DELTA GREEN: THE ROLE-PLAYING GAME (EXCERPTS)

Hey guys! I'm in the middle of the nightmare-awesome-task of drowning in new Delta Green material for Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game (formerly called the Case Officer's Handbook). I am editing, writing and drawing as fast as I can, but I want to leave nothing done below a quality level that puts it beyond the Agent's Handbook. 

In the Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game book, besides rules on creating hypergeometric effects, creature and Great Old Ones of your own, you'll find an entire history of Delta Green from inception to the modern day, along with the details of the MAJESTIC war...

We have so damn much to cover, how do we do this? Well, some things are mentioned and will have their own books (PISCES and the like), but other things are covered in sections we're calling ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE and HANDLER'S EYES ONLY. These small boxed text breakouts cover important asides without disrupting the flow. 

Below are two examples:

ACTIONABLE INTELLIGENCE: KEEPING THE ULTIMATE SECRET
At the end of World War II, America stood supreme; its homeland untouched, its factories a prodigy of production, its Army, Navy, Air Corps and arsenal second to no other Earthly power. With the atomic bomb and the double demonstration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, few could picture any other world government ever approaching its power, at least in the near-term.
    America labored under this delusion as well, so much so that when something which was not supposed to exist, and which put every earthly technology to shame fell from the sky in 1947, it was ill-prepared to deal with the shock provided.
    The Roswell saucer represented a fundamental shift in the disposition of reality to those in power in the United States. Within days of its capture, the saucer clearly showed that America, the power which had spanned the globe and brought the world war to an end, was still only of this world. Something now, existed beyond it—in stealth, technology and power. Something absolute that made the entirety of the American arsenal look like as potent as a firecracker.
    It turned out, the secret was easy to keep. And this method remained unchanged during MAJESTIC’s entire operational history. Those briefed for MAJESTIC clearance were told, in no uncertain terms, that if the truth of the situation became general knowledge, the occupants of the saucer would have no choice but to end the experiment that they had begun on Earth eons before, which we called “humanity”.


HANDLER’S EYES ONLY: THE SIGIL
After the atomic bomb demonstrated how potent applied physics could truly be, and even before the mysterious apparently extraterrestrial craft crashed at Roswell, New Mexico, the U.S. government was gathering physicists and setting them on the ultimate task; the unification of all physical sciences into one, unbroken, whole.
    When MAJESTIC began probing the spacecraft recovered at Roswell—nicknamed “the bucket”—they hoped it might provide a shortcut to discovering the nature of anti-gravity. Since the alien vehicle could accelerate, float and turn at right angles without any visible means of propulsion, most believed it must contain some sort of gravity engine.
    Instead of a machine producing the anti-gravity effect in the craft, all that was found was a series of bizarre sigils carved into a clay-like substance within it (and subtle, larger sigils etched into the indestructible metal of its exterior surface). These sigils seemed to project gravity—with no apparent counter-force—in a way that human science had not even the slightest idea how to begin to understand. MAJESTIC threw the best minds on the planet at it. The sigil proved to be the most complex thing ever seen by mankind. Hundreds of millions of dollars, and dozens of lives were lost to the seamless math behind the sigil over the next sixty years.
    While the sigil has since been replicated—in rote copy—used to propel objects and even kill; after decades of effort, humanity is not one step closer to understanding how it works at all.