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Mysteries
What the archive cannot confirm: open questions, competing theories and the evidence on each side.
WORKING THEORYOpen questionsWho built the shaft? Why does it remember? What is the Heart? Can the carrier return? The questions the archive keeps open.
WORKING THEORYExpedition theoriesThe immune response, the archive, the builders and the Heart: four ways of explaining the Rift, and the evidence for and against each.
WORKING THEORYThe cachesSealed Directorate supply crates found where no Directorate vehicle has been. Their scratches match crates still sitting in Asterion’s stores.
WORKING THEORYIs Ilyan alive?The evidence for and against the survival of Ilyan Venn: a closed harness, a copied shard, a second workbench and six words.