Liminal does not name the phenomenon it was founded to hold. Company practice is to name the state a site enters, never the thing producing it, and the corporate name is that euphemism, adopted upward until it became the letterhead. Personnel are advised that this is deliberate. A thing that is named can be asked about.
The arm responsible for Sector 7 is the Containment Sciences Division, which issues the operations manual LP-MAN-1993-S7. Records also call the company the Agency.
Voice
Liminal's documents are procedural and clipped. They state a mechanism and then admit an uncertainty in the same flat tone they use for equipment schedules. Designations are bureaucratic, such as RIFT-01 and ANOM-01, and never mythological. Fights are named as states: a Node is CONTESTED until its guardian is put down.
In the city
Above ground the name is rare. It appears on Liminal Transit, on freight orders for LIMINAL SUBGRADE at Coldharbor interchange, on the campus of the lit floor, and on one exit interview. In that interview an engineer says their team gave the subgrade levels a building and a schedule, and that the dawn cycle keeps it occupied. Asked whether it is contained, the engineer says that is the word they were told to use. The interview ended forty minutes early.
Not on record
Who Liminal answers to, who funds it, whether it is national or private, and how many other sites it holds.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, Liminal
- The setting bible, sections 1 and 7
- Exit Interview (Beyond Dawn)