[Internal Response Document—Area 3 Secure Biocontainment]
30.05.2019
Vandres, I've seen your notes on the transfer. Seriously?
Back when we were both juniors, and the breach at that Site happened, I didn't take you for a "Dr. Dan", or an Oleksei. Have you learned nothing from their mistakes, or even from your own in the 5199 fiasco? Even if we knew a way to destroy 096 after the stupid attempts, we shouldn't. You're a Foundation man. You contain anomalies first and ask questions later. And you keep asking questions, ones even the most curious bastard wouldn't think to ask. You're a goddamn scientist. We are goddamn scientists, and we have in our possession a thing which is in part indestructible, and apparently has omni-awareness at times, and a determination and ability to find and annihilate targets. And you don't see potential in further investigation? Harnessing even one of these properties against any one of the much much more actively malevolent things that we know is out there would put our purpose at a huge advantage.
And you don't even want to bother with the rest of that first set of questions, which more notorious men aggressively avoided asking. Such as "how did 096 happen?", and "why is 096 this way?" A lot of us are very sure what it is, how it's set off, what it's capable of, and where it was found. But hardly anyone to think to ask why it was there of all places, even with ongoing knowledge of multiple anomalies uncontained also in that range. Are we just so used to the world being packed with abominations, wannabe dark Gods and fuck-uppery that so many contemporary creatures with very suspiciously overlapping properties existing within a km. of each other just doesn't register? Anyone slowing down and thinking about it sees a new line of research, but I guess we've been in a 096-type state ourselves, huh? These knee-jerk reactions and panics, like Dan's compulsion to have it killed, aren't fitting for us, Bert. He tortured it to try and achieve that end. The moron threw this comparatively inoffensive but powerful wretch into testing chambers with unfeeling killing machines and literal end-times harbingers like he was smashing grandma's china set to work out frustration, for what? He and Oleksei both looked a gift horse in the mouth, and I don't have to explain to you how bad an idea that is.
All due respect, you're smart enough to know this, and I hope to see you at the retrieval tomorrow. We'll make the initial logs and condition reports with Eta-10, and cross our fingers for the sonar imaging tests on the real deal.
—Dr. Johanna Keaton