简介
收容协议研究室隶属收容部,负责一切管理局收容协议的开发、测试、准备、验收和核准工作。收容协议研究室是收容部的前线单位,由各个地区、各个领域和各个部门的专业人士组成。每一位收协研成员都接受了高程度教育和训练以完成各项工作以及为正在进行的计划贡献力量。虽然收协研依赖于和收容部内各单位以及跨部门间的合作和联络,其仍得以保留相当大一部分的功能和财政自治权以设计各种失效安全手段。收协研与其他收容部单位一样也下辖负责各个特殊任务的机构。
协议小组
都说我们做的那些实验有可能会把站点炸上天。要我说,如果这事真是由我们而不是某个没关住的异常干出来的,我会觉得安心很多。
- 匿名协议小组成员
ARO主管威尔逊教授与收容专家帕博罗测试RPC-███主要收容装置(正戴在帕博罗的眼睛上)。
单位简介:协议小组是收协研的主力军,以去中心化模式运营。每个小组由几十人组成,由一名收容专家领导;小组成员包括工程师、研究小组和士官队伍。每个小组由数个这样的小单位组成,并且根据紧凑的排班表规定行动。
协议小组负责找出使用最少资源收容异常和保护大众的方法;他们恪守收容部的信条,始终尽忠职守,守正创新。
收容部直接招募的人员只占协议小组的一小部分。协议小组的大部份成员来自于其他部门,收容部以专业能力为依据挑选各类人士:如教授、海洋生物学家、生物工程师、工会营养师、城市规划师、以及工人。
人员在协议小组内的任期不定。收协研本身不限制人员来去,有一部分在任人员是被推举负责(大部分的)临时任务,而有些人员的任期可以延长。临时人员通常负责一系列先前分配好的异常物品。任期为七个月或以上属于长期任职,而长期任职人员需要强制参与收容失效训练以应对异常突破临时收容措施的情况。
收协研也鼓励员工参与和ASF合作展开的基本武器训练。请向你的文档管理员了解更多相关信息。
职业操守:管理局对于收协研的信任和其严格遵守的操作标准是收容部的骄傲,但这是有代价的。
在收协研工作是一件疯狂而可怕的差事;我们越早将一个异常收容,流血事件发生的机率也就越低。所以严格遵守时间安排至关重要。对于实验的巨大需求也使得危险永远存在,因为异常的行为不可预测,在没有实际接触之前谁也不知道它是否会爆炸。
正因异常的行为不可预测,信息至关重要。为了整个队伍的安全,负责获取异常的人员必须在第一时间接受问讯并且事无巨细地提供接触细节。
管理局每年收容的异常数量会有波动,所以对于管理局设施的调度也通常充斥着混乱。从最初的回收算起直至最终文件归档,收容一个Alpha-白等级的异常就可能需要三到十五个不同事务部门通力合作。协议小组就需要从杂乱的讯息中梳理出成果。
在管理局不断扩张自身设备的前提下,对于收容多个复杂异常的前期准备、测试、得出结论、评估结果要在几天之内一并进行。Beta-橙级异常的平均标准期限为三天。这些造就了协议小组充满活力的工作环境,并且确保他们用尽一切手段达成收容目的。
在协议小组工作是一件千载难逢的体验,对于很多人来说也是他们的最后一班岗。当小组成员查明某些爆炸的成因或者负责限制某个没有实体的异常的行动时,就意味着少了一个人因收容协议的缺陷而无谓牺牲。
Adaptive Registry Oversight Commission
ARO Personnel arguing over the current asset spending of Prolab, Site-133, California.
The Adaptive Registry Oversight Commission, or ARO, is a loose conglomerate of bureaucrats responsible for coordinating all involved personnel within the Department. Originally a small, administrative team under the Presentium, the Department has since grown to encompass a multitude of functions.
Its main goals are twofold: To handle both logistics of labor and resources so as to not interfere with the work of specialists and to ensure the efficiency of each Protocol Unit.
The ARO remains in constant contact with every Division:
The work of Prolab involves cherry-picking the best and brightest from all departments within the Authority. Representatives often communicate with both the BoA and ASF to request personnel transfers (both temporary and permanent). Budget specialists and auditors are often suggested and transferred from OAS to review the budget of Protocol Proposals, while AET Figure Heads have to coordinate to inherit anomalies once base-protocols are crafted and to file for requests.
To maintain a steadily-growing workforce, ARO Directors are often delegated among the first to receive select applications and liaisons from the Protectorate.
Tasked with maintaining universal guidelines for all regional testing, however, ARO often plays a much more administrative role over the Units. It is the job of the Commission, through the creation of select Approval Committees, to review all Finalized Protocol Proposals established by all Units in an efficient manner. Internal requests, staff complaints, and matters of infighting are also delegated by representatives of the ARO to try to prevent HR involvement and are attempted to be settled proactively through their representatives with other departments.
Efficiency, above all else, is their main function. To prevent casualties; to not provoke internal bickering, it is believed crucial that the ARO take over the administrative work so that they can give its Specialists the breathing room they need to innovate.
Facilities and Workplace
Due to the nature of Prolab's work, it's often required to work under extreme circumstances. Heavily armored escorts, working under aliases, rapid mobilization of teams from facility to facility: it's all common procedure to allow Units to work with relative safety and to keep phenomena under Authority control.
The construction of Prolab facilities reflects this mindset; always separate from the rest of a site, "Protocol Wings" are stocked with all kinds of equipment for all kinds of situations — construction teams, soundproof chambers, in-house heavy artillery zeroed-in temporary containment wings, docking stations, one or more panic rooms, expansive hangar areas — but any member of a Protocol Team knows that these are secondary resources. The first and only lifeline and true panic button of Prolab is the radio. No piece of equipment or personnel expertise will ever be useful if it cannot be immediately accessed, and thus ceaseless communication is essential.
The all-purpose nature of Prolab presents another challenge in the absolute minimum amount of specialization. More often than not, Protocol Wings are ill-prepared to safely house newly discovered anomalies, even if their properties are obvious from the get-go. This is mitigated to a degree by the universal Containment Protocol — stay away — but nevertheless forces all personnel to be ever vigilant, even paranoid; anything out of place could represent an all-important warning sign.
And just as personnel should stay away from anomalies, anomalies should stay away from each other. "Cross-testing" is no less than heretical, an invitation to the devil, and accidental cross-contamination is the stuff of nightmares for every member of Prolab — things only madmen from Research Division's AETs would ever willingly cause. Protocol Wings almost never hold two anomalies closer than 500m away unless strictly necessary, and personnel assigned to a project must keep away from everyone else while working. Even after the conclusion of a project, team members are to take utmost care not to expose themselves to other persons for a two-week period: a minimal safety, but one that saves lives nonetheless.
