INCIDENT REPORT: THE "FRACTURE" & CONTRACTOR LOSS
CLASSIFICATION: RESTRICTED / LEGAL REVIEW
DATE: May 25, 2026
LOCATION: Sector 1 (Near Threshold)
SUBJECT: External Contractor "Cobalt-Black Dynamics"
At 09:00 hours, motion sensors in Sector 1 — previously considered a secure transit corridor — triggered an alert.
Visual feeds showed a "shearing" effect in the air: not a doorway, not a void-trap, not any previously classified phenomenon. A jagged, vibrating crack in reality itself — as if the dimensional fabric of the space had been under sustained pressure and finally split along a fault line. The crack ran floor-to-ceiling and extended approximately four meters horizontally. It was not stable. It was expanding.
External contracting firm Cobalt-Black Dynamics, operating nearby on aggressive mapping assignments, was first on scene.
Cobalt-Black deployed a tethered drone into the fracture before AEGIS security arrived on scene.
The fracture did not lead to a room. It led to Null-Space — an infinite, gravity-free void containing floating fragments of other realities: torn pieces of biomes suspended in nothing, slowly rotating, edges fraying where their dimensional anchors had snapped.
Cobalt-Black then fired a harpoon-camera into one of the floating fragments. The feed confirmed the interior of a 1990s shopping mall — matching the Subject Zero footage in detail. This confirms the Null-Space acts as the substrate between dimensional layers: the space between spaces.
Upon seeing this footage, Cobalt-Black's Team Lead invoked the "Bounty Clause" in their contract and ordered a manned entry.
Unit Gemini arrived to secure the perimeter and immediately assessed the fracture.
Wulfsige: "That isn't a room. It's a meat grinder. The physics aren't stable. You go in there, you don't come back."
Sr. Officer Miller: "My Specialists say it's bad ground. We hold position."
Cobalt-Black's Team Lead cited the Bounty Clause. Miller revoked their entry clearance. The Team Lead advanced anyway.
The moment human mass crossed the event horizon of the fracture, the crack reacted. It did not open wider gradually. It tore — the split racing along the floor like a seam unzipping, faster than any of them could react. The floor beneath the contractors ceased to exist. They fell into the Null-Space.
The fracture zipped shut behind them with a sound like a thunderclap. The contractors were gone. The floor was intact. The corridor was silent.
Total elapsed time from breach to closure: approximately four seconds.
Wulfsige: (stumbling back, visibly shaken by the air displacement) "FUCK THAT. HOLY SHIT — SHIT — I JUST ABOUT SHIT MYSELF." (Signals immediate full retreat.) "THAT WAS TOO CLOSE. WE WERE ALMOST ALL GONE THAT TIME."
Luca froze for a full second — processing the sudden erasure of five men from a standing position. He looked to Wulfsige, registered the retreat signal, and fell in line without a word.
Unit Gemini has filed a formal complaint against Cobalt-Black Dynamics for reckless endangerment of AEGIS personnel. An open letter co-signed by Sr. Officer Miller, PFC Higgins, and the full Research Team states:
"The Specialists of Unit Gemini are the best sensors we have. If they say a room is death, we do not enter. We will no longer support or rescue contractors who treat this Complex like a gold mine instead of a bio-hazard."
Sector 1 is locked down pending stability review.
Cobalt-Black Dynamics contract under legal review.
Five contractor personnel: KIA / unrecoverable.
End of Report.