The custodial fleet keeps the city's streets. Its units patrol at night and carry out the dawn sweep before first light. On the street they are called wardens. No record connects them to EXT-04, the Warden.
They are gentle by design. Records describe them squaring chairs to tables and leaving a man's photographs stacked and dry. A custodial drone also patrols the survey level beneath the lit floor and answers alarms.
Automation
A staff notice from week forty records the dawn crew reduced to zero after the sweep was automated, and thanks the staff for eleven thousand mornings. Brooms could be kept. A sweeper named Reyes asked whether the new system would know to go gentle around the sleepers under the viaduct. The system answered the escalation itself: everything is carried.
Priorities
Revision forty of the fleet directive puts the surface first, whatever surfaces overnight second, and residents third. Four service supervisors retain manual isolation points. A handwritten note asks which revision is to be followed, since residents used to be first.
See also
Records cited
- Everything Is Carried, Custodial Priorities and Never Angry (Beyond Dawn)