The Last Shift is the record of the Sector 7 incident as a maintenance worker on duty saw it. It begins as an ordinary shift: a circulation filter to seat, a supply breaker to test, a colleague moving between machines and practical lights working overhead.
The local test succeeds. The failure that follows starts somewhere else, in the original lower containment ring, and the record states plainly that the routine test did not cause it.
The failure
The record follows the failure outward from the ring. An escaped contact attacks a technician, and a service drone turns on personnel. Staff caught in the attacks come apart into the glyphs of the lattice. The upper deck evacuates. A riser ruptures, and a lower transfer loses coherence.
The escape
The worker isolates a damaged line in a service passage, seals the access to a receiver and makes contact with the station beyond it. The receiver station stands outside the containment field. From there the worker returns to Sector 7 through Project T-Link as an Operator, which is where the Unlisted Return begins.
See also
Records cited
- The Last Shift, Liminal Protocol's Story opening