Ships & Tech
Pulse-test
A commercially-motivated gain-band survey — and the procedure that gets people killed.
In full
Requested by a commercial operator at a survey stop, in the contract's own careful language. Translated: we want the data our models prefer, and we will pay for the tolerance. It reads as routine on the schedule. It is the proximate cause of at least one named death, and of the essay the Anchored have been citing ever since.
Key facts
- A gain-band survey commissioned commercially.
- Institutional language for buying the tolerance.
- Appears on the schedule as routine work.
- Killed a named officer in October 2159.