Projected personnel carry nothing in. The suit is a checksum of identity, intent and surviving body telemetry, and training is the one part of that checksum Liminal can shape. Armed operatives are projected with the training of one doctrine, and the bridge renders what they were drilled to hold. A weapon is training rendered, which is why the kit cannot change mid-projection: it is part of who was projected.
In a crew
Up to four operatives share one projection. When an operative's SANITY reaches zero while anyone in the crew still stands, it goes DOWN instead of PURGED: the bridge holds the pattern, and a teammate who stays beside it re-verifies it. The reading is that a teammate on the live channel is an authenticated source. When no one stands, the system reports PURGED.
Issue and clearance
A new operative is issued less than a veteran, and the rest is cleared by Directives. Each doctrine files Clearance, written as the grade an operative is cleared to go below (see the upper grades). Liminal grades each projection on time, SANITY kept and Nodes held. It never grades kills, and a projection with all three at S is filed clean.
See also
Records cited
- Critical Response field manual, DOCTRINES and FIELD
- The Critical Response lore manual, sections 3, 4 and 18