The cleaning crew are contractors: expendable, underequipped and doing a job nobody wanted. Unlike Operators they are physically present in Sector 7. Nobody budgeted for weapons, so they carry industrial tools and use them on whatever is still down there.
Progress belongs to the company and never to the person. Losing someone costs a hire. The terms put it plainly: one contractor is worth more than any single site, including the one that finishes the job.
Light
A struck cutting torch throws light that stops at walls, and anything standing in it is easier to hit, including the contractor holding it. What hunts in the corridors goes after whoever is standing in torchlight. See the light law.
The handler
Spoiler Who sends the crew in
The operative who escaped Sector 7 is the crew's handler. The survivor of a containment run is now on the other side of the glass, sending other people back in.
See also
Records cited
- Liminal Protocol: Cleaning Crew, store copy
- The setting bible, section 9