Lucian Randolph

I spent over three decades inside the most advanced classified laboratory on the planet. Deeper than DARPA was the inside joke about what we were and where we operated. Then a recent public executive action unilaterally declassified my entire section and all the information in it. All of my work had been previously classified. None of it was ever public. And now it all belongs to me again.

However, I still cannot talk about the things that I did in that lab.

That’s why I wrote fiction.

The primary purpose of my lab was ostensibly to create threat forecasts. Many people have a fundamental misunderstanding of threat forecasting. They believe that it is some sort of black magic fortune-telling ability to predict the future. It is actually a modeling process. The first step is the creation of the threat matrix into a model. Then the model is analyzed for patterns. Then the patterns are synthesized into probability outcomes. This is the part where predictive power becomes powerful. If the synthesis of the patterns is accurate, the timelines all flow through the matrix in probabilistic paths.

These are the possible future timelines.

But classified reports about threats only reach a limited audience. Fiction can reach millions. Threat intelligence disguised as fiction can do more than any official threat assessment report ever could.

So that’s what I did.