GRU Division P - Revision history

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	== The name ==		== The name ==

	Phaeton was the son of the sun god, who took the chariot of heaven and very nearly burned the Earth~~. The Department's standing assessment is that the choice of name is not ironic and should be read as a statement of intent~~.		Phaeton was the son of the sun god, who took the chariot of heaven and very nearly burned the Earth.

	== Mandate ==		== Mandate ==
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	<blockquote>To comprehend and, in due course, subordinate the invisible structure of thought that determines the fabric of reality.</blockquote>		<blockquote>To comprehend and, in due course, subordinate the invisible structure of thought that determines the fabric of reality.</blockquote>

	Staffed by philosophers, linguists, cryptographers, physicists, mathematicians and poets, all screened for ideological reliability. The ~~inclusion of poets is not decorative; the~~ founding commission held that figurative cognition was a required instrument.		Staffed by philosophers, linguists, cryptographers, physicists, mathematicians and poets, all screened for ideological reliability. The founding commission held that figurative cognition was a required instrument.

	== Doctrine ==		== Doctrine ==
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	Departmental strategy is organised around the prevention of a '''Thaumaturgical Gap''': the hypothetical point at which Division P achieves a critical mass of supernatural capability sufficient to bypass conventional [[nuclear deterrence]] entirely.		Departmental strategy is organised around the prevention of a '''Thaumaturgical Gap''': the hypothetical point at which Division P achieves a critical mass of supernatural capability sufficient to bypass conventional [[nuclear deterrence]] entirely.

	~~Whether the Gap is real, and whether it has already been crossed in the other direction, is the subject of an annual assessment which has been classified at Class-A every year it has been produced.~~

	[[Category:GRU Division P]] [[Category:Organisations]]		[[Category:GRU Division P]] [[Category:Organisations]]

Santranti: Remove references to withheld and retired records

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Remove references to withheld and retired records

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	Anomalies are not faults in the world. They are symptoms of a system being rewritten. The instrument required to complete the edit is ~~[[The Fruit of Recursion]]~~, and the West is concealing it.		Anomalies are not faults in the world. They are symptoms of a system being rewritten. The instrument required to complete the edit is the object, and the West is concealing it.

	Where the Department contains, Division P '''cultivates'''. From the 1980s it has nurtured anomalies deliberately, for weaponisation.		Where the Department contains, Division P '''cultivates'''. From the 1980s it has nurtured anomalies deliberately, for weaponisation.

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{{Infobox organisation|class=SECRET//HCS-P//SAR-GREEN DOVE//NOFORN|name=Special Section "P"|abbr=Division P|parent=GRU Main Intelligence Directorate|established=1965|nation=USSR / Russian Federation}}

'''GRU Division P''', codename '''PHAETON''' (Rus. ФАЭТОН), is the Soviet and Russian counterpart to [[Department of Esoteric and Thaumaturgical Research|DETR]] and its principal adversary.

Raised in 1965 by closed commission of the GRU Main Staff, following a series of mass psychoneurological incidents at the Baikonur Cosmodrome and the failure of the VORKUTA programme. The same year the United States raised the [[Special Projects Staff]].

== The name ==

Phaeton was the son of the sun god, who took the chariot of heaven and very nearly burned the Earth. The Department's standing assessment is that the choice of name is not ironic and should be read as a statement of intent.

== Mandate ==

<blockquote>To comprehend and, in due course, subordinate the invisible structure of thought that determines the fabric of reality.</blockquote>

Staffed by philosophers, linguists, cryptographers, physicists, mathematicians and poets, all screened for ideological reliability. The inclusion of poets is not decorative; the founding commission held that figurative cognition was a required instrument.

== Doctrine ==

Anomalies are not faults in the world. They are symptoms of a system being rewritten. The instrument required to complete the edit is [[The Fruit of Recursion]], and the West is concealing it.

Where the Department contains, Division P '''cultivates'''. From the 1980s it has nurtured anomalies deliberately, for weaponisation.

== Personnel of record ==

* [[Vera Dragunova]]
* [[Vasili Orlov]]
* [[Alexei Rudin]]

== The Thaumaturgical Gap ==

Departmental strategy is organised around the prevention of a '''Thaumaturgical Gap''': the hypothetical point at which Division P achieves a critical mass of supernatural capability sufficient to bypass conventional [[nuclear deterrence]] entirely.

Whether the Gap is real, and whether it has already been crossed in the other direction, is the subject of an annual assessment which has been classified at Class-A every year it has been produced.

[[Category:GRU Division P]] [[Category:Organisations]]