RIFT-01 is the breach the critical resonance of 18 June 1993 opened in the dimensional boundary around the Sector 7 reactor chamber. It does not open onto one named place. It samples multiple exterior realities, and allows fragments of incompatible spaces, organisms, memories and physical laws to overlap Sector 7 wherever the lattice becomes unstable.
RIFT-01 is expanding inward. Containment is about more than keeping intruders out: Sector 7 must be prevented from stabilising into an exit.
What is known
RIFT-01 has no confirmed destination, ecology or opposite shore. Because it samples more than one reality, the external entities that came through it are unrelated to each other. The Mourner, the Warden, the Specter and the Banshee entered through separate overlaps. See Threat designations.
Transmit Nodes do not close it. They force local coordinates to agree long enough to make an exit, and every Node calibrated narrows the breach in one place while increasing stress elsewhere.
Measures
Liminal's armed operatives are sent in at a BREACH level from 1 to 5, which records how far RIFT-01 stands open when a projection goes in. In the troughs of the reactor's carrier the breach narrows for a few seconds (see Carrier troughs). Nothing in Liminal's log says the breach is resting.
The final containment order
Treat every new corridor as an overlap, every unknown voice as an intrusion, and every familiar memory as potentially foreign. Synchronise the Nodes. Recover what the lattice still remembers. Do not let Sector 7 become an exit.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, canonical incident record and section 8
- The setting bible, section 3