Zero live Master dependencies, historical Graham preserved without authority, ordinary institutions after the crisis, and one unprovenanced map that points beyond London.
Presides over the mature Public Provenance Archive, keeps historical Master records and unresolved UNKNOWN material visible without authority, and ends the novel refusing to confuse incomplete evidence with an answer. Her final archival ethic is to preserve the chain, not manufacture certainty.
Rebuilt public hall, small Graham letter case, UNKNOWN display, or final Moving Ways platform.
A2-CHAR-MARIAN · Character
Marian Vale
Lives outside government while remaining consulted about former estate matters, keeps private wealth within the Vale Transitional Trust, and helps articulate the final meaning of zero Master dependencies: nobody has to obey Graham's name anymore.
Domestic house, private-object room or ordinary passage through the square; no crown imagery.
A2-CHAR-NARA · Character
Nara Venn
Holds no permanent office, repeatedly accepts short procedural roles, and becomes evidence that civic usefulness need not harden into ownership or permanent command. She remains central to public life precisely without becoming its Master.
District meeting table, archive intake room or Organiser's Square without a podium.
A2-CHAR-ARUN · Character
Arun Vey
Completes the last live Master-dependent migration, rotates out of the temporary convenor role, and returns to the Industrial Spine where distributed systems governance remains argumentative rather than centralised.
Final identity migration board, rotating convenor record or Spine state network.
A2-CHAR-ROOK · Character
Commander Rook
Remains commander under a thirty-day civilian renewal cycle, gradually participates in reporting and succession planning, and demonstrates that unified operational command can persist without becoming permanent unreviewable sovereignty.
Renewal document and weather room rather than aircraft hero shot.
A2-CHAR-VOSS · Character
Halden Voss
Becomes chair of the first Civic Council through the charter's selection process rather than inheritance or continuity authority. His first emergency order expires as designed, making routine constitutional expiry part of the new normal.
A smaller public hall replaces the idea of one monumental central repository. No portrait is larger than the documents beneath it, Archive 001 and Archive 002 are separated by a simple threshold, and distributed holdings remain part of the archive's structure.
Modest exhibition hall with ARCHIVE 001 ENDS HERE / ARCHIVE 002 — AFTER THE SLEEPER threshold.
A2-OBJ-ZERO-MASTER · Migration status
Master-Dependent Services Remaining — 0
The final identity migration stops translating missing historical evidence into lower civic status. After parallel testing and one halted case, the last live service dependency on the Master classification is removed without deleting the historical Graham record.
Public migration board moving from 1 to 0 with historical-record note beneath.
A2-OBJ-HISTORICAL-MASTER · Archive / identity status
Graham MASTER — Historical Only
The Graham MASTER record remains queryable and citable for provenance but can no longer generate live service authority. The novel explicitly rejects deletion of historical evidence as a substitute for ending authority.
Historical record status card with LIVE AUTHORITY — NONE.
A2-OBJ-UNKNOWN-STATE · Unresolved record state
UNKNOWN — Authority None
Delegated UNKNOWN records and the recovered sheet remain preserved but stripped of authority. Their provenance and authorship are still unresolved at the end of the London arc.
The charter survives ordinary amendments, renewals, complaints and boring emergencies. Its durability comes from review, expiry and revision rather than from pretending the settlement is final.
Annotated charter with amendments, renewal notices and a small public-screen link.
A2-OBJ-GRAHAM-LETTER · Historical artifact
Graham's Letter
A tired handwritten Graham letter anchors the novel's final judgment: Graham was a man before he became an ownership system or political symbol. The archive refuses both hero and villain simplification.
Small handwritten letter under restrained label; no oversized Graham portrait.
A2-OBJ-NETWORK-MAP · Unresolved global record
The Unprovenanced Network Map
An anonymous map marks cities across multiple continents with symbols associated with old trustee and financial networks. One city is labelled UNKNOWN. The map does not prove a global conspiracy, other Sleepers or estate ownership beyond London.
Map with London occupying one corner, mixed symbols and visible PROVISIONAL status.
A2-OBJ-ONLY-ONE-CLAIM · Unverified claim
The Sleeper Was Never the Only One
A sentence typed on the reverse of the network map claims that the Sleeper was never the only one. It remains an unverified claim and a possible opening beyond Archive 002, not a retroactive explanation of the London plot.
Reverse of map with single typed sentence and provenance warning.
A2-OBJ-ARCHIVE-BOUNDARY · Editorial boundary
Archive 001 Ends Here / Archive 002 — After the Sleeper
The rebuilt exhibition explicitly marks the boundary between Wells's source story and the original continuation. Archive 002 does not rewrite Archive 001; it begins after Wells's ending.
Simple floor or wall threshold, not a portal or fantasy device.
A2-EVENT-FINAL-WAY · Closing event
The Final Moving Way Journey
Eliza rides home through ordinary institutional noise: delays, notices, hearings, arguments and no face speaking for the city. The final state is not solved or ownerless in every sense, but specifically no longer owned through one Master name.
Closes the current Archive 002 arc by converting remaining temporary London story states into their documented post-crisis conditions while leaving unresolved evidence available for future sets.
Open design question: Treat as an epilogue/reset effect, not a universal victory card.
Chapter 25 occurs months after Chapter 24 and closes the main London arc of Archive 002.
The final three Master-dependent services are migrated during the intervening period; Chapter 25 establishes the live dependency count at zero.
Migration to zero does not delete historical Graham MASTER records; they remain preserved for provenance with no live authority.
The final identity rule does not reduce rights because historical source records are missing; absence is no longer translated into a lower access class.
The continuity selector remains isolated and the brass key remains behind glass.
UNKNOWN remains without live authority and remains only partly explained.
The Second Graham does not return in Chapter 25.
The black seal disappears from active public systems, though an old credential attempt is preserved as evidence.
Marian remains wealthy through the Vale Transitional Trust and remains outside government.
Nara holds no permanent elected office in the closing chapter.
Arun's convenor role rotates to others; essential-systems governance remains distributed and contested.
Rook's operational air command remains subject to recurring civilian renewal.
Voss becomes Civic Council chair through the new charter process rather than inheritance or emergency continuity.
The anonymous global network map is unprovenanced and does not establish a global conspiracy, additional Sleepers or foreign ownership by Graham's estate.
The sentence THE SLEEPER WAS NEVER THE ONLY ONE is a claim, not narrator-confirmed fact.
Archive 001 remains Wells-derived source material; Archive 002 remains the original continuation and does not alter Wells's chronology.
Chapter 25 is the completed final chapter of Archive 002 while leaving a bounded wider-world hook for possible future work.
Existing Chapter 9 artwork, Chapter 5 notes, Archive 001 content and live game rules remain unchanged.