Notes Toward a Cosmology

Yakima and Skamania Counties, southern Washington — stratovolcano of the Cascade Range, 3,743 m; second-tallest peak in Washington

Mount Adams, Washington

46°12′N, 121°29′W

Yavapai and Coconino Counties, central Arizona — Verde Valley, Red Rock country, elevation 1,372 m

Sedona, Arizona

34°52′N, 111°45′W

Tularosa Basin / Trinity Site

33°41′N, 106°28′W

Otero, Doña Ana, Sierra, and Socorro Counties, south-central New Mexico — closed basin between the Sacramento and San Andres mountains

Contra Costa County, Northern California — isolated peak of the Diablo Range east of the San Francisco Bay, 1,173 m

Mount Diablo, California

37°52′N, 121°54′W

San Bernardino County, southern California — high desert at the junction of the Mojave and Colorado deserts, elevation 800–1,200 m; gateway to Joshua Tree National Park

Joshua Tree, California

33°51′N, 116°18′W

The Devil's Sea / Dragon's Triangle

25°N, 142°E (approx. center)

Western Pacific — region of the Philippine Sea south of Japan, approximately bounded by Tokyo (Honshu), Iwo Jima, and Guam

drawer II — personae

Civilians, handlers, contractors, the working-group historicals, the operator caste. No portraits exist in the public record; each persona is mounted with monogram, name, classification, and a curator's note.

Daniel Vasquez

Daniel Vasquez of Lubbock, Texas — Navy submariner; Subject 9930. Resistive substrate at the procedure; speaks the 22 sentences to Chaplain Pat Donohoe on his Subic Bay deathbed, spring 1971. Ch 13 / story 11.

Elin

AARI polar researcher at Vostok station; co-authors with Yegorov and Volkov. Has the 1998–2014 anomalous-returns dataset on her hard drive.

Eric Hauschild

Retired math teacher, Asheville NC; born late 1946 / early 1947. Marina's father.

Joan Whitfield

Novelist at MacDowell writing the strange-loop novel — invents the term "owl-as-binding" and finds she has not invented it. The Tomás-subject-line email is the hook.

Lucha

Pop's dog. "The boss of everything," per Pop.

Marina Hauschild-Bell

Eric Hauschild's daughter — 50s, Berkeley; daughter Iris in Montreal.

Marisol Marquez

Pop Marquez's granddaughter. Eleven years old in the summer of 2003 in Alamogordo.

Pop Marquez

Ray "Pop" Marquez — Marisol's grandfather, Alamogordo, NM. Lotaburger cap, small black notebooks.

The man on the patio

The Starbucks-encounter figure who is the codex's prompt — a Phoenix-area DBA who told the author his former leadership had the demonstrated capacity to travel to a specific star in Andromeda.

Maren Sandberg

cat. contractor

Sentinel Cartograph contractor, lead on the Lomas-aftermath cell. Author of the three-point Compression-Event memo.

Reema Iyer

cat. contractor

Freelance journalist (ex-Verge), Crown Heights. Working the Lampreysong / Castellanos / FOIA-cluster investigation; noticed by the apparatus.

Greta Pratt

Section 14 media liaison; brushed-nickel hair, standing Sentinel engagement. The "we need a move on this" voice.

John Roberts

Senior surