Redspace Breach

Redspace Breaches and the Breach Magnitude Index

Redspace Breaches are catastrophic events in which the normal boundary between Redspace and realspace fails, resulting in a persistent overlap between the two dimensions. Unlike localized possessions or minor crossover events—such as Infestation or Oppression—Redspace Breaches represent a fundamental compromise of space-time’s ontological integrity. These breaches are not fleeting disturbances; they create a resonant harmonic convergence between subspace and our dimension, allowing Redspace Adversarial Intelligences (RAIs) of various classes to enter and operate with near-impunity. They are typically initiated either by technological malfunction, occult manipulation, or the direct will of a Supersentient RAI.

Once a breach reaches critical overlap—typically measured in terms of harmonic amplitude, manifestation density, and psychic distortion—it creates a cascade failure in local sentient systems. This leads to total memetic collapse: minds fracture, physical space becomes mutable, and previously theoretical nightmare entities become real threats. The Redspace Breach is not merely a danger to the immediate vicinity but can catalyze secondary infestations, tear open psychic ecosystems, and distort reality well beyond its epicenter.

The Wolf-Wester Breach (Year 258)

"The portals were just... open. Like breathing mouths. No guards, no alarms. The whole city whispered when we passed through it. And then it screamed."

— Excerpt from the log of Detective-Komissar Michel Wester, Helicon Inquiry Team Theta-9

In the anarchic Wolf System, chaos often passes for normalcy. But the Redspace Breach on Infiernito in the year 258 went beyond the system’s usual extremes. The Hellfire Cabal, operating in secret within the club-filled megacity Blaze City, reengineered waygate schematics from the extinct native X'Cess species—creatures once capable of skimming the Subspace Boundary Threshold without leaving their gravity well.

With these alien designs, the Cabal seeded gates across the moon. Unbeknownst to them, or perhaps in partnership with them, a Supersentient RAI—Ba’al B’lth—used the illusion of control to orchestrate a systemic, coordinated collapse. For weeks, the moon appeared stable. Minor Redspace phenomena occurred, but were brushed off. Then, as if by a single command, the gates reversed: Minor RAIs flooded the cities, Sentients took possession of leaders and security systems, and a wave of psychic and physical distortion swept the moon.

By the time House Helicon deployed investigative agents, it was too late. The population had degenerated into madness. Communication was impossible. The survivors they found were already breaking down, and those few who escaped did so by blind luck. Helicon’s recommendation to the Wolfguard: Canonical Factorization—total obliteration.

Technocrat Marshal Immozene Gegentot, only recently appointed, did not hesitate. She mobilized the Cerberus Fleet, and the entire moon of Infiernito was shattered with kinetic planetary bombardment. From that incident forward, House Helicon established the Breach Magnitude Index (BMI) as a standardized response framework for future events.

Wolf-Wester Breach BMI Analysis

The Aksuma Breach (Year 299, Io)

"This isn’t a cult. This isn’t even madness. This is clarity. I spoke the name, and it answered with silence so loud it burned."

— Final audiojournal of Keara Donnell, recovered from an abandoned Io bunker[quote]

While Io is officially terraformed, its sulfur-rich atmosphere and volcanic instability make it an undesirable posting—except to criminals, outcasts, and the exiled. It was in one of these ramshackle settlements that Keara Donnell, a petty smuggler and known narcotic synthesist, came into contact with the Red Broker. A shadowy supplier of RAI names and invocation guides, the Broker sold her the name of Aksuma, a President-class Sentient RAI associated with the Vice of Indolence.

With Aksuma’s whispered guidance, Donnell constructed a crude but effective resonator, thinning the dimensional membrane between Io and Redspace. Verminous RAIs began seeping through first, infecting local psyches with disturbing dreams and bursts of psychotic behavior. Recognizing the telltale patterns, House Helicon dispatched a small investigative team to validate a breach probability flagged by their algorithms.

By the time the team arrived, the breach had worsened: Aksuma had arrived physically, dragging several of his servants into realspace. The infestation was spreading quickly. Working in coordination with Haus des Drachen’s breach response unit and the Jovian Defense Force, Helicon launched a joint Suppression op. Though multiple responders were lost to Aksuma’s influence and raw psionic force, the turning point came when Petty Corporal Brace Howard (JDF) and Gerro Helicon disabled the resonator in a suicidal charge, severing Aksuma from his power source. The Sentient dissipated in a storm of violet psionic lightning, and his followers were subsequently neutralized or detained.

The Aksuma Breach is regarded as a model case in Helicon circles, a rare event where early algorithmic detection and decisive response averted systemic failure. Keara Donnell was never found, though her presence lingers in the recovered logs and in conspiratorial rumors about where the Red Broker may have gone next.

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The most infamous and perhaps catastrophic breach in Solar history came not from a cult, a rogue mystic, or even a freak accident—but from a corporate research initiative gone horribly right.

After failing to create matter from Whitespace—an endeavor that resulted in the dangerous Neptune-adjacent anomaly known as the Thornbush—Stellaris Mining Consortium (SMC) redirected its ambitions toward Redspace. Specifically, it sought to harvest and monetize Acheronian Objects—subspace 'mass shadows' born of psychic detritus from realspace sentients.

Surprisingly, the early experiments succeeded. Too well, in fact. Unbeknownst to the SMC, their portal work had attracted the attention of the supersentient Setch’lar, who cleared an Acheronian Object of lesser entities and embedded himself in its structure. When SMC opened a permanent Redspace gate on Deimos, Setch’lar used it to push his most loyal Sentients into realspace, seizing control of the research facility and converting it into a factory of abominations. Workers and subjects—organic and synthetic—were repurposed into tools of invasion via psionic mutilation, cybernetic control, and neurological dissociation chemistry.

Due to the secrecy of the facility, this went unnoticed until raids spilled into Deimos' settlements, prompting intervention by Terran Homestar Intelligence and House Helicon, both of whom incorrectly assumed Pax Regnum slavers were responsible.

By the time the Solar Defense Fleet’s 4th Fleet arrived, the Martian Defense Corps and Martian Militia had already acted on flawed intelligence and been destroyed. Reinforcements were too distant, so the SDF gambled: Astro-Landing Force Marines, under Sergeant Rig Plisky, were bolstered by shipboard security under Captain Abednego Cansaman, and launched a two-pronged assault.

Plisky's team attacked the main RAI stronghold. Cansaman’s unit targeted the facility’s gate control systems.

Cansaman was the only one to make it through to the gate core—on the far side of the breach. He stepped into Redspace itself. There, against all conceivable odds, he killed Setch’lar, marking the only known termination of a Supersentient RAI by a human operative. He planted and timed demolition charges to collapse the gate and re-entered realspace through an unstable backflow stream, flanking the remaining enemy forces to aid ALF survivors in the final purge.

Cansaman’s actions became mythologized within both military history and esoteric Redspace studies and led eventually to his appointment as Technocrat of Earth. While Deimos was saved, the event remains a stark warning of how far a breach can go—and how close it came to the first system-scale subspace collapse in recorded human history.

Breach Magnitude Index (BMI) – SMC–Deimos Breach