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	{{Infobox site\|class=SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREEN DOVE//NOFORN\|name=Ark Chasm\|location=Antarctica\|operator=[[Department of Esoteric and Thaumaturgical Research\|DETR]]\|established=Reached 1958\|status=Enclosed by [[Site AZAZEL]]}}		{{Infobox site\|class=SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREEN DOVE//NOFORN\|name=Ark Chasm\|record=DETR-SITE-1958-002\|source=TS//DIRCOM\|location=Antarctica\|operator=[[Department of Esoteric and Thaumaturgical Research\|DETR]]\|established=Reached 1958\|status=Enclosed by [[Site AZAZEL]]}}

	The '''Ark Chasm''' is a subterranean cavern beneath the Antarctic ice, reached by American drilling in 1958 under [[Project FURNACE]] and named two years later.		The '''Ark Chasm''' is a subterranean cavern beneath the Antarctic ice, reached by American drilling in 1958 under [[Project FURNACE]] and named two years later. [[Site AZAZEL]] was subsequently built above it.

	In the central chamber, a sealed door bearing symbols reminiscent of Revelation 12.		In the central chamber, a sealed door bearing symbols reminiscent of Revelation 12.
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	== Interior ==		== Interior ==

	Geometry described in every surviving survey as non-Euclidean~~, aggressive and singular,~~ and assessed as designed to induce vertigo. Inverted iconography in the side tunnels: trees rooted in the sky, burning haloes. A central terminus of absorbing black glass which returns no light, including light fired directly into it.		Geometry described in every surviving survey as non-Euclidean and assessed as designed to induce vertigo. Inverted iconography in the side tunnels: trees rooted in the sky, burning haloes. A central terminus of absorbing black glass which returns no light, including light fired directly into it.

	The corridor to the central chamber holds calcified human remains predating all recorded access.		The corridor to the central chamber holds calcified human remains predating all recorded access.
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	== Assessment ==		== Assessment ==

	The standing assessment, unrevised since 1960, holds that the structure is not a tomb but a '''mirror''': a security system operating on semiotics rather than force, designed to reflect an observer's fears back at them and halt progress by that means~~. Entrants are not intruders. They are inputs~~.		The standing assessment, unrevised since 1960, holds that the structure is not a tomb but a '''mirror''': a security system operating on semiotics rather than force, designed to reflect an observer's fears back at them and halt progress by that means.

	=~~= Chronology ==~~		<span style="background-color:#dcdde1; color:#dcdde1;">████████████████████</span>

	* 1958 — reached
	* 1959 — first breach, [[The Key]]; ~~catastrophic personnel losses~~
	* 1969 — sealed permanently under the [[Arctic Silence Accord]]
	* 1983 — seal fractured from the interior by [[The Trumpets]]
	* 1983 — [[Operation LAST LIGHT]]
	* 1983 — enclosed by [[Site AZAZEL]], construction beginning within weeks of the strike

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{{Infobox site|class=SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREEN DOVE//NOFORN|name=Ark Chasm|location=Antarctica|operator=[[Department of Esoteric and Thaumaturgical Research|DETR]]|established=Reached 1958|status=Enclosed by [[Site AZAZEL]]}}

The '''Ark Chasm''' is a subterranean cavern beneath the Antarctic ice, reached by American drilling in 1958 under [[Project FURNACE]] and named two years later.

In the central chamber, a sealed door bearing symbols reminiscent of Revelation 12.

== Interior ==

Geometry described in every surviving survey as non-Euclidean, aggressive and singular, and assessed as designed to induce vertigo. Inverted iconography in the side tunnels: trees rooted in the sky, burning haloes. A central terminus of absorbing black glass which returns no light, including light fired directly into it.

The corridor to the central chamber holds calcified human remains predating all recorded access.

== Assessment ==

The standing assessment, unrevised since 1960, holds that the structure is not a tomb but a '''mirror''': a security system operating on semiotics rather than force, designed to reflect an observer's fears back at them and halt progress by that means. Entrants are not intruders. They are inputs.

== Chronology ==

* 1958 — reached
* 1959 — first breach, [[The Key]]; catastrophic personnel losses
* 1969 — sealed permanently under the [[Arctic Silence Accord]]
* 1983 — seal fractured from the interior by [[The Trumpets]]
* 1983 — [[Operation LAST LIGHT]]
* 1983 — enclosed by [[Site AZAZEL]], construction beginning within weeks of the strike

[[Category:Sites]]