Case Files

The Case Files are PRT designation for investigations it has conducted.<ref name="II1.1">Official files. Classification documents. Then there were the notes for case one, case fifteen, case thirty-two, case fifty-three, case ninety. The ‘cases’ were the events the PRT had deemed of interest. Riddles both solved and unsolved. My collection there was incomplete, but some were official enough to be confidential, and I’d never had that access. Others were closed, the mystery deemed nonexistent or something to be folded into popular knowledge. - Excerpt from Daybreak 1.1</ref> The number comes from sequential investigations with each files being an investigation that was started chronologically after the previous one.<ref name="R1.2">It's not about scale. It's about 'this is something we as an organization need to look into'. - Comment by Wildbow on reddit</ref>

If it has to do with parahumans the PRT will look into it until the situation is resolved.<ref name ="I28 e1"> What Alexandria had termed Case fifty-threes, after the fifty third file in a series of unresolved, difficult-to-explain parahuman events, one of the only ones to truly develop in their records. The Doctor had termed them deviants. - Excerpt from Interlude 28</ref> Consequently the PRT and it's ancillary organization handle a wide range of material in the persuit of safeguarding the public good.<ref name="5.10 II">Case zero was Scion. He was also, I presumed, the last case. Case one was the Siberian, technically the one who had first started the case files, as the PRT consolidated old data and tried to get information from other government agencies. Case two was Behemoth, his rise had incited the creation of the PRT. The case series had been an excuse to gather data from international agencies, too. Case three was the lie of the virus, an early claim about the origin of powers, propagated by an early online newsgroup. Case four was The Player, an early Thinker mastermind who had required some greater cooperation across multiple agencies to root out. Later on, The Player would be a case-in-point for the formation of Watchdog and its core purpose. Kenzie’s would-be group.

The first cases had inspired things, major functions and interests. Committees had been formed and those committees had become something. Even though a whole chunk of the early ones were minor or fabrications in the end, the virus theory included, they’d led to things like a dedicated parahuman science department. - Excerpt from Shadow 5.10</ref>

Filing

As the PRt post dates the appearance of parahumans many of their files were consolidated from sources collected from other agencies.<ref name="5.10 II"/> Thus it included events that already happened. Later recorded cases included:<ref name="R1">This. The 53rd major case file opened by the PRT was in regards to the first amnesiac with the tattoo and mutated features.
The first 52 case files would have included stuff like:

Major financial malfeasance (ie. using Thinker powers to scam the system)
Behemoth
Tracking incidents with a pattern suggesting a given Stranger
The first parahuman gangs
Tinker item X found in the marketplace
Suspected sources of powers
The Dealer, reported to be selling powers via. vials (Cauldron offshoot)
Scion
[Redacted] information regarding visions of [redacted] during a trigger event, written in a dream journal.
First few S-class threats
Narwhal's second trigger.
Creatures found in an area, later discovered to be Master minions. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref>
Thinker-link financial disruption<ref name="R1"/>(necessitated the creation of Watchdog.)<ref name="5.10 II"/>
Early parahuman gangs<ref name="R1"/>
Tinker items<ref name="R1"/> (Possibly Toybox)
Endbringers and other S-class threats<ref name="R1"/>
Stranger linked events.<ref name="R1"/>
Suspected sources of powers such as viruses(Case 03) and other wild theories.<ref name="R1"/>
Dealer's activities, (Cauldron offshoot)<ref name="R1"/>
Recorded evidence of what was seen during a trigger event.<ref name="R1"/>
Second triggers.<ref name="R1"/>
Cryptid sightings - either mutated Parahumans<ref name="II2.6">We. “You’re a case seventy?”

“I can’t tell you how bummed I am that it isn’t case sixty-nine instead, but no, that number went to a bigfoot sighting or something stupid. A stupid bit of immature humor would’ve been the one good thing in this mess of a thing.” - Excerpt from Flare 2.6</ref> or unidentified Master minions.<ref name="R1"/>
The Fallen<ref name="R2.2">From the PRT Case Files...

◈ The Fallen are a criminal group that exists primarily in the Southeastern United States, but possess reach and influence well beyond these locations. - Wildbow on Reddit</ref><ref name="R1.2"/>

Named Files

"Case 00"<ref name="5.10 II"/><ref name="R1"/>
Case 01<ref>She found a file listed as ‘Case 01’. She clicked it. - Excerpt from Interlude 13</ref><ref name="R1"/><ref name="5.10 II"/><ref name="13.8II"/>
Case 02<ref name="5.10 II"/>
Case 03<ref name="5.10 II"/><ref name="R1"/>
Case 04<ref name="5.10 II"/><ref name="R1"/>
Case 12<ref name="R1"/><ref name="13.8II">All the talk of cases. Case Twelve. I turned to the Old Man. I’d thought of him in the same way I thought of sinister and ominous things in the background, like the Slaughterhouse Nine. The Nine had even been a series of cases, with Siberian’s attack on the Triumvirate as case one. - Excerpt from Black 13.8</ref>
Case 15<ref name="II1.1"/>
Case 32
Case 53
Case 70
Case 90
Case 143

References