Recovered fragment from The Fall universe.

 Dr. Hensley hadn’t expected the file to still exist.

Most of the data pulled from Outpost 9 was corrupted, burned, or deliberately erased. This one survived — partially. Whoever tried to destroy it hadn’t finished the job.

She read in silence.

OUTPOST 9

PROJECT: ███████ / CHIMERA MUTANT STRAIN

CLEARANCE: ████████

STATUS: PARTIALLY REDACTED

LOG — INITIAL AUTHORISATION

Baseline Chimera exhibits limited effectiveness against █████████ clusters.

Objective: create a controlled variant capable of rapid █████████████ of the dead.

This is not a cure project.

This is a ██████████████.

LOG — PHYSIOLOGICAL DEVIATION

Unexpected skeletal acceleration observed.

Metacarpals elongating and ██████.

Keratin density increasing along ██████████.

Subjects capable of short bursts of ████████ speed.

Locomotion improved when ██████████.

LOG — BEHAVIOURAL NOTES

Subjects display adaptive ████████.

Pattern recognition confirmed.

They anticipate movement.

They do not linger on █████████ targets.

LOG — INCIDENT REPORT

Subjects redirected toward █████████ personnel.

Correction: no distinction is ██████████.

Movement █████████ response.

Heat █████████ response.

Sound █████████ response.

FINAL ENTRY

The strain is █████████ controllable.

████████ protocols failed.

If anyone recovers this data:

They were made to fight the dead.

They learned too quickly.

Hensley closed the file.

Outpost 9 hadn’t fallen to the dead.

It had fallen to hubris.