenon has been identified.
Successful investigation can reveal available evidence, measurable effects, technological construction, recorded correlations, or what a particular researcher believed. It cannot by itself reveal information that humanity has never established or that the available evidence does not contain. Exceptional skill or unusually successful analysis does not turn an unknown phenomenon into understood science.
Classified knowledge is broader than public knowledge, but it is not omniscient. Secret programs know that certain phenomena exist and possess evidence unavailable to the public. They still disagree about what that evidence means.
Officially, Inanis, Resonants or extraterrestrials do not exist.
Information described in this lore represents setting knowledge available to the GM, not knowledge automatically possessed by characters. A character only knows classified information when their background, access, experience, records, or events in play establish a credible source for it. Professional expertise alone does not grant knowledge of Inanis, Resonants, classified incidents, or secret research.