Red Static is observation-reactive. Direct observation by an Operator slows its waveform to a crawl. When it is unobserved, it unfolds and advances at high speed. The field protocol is to face it while withdrawing, and never to turn away without a clear route or an obstruction between.
Liminal cannot determine whether ANOM-01 was created during the Sector 7 incident, or whether a living subject was rewritten into a form the lattice could preserve.
In the perimeter
During the armed response Red Static is most of the crowd that steps out of the Rifts. Watched, it locks rigid and creeps. Unwatched, it unfolds and sprints.
Not related to
The Specter is not a variant of Red Static. The similar sensor noise reflects the lattice's inability to encode either organism cleanly.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, section 3, ANOM-01
- Critical Response field manual, ENTITIES