This page tells you what you, as someone involved in Oculus, need or ought to know beyond public knowledge of this organisation. Please also note that the information available here is not all there is, it is simply what would be known to the ranks available at game start. As you progress in the organisation, more information may become available. Alternatively, you may come across things while investigating. Whether you decide to share this information with others is up to you (though it is IC severely discouraged, and will be punished if you are found out). However, the GMs ask that you relay this information in your own words instead of simply showing others the organisation brief, to maintain a sense of IC authenticity. The GM in charge of this organisation is Mike. If you have any questions related to this organisation, feel free to get in touch with them.

Apollo is simply a public face, a middleman for the true Commander of Oculus. He still has authority over the division, but the real decisions are made by Minerva.

The real Commander of Oculus, Minerva is rarely seen, but her¹⁾ ability to brand communications with a seal that cannot be replicated means that orders from her are undisputed. Reading her orders is accompanied by a sensation not unlike plunging into an icy pool whilst simultaneously drinking a rich, sweet drink. Any alteration to the wording of the order will corrupt the sensation, making such changes instantly noticeable.

The Captain of Dis, the deniable operations subdivision of Oculus. The focus of his subdivision lies in keeping the world safe by any means necessary, especially any operation which the public should never know about. Orcus handles the elimination of potential threats before they become an issue, though he has been criticised for allowing some of his agents to cause excessive collateral damage when exercising their duties.

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Located high in the Andes, Elysium is the Oculus headquarters. Located within are the server farms which hold heavily encrypted databases containing information about every man, woman, child, and other person on Earth (and a few off it), as well as the powerful mainframes which support the Oculus AIs. The facility is heavily defended, with emergency protocols allowing the servers to be instantly moved to alternative facilities, or destroyed entirely to prevent them from falling into enemy hands. Elysium also contains a sophisticated VR simulation room, designed to put prospective agents through their paces before they are allowed into the real world. Rumour has it that Minerva herself will play a role in these trails for particularly promising candidates.

With the current problems with Oracle, it seems likely that we have a leak within SPEAR. Therefore, if you see anyone using the codephrase, report this to Apollo at the earliest opportunity. Use of the codephrase is permitted when contact with non-oculus personell is required, but it should not be used when contacting other Oculus members (and you should treat anyone using it to contact you with extreme suspicion). In the event that contact with another Oculus member is necessary, the challenge/reponse combination is:

“It's unseasonably cold for the time of year, isn't it?” “I'm not finding it too bad, it's better than boiling in the heat.” “Yes, I suppose so, still, normally I wouldn't need a coat this time of year.”

Given the issues with Oracle, the decision has been taken to reduce the classification level on the details of Oracle's functioning, in the hope that this will allow our agents to uncover the cause of the disruption. SHARING THIS INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF OCULUS IS CONSIDERED TREASON. You will spend the rest of your life in a cold, dark cell, assuming your life is long enough for you to get there.

The Oracle system was set up by the Japanese Empire in 1905, after they captured a time traveller from the year 2200. Previously, such travellers had either managed to escape, or lacked the technical knowledge to reproduce the machine which had sent them back, but in this case the person captured was an engineer specialising in such devices. The Japanese eventually “persuaded” them to give up the secrets of time travel. The facility which would eventually become Delphi was set up. Delphi is a monitoring station, with a last-ditch emergency protocol. The time machine in Delphi is single use, and will allow only one trip to the past. However, if that trip can be used to change the future enough that the use of the time machine becomes unnecessary, then the machine can be used to prevent a later emergency. Those of you who know a reasonable amount of timestream theory will see the problem with this - the original timestream from which the information is sent will remain in whatever sorry state prompted the use of the Oracle device, but it at least ensures that there is a timestream in which the terrible outcome does not occur.

At the same time as the disappearance of the moon, the properties of the Oracle device were changed somehow. We're still not clear exactly what happened - our scientists say that it seems the very laws of physics have altered in a way that makes time travel impossible. Any leads you can discover on this would be very useful. However, in case Oracle can be restored, it is paramount that the information above does not leave this division.

Some of you will also be wondering why the Thuun invasion, the Australia crisis, and the California rebellion weren't prevented. The details are classified, but all I will say is that each appeared to be the best available outcome given the information we had at the time.

I want a briefing on every person there on my desk by Monday. I'll leave it up to your judgement who to prioritise.

“Frankly, this is a fucking embarrassment. We cannot allow leaks on this scale. Our first priority has to be to determine which documents were taken, and work out who has access to them. Tigress is a capture target, not a kill, we need to get as much as we can from her if we're able. We're lucky it was an Aegis server they hit, not one of ours, but they'll still have a lot of information we don't want them to have, and we need to know what. Get out there, find out what you can, if you get any leads on Tigress, pass them to the Furies unless you're sure you can take her in yourself.” - Apollo

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