At 14:22 on 18 June 1993 Sector 7 ceased to persist as ordinary matter and survived as an addressable spatial lattice. Steel, concrete, equipment and personnel became coordinates in a monospaced signal environment. The site renders in glyphs because it is made of addressable cells.
Direct organic entry into the lattice is impossible. Operators enter it by projection. Contractors on Recovery contracts work in the facility in person.
Agreement
Where the lattice is unstable, RIFT-01 overlaps it. Transmit Nodes force nearby coordinates into temporary agreement on one arrangement. An open extraction gate is that kind of agreement, and offers no proof that the sector around it is safe.
Resolution
Operatives of the armed response found that how sharp something looks in the lattice is how firmly it exists there. See Resolution.
See also
Records cited
- LP-MAN-1993-S7, canonical incident record
- The setting bible, section 2