UNA-017

Unexplainable Numbered Anomaly: 017

R. I. C. Class: Yellow-3-4

Object Properties: Sentient, Microscopic

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Description

UNA-017 is a large virus, around 500 nanaometers in diameter, with appearance similar to the Ebola virus. UNA-017 has shown high potency, being able to be transmitted to an average of 3 other people over the course of its infection, through skin contact, droplets, and mixture of bodily fluids.

UNA-017 seems to specifically target people with higher salaries, although the amount required for UNA-017 to consider a person a target is still unknown. Testing has shown the lower limit to be around an annual salary of USD 13000, however people with much higher salaries have also shown resistance to the virus. Personnel such as EDPs have displayed complete immunity to UNA-017.

UNA-017 usually first manifests as the common flu, and exhibits no abnormal effects for the first 2 to 3 days of infection. After this period of time, however, people infected with UNA-017 begin to show an extreme will to give away their money to those who are financially suffering. Those infected by UNA-017 first begin sending money to family members, either physically or through tranfers between bank accounts. The infected can usually also be seen handing loose change to the homeless despite not having exhibited such generous behaviour before. As more time passes, UNA-017's effects become increasingly severe, and the infected have been recorded to donate anywhere between 80% and 100% of their savings to various charitable organisations.¹

While UNA-017 displays no harmful effects other than the mentioned, those infected are quickly thrown into poverty. Any new money received by them will be donated as soon as possible. Due to the inability to care for themselves, their hygiene and nutritional needs, those infected by UNA-017 quickly perish of disease or starvation. People who are forcibly prevented from giving away their money have shown to be able to survive like normal humans, however the urge to donate will remain for as long as UNA-017 is in their body.

UNA-017 has shown extreme resilience to its surroundings, being able to survive outside a human host for more than 50 hours, and being able to withstand temperatures of up to 150°C.

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Acquisition

While the origin of UNA-017 is unknown, much information has been gathered from personal logs of ██████████ ████, a researcher who worked with several other Russian scientists to produce anomalous bioweaponry.

+ Excerpts from ████'s Personal Logs

Following entries are selected transcripts from ████'s personal logs, translated from Russian to English.

27/05/1952

Research is going swimmingly. We have created our own virus, capable of following certain steps and infecting specific people, as we desire. I suggested we add effects from various other diseases like the flu or food poisoning, but the head researcher says there isn't enough programming space for it. It's true that the virus can't do much for its size, I guess. We've managed to make the virus extremely potent, but other than that, the virus doesn't really do all that much. It's at least good that we've managed to control it's spread, though.

31/05/1952

We've made an incredible breakthrough! Several members of the research team, including me, have discovered a way to fit long lines of code into the virus. There isn't enough time to write this all down, we have a lot of work to do, but we've managed to make it so the virus targets people based on all sorts of things. We simply need to decide the conditions for the virus to infect, and we'll be good to go.

02/06/1952

Head researcher suggests we make it based on salary, I didn't think this was possible at first. I mean, salary is such a human, man-made concept, that no length of code will allow the virus to perceive salary as a deciding factor. But someone actually did it. Of course, that person had to be ██████████. Too smart for his own good. And acts like he's the best thing ever too.

19/06/1952

Head researcher is gone. Someone released the virus, killing him. The rest of us weren't infected — there's no way our salary is high enough for the virus to even take interest in us. But someone did it. I'm guessing it's ██████████, honestly. He's always dreamed of being head researcher, or at least, having higher power. I hope this project just kicks him in the ass. Maybe he'll get infected too, and he'll die or something.

12/07/1952

Final changes to the virus's code have been made — we're almost ready to sell it to the government. They say it'll teach those nasty capitalists a lesson. ██████████ stays as head researcher, don't know how he kept himself safe from the virus. Probably something smart like purposely lowering his salary. I've been noticing a suspicious number of people receiving bonuses this month. I think ██████████ is on to something…

04/02/1953

Shit, we have reports of Stalin giving away money. He's got to be infected, we really messed up this time. The rest don't take notice, they probably got infected too. They'll think we killed him or something. We're really gonna die, I guess. At least I get the pleasure of seeing ██████████ take all the responsibility…

UNA-017's effects were first witnessed in 1953, upon the death of Joseph Stalin, who had reportedly 'died of starvation'. Investigations made by several other political figures in Russia at the time also led to their deaths upon contracting UNA-017, prompting the Foundation to dispatch a research team to investigate. Several samples of UNA-017 were contained and returned for testing and analysis, while the rooms and offices of all Russian politicians at the time were subject to full cleansing and sanitisation. Surviving political figures were either kept in detainment for interrogation, or amnesticised before being released to the public. Stalin's death has been given the cover-up story of a cerebral haemorrhage.

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Containment Protocol

UNA-017 is to be handled only by Clearance Level 1 personnel, who, due to lack of a salary, are completely immune to UNA-017. 5 agar plates, each containing a colony of UNA-017 instances are secured in Bio-Room 17 of the bio-research sector in Site-003. At no point are Clearance Level 3 and above personnel allowed within 10m of Bio-Room 17. Every week, three Clearance Level 1 personnel are to perform disinfection of the room.

Interaction with UNA-017 is limited only to non-organic testing. Personnel assigned to conduct tests are to wear full hazmat suits when dealing with UNA-017, and are to undergo full body cleansing afterwards. Testing on personnel is currently prohibited due to the sacrifice of important personnel to do so.

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Addendums

+ Addendum-017-1: Article Update

Recently, several political figures from the USA have been recorded donating generously to charitable foundations, and a number of them have been reported to have gone bankrupt. It is believed that an outbreak of UNA-017 has taken place, from an unknown source. While investigations continue, all news reports involving the deaths of these political figures are to be removed and hidden from the public. Cover-up stories are to be disseminated stating that these figure died of natural causes. In particular, a failure in an aeroplane's engine had caused several of these figures to perish on a flight. Request to increase the Impact Class of UNA-017 to Maximum Impact approved.

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Footnotes

1. In particular, those infected will often donate to organisations linked to their past. Personnel who have been involved with large-scale anomalies that have lead to disasters have shown a preference to donate to organisations dealing with survivors of natural disasters.