ARCHIVE 002 · A2-033 · NOVEL COMPANION
A GOVERNMENT OF GHOSTS
Two custodial officers discovered that their replacement credentials had been issued under a role class marked historical.
Inherited systems continue translating the retained Graham MASTER principal into current permissions. The record survives because successive administrations migrated it forward, creating a government-like layer of authority whose original person is gone but whose machine role remains.
Revised chapter evidence: paragraph 23, paragraph 64, paragraph 96, paragraph 178
Original Archive 002 fiction. Companion to the revised novel; printed cards are playtest prototypes.