Computer-Aided Design Glyphs
Categorization
Glyphic
Classification
N/A
Provenance
Granite Peak
Current Location
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
Trustworthy Sandmen have access to pre-engraved or pre-printed glyphs produced by carefully isolated CAD programs with the equivalent of Symbol Drawing (Anunnaki)-12 and 12 in the various glyphic techniques. (Although some glyphs benefit from a higher margin of success on the technique roll, these preprinted ones do not.) SANDMAN Control tracks these engravings obsessively; they must be checked in and out for each mission. Woe betide the agent who loses one in the field, or who is discovered to have created an unauthorized engraving for his own use. “One-off” creations under field conditions must be destroyed as soon as practical; Sandmen carry watersoluble markers and flash paper for such purposes.
Kenneth Hite
GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier
SANDMAN's use of computer-aided design programs to generate Anunnaki glyphs without the risk of the human draftsman suffering from Corruption is in its very early prototype stages in the early 1970s, with CAD programs at Granite Peak several years ahead of their mundane counterparts in the aerospace and industrial engineering sectors. But the fruits of this research are already being deployed in forward-facing SANDMAN operations like URIEL.
Since Mission 2, URIEL has had possession of a pair of computer-generated glyphs, a GU.SHUB ("Neglect") and SANGUSH ("I belong here") on "long-term loan" from Granite Peak. Each of these glyphs is a roughly 8-inch square steel plate with the glyph inscribed into its surface; the engraved pattern itself is also limned in bright yellow-green high-visibility, retroreflective paint, to ensure visibility in a variety of low-light conditions. The plate has a single hole drilled in it at the top so the plate can be attached to clothing, worn on a lanyard, mounted on a wall, etc. As noted above, the computer-generated glyphs are drawn without the unquantifiable “human factor” but are good enough to work at "the equivalent of Symbol Drawing (Anunnaki)-12 and 12 in the various glyphic techniques.”
