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Project EntryFirst Appearance: StormWatch Team Achilles #8


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Project : ENTRY is an I.O. project that was launched under Santini's authority under the direction of Dr. Kendricks, a former NASA scientist. The goal was to have an equivalent technology to the "doors" teleportation gates used by the Authority - teleportation through parallel universes. Due to Kendricks' skills and information derived from a StormWatch project (which had briefly managed to open a gate to another universe before the StormWatch II satellite had to be destroyed and StormWatch closed down), the project was functional within ten weeks.

 However, I.O. still had a number of men who owned their loyalty not to Santini but to the previous director - Ivana Baiul. Baiul saw project : ENTRY as the perfect vehicle to get rid of Santini, by sabotaging the installation. After the initial team of Black Razors and scientists, led by Blake Coleman, stepped through the gate, the machinery crashed due to subtle sabotage. As Baiul had anticipated, Santini then mounted a rescue op, stepping in the repaired gate with the rest of the Black Razors. As soon as they were gone, Project : ENTRY crashed again. The entire Black Razor team, I.O.'s operations director and several scientists were stranded on another Earth.

They soon understood that every man, woman and child on this Earth had been slaughtered a few months ago - the streets of every city on the planet were full of piled, rotting corpses. As they came under attack, it became evident that a single superhuman, named Devil, was responsible for this unimaginable slaughter and was now attacking them. The whole science team and most Black Razors were slaughtered ; only Santini, one Dr Offenberg and two Razors (Coleman and Cisco) survived. Eventually, Santini bluffed Devil, teleporting him to the Australian Outback then detonating a compact nuclear device place on him.

 After gating back to Wildstorm Earth (Offenberg knew the ENTRY tech), Santini investigated and discovered that Devil was actually a project born on his own Earth, in his own organization, and headed by Ivana Baiul. As the latest biological super-weapon, Devil had been field-tested on an Earth that was completely unprepared for him, and stranded here until needed again. Santini attempted to have this terrifying scandal brought to the Hague as a war crime, but I.O.'s liaison with the US government, Senator Terns, buried the whole affair.

None of the survivors of project : ENTRY would forget what happened, though - in fact, those events are in many ways seminal to what would later become Team Achilles. In particular, Santini arranged to become the sole man alive to have all the plans of tech necessary to operate project : ENTRY.

The limitations of Project : ENTRY are not precisely known. It first opens a gate between Earth Wildstorm and Earth ENTRY - the point of appearance of the gate in Earth ENTRY is the exact equivalent of the point it was opened in on Earth Wildstorm. Then another gate is opened on Earth ENTRY, at least six or seven meters away from the first ; stepping into this gate takes you back to Earth Wildstorm, but at pretty much any point targeted by the project : ENTRY operator.

Since Earth ENTRY is littered with corpses and nothing has been maintained for months, this can make stepping from Earth Wildstorm from Earth Entry impossible. In particular, it seems difficult to teleport inside buildings - Team Achilles couldn't port in straight in the Federal Reserve building and had to assault the place normally, but it *was* possible to teleport in personnel inside buildings in the UN building or in Grozny. Basically, the GM gets to say no to any teleportation that would be abusive and bypass the scenario - he's fully supported in that by the source material.

Project : ENTRY never failed to open a gate, and could be very precise in its gate placement - on several occasions, a Team Achilles operator could jump from a building, fall through an ENTRY gate, continue his fall in the ENTRY Earth for two meters or so then fall through another gate and come back on ground level somewhere else on Earth Wildstorm. This proved very convenient to extract the sniper team, allowing them to take position on elevated points dominating the battlefield - something you normally avoid in order to have both a less conspicuous position and an escape route.

There have been instances where the door from Wildstorm to Entry wasn't in the same spot - for instance when the Midnighter was catapulted from Manhattan to China via an ENTRY warp. The most likely explanation is that Tefibi was gaining a better mastery of the ENTRY technology, and became able to ignore some of its limitations. . There are also hints that the gates themselves exist in the Bleed, which is sort of the Wildstorm equivalent of the astral plane.

One of the strong points of Project : ENTRY teleportation is that the gates are a natural phenomenon, not an electronic field like most teleportation technologies. It is thus impossible to block it with dampers or force fields - a tremendous tactical advantage if the opponent doesn't understand ENTRY teleportation, as the UN Special Security Council realized too late. Likewise, ENTRY teleportation doesn't leave energy residues to trace, unlike "normal" teleporters in the Wildstorm universe.


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