2/2140 Clearance Confirmed…
The glyph image is by Petrograd. He used fonts by Juan Carlos Porcel from http://elderprops.tumblr.com/post/89934858272/free-fonts-necrofonticon2. All under CC.
The deep storage facility is Svalbard seed vault IMG 8887 by Bjoertvedt also CC.
Word count as of posting: 492.
I was vaguely inspired by "The Retgun" by Tim Pratt and GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier by Kenneth Hite.
Thanks to Mr. Wrong, Eta Carinae, and especially psul and Petrograd for review!
Edit: Kallinikos was the guy who brought Greek Fire to Byzantium and oversaw the first known compartmentalized development of a weapon system.