PEOI-2

PROTOCOL

All drilling operations that extend deeper than 8.500 meters are to be deemed illegal in all nations on Earth. The public is to be informed that "liquids" found deep in the Earth's crust are either oil reservoirs or part of an underground ocean. If the color of the liquid is brought up, its red hue is to be explained as a result of high iron concentrations and discoloration caused by the surrounding rock.

All earthquakes are to be explained as the result of "plate tectonics". The public is to be informed that the continents of Earth steadily move as result of "convection currents" in the Earth's "molten mantle". Any notions of earthquakes being the result of muscle contractions are to be censored.

The idea that planet Earth is a non-biological spherical planet composed of a crust, mantle, and core is to be perpetuated through education systems worldwide. Interested members of the wider public are to be informed that the moving molten nickel-iron fluid inside the inner core of the planet is the result of Earth's magnetic field.

The Kola Superdeep Borehole is to remain filled with concrete from the 20K Hemor Sluice Gate up to the Orangevein Research Facility indefinitely. No attempt to drill into Earth's veins, muscles, or other biological components are to be made for as long as the United Deep State Nations Operations Wing of Pararealistics exists.

DESCRIPTION

PEOI-2 is the third major planetary celestosuperorganism (PCSO) in the Solar System, known to the wider public as "Planet" Earth, Terra, or Gaia. It is one of the few PSCO's within the Inner Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy to harbour parasitic civilisational life, known as the "homo sapien".

It uses a plethora veins ranging from 30 centimeters to 135 kilometers (or greater) in diameter to transport resources and blood throughout its body, aswell as an immune system. It's blood cells range in size drastically, with the smallest blood cell found measured at 3.54 centimeters and the largest blood cell seen at roughly 102 centimeters wide. Earth's blood is referred to as "earthblood". The color of earthblood cells is a greyish red due to its nickel-iron composition. Platelets are far less common in earthblood, resulting in Earth having a very slow healing process. The wound caused by the drillbit in the 1979 incident reportedly took 3 months to heal. Platelets are larger than human platelets, with earthblood platelet varying between 0.5 and 0.9 centimeters in size. Earth's hemor is noticably thicker than human blood, consisting of 54% water as opposed to the 92% human blood has. Earthblood cells do not carry oxygen, making Earth an anaerobic organism. They seem to carry a plethora of unidentified and previously unknown organic molecules and proteins. These are under continuous study and testing, but research has been incredibly slow, with few results. The exact source of Earth's "resources" is unknown, but current hypotheses include asteroid consumption, civilisation digestion, biological nuclear reactions, and radiosynthesis.

Planet Earth has an immune system, which bares similarity to innate immune systems in the sense that equivalents to leukocytes (white blood cells), phagocytes, macrophages, neutrophils, and dendritic cells have been identified within Earth in subsanguine exploration missions. Innate immune systems are an immune strategy belonging to vertebrates, therefore implying Earth is a vertebrate. However, Earth's exact skeletal structure is unknown, meaning it is impossible to verify if Earth is actually a vertebrate. These cells have posed a significant danger to exploratory subsanguines, as three of five exploration missions (namely Mission Bravo, Mission Charlie, and Mission Delta) have been lost to extremely large macrophage equivalents, and were digested completely. Onboard footage estimates the size of these macrophage equivalents to be somewhere between 25 and 45 meters. However, these macrophage equivalents are not undefeatable, as proven by Mission Echo.

Earth's exact organs are unknown, but its components known thus far are the heart, brain, adrenal glands, the integumentary system, the muscular system, and the skin. The skin is currently comprised of three layers.

The uppermost layer of skin, called the "Surface Layer" (0-100 km) forms what the public knows as the continents, oceans, sea ridges, mountains, and is home to civilisational settlements. The middle layer, called the "Nexus Layer" (100-500 km) is a partially absorbed previously extant layer of skin that used to be the surface layer, but was presumably swallowed by Earth as a means of obtaining sustenance. Civilisational ruins have been discovered throughout the Nexus Layer, with technology bearing similarity to that of modern-day humanity. It is estimated that this civilisation was 50 to 100 years further ahead of us at the time of their extinction/absorption. Notable structures include a skyscraper, an underground mass transit complex, several small machines equivalent to modern personal computers, and sea vessels. However, these are all partially or mostly absorbed into the surrounding flesh, making further exploration nigh impossible. The only discoveries made thus far are of structures partially exposed to the inside of veins, which were then discovered on subsanguine exploration missions. The lowermost layer, called the "Waning Layer" (500-1000 km) is barely distinguishable as a layer of skin. It is almost fully absorbed into Earth's flesh. The only evidence for the Waning Layers' existence are the slight increase in radioactivity when passing through it — peaking at 632 kilometers deep — and a partially dissolved small plastic container of unknown origin found at 784 kilometers deep by Mission Delta.

The muscular system is a large global network of thin, spindly strands of strong flesh that can contract and relax — similar to conventional animal muscles — that skim the layers of the skin, with the shallowest muscle found in the Nexus Layer. These muscle "strands" are extrodinarily tough, and can not be drilled through effectively without causing a muscle spasm, likely leading to an earthquake. Occasionally, Earth's muscles will "spasm" or "twitch", leading to a phenomenon that the general public knows as an "earthquake". As a result of the muscles contracting or relaxing, they will shift around by a few kilometers, resulting in the skin being shifted along with the muscles. This results in the Surface Layer shifting by a few centimeters (or whole meters in rare cases) and cascading like sand dunes, resulting in significant damage to civilisational structures built on the surface. A humbling example of Earth's "muscle contractions" occured on December 26th, 2004, which caused the magnitude 9.4 Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, which was the third largest earthquake ever recorded, claimed over 200.000 victims, caused over 30 billion ASD in damages, and greatly affected 14 countries.

Earth's integumentary system is extensive, with most of its sensory detectors being closer to the skin. Earth does not have pacinian corpuscles nor tactile corpuscles, explaining why humanity has been able to perform drilling operations en masse without Earth's immune system being activated, and why it is currently seemed safe for subsanguines to traverse Earth's veins. Earth does have plenty of internal nerve endings, discovered through internal radiography. Earth also seems to have adrenal glands, though they have never been observed producing adrenaline. It is currently unknown why Earth would ever require adrenaline. Earth has not been observed to have any other components resembling an endocrine system, meaning the reason for the existence of Earth's adrenal glands are unknown. Earth's brain has also remained elusive, but it can be concluded that it does exist as per the discovery of ganglions, and what may be a spinal cord equivalent.

Earth is known to have a multi-ventricular heart which is roughly 1800 to 2400 kilometers in diameter, beats at an average rate of 0.01685187302 beats per minute (~0.95 beats per hour), and the function of which is assisted by the coriolis effect. Several unique venae cavae feed into the heart in a "swept, dragged" pattern, and continue on out of the heart via several unique aorta after being "pumped" out of the heart. It is presumed that the heart has a secondary function similar to the lungs, as all blood flowing out of the heart emerges slightly radioactive, which has been presumed to be due to enrichment of the blood while in the heart.

Word	Definition
Earthblood	Blood native to the planetary celestosuperorganism commonly known as Earth.
Intravascular Traversion Vehicle (IPV)	A vehicle analogous to a submarine, designed to withstand intense pressures (excess of 4000 bar) navigating the blood filled veins of celestosuperorganisms.
Subsanguine	Shorter synonym for IPV.
Inter / Inters / Intra / Intras / Inta / Intas	An even shorter synonym for IPV, typically used by former death row inmates who have been assigned to become hemonauts. There are many variants, as there have been several hemonauts, who all assigned their own pronunciations to it.
Hemonautical	Refers to the navigation of a celestosuperorganisms' blood vessels, usually by an IPV.
Hemonaut / Hemonauts	Refers to the crew of a manned IPV.

HISTORY

PEOI-2 as a biological organism was discovered during secret drilling experiments conducted at the Kola Superdeep Borehole. It was opened in 1965 under the authority of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, with the goal of drilling as deep as possible as a scientific study. It attained a depth of 12.262 meters in 1979, when drilling was suddenly stopped. It was eventually closed six years later in 1985. Recovered KGB documents state that the closure of the scientific drilling site was due to a combination of "disturbing incidents". In one incident, the drillbit was raised after attaining a depth of 8.000 meters. When it came to the surface, it was found covered in a thin layer of red liquid, later identified as non-human blood. In another incident, the cable the drillbit was attached to started to vibrate in a rhymthic tone almost identical to an incredibly slow heartbeat, measured to be 0.01684 beats per minute. The final incident occured in 1979, where the drillbit attained a depth of 12.262 meters when it made a loud bang, and the rock beneath and around the drillbit began to bleed profusely. The drillbit was raised, but along with it came a powerful burst of blood that erupted onto the surface, staining the soil around the borehole and destroying several pieces of equipment. Permanent cessation of drilling immediately followed, with the drilling site being shut down in 1985.

The drilling site was purchased by the Operations Wing of Pararealistics from the Provisional Authority of the Red Banner Northern Fleet in Greater Barentia in May 1997, during the Raspatsya. The purchase was recognised by the Russian Defense Command (RDC) after Barentia fell to the RDC a mere month after the purchase was made. PARA ownership of the drilling site continues to this day.

Mission Name	IPV Type Model	Fate	Add. Notes
Alpha	XV1	Total hull loss as a result of instantaneous implosion. All crew lost.	Was nicknamed the "Hemo Goblin", a humorous twist to the word "hemoglobin", the chemical responsible for the red color of earthblood.
Bravo	XV1c	Total hull loss as a result of macrophage equivalent encounter and was digested. All crew lost.	The loss of Mission Bravo caused a significant change in IPV design philosophy, crew selection, and research mentality.
Charlie	XV2b	Total hull loss as a result of macrophage equivalent encounter and was digested. All crew lost.	Offensive weaponry was deemed insufficient and was significantly improved following the loss of Mission Charlie.
Delta	XV3	Total hull loss as a result of macrophage equivalent encounter, leading to loss of control, causing the IPV to veer deeper into Earth and implode. All crew lost.	After this incident, Polish military company Bumar-Łabędy was commissioned to improve the defensive and offensive aspects of PARA subsanguines.
Echo	XV4	Hull successfully recovered with extensive damage after seven months. One out of three crew members recovered.	Exploratory subsanguine missions into the planetary celestosuperorganism known as Earth was permanently halted after the recovery of Mission Echo. The Kola Superdeep Borehole was filled with concrete and all testing ceased after.