This canon pack cites the revised novel. Read the 26 September 2026 canon pack to see the earlier edition and its original citations.
Current R5 chapter text. Archived R4 canon.
Established story material
A2-CHAR-ROOK · Character
Commander Rook
Rook lands with six aircraft, accepts specific civil missions and commands tactics once his pilots are airborne. He countermanded three depot requests made under abolished-office credentials; their sender and motive remain unknown.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶023, ¶026, ¶058, ¶122, ¶158, ¶178, ¶249, ¶285
Illustration continuity: Avoid a generic heroic officer portrait. Stronger compositions are the patched aircraft at the western field, Rook at the weather-room map, or the visitor-mark scene at the square.
A2-CHAR-KORR · Character
Eda Korr
Rook's quartermaster and fuel officer, responsible for usable aircraft counts, parts, fuel and ground logistics. She repeatedly narrows impressive headline numbers into operational ones and signs the fuel schedule rather than the air command itself.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶041, ¶043, ¶045, ¶046, ¶232, ¶284, ¶286
Illustration continuity: Leather work apron, ledgers, fuel valves and mechanics distinguish her from formal command staff. No ornamental military uniform is established.
A2-CHAR-NARA · Character
Nara Venn
Carries the assembly's insistence on reasons, local mandates and explicit limits into negotiations with the air service. She witnesses receiving-court procedure but does not sign for every district or claim authority over Rook's pilots.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶020, ¶038, ¶061, ¶076, ¶148, ¶150, ¶286
Illustration continuity: Use the established Organiser continuity if needed, preferably in relation to the field fence, visitor mark or mission sheet rather than as a standalone leader image.
A2-CHAR-ARUN · Character
Arun Vey
Treats the air service as another system dependent on fuel, maintenance and technical refusal. His contribution is to define technical limits and separate them from civil allocation rather than to command the aircraft.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶044, ¶051, ¶130, ¶146, ¶284, ¶285
Illustration continuity: Engineer under a wing with fuel and service records; no pilot gear or air-command insignia.
A2-CHAR-MARIAN · Character
Marian Vale
Rejects the idea that an air force can simply be discovered inside her possible inheritance. At the field she questions what Rook actually commands and leaves the eventual air agreement unsigned.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶078, ¶236, ¶249, ¶250, ¶286
Illustration continuity: A field-side conversation or map-room observer; no ownership or command symbolism.
A2-CHAR-ELIZA · Character
Eliza Marr
Examines the three black-seal depot requests as preserved records, insists on complete packages and custody chains, and does not convert their accepted credentials into a claim about motive, common authorship or operational legitimacy.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶081, ¶154, ¶158, ¶164, ¶170, ¶178, ¶286, ¶288
Illustration continuity: Use comparison documents and custody cases over a formal character portrait.
A2-CHAR-AMEL · Character
Amel Ryn
Brings receiving-court reality into the air negotiation by challenging the nine-day grain estimate, providing revised court counts and keeping food distribution central to a discussion otherwise dominated by aircraft and command.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶009, ¶012, ¶090, ¶094, ¶222, ¶224
Illustration continuity: Food-table records beside flight planning are the useful motif; do not convert her into air staff or a military aide.
A2-PLACE-WESTERN-FIELD · Place
The Western Landing Field
A damaged municipal freight platform becomes the immediate interface between Rook's aircraft, municipal ground control, fuel staff, engineers and receiving courts. No single actor controls every function on the field.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶023, ¶026, ¶028, ¶029, ¶041, ¶061
Illustration continuity: Patched runway, scorched circles, temporary mast, mixed civil/military ground crews and repaired aircraft.
A2-PLACE-WEATHER-ROOM · Place
The Old Weather Room
A glass-sided room above the field becomes the negotiation table for air command, grain escort, black-seal evidence and the temporary agreement. Its large map makes overlapping jurisdictions visible.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶062, ¶063, ¶064, ¶088, ¶132, ¶154, ¶284
Illustration continuity: Wide table-and-map scene with windows onto the airfield; no throne-like head position.
