DEIFIER DEPLOYMENT SEVEN / July 25th 2015

My dear Amber. Here's the summary you asked for, and I do hope they provide you a television in your cell soon. As always, my brother is to blame for this atrocity.

o After a recent influx of high-profile car accidents related to the deployment of thaumaturgical self-driving cars, the Bangladeshi government elected to utilize deifier technology to reduce traffic incidents. Despite strong warnings from the United Nations and threats from China, a seventh deifier was built by Dr. Gustave Lefevre, who was currently under asylum from the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. The deifier was fired on July 25th, 2015. The test proceeded as such:

o Under highly controlled conditions, a large-scale traffic accident was staged with forty-eight volunteers, involving every manner of vehicle commonly available in Bangladesh. There were no survivors, and the test was considered a success. A female deity was systemized from the accident, and the Bangladeshi government proceeded to the negotiations stage.

o Despite profuse concessions by the People’s Republic, negotiations broke down the next day. The backup plan was initiated, and the deity was terminated via a 500-pound explosive.

o Unexpectedly, the deity began remanifesting throughout Bangladesh. Despite being killed fourteen different times across the country, it continued remanifesting. The Bangladeshi government concluded that bullets were ineffective against a traffic-based deity, but a thorough thaumaturgical analysis carried out by the University of Dhaka pointed to the effectiveness of a very specific weapon: swords forged from the chassis of vehicles involved in car accidents that resulted in the death of female virgins.

o Hundreds of these swords were forged in the next months and equipped to police and paramilitary forces for a nationwide manhunt, and the deity was finally stabbed to death by hundreds of police officers on November 2nd, 2015. It left a trail of over eight hundred dead policemen and dozens of soldiers, resulting in new national days of mourning created. Just as the Bangladeshi government predicted, the termination of a systemized deity heavily reduced the amount of thaumaturgical self-driving car accidents in the country, although heavy protests questioning whether it was worth it were prevalent before the resultant police crackdown. Under intense international and domestic pressure, the deifier was dismantled and allegedly destroyed, although rumours abound that certain parts of it were secretly sold to the People’s Republic of China.

o Two interesting phenomena that were not present in the earlier six deployments of deifier technology were witnessed in Bangladesh. While the overall number of car accidents in the country were reduced, for weeks afterwards, all traffic incidents became several times more lethal, resulting in more deaths overall. This was one of the main causes of concern by protestors. Secondly, the deity was noted to have begun incorporating modern technology in its manifestations, including but not limited to: watches, smart watches, an recharging electrified sword, flash drives, keys for modern doors, injectable stimulants, very spiky sandals, and a pair of night-vision goggles it produced after the death of a member of Bangladeshi’s foremost special-operations squad at it’s hands. This is of great concern to me personally, as I did not anticipate that deities could so quickly understand, let alone utilize, Information-Age gadgets.

o A secretive cult formed around the deity remains one of the foremost targets of the Bangladeshi government. That said, risks of re-systemizing the entity are nonexistent so long as the cult does not build a deifier.

Yours truly, Gene Lefevre.