Unexplained Directorate

Unexplained Directorate (Необъяснимая управление), also known as НУ or Н Branch, was the direct successor to GUPO, the Russian organization that studied extraterrestrial and magical phenomena. Formed in 1986, it presumably still operates to this day.

Unlike GUPO, H Branch was a military organization, and as such its activities had a distinctly more militaristic slant. Following the transition from GUPO to H Branch, Russian research into these fields was aimed solely at the usage of objects and phenomena to further the direct goals of the Russian government, research into purely scientific endeavors was abandoned at the insistence of H Branch's superiors. Following contact with the Tuethidoids, H Branch was in charge of the relations program with the still-secret alien race, and engaged in several joint research projects with them, including a shadowy project with the Future Research Fund (ФПИ) known as PROJECT RED SOLDIER.

World War III

During World War 3, Н Branch was utilized by the Russian Government for their Shadow Wars campaigns, however due to the lack of trained natural mages inside Russia during the war, they were forced to rely more on their ability to produce devices and their stockpile of technological artifacts. H Branch was obsessed with capturing mages from the other Shadow War factions, but they met with little success in this endeavor. H Branch presumably remains active to this day.