VALORANT Protocol

"Stand tall. We are VALORANT. We are fighters!"

- Sage (Round Start)

The  is an independent, covert operation founded and set up in response to First Light, consisting of Agents from all around Earth. Their mission is to keep the world safe from dangerous situations involving radianite.

Founding
In response to a mysterious event, known as First Light, that affected the entirety of a near future Earth, an unknown shadow organization founded the secretive VALORANT Protocol, which pulled together Agents from all over the world. Brimstone and Viper were the Protocol's first two agents and earliest members, with Brimstone becoming its leader. Omen is also known to have played an important part in the VP's founding.

VALORANT's task was to keep the world safe from dangerous situations involving radianite and ensure that no cataclysmic disasters would occur.

Early operations
The VALORANT Protocol would go on to recruit more agents to their cause, with each agent being given a number in the order that they joined. These Agents consisted of Radiants and other individuals equipped with Radiant technology with a wide spectrum of backgrounds ranging from crime to the military. After 10 years since First Light occurred, the Protocol had at least 10 agents (up to Jett). Some of these agents had quickly risen up the ranks, with Sage, VALORANT's 7th recruit, becoming second-in-command under Brimstone. During these early days of VALORANT, information was strictly kept on a need-to-know basis and even agents themselves were compartmentalized.

At some point, the VALORANT leadership learned about the existence of a Mirror Earth, but chose to withhold the information to the newer recruits.

Initial defense against Mirror Earth
In 10 AFL, VALORANT sent Phoenix to Venice in order to stop an unknown radiant from planting a device known as the spike, but he was unsuccessful in doing so. The resulting spike detonation caused a large chunk of the city to become suspended in the air. A day afterwards, international news media began reporting of the disaster whilst at the same time, a similar attack occurred in Rabat, with the Protocol sending a strike team consisting of Killjoy, Viper, and Phoenix in order to handle the situation this time. While the team was successful in creating a defuser that prevented the spike from detonating, Phoenix had an encounter with his mirror counterpart, which prompted the VP to start sharing information after the incident. Agents within the Protocol started to meet each other in person for the first time and the senior leadership began to brief the younger agents about what they know regarding Mirror Earth, a major change from how the organization used to operate. VALORANT continued to hire agents after these events.

By the time that Yoru, the Protocol's 15th recruit, joined the organization, there was a known operation wherein they were successful in fending off a spike attack from mirror agents in Bennett Island.

Interest in Everett-Linde
At some point, the experiments being done by Kingdom Corporation and Kingdom Industries at the Everett-Linde Research Lab in Santa Fe caused an event wherein the surrounding environment was split in two halves and affecting the area for miles beyond the facility, drawing the attention of a VALORANT Protocol agent. Around 10-11 AFL, the organization as a whole became interested in Everett-Linde, and one known operation was commenced by Viper and Cypher wherein they were tasked to secure blueprints for a full Alpha-Omega teleporter being used by the facility that would allow the Protocol to travel between Earth-1 and Mirror Earth. After a full sweep of the facility, retrieving information about the teleporter proved to be unsuccessful despite several data recovery attempts from Cypher.

Sometime afterwards, Killjoy has reported making progress on developing the portal as Chamber had managed to provide her with the blueprints needed for the project. The German engineer managed to validate their legitimacy but still found it difficult to find a viable power source needed for the initiative to come into fruition. This prompted Chamber to introduce K-SEC veteran Neon to Brimstone, recruiting her shortly afterwards into the Protocol as her electric abilities were seen as a solution to the power source problem.

With Neon's induction into the team, Killjoy once again returned to her work on rebooting the teleporter, making strong progress on working towards a stable connection between Earth-1 and Mirror Earth.

Secrecy under threat
As plans were being made for the upcoming missions to Earth-2 however, the Protocol began to face risks from its own home world. Breach reported that conspiracy sites were once again investigating the events that occurred at Venice in 10 AFL, with new surveillance shots of Phoenix and Mirror Jett surfacing. Cypher worked to wipe out the footage, but with this latest development and families of the Everett-Linde team also asking Kingdom questions, Breach expressed concerns about VALORANT's secrecy being under threat and advised that the organization needed to lay low.

Such fears were further validated when Brimstone received an email from a blackmailer who threatened to expose the organization if they ever found out the Protocol was responsible for the disappearance of someone they knew. Sova and Cypher worked to track down the new threat but with little success. In response, the blackmailer then sent personal messages to some of the Protocol's agents to show off how much they knew about the agents before sending a warning to Brimstone and making further threats about handing such data over to the public.

The Blackmailer's agent dossiers
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Operations
The VALORANT Protocol is completely independent, though they do require a backer to fund their technology. Their existence was kept hidden from the rest of the world, with the Protocol making sure any traces were scrubbed from the media. Their base of operations is also kept well hidden, with it located on a remote volcanic island.

New agents who join VALORANT must leave behind their past lives and activities and are given a call sign to protect their identity, also being required to refer to all other agents by their own call signs. Official regulations also dictate that agents are discouraged from fraternization as workplace relationships can create complications. Agents are also expected to be professional and battle-ready at all times. Whenever the VP has been seen in action, it has been in response to spike threats. Leadership appears to keep some of the information behind these attacks, such as the identities of the perpetrators, on a need-to-know basis for their agents. VALORANT usually sends out strike teams of about 5 agents, though occasionally they have responded to attacks with smaller teams.

Technology
All agents go into battle equipped with firearms, with the organization having a wide variety for their agents to choose from. The Protocol also possesses a high-speed VLT/R aircraft for transport, known better to the agents as the "Vulture". This vehicle is able to instantly accelerate to and decelerate from high speeds within a fraction of a second.

Agent 08
Very little is known about Agent 08, though they have been reported to be absent, whether that's because they are on mission, on leave, or MIA. Like all other agents, they had their own locker at HQ, however their agent number and ID image had been removed.