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Evdonia Paranormal Force: Explaining Ride-or-Die

This briefing is classified to Restricted, level 3. Notetaking instruments must be turned in before the end of the briefing and will not be released to you for habitual personal possession if not turned in immediately.

All in attendance, please raise your hand on oath - index and middle extended, remaining fingers down. Repeat after me: I solemnly affirm that I will hold to the standards of secrecy expected of an agent of the Ministry of Intelligence of Evdonia.

Thank you.

The Ride-or-Die staff program is open to volunteers already within the organization. Ride-or-Die is a program where you agree to be subjected to possibly dangerous anomalies in organized testing, and possible extremely early medical retirement or death as a result, in exchange for much higher pay and the advancement of science. Information we have received by means we cannot discuss from the Inward Arrows team suggest that a similar program is run under the name D-class, but that the employees are not volunteers, and are made to forget every month. This is understandable, because occasionally they explicitly feed the staff to anomalies where this is the only option. In such cases, it's Force policy to attempt termination of the anomaly if deemed feasible. Ride-or-Die volunteers are subject to this, should the need ever arise, but may opt out.

Ride-or-Die was initiated, without Force approval, in the early 1910s, after the recovery of Item O-41. Several staff violated Force practice not to test anomalous objects where information was not available about their effects already. When questioned, they explained that they were ride-or-die for science and for the Force, even if it meant violating policy in the service of knowledge. Ride-or-Die became a Force-sanctioned program in 1949, about 35 years after it began, and shortly after the last demobilization of the regular armed forces in the second of two intervening world wars. Since then, *as you put a graph slide on the projector* Ride-or-Die has surprisingly not been the section of the Force with the highest ratio of casualties (injuries and deaths, taken together); that's been the general research staff (before we had our own armed forces, it was and remains common for regular research staff to be armed at all times, to defend against threats on-base and off-base), mostly because of poor practices before the WSBE hearing in the '60s (which also led to the creation of the Force paramilitary) where we did not have defined risk classification for known-quantity objects, and a couple of high-risk objects caused serious injuries due to mishandling.