ZFT
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Organization
ZFT came to the attention of Olivia when she noted it in John Scott's case files. In Power Hungry, a vision of Scott led Olivia to a basement containing several encrypted files related to the Pattern investigations he was conducting beyond the Fringe Division. In The Transformation it was suggested that Scott was a member of a clandestine NSA task force.
During In Which We Meet Mr. Jones a parasite infecting Mitchell Loeb contained a repeating DNA sequence that deciphered as ZFT. Broyles describes ZFT as an organization which is part of an unknown number of privately funded cells with presence in eighty-three countries. Members are not terrorists in the conventional sense - they traffic in scientific progress, not drugs or weapons. Pattern-related events may simply be proof that scientific theories and experiments work.
In Midnight, Doctor Nicholas Boone claims he was an unwilling member of ZFT. His understanding was that the man funding the organization was William Bell, founder and CEO of Massive Dynamic and Walter Bishop's former lab partner.
In Writing
- In This Universe
The document explains how scientific and technological progress will lead to an apocalypse. It also describes the existence of a parallel world inhabited by beings not unlike us existing in an history slightly ahead of our own. The document further states that the way to travel between the universes has been discovered and that the final outcome of these travels will be the survival of only one of the two worlds: us or them.
Walter points out that the term recruit used by Jones in the instructions for his evaluation system is also found in the ZFT manuscript: "Many warriors of the inevitable confrontation are among us now - but before they can be considered soldiers, they must be regarded as recruits. And the expectation must be that they shall be unwilling".
In Bad Dreams, Nick Lane mentions the "Man with Glasses," Isaac Winters, spoke "all of the old words," echoing the ZFT phrasing.
Walter is interested in, and troubled by, the manifesto. At the end of Ability he confirms to himself that an old portable typewriter in his own lab has been used to type the document. In The Road Not Taken, he demonstrates the peculiar elevated "y" character on the typewriter to Peter and claims that William Bell purchased the machine.
- In The Alternate Universe
Known Content
| ...t and to never surrender. Give yourself to the cause and the fight, and to the victor goes history. The other is as determined as we are and is never to be underesti- The nature of the universe allows for all the circumstances needed Who are these who are to fight? What is the selection process? Is [??] the last: Both. Neither. Humanity is naught but the collection of it’s moments and the sum Thus the Soldier to come is both natural and, fairly, unnatural. A The former is the culmination of millennia and days both. The time In all of history, only a few bloodlines have been found to be Over many years the right individuals have ... This is ... |
- From the page seen in The Road Not Taken [2]
| Those who shall be among those saved will be those... chosen to fight, this much is obvious. What is also... What we know as reality is only a fragile membrane on... A skin on a bowl of pudding. The unknown truth is that the means to crossover have already been These beings are not of our world as such, and as such should be trea- slightly ahead of our own is an... ns of our victory depends on a confluence of scientific... cy is paramount and need not be justified. Government... nestion as to the right of existence is one that shal... the lives of those formerly unknown beings des... |
- From the pages Walter studies in Ability
| but this commingling of universes will violate the natural or... Both ours... and theirs. Cross-pollination will lead to a series of inevitable breakdown... Only one side will prevail. And it will be wither us...or them. Many warriors of the inevitable confrontation are among us now. A black horizon approaches. Our scientific advancements have so But we will not simply perish. The very fabric of our universe like an infant conducting the firmament, these technological trends will Against those men of science, whose grand investigations will usher... Of all the beings considered for the gift of continuance, only those table dec... What we know as reality is ... A skin on a bowl of pudding. .. unknown truth is that the |
- A reading from the foreword by Peter in Ability
| The advances of science which is supposed to expand our knowledge of the universe, will, if not carefully controlled, destroy the world as we know it... |
| Our technological ambitions have not only driven us to the brink of catastrophe, the catastrophe has already begun. What will the apocalypse look like? The answer, to use a term generally understood but the specifics of which you cannot imagine, in which this document will attempt to describe, is “warfare”. |
- An excerpt read by Walter in Ability
| ... We think we understand reality, but our universe is only one of many. The unknown truths of the way to travel between them has already been discovered, by beings much like us but who's history is slightly ahead of our own. The negative aspects of such visitations will be irreversible both to our world and to theirs. It will begin with a series of unnatural occurrences. Difficult to notice at first but growing, not unlike a cancer, until a simple fact becomes undeniable only one world will survive and it will either be us or them. |
- A reading by Walter in The Road Not Taken
| ... Our children are our greatest resource. We must nurture them and protect them. We must prepare them so they can one day protect us. |
Association
| David Robert Jones | Sanford Harris | Secretary Bishop | Nicholas Boone |
| Robert Norton | Mitchell Loeb | Bolivia Dunham | Ryan Eastwick |
| Samantha Loeb | Isaac Winters | Walter Bishop | William Bell |
| Raul Lugo | Evan McNeil | Joseph Smith | Davis |
| — Plot Relevant Questions — | Address theories about questions on ZFT/Theories Ask minor questions on the Talk Page |
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1) Do not answer the questions here. |
- Why is the ZFT novel mainstream reading in the parallel universe, when the manifesto is obscure in this universe?
- If the ZFT documents are significantly different in each universe, is there more than one author?



