Editing Vera Dragunova

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'''Vera Dragunova''' was the senior military observer present at the 1959 breach of [[Ark Chasm]], and subsequently the most consequential researcher [[GRU Division P]] fielded.

At the breach she lost volitional control of her own speech centre and recited Revelation aloud under the influence of the anomaly, from a text she had encountered in a sleep-state hallucination forty-eight hours earlier. She regained consciousness outside the perimeter by a means of extraction she was never able to account for. [[The Key]] was gone.

== The 1965 annex ==

Her closed annex to the Phaeton founding file is the first document on either side to identify the recurring figure as an '''archetype''' rather than as a series of sightings.

<blockquote>''I cannot say with certainty that it is the same phenomenon, but the coincidences trouble me. I will continue to analyse the patterns. They are not random.''</blockquote>

She was correct, and she said so first.

== Retirement ==

Dragunova retired at the end of a full career and went home. She is not believed to have worked on the subject again.

[[Category:Personnel]] [[Category:GRU Division P]]