Sacrifice Confers Power
-Authority Motto
The Advanced Scientific Authority and Advocacy Group, or simply the Authority, is the primary controller and research body dedicated to the Deepwell Facility of Kain-5488b-1. Originally established as a governmental research initiative, the Authority has long since abandoned any pretense of accountability or ethics. What began as a scientific body devoted to the study of extraterrestrial anomalies has devolved into a clandestine, self-serving cult of power, corruption, and experimentation.
The Authority’s focus centers entirely on the Deepwell Facility: its origin, purpose, and anomalous inhabitants. No resource, human or material, is considered sacred—they are tools, fodder, or collateral in the pursuit of knowledge and influence.
Though outwardly cloaked in the language of science—peer-reviewed reports, lab journals, experimental protocols—the organization’s true devotion is revealed through its actions. Its worship is not prayer, but precision: every spreadsheet, every graduated cylinder, every sterile laboratory ritual is an offering to the unknown forces contained within the Deepwell.
Executive Leadership: A council of directors, each ruthless and self-serving. Loyalty is purchased through ambition, fear, or blackmail rather than genuine dedication.
Senior Researchers: Scientists who manipulate, experiment on, and dissect anomalies. Their allegiance is to data first, morality last. A rare few attempt to resist corruption, documenting abuses or seeking to escape.
Security Forces: Armed enforcers tasked with maintaining control over both captives and personnel. They operate with brutal efficiency and relish the abuse of authority.
Field Operatives: Inmates, conscripts, and coerced researchers sent to the Facility are viewed as expendable. Survival depends on obedience and usefulness.
The Authority’s devotion is practical and ritualized: meticulous measurements, structured experimentation, and record-keeping are forms of worship.
Captive humans are not simply “subjects,” but offerings. The deeper the suffering or danger involved in an experiment, the more power the Authority believes they gain.
Their motto, “Sacrifice Confers Power,” applies both literally and metaphorically—human life fuels knowledge, which fuels influence.
Leadership openly hides its cultish tendencies, but insiders recognize the doctrine of offerings, devotion to data as divinity, and unflinching reverence for anomaly-driven results.
Inmate Exploitation: Prisoners are sent to die or serve as test subjects for anomaly research. Survival is incidental.
Anomaly Containment: Attempts to observe, document, and exploit the Facility’s anomalies, from minor disturbances to entities like the Apostle or Ventilation Choir.
Corruption of Earth Authorities: The Authority operates beyond oversight, using blackmail, coercion, and bribery to maintain secrecy.
Authority personnel are divided between ruthless opportunists and quietly horrified scientists.
Even “moral” scientists who retain conscience are forced to participate in atrocities to survive.
Security personnel and field operatives view the Facility and its captives purely as tools, often treating horror as routine.
The atmosphere is obsessive, sterile, and subtly cultish, with devotion expressed in lab coats, precise measurements, and ceremonial handling of data and materials.
Despite outward claims of objectivity, the Authority believes in and subtly worships the anomalies themselves—not as tools, but as quasi-deities.
Some believe the organization’s leaders seek to transcend mortality or merge with the Facility’s powers, using humans and anomalies as conduits.
Rare leaks hint that the Authority may have deliberately sown factions, cults, and chaos within the Deepwell, using prisoners to propagate influence and test cosmic effects on reality.
The Authority’s evil is mundane and bureaucratic: forms, procedures, and lab rituals hide the cruelty.
The line between science and worship is blurred, creating an environment where horror emerges from obedience, procedure, and blind devotion rather than direct attacks.
Interactions with the Authority can instill paranoia, helplessness, and dread, as players realize that every experiment, report, and rule is a ritual in its own right, and they are both the offering and the audience.