ARCHIVE 002 · A2-002 · NOVEL COMPANION
THE LAST VALID SIGNATURE
A surviving operator grant gives limited permission without deciding who owns the city.
The service plates distinguish existing operation from new allocation. Holt finds an older operator grant that survives a vacancy and asks Eliza for faithful copies. The grant is local and limited: it is not unrestricted authority to move resources between stations.
MASTER · TRUSTEE · DELEGATE · OPERATOR
Individual operators retain discretion to preserve life. The grant survives a vacancy.
Individual operators retain discretion to preserve life. The grant survives a vacancy.
Typeset excerpt from original Chapter 1 fiction. This is not a historical document or a final physical-card design.
Chapter evidence: paragraph 28, paragraph 32, paragraph 35, paragraph 38, paragraph 42, paragraph 51, paragraph 53, paragraph 57, paragraph 100
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