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CONTROL Resonant Prime Candidate Program — Wiki
The FBC's search for a future Director designated Dylan as P6 and Jesse as P7. These file labels explain older Bureau records, not a new progression tree for Resonant.
Case file / quick facts
Prime Candidate Program at a glance
- Organization
- Federal Bureau of Control
- Purpose
- Identify potential future Directors
- Dylan's file label
- P6 / Prime Candidate 6
- Jesse's file label
- P7 / Prime Candidate 7
- Scope
- Earlier-game background, not a Resonant Talent branch
- Related character
- Dylan Faden
- Related character
- Jesse Faden
- Related character
- Dr. Casper Darling
- Related place
- Ordinary AWE
02 / Field notes
What were P6 and P7?
The Prime Candidate program was the FBC's attempt to identify people who might become its Director. The Faden siblings were catalogued under different candidate numbers. P6 refers to Dylan; P7 refers to Jesse.
Dylan was taken to the Oldest House and raised under Bureau supervision, with Darling connected to his research and training. Jesse escaped that upbringing and later entered the building from outside. The labels are administrative, but the consequences were deeply personal.
03 / Field notes
How should players use these labels?
When an old report says P6, it is discussing the person you play in Resonant. This can make earlier character files intelligible without reading every collectible in the original game.
Do not interpret the program as a set of playable candidates, a class system or a sequel upgrade screen. Jesse becoming Director did not erase Dylan's history with the FBC, and Resonant does not turn P6 into an item rarity.
04 / Field notes
Reading P6 and P7 correctly
P6 and P7 are Bureau labels for Dylan and Jesse within the Prime Candidate program. They belong to the organization's search for a future Director after the Ordinary incident. The labels are valuable when reading old files because they identify which sibling a report concerns even when a personal name is absent.
They are not player ranks, playable character slots or sequel character classes. Dylan's Resonant build is defined through the Aberrant, Combat Abilities, Talents and Artifacts instead. Darling's connection is that he supervised research into Dylan; Jesse's later Director role belongs to the outcome of the first game, not a promised path for the player to select in Resonant.
What this means for your run
Prime Candidate Program: what players need to know
When we read Bureau material, P6 means Dylan and P7 means Jesse. Those labels explain their relationship, not a gameplay objective.