A2-OBJ-AIRCRAFT-COUNT · Operational roster
Thirty-Seven Aircraft
Korr reports thirty-seven aircraft that flew within the last four days and thirty-one she would send on a long escort without first putting a mechanic inside them. The six aircraft arriving over London are a separate count.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶023, ¶024, ¶045, ¶046
Illustration continuity: Roster with operational, restricted and inspection-needed columns; no invented aircraft statistics.
A2-OBJ-REGISTERED-GRAIN-DAYS · Supply estimate
Registered Issue Days
The initial nine-day projection came from incomplete municipal issue returns. Rook relabels the heading REGISTERED ISSUE DAYS; receiving-court revisions put it between seven and eight days under current rationing, with displaced households still missing.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶089, ¶093, ¶094, ¶101, ¶222, ¶223, ¶226
Illustration continuity: Crossed-out heading changing DAYS OF GRAIN to REGISTERED ISSUE DAYS; no absolute starvation countdown.
A2-OBJ-THREE-AUTHORITIES · Operating framework
Mission, Flight and Ground Authority
The negotiation separates civil mission authority, Rook's command once aircraft are airborne and local control of landing, fuel and ground safety. The fourth column—what happens when they disagree—remains the difficult part.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶119, ¶122, ¶132, ¶134, ¶138, ¶284, ¶285
Illustration continuity: Three-column operational sheet plus an intentionally open disagreement column.
A2-OBJ-BLACK-DEPOT-REQUESTS · Records
The Three Depot Requests
Three eastern depot controllers accepted preservation-office credentials for fuel release, relay priority and holding two aircraft. Rook countermanded all three locally; complete wrappers were preserved. Sender, motive and connection to the square attack remain unknown.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶157, ¶158, ¶159, ¶166, ¶170, ¶178, ¶179, ¶286
Illustration continuity: Three separate machine receipts with custody wrappers; do not merge them into one sinister master order.
A2-OBJ-STANDING-FLIGHT-RULES · Operational record
The Standing Flight Rules
Separates recurring flight-safety rules—weather, pilot command, emergency diversion and technical refusal—from the civil purpose of each mission. It is not a permanent grant of sovereignty over the air.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶144, ¶146, ¶276, ¶277, ¶284, ¶285
Illustration continuity: Two-sheet layout: standing flight rules beside a mission-specific sheet.
A2-EVENT-FIRST-GRAIN-ESCORT · Event
The First Grain Escort
Korr removes one aircraft from Rook’s planned eight after metal dust is found. Seven launch; one remains at the eastern field after an oil-pressure warning, six return with the convoy, and none is fired upon.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶232, ¶233, ¶263, ¶264, ¶268
Illustration continuity: Returning grain carriers with aircraft high above, emphasizing logistics rather than combat.
A2-OBJ-FORTY-EIGHT-HOUR-AIR-AGREEMENT · Temporary authority record
The Forty-Eight-Hour Air Agreement
A temporary agreement defines civil missions, airborne command, field safety, technical fuel limits, depot conditions and records obligations for forty-eight hours. It expires automatically unless renewed and does not declare who governs the air as a whole.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶269, ¶276, ¶277, ¶284, ¶285, ¶286
Illustration continuity: Multi-signatory operational agreement with an explicit expiry block; no permanent command seal.
TCG candidates
Untested design candidates linked to the revised story. These are proposals only; the live game rules and printed card statistics are unaffected.
A2-C14-F01 · Figure · Authority / Infrastructure
Commander Rook, Command in Flight
Gains a bounded command benefit only during a declared mission; the benefit does not transfer control of the mission's cargo or receiving Place.
Open design question: Represent the mission with an existing declared-objective state and avoid a separate tactical combat layer.
Story sources: Commander Rook, Mission, Flight and Ground Authority
A2-C14-F02 · Figure · Infrastructure / Knowledge
Eda Korr, Useful Numbers
Lets a player replace an impressive headline count with a smaller operational subset, gaining reliability at the cost of immediate capacity.
Open design question: Use existing ready/exhausted or availability states; no new maintenance mini-game.
Story sources: Eda Korr, Thirty-Seven Aircraft
A2-C14-F03 · Figure · Influence / Knowledge
Nara Venn, Consultation Is Not Permission
Prevents consultation at one Place from being treated as a broad control grant, while still allowing the underlying mission to proceed if another valid authority exists.
Open design question: Target only one transfer/control effect so this remains readable.
Story sources: Nara Venn, Mission, Flight and Ground Authority
A2-C14-R01 · Record · Knowledge / Infrastructure
Registered Issue Days
Revises a public resource estimate when a second source is introduced. The revision changes planning without generating or destroying the physical resource itself.
Open design question: Use visible resource totals and avoid hidden arithmetic or starvation counters.
Story sources: Registered Issue Days, Amel Ryn
A2-C14-R02 · Record · Knowledge / Authority
The Three Depot Requests
Stores multiple related authority claims without declaring common authorship. A later verification effect may compare them, but possession alone cannot identify a culprit.
Open design question: Keep uncertainty explicit and prevent the card from becoming a generic search tutor.
Story sources: The Three Depot Requests, Eliza Marr
A2-C14-E01 · Event · Infrastructure
The First Grain Escort
Moves an existing supply through a declared route under temporary protection; an aircraft may be withheld for reliability without cancelling the whole mission.
Open design question: Map escort to current movement rules rather than introducing aerial combat resolution.
Story sources: The First Grain Escort, The Standing Flight Rules
A2-C14-R03 · Record · Authority / Influence
Forty-Eight Hours
Creates a temporary authority window with an explicit expiry; renewal requires the same categories of consent rather than becoming automatic permanence.
Open design question: Use existing turn/round timing and ensure expiry cannot be trivially reset forever.
Story sources: The Forty-Eight-Hour Air Agreement, The Old Weather Room
Continuity locks
- Chapter 14 follows the western-entrance attack. The eleven deaths and memorial board remain part of the city's immediate context.
- The black mark at the Chapter 13 attack remains evidence of a mark, not proof of the attacker. Rook's depot requests do not resolve that attribution.
- Rook has thirty-seven aircraft that flew recently, but Korr distinguishes thirty-one suitable for a long escort without further inspection. Do not treat 37 as uniformly mission-ready.
- The grain estimate begins as nine days based on municipal registered issue and is explicitly relabelled and revised after receiving-court data. Do not use nine days as an omniscient citywide fact.
- Rook commands agreed flight operations; he does not become sovereign over London, the depots, receiving courts or every aircraft-related decision.
- Mission authority, flight authority and ground receiving/safety authority remain distinct. Later chapters may show conflicts among them.
- The first grain escort encounters no combat. One aircraft remains at the eastern field after a warning; six return to London with the convoy.
- The eastern depots and station retain their own conditions and ownership relationships. London cannot simply order their grain or runways.
- Marian signs no air-command agreement and does not claim the aircraft through succession.
- Nara witnesses receiving-court procedure only; she does not sign for all districts.
- The three black-seal depot requests are preserved with wrappers. Sender, motive and relationship to the bombing or false Graham remain unknown.
- The forty-eight-hour agreement is temporary and expires unless renewed. It is not a constitution or a permanent air ministry.
- Chapter 15 must inherit overlapping civil, technical, district and air jurisdictions rather than a newly unified government.
Companion records
A2-027 · Companion record
Six aircraft arrive over London. Rook has thirty-seven that flew within four days; Korr would send only thirty-one on a long escort without mechanical inspection. Parts, fuel and access make a serviceable roster more useful than a headline.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶023, ¶045, ¶046, ¶232, ¶268
A2-028 · Companion record
Seven aircraft escort contracted grain under a named mission; six return while one remains east for inspection. The subsequent forty-eight-hour agreement separates civil purpose, flight command, ground safety, fuel limits and local depot conditions, with an explicit expiry.
Revised chapter evidence: ¶232, ¶233, ¶268, ¶276, ¶277, ¶284, ¶285, ¶286
What changed in this edition
- All entity and record citations now link to verified current chapter paragraphs.
- Six arrival aircraft, thirty-seven recently flown, thirty-one escort candidates and seven aircraft on the first mission are distinct counts.
- Grain projection is explicitly qualified, and black-seal receipts establish neither sender nor motive.
What remains uncertain
- Three depot request senders and their relationship to the square attack remain unverified.
- Grain counts omit some displaced households.
- Aircraft ownership and the legal continuation of their military service are disputed.