Liminal Systems Division (LiSyD)

Origin/History

Founded in 1958 under the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Strategic Infrastructure, ostensibly to research “non-Euclidean transit phenomena.” Internally referred to as Project OVERSTEP, the division originally tracked unexplained incidents in interstitial spaces—people disappearing during layovers, freight trains arriving ahead of themselves, escalators with 13th steps.

After a 1971 incident in São Paulo (referred to only as “The Spiral Terminal”), the LiSyD was quietly severed from transportation oversight and reabsorbed into the broader “Continuity Complex” via Directive ECHO-SEVEN. Its modern operations are scattered, parasitic—embedded inside other agencies under vague titles like Transitional Space Monitoring or Recursive Urban Studies.

A popular internal myth claims the Division has no original building—it was born inside a janitor’s closet between two unconnected offices and has since migrated between floors and frames of reality.

Primary Function

Officially: Monitoring infrastructural anomalies and ensuring continuity across national transit and logistics networks.

In reality: The LiSyD catalogs and manipulates threshold events—moments when individuals, locations, or ideas pass from one ontological state to another without proper anchoring. Their work spans:

• Dream leakage containment
• Urban recursion mapping
• Metastable personhood tracking
• Elevator drift scenarios

The LiSyD believes that reality is mostly suggested, and vulnerable at the seams.

Symbols and Patches

The official patch is Velcro-backed and never quite symmetrical. A black-on-silver Möbius strip overlays a stylized floor plan—usually of a terminal, sometimes of your current location. The motto:

“All Exits Are Internal.”

Unauthorized personnel wearing the patch have reported migraines, missing time, or waking dreams of airports submerged in water.

Senior staff may wear a single black ring on the middle finger, denoting their clearance to operate in “Intermediary Zones.”

Known Operations

• Incident 62-BLACK Object 23 was drawn into existence
• OCELOT REDLINE (1993–1994): A failed attempt to stabilize a disappearing highway exit outside Denver. Witnesses reported it led to a fog-wrapped suburb called Greywater where clocks ran backward and no children aged.
• THE NAKED EYE PROTOCOL (2007): Emergency LiSyD deployment following a rise in spontaneous “glitch cities” witnessed through Google Street View. In one case, a real estate agent vanished after clicking into a listing in Silvershore, FL—a town that doesn't exist.

Rumors and Anomalies

• Employees have reported entering Division headquarters through revolving doors, stairwells, even dreams—only to find themselves in the correct meeting room.
• Some staff are suspected of not existing outside transitional spaces. They sleep on trains, shower in truck stops, and never possess a fixed address.
• There is allegedly a Floor 7.5 somewhere in the division’s administrative stack. Unauthorized access results in soft erasure—your loved ones remember a version of you that took a different job.
• The division does not terminate agents. It misplaces them.

Intersections with Other Orgs

LiSyD is believed to have ongoing conflict with ODIN-ECHO, which views reality stability as non-negotiable. Meanwhile, LiSyD may be a front for NULL SIBYL, or perhaps the other way around—it’s hard to tell when maps don’t line up.