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The Liminal Archive

An encyclopedia of the world the games share: Sector 7 and the incident of 18 June 1993, the breach it opened, the entities Liminal has filed since, and the city asleep above the facility. 84 entries, linked to each other.

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Events

What happened, and what keeps happening.

  • The armed responseLiminal's decision to send operatives trained to fight into the perimeter of RIFT-01
  • Containment runsOperators projected into Sector 7 to calibrate Transmit Nodes and climb out
  • The dawn sweepThe custodial fleet's nightly clearance of the city's streets before first light
  • The Last ShiftThe incident as one maintenance worker lived through it
  • The Night CircuitA register of every district's services, acknowledged in one night
  • The perimeter ordersFive orders that sent the first armed projection from the ring to the plant's hatch
  • Recovery contractsContractors sent back into Sector 7 after an operative got out
  • The Sector 7 incidentCritical resonance in the Sector 7 carrier-wave reactor, 18 June 1993
  • The Unlisted ReturnAn investigation into freight that arrived without being dispatched
  • The WastelandOne possible future for the city after the incident

Places

Sector 7, the city above it, and the stations around it.

  • The Black AnnexA captive sub-space the Warden carries, also called the Fold
  • The cavernsCaves beneath the city that reach toward the facility's infrastructure
  • The cityThe sleeping city above Sector 7
  • Coldharbor interchangeA freight interchange where deliveries descend to Liminal's subgrade
  • The lit floorLiminal's corporate campus in the city, dark except for one floor
  • The maintenance shaftA climb from the ring to the plant, by three sealed landings
  • Meridian TowerA sixty-eight-floor tower in the city whose lift stops at unlisted floors
  • The plantSix halls of reactor plant above the ring
  • The receiver stationAn isolated station outside the containment field, used as a base for projection
  • Research bay fourA Liminal Corp laboratory where returned samples are studied through T-Link
  • The ringThe original works: the containment ring poured around the sampling point
  • The sampling pointThe point Sector 7 was poured around; it was there before the facility
  • Sector 7The Liminal installation beneath the city, built around the sampling point
  • The service annexA branched service building in the Wasteland future
  • The shelterA shelter below the city where an operator keeps a radio channel open
  • The upper gradesThe later, higher levels of Sector 7, each hardened against what rises from below

Entities

What moves in Sector 7 and the city, by designation.

  • The BansheeEXT-06, a suspended acoustic organism that pursues whoever lights it
  • The ChoirFiled under EXT-03: a Mourner form twice the height, ringed by Mourners
  • Custodial unitsLiminal's custodial machines that patrol the city and carry out the dawn sweep
  • The deadWhat walks the streets in the Wasteland future
  • The LiningANOM-12, a section of the ring's poured wall that no longer agrees with the rest
  • Lost Operator EchoECHO-07, residual Operator patterns found only in the Black Annex
  • The MournerEXT-03, a weeping external humanoid that pursues whoever recognises its face
  • ReclamationANOM-08, reactor signal life that takes up residue before the T-Link can
  • Red StaticANOM-01, a reactor-generated waveform organism that moves when unobserved
  • Sentinel FrameS-DRN-09, the plated chassis the Stalker drones were issued from
  • Service supervisorsThe Lamplighter, Street Sweeper, Bellkeeper and Dispatcher, the four machines over the loop
  • The SoundingANOM-13, which keeps time with the sampling point
  • The SpecterEXT-05, an organism that never fully resolves and is displaced by light
  • StalkerS-DRN-02, a pre-incident Sentinel drone still running corrupted directives
  • Threat designationsLiminal's classification of what moves in Sector 7, by origin
  • The WardenEXT-04, a phasing humanoid that carries the Black Annex

People

Operatives, staff and the names left in the records.

  • Armed operativesOperatives trained to fight in the lattice, sent on the armed response
  • The contactThe voice on the shelter channel in the Wasteland future
  • The contractorsThe cleaning crew: four hired contractors sent into Sector 7 in person
  • The maintenance workerA Sector 7 worker on duty during the incident, later an Operator
  • Names in the recordsPeople named once or twice in recovered documents
  • OperatorsLiminal personnel who enter Sector 7 by neural projection
  • RuthA surveyor whose unfinished survey maps the way toward Sector 7
  • ScavengersThe people who work the city's streets between midnight and the dawn sweep
  • Sector 7 personnelThe staff of Sector 7 at 14:22, whose transponders still answer
  • The shelter operatorThe radio operator in the shelter below the city

Organisations

Liminal and the projects it runs.

  • LiminalThe company that holds Sector 7, named for the state its sites enter
  • Liminal TransitThe tram loop that runs all night through the city's sixteen districts
  • Project T-LinkLiminal's neural projection bridge into Sector 7

Phenomena

The breach, the lattice and the laws that hold inside it.

  • The arrangementHow the rooms of the perimeter orders come to differ from one operative to another
  • Carrier troughsSeconds in which the reactor's carrier dips and RIFT-01 narrows
  • Environmental hazardsDischarges, corrosion and phase instability in Sector 7
  • The file on an operativeWhat the breach has read of how an operative fights, as Records reports it
  • The fixed traceThe steady signal an operative transmits by holding still
  • The latticeThe addressable spatial lattice Sector 7 became at 14:22
  • The light lawInside the lattice, illumination and transmission are the same event
  • Phase statesStable Reality, the ASCII Void and the Black Annex
  • ResolutionHow firmly an entity exists in Sector 7
  • RIFT-01The breach opened by the Sector 7 incident, expanding inward
  • RiftsCyan rupture fields where RIFT-01 forces incompatible space into the lattice
  • The unregistered voiceA voice on the channel that calls an operative by its callsign

Technology

The suit, the Nodes and the systems an operative works with.

  • Copies and re-projectionThe copies the bridge files of an operative on a route, and how it is projected again
  • Data CoresRecoverable fragments of the reactor's state
  • DirectivesLiminal's standing orders to armed operatives
  • DoctrinesEXCISION, SUPPRESSION and CALIBRATION, the three courses of combat training
  • ExtractionLadders and the bulkhead hatch that return a projection
  • Mark VII suitThe projected suit of a T-Link Operator, a checksum drawn as armour
  • SANITYIdentity coherence: how much of an Operator the bridge can still verify
  • Support CRTsWall terminals that each offer services to an operative
  • Transmit NodesGrid anchors that force nearby coordinates into temporary agreement

Records and objects

Documents, samples and evidence recovered.

  • ARC-00The SEC-7 black-box archive of every neural handshake
  • Capillary Stone and Echo GlassSamples 10 and 11, recovered from the caverns and analysed remotely
  • ExhibitsObjects recovered from the plant that carry a rule from somewhere else
  • The insertion logPages of projection record an operative finds along the perimeter orders
  • LP-MAN-1993-S7The SEC-7 operations manual issued by the Containment Sciences Division
  • The original surveyLiminal's survey of the Sector 7 site, never published
  • Sample 09A biological sample examined in research bay four
  • Service repairsFour repairs in earlier eras that open versions of the Wasteland

About this archive

Every entry is taken from the released games and their published records: Liminal Protocol and its field manual, Liminal Protocol: Critical Response, Liminal Protocol: Cleaning Crew, Beyond Dawn, and the research lab and Wasteland inside it. Late reveals from those games are folded behind a Spoiler line and open only when clicked. Nothing here is taken from work that has not been released.

The records explain how things behave and seldom why. Where they leave a question open, so does the archive.

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