Undulators are the members of a paramilitary organization which serves as a private army for a number of Memory Fluid distributors. They are considered highly armed and dangerous, and are actively hostile to the M.E.G. and its Insect Extermination Task Force.
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Description
It is believed that the Undulators will secretly invite Wanderers who previously served in the armed forces of the Frontrooms to join their ranks, promising greater power and wealth to those who accept their invitation. Recruits will then be blindfolded and taken to a secret location where they will undergo a 9 week training course, during which their bodies and minds will be conditioned to become the ultimate mercenary armed forces in the Backrooms.
Once their training has been completed, recruits earn the title of Undulator, and will serve the organization as guards, foot-soldiers, and assassins until they eventually they are killed in combat. It is believed that some, if not all, Undulators have their minds partially wiped or altered during the last 3 weeks of training, a phase which has been referred to as Mind Defragmentation. This final part of the training ensures that Undulator Units:
"Act as one mind obedient to the organization, United and Indivisible, and even when Divided, Invincible." ― Undulator Modus Operandi
Training
Physical Conditioning
Undulator training consists of a 9 week period of intense physical and mental conditioning meant to break down recruits and build them back up as units of 12 individuals who, for all intents and purposes, function as one mind and seemingly one person. The training is divided into 3 sections which last 3 weeks each, beginning with Physical Conditioning. During Physical Conditioning, recruits are divided into units of 12 and taught the basic skills of their profession, such as physical fitness, military tactics, first aid, and the use of firearms and other such equipment.
Field Conditioning
During the second part of training, known as Field Conditioning, recruits are trained and educated on numerous scenarios and entities of the Backrooms which they encounter and have to fight against in the field. Recruits are also trained to kill I.E.T.F. agents on sight and without question, and are conditioned with aggressive verbal commands and personal insults to feel hatred towards the I.E.T.F. in order to trigger an aggression response whenever the trainee sees any logos or uniforms associated with the I.E.T.F. and the M.E.G. As part of field conditioning, Recruits will also be made to memorize the various maze-like facilities used as outposts and hideouts by the Undulators. Both aggression and maze training are extensively used in the final part of training to build key memories which define the Undulators upon completion of their training.
Mind Defragmentation
The final part of the training, known as Mind Defragmentation, consists of breaking down the minds and memories of recruits through the usage of Wormlings, and then building them back up using various brews of Memory Fluid,, in such a way that each of the 12 members of each unit share equal portions of each other's memories, to the point where they no longer have any individuality, but act as one personality with only slight variations between each unit member. Approximately 50% of the original memories of these unit members will be erased and replaced with memories consisting largely of the memories which they acquired in the Field Conditioning portion of training. Memories erased during this process include:
- Memories of family, loved ones, previous friendships, and home.
- Memories relating to individuality, questioning authority, and creativity.
- Memories relating to religion and the belief in god or other greater powers besides Undulator Leadership.
- Memories of being compassionate and empathetic towards outsiders or towards those of a rival group. This is done to instill a tribalist and xenophobic attitude in Undulator units.
The memories retained by Undulators will consist of:
- Memories relating to the various entities of the Backrooms and information on how to defeat or avoid them.
- The layout of Undulator facilities and knowledge of where these hideouts are located. This is learned during maze training in order to ensure maximum security should one of these facilities be breached, though to date none of their locations has been compromised.
- Hatred towards members of the M.E.G. and it's the Insect Extermination Taskforce which was instilled in aggression training. These memories will often be altered and fused with personal memories of being harmed by others in order to ensure optimal hatred towards agents of these two groups.
- Memories of being cold hearted and of lacking empathy. These memories are retained in the unit to increase their desensitization to violence and the dark nature of their work.
- Knowledge acquired from firearms training as well as any memories relating to self defense in martial arts. These memories make the unit as a whole a lethal fighting force even when disarmed or out of ammo.
- Memories pertaining to medical knowledge, which is used to heal unit members after combat to great effect, making these units particularly hard to kill. Even when killed, Undulators are trained to retrieve and dispose of their fallen comrades' bodies immediately and discretely; this is to maintain the illusion of Undulators being immortal.
- Memories relating to murder and combat. These memories are kept to desensitize units and make them efficient, single-minded killing machines.
A significant percentage of the memories instilled into Undulator units will be obtained from the failed recruits who completed training with a grade ranking with the bottom 10% of recruits. These failed recruits are secretly executed and then slaughtered in order to produce the Undulade Brew Memory Fluid which gives Undulators approximately 20% of their new memories.
