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| “ | Jumble grand. Up and loose and heavy treats sandwich. | ” |
— Fra, Fra Interrogation | ||
Fra, designated by the Federal Bureau of Control as Prisoner 11-C and referred to in-game as the Prisoner, is a paranatural entity contained in the Fra Mauro AWE hangar of the Investigations Sector.
Biography[]
Background[]
Fra was the primary subject of the Fra Mauro AWE which occurred during the Apollo 14 lunar mission; the entity is believed by the FBC to have infiltrated the mission while it was on the moon, manipulating the mission personnel's memories to pass itself off as a fourth member of the team. It then was able to reach Earth by riding the Apollo 14 lander back to Earth. After arriving at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Bureau was notified of Fra's existence by NASA personnel, and the entity was taken to the Oldest House and placed in the Investigations Sector for study.[1]
Due to the entity's incomprehensibility and cooperation with Bureau personnel, it was eventually placed in a cell in the Investigations Sector's Fra Mauro AWE area under order of Head of Investigations William Kirklund sometime before 2017, and has remained there ever since with no complaint or animosity except towards Kirklund's removal of the spacesuit helmet which made up its head. David Gleeson and other Bureau investigators also regarded the entity as a joke and treated it as such.[2]
Fra's exterior physical form consists of an Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit identical to the ones used by NASA astronauts on the Apollo 14 mission. The suit shows signs of minor damage, presumably due to the lander's lack of a fourth seat for the entity to strap down into during its return to Earth. Fra does not need the suit to survive; the inside of the suit is hollow and pieces can be removed without harming the entity, although doing so aggravates it. X-ray scans of the suit's interior also revealed unspecified outlines (redacted to the reader) inside the suit. Bureau researchers hypothesize that the suit was either shapeshifted or materialized into existence by the entity.[3]
The entity understands English and can speak, though it has a poor grasp of vocabulary and its sentences are mostly scrambled and incomprehensible, making meaningful communication mostly impossible. The entity accurately uses certain words (such as "hello," "head," and "lady,") and its sentences can still be somewhat understood through context. Notably, Fra refers to Bureau investigators (and/or humans in general) as "gerbils," and William Kirklund as the "Chief gerbil."
AWE[]
Fra is never directly seen in-game. It can be heard inside its cell within the Investigations Sector's Fra Mauro AWE area after chasing Shaded Hartman out of the area during the mission The Third Thing. If talked to, Jesse Faden can help Fra by recovering its missing head (found in Kirklund's office in the Sector Head Office) through the side mission Gerbil Took the Top Head, over the course of which the entity will reveal how it came to be contained in its cell, and also express that it is content to stay there for the time being.[4]