Totality Concept

Modified on 2012/04/25 23:45 by Kerrick Categorized as Deathlands, Outlanders, Totality-Concept

The Totality Concept is a widespread and highly secretive series of experiments and projects run by the US government and military. There are many, many subprojects under the umbrella of the Totality Concept, which are roughly organized as noted below:

TOTALITY CONCEPT

Overproject Whisper

Overproject Excalibur
1. Enterprise Eternity
2. Genesis Project
3. Project Calypso
4. Project Janus
5. Project Invictus
6. Scenario Joshua

Overproject Majestic
1. Mission Snowbird (the Archon Directive)
2. Project Sigma

Security Clearances

Most Totality Concept installations (and all of those with mat-trans units) have areas that are accessible only by people with a specific security clearance. Clearances are a letter/number combination - A, B, or C, and a number from 1-19*: A-4, B-12, C-5, etc. Someone with a "B" rating is higher than any "A" rating, and a "C" rating is higher than either "A" or "B" - for example, a B-2 rating is higher than A-10, and C-5 is higher than B-12.

*While numbers higher than 19 appear in later books, B-12 is the standard clearance required for the mat-trans in the early books, and B-19 is the highest number that appears at all (Doc Tanner says that this level is what the "nabobs from the Pentagon... privy to Whisper" would have had (Dectra Chain)). Thus, it is reasonable to assume that this is the highest clearance rating for a given letter, and that the later numbers were simply made up.

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