The backpack generator provides the pack's power. It is a miniature nuclear accelerator, whose fuel cells have a half-life of five thousand years. Obviously, power is not a problem. The raw nuclear energy is then fed into the proton gun, where it is stripped of almost all of it's electrons. This creates a beam of positively-charged energy.

In order to keep the energy from dispersing, the proton gun also emits a thin beam of ordinary, negative electricity. The two working together form the proton beam. Since the negatively-charged electricity's effect is negligible, the proton beam retains it's strong positive charge. When this beam comes into contact with ectoplasm, the opposite charges attract and the ghost is "lassoed" in the proton beam.

The basic operation of the proton pack is not all that complex. First, both the proton gun and backpack generator must be switched on. Then, simply aim and press the trigger on the proton gun. The pack has a number of different power settings to correspond with the strength of the ghost being fought, but we can worry about that when and if you make it into our ranks.

Before you use a proton pack, there is one very important rule you must remember at all times: DO NOT CROSS THE STREAMS. Doing this will cause total protonic reversal. In layman’s terms, if the proton beams cross, they will feed back on themselves causing every proton in your body to reverse charges. Every proton will turn into an electron, which will repel the electrons already present. The result is every molecule in your body forcing itself apart, and the body itself would vaporize. This is obviously fatal. There have been cases in which our environment made it possible to cross the streams without them feeding back on themselves, but such instances are extremely rare. Don't count on them.

Once we had determined how to snare a ghost, the next question was what to do with it? Hence the creation of the Ghost Trap.