At 14:22 EST on 18 June 1993 the Sector 7 carrier-wave reactor entered critical resonance. The facility was not destroyed in any conventional sense. Sector 7 ceased to persist as ordinary matter and survived as an addressable spatial lattice, in which steel, concrete, equipment and personnel became coordinates in a monospaced signal environment.
The same resonance ruptured the dimensional boundary around the reactor chamber. The breach that resulted is designated RIFT-01. Liminal files the event as INC-0618, and every later record in this archive is dated against it.
Two events at one time
Liminal's records treat the incident as two separate facts. The first is the conversion of matter to lattice, which is why the site renders as glyphs: it is made of addressable cells. The second is the rupture around the reactor chamber, which admits fragments of incompatible spaces, organisms, memories and physical laws wherever the lattice is unstable.
Personnel
Staff transponders still answer from inside the lattice. Liminal cannot prove whether any organic personnel survived or whether the responding signals are copies, and the official line is not to assume they are copies. See Sector 7 personnel.
The bridge
Project T-Link had been a one-way neural projection system. After 14:22 the bridge carried traffic both ways: sensations, injuries and foreign memories met inside Sector 7 began to write back into the projected Operator. A relay note recovered on the surface records that staff were asked to file returned sensations with the operator's memories, on a form with one signature box.
The issued account
The canonical incident record states that the June 18 resonance ruptured the dimensional boundary, and that remains the issued account. The record of the Last Shift adds that the routine test running on the maintenance shift did not cause the failure, which began in the original lower containment ring. Liminal has repeatedly declined to publish the original survey of the site.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, canonical incident record
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, Liminal
- Tea at the Relay, recovered relay note (Beyond Dawn)
- The Last Shift, Liminal Protocol's Story opening