TRU-6
TRU-6 is the hand you send into the fire when the fire is a resonant anomaly locked inside an artifact that defies every scientific framework.
Their specialty isn’t just retrieval—it’s containment, transport, and ensuring the payload arrives in Fort Resonance’s Omega-Black vault unchanged by the journey.
Every member is trained to treat artifacts as both sleeping predators and delicate treasures, threading the line between security and preservation.
A single misstep could destabilize a pulse corridor, trigger an uncontrolled bleed, or turn the carrier itself into a hazard.
That’s why TRU-6 doesn’t take chances—they take procedures and turn them into reflexes.
Lt. Kael Serin — “Courier”
The calm in the storm, Kael Serin handles artifacts as if he were defusing a breathing bomb.
With pale skin, a neatly trimmed beard, and graphite-gray eyes, he wears layered transport armor reinforced with resonance shielding, each panel calibrated to dampen pulses before they reach the carrier’s body.
His history in the Black Mars Reclamation Zone reads like a list of impossible extractions—payloads no one should have moved, yet somehow arrived intact.
Kael has a near-ritualistic respect for chain-of-custody; in his world, paperwork isn’t bureaucracy—it’s a shield against chaos.
Team members know when he says don’t touch, it’s not a suggestion, it’s survival.
While others feel the pressure of moving objects that hum with alien resonance, Kael’s heartbeat barely changes, his mind already running three steps ahead to ensure the vault doors close behind them.
Spec. Lira Omven — “Cradle”
If Kael moves the impossible, Lira Omven makes sure it stays possible to move.
Short and sharp-featured, her violet-tinted lenses hide eyes constantly scanning micro-readouts while a data slate mounted to her forearm streams containment telemetry.
Her background in reactive case engineering means she can design a secure housing for an artifact in the middle of a crumbling corridor.
Lira treats every object as though it has moods—angry, dormant, restless—and shapes her containment approach accordingly.
Her adaptive cases have survived quantum surge spikes, dimensional bleed, and one incident still classified above Omega-Black.
She is quiet in the field, her voice reserved for critical adjustments: “Hold. Lower temperature three degrees. Now.” And when she says it, everyone listens.
Cpl. Janek Brul — “Latchkey”
A man built like the vault doors he guards, Janek Brul is tall, broad-shouldered, and always positioned between the artifact and anything that could threaten it.
His armor is lined with vault glyphs, each one a protective measure against resonance interference.
Once part of the elite EarthCore Diplomatic Guard, Janek transitioned to TRU-6 because artifacts, unlike politicians, could not be bargained with—they had to be secured.
His role in the chain-of-custody is absolute: nothing touches the artifact without his authorization, and every second of its journey is logged.
Janek has a quiet intensity, rarely wasting words, but when he raises his voice, it cuts through chaos like a blade.
More than once, he has been the last line of defense between a rogue retrieval attempt and an irreplaceable Omega-Black asset.
Pvt. Elsha Reys — “Slip”
The youngest in the unit, Elsha Reys is also the fastest—both in reflex and decision-making.
Slim, with uneven bangs and sharp, darting eyes, she wears pulse-tuned boots and motion-sensitive gloves that allow her to feel distortions in the field like changes in air pressure.
Her role is to scout artifact sites ahead of containment, mapping the invisible edges where pulse interference turns from harmless to lethal.
If she flinches, the team knows to step back—fast.
Many mistake her for impulsive, but her risk assessments are lightning-quick calculations honed by field survival.
She has aborted extractions seconds before an artifact’s pulse spiked, saving the entire team from collapse events.
To Elsha, hesitation is the real danger, and she moves with the certainty of someone who knows just how fast things can go wrong.