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The World
What the Rift is, how it behaves and how the expedition measures a place that refuses to hold still.
ARCHIVE RECORDThe RiftA perfectly straight alloy-lined shaft found beneath the Khepri Basin in 2189. Its depth changes, its echoes repeat, and its end has never been reached.
ARCHIVE RECORDRift physicsDepth drift, early signals, warm relays and geometry that folds at sector boundaries: the measured anomalies of the shaft and the rules the crew uses to survive them.
ARCHIVE RECORDEcho sectorsWhy the hundred mapped sectors repeat ten environments and ten guardian patterns, and why no echo is a perfect copy.
ARCHIVE RECORDTimelineFrom the Khepri survey in 2189 to the solo descent of the C-9 in 2217: the dated record of the Rift.
ARCHIVE RECORDGlossaryExpedition slang, Directorate terminology and technical terms, A to Z.