Y-802 - "Water Siphon"

Category: Y

Current Attitude: Docile

Containment Procedure:

• For long-term storage, the environment surrounding Y-802 must be maintained at an absolute humidity no higher than 10 g/m³ to ensure inactivity of Y-802. This standard may be achieved by refrigerating Y-802 at 10°C or lower. During short-term transport where refrigeration is not possible, packing Y-802 in silica gel is sufficient.
• When Y-802 is active, direct contact must not be made with its surface, as even brief contact with Y-802 can cause skin irritation. Researchers must wear rubber gloves at all times when handling Y-802.
• Researchers must spend no longer than 10 minutes within Y-802's active range, which is 5 metres in any direction. After spending 10 minutes in proximity to Y-802 (or immediately upon experiencing dizziness, nausea or fatigue), researchers must spend at least one hour outside of Y-802's active range. If delirium, unconsciousness, sharp pains or fever is experienced while in proximity to Y-802, immediately seek medical attention.

Description:

• Y-802 is a sandstone disc measuring 40cm in diameter and 3cm in depth. One of Y-802's two circular surfaces is embedded with a branching pattern formed from an unknown desiccated organic material.
• When active, Y-802 strongly attracts water molecules within a proximity of up to 5 metres in all directions. Water that makes contact with Y-802's surface is immediately absorbed. If there is an upper limit for the volume of water that may be absorbed by Y-802, it has not yet been identified.

In March 1987, Y-802 was initially located by the Cross Foundation in the Marlborough Downs as part of the response to Incident “Phantom Field”. In the lead-up to the incident response, a helicopter pilot passing over the Downs identified a small, circular 'dead zone' of plant and animal life and reported it to local authorities as a potential biohazard. Investigators from the Cross Foundation set up a base camp nearby and observed the area for 24 hours before performing a series of tests at the dead zone perimeter. Following these initial tests and the discovery of Y-802's water-siphoning capabilities, investigators were able to safely enter the zone and extract Y-802, which was lying in the centre of the dead zone.

According to testimony by field investigator Patricia Renfield who was assigned to the “Phantom Field” response team, the Cross Foundation investigators were ambushed while returning to the base camp by around a dozen individuals, many of whom were armed. One Cross Foundation employee was killed during this encounter, and Y-802 was taken by the ambushers, who appeared to have made preparations for the safe handling of Y-802. The ambushers were later identified as agents of Ursa Major.

In November 1987, a response team was called to the Valais region of Switzerland to investigate the activities of power company EPLN. Overseas associates of the Cross Foundation had raised an alert after witnessing the implausibly rapid construction of a gravity dam owned by EPLN – and, as part of this construction, the disappearance of several million cubic metres of water from the lower section of the dam. The response team for this incident (“Fluid Gravity”) identified that Y-802 had been installed at the base of the dam's excavation site after being sold to EPLN by Ursa Major and, over the course of their activities in Switzerland, were able to extract the Anomaly and return it to containment within the Cross Foundation.