How would an IRL Government/Military/Police force deal with a brand new reality warper?

[Stimpak Medic]

I'm planning on writing a story set in a modern day alternate universe and I want to at least try to have some flavor of realism. I'm specifically looking for procedures/manuals ETC.

Let me get this out of the way, I'm not specifically asking for fic recommendations. More so any information at all, be it fics, Books, Government published material. Basically anything at all. Doesn't have to be American or based in America either.

Also, how would you specifically, say you control a Government react to one?

 

[EmailAddress]

Strictly depends on their power and behavior. OP reality warper is by definition "I win" button.

Less badly written story would have them be handled like other weirdo events (see what CIA/FSB/Mossad and others did with remote sensing, truth serums, aliens etc: it was investigated at least, partially by true believers, partially just in case, partially as coverup for actual secret things).

See Manhattan Project and equivalents in Germany and Russia for efforts that get activated when such thing turned out to be real.

I'm specifically looking for procedures/manuals ETC.

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I would be surprised to have any for that specific case.

 

[EmailAddress]

Also, how would you specifically, say you control a Government react to one?

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what you mean here?

 

[Chronodevil]

Odds are the gov would spy on / stalk them, learn every facet of their personality/history, determine if they can be controlled and/or used as a weapon. If not, at least one black bag attempt to study at a black site, failure leads to murder attempts. If all the scientists working on water engines or otherwise drastic improvements to Joe everyman's life get hit with the self terminated headline for upsetting the status quo then and uncontrolled reality warper that gets outed is not going to be tolerated.

 

[Stimpak Medic]

what you mean here?

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Meaning, if you were the President, Prime Minister, King, or otherwise absolute Leader of a government/country, and a reality warper popped up in your country, having just gained their powers, how would you react/act?

 

[EmailAddress]

If not, at least one black bag attempt to study at a black site, failure leads to murder attempts

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I expect that either trying to hire them (especially if likely to ally with you). Offering whatever they want, unless utterly outrageous.

If they are hostile, especially really powerful - assassination seems more likely. Maybe involving nuclear weapons, just to make it more likely to stick. Though that is obviously risky.

Kidnapping them to study seems really stupid, unless they are at low end. At least it would be arranged in way to not make them angry.

 

[EmailAddress]

how would you react/act?

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ignore it as likely nonsense and scam? If there would be some real indicator of it being real: investigate it as a top priority.

 

[humon]

Is this a world where other reality warpers have appeared in the past, or is this character the first anyone has ever seen?

Also what's a reality warper? Is that something like a modern day wizard? He can do magic?

I would couch everything in OODA loops. Observe, Orient, Decide, Act. So they would watch what the guy does, then come to a conclusion on whether he's a threat, then decide what to do about him, then do it.

Also, mafia tactics. Governments mostly act like the mafia, with the exception that instead of being parallel to the law, they make the law. When the mafia want to control someone, they first try to bribe them. Work with us and we'll take care of you. We'll even pay for you to fly to our country and take part in our festivities, bang some free hookers, all of that. If the bribe doesn't work, then they have to resort to threats. Plato o plomo: you take the silver, or you eat lead. Of course, if we're dealing with a mage, then direct threats are a bad idea since he can just nuke you. So you need to find his weak points, like maybe he has a family or people he cares about that you can threaten as blackmail.

But that depends on how powerful this reality warping is. Maybe the moment he gets a phone call telling him his family has been rounded up under suspicion of being Falun Gong, he can just snap his fingers and teleport them to his side. If he has that much power, then threats aren't going to work, they would have to try to use psychology and religion to manipulate him instead, to make him think that by serving the regime's interests, he is doing the right thing (5th generation warfare). So in that case they could try to brainwash all the people in his social network to be pro-government and use their social relationships with him to convince him to take the same position. Like that meme of a wojak surrounded by NPCs and one of them puts a hand on his shoulder and he turns into an NPC.

There's also a thing I heard a while back, which is that power has three modes of dealing with people: Wield, Kill, Worship. First we try to wield you (make you do what we want). If we can't wield you then we try to kill you (or cancel you, make you take tonsure, remove you from the game and from competition). If we can't wield or kill you, then we have no choice but to worship you (as a conquering warlord / demigod like Alexander the Great).

 

[ALandWithNoName]

I'm planning on writing a story set in a modern day alternate universe and I want to at least try to have some flavor of realism. I'm specifically looking for procedures/manuals ETC.

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More so any information at all, be it fics, Books, Government published material. Basically anything at all.

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Machiavellianism and the 48 Laws of Power. life follows patterns, and humans are living creatures. things just tend to work out in rhymes, if not repeat. if you want to construct a 'realistic' government, then pragmatism and history are the unfortunate resources to look at. that said, i would recommend focusing on the governments that actually survive the test of time.

i know media tends to love its fascist stuff, because clear evil makes a good dragon to slay. that is not realistic. history shows that. realistic is modeling governments after the british, the russians, the chinese, the malays, the indians, and so on. think of time in the thousands of years, not a couple centuries.

basically, just to make it simple, set-in-stone cultures probably will not look kindly on a fella who can just change all of that with a snap of a finger. younger civilizations might, young as in, only has existed for a couple hundred years.

 

[Stimpak Medic]

Machiavellianism and the 48 Laws of Power. life follows patterns, and humans are living creatures. things just tend to work out in rhymes, if not repeat. if you want to construct a 'realistic' government, then pragmatism and history are the unfortunate resources to look at. that said, i would recommend focusing on the governments that actually survive the test of time.

i know media tends to love its fascist stuff, because clear evil makes a good dragon to slay. that is not realistic. history shows that. realistic is modeling governments after the british, the russians, the chinese, the malays, the indians, and so on. think of time in the thousands of years, not a couple centuries.

basically, just to make it simple, set-in-stone cultures probably will not look kindly on a fella who can just change all of that with a snap of a finger. younger civilizations might, young as in, only has existed for a couple hundred years.

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Very good reply. Thank you. There really is a lot to think about here.