Motion leaves only a transient trace. An operative that holds its coordinates transmits a steady one, and the breach reads it. Held long enough in one place, the trace fixes: blows land harder and closer together, blood restores more slowly, and the breach opens on the operative.
It does not fix where the coordinates already agree, in a Transmit Node's ring or at the open hatch, or in the Black Annex.
The survey marker
A brass survey marker recovered from Hall B's floor makes a fixed trace cost nothing while it is carried. See Exhibits.
See also
Records cited
- Critical Response field manual, FIELD