SANITY is the interface label for identity coherence: the percentage of the Operator's original neural checksum that the bridge can still verify. It is not morale. Darkness, hostile proximity, rift fields and unverified memories all degrade it.
At zero coherence the system reports PURGED. Whether that represents death, erasure, displacement or assimilation remains unknown.
How a projection ends
| Report | When |
|---|---|
| EXTRACTED | Every operative still standing has held the open hatch |
| PERIMETER CLEAR | An open arena with no Nodes has been held until the clock runs out |
| LINK LOST | The carrier clock reaches zero, or UPLINK reaches zero in the Black Annex |
| PURGED | SANITY reaches zero, for every operative |
Blood is checksum
During the armed response what the bridge draws as blood is checksum the entities carry, and so are the pieces of SANITY some of them leave on the floor. The T-Link takes it in as the operative's own, and it verifies. Medical has not determined whose it was. The STABILISER restores SANITY from the copy on file, which is close.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, canonical incident record
- Critical Response field manual, FIELD