The formal debrief opened with Caleb's standard operational framing.
This is what we retrieved. Here is how it maps to existing intelligence. He laid out the parley's yield in the ordered language of tactical analysis — the Instrumentalist/Absolutist structure, the activation mapping timeline, the six-week completion target, the application stage's requirement for a live and unshielded Primary Source. He presented it the way he presented everything: as information with a shelf life and operational implications that required decisions.
It was the last normal thing for approximately the next hour.
Harsen and Rochard were present for the formal session — the coalition representatives who had stayed in Northbridge for the ongoing tactical cycle. They received the intelligence with the speci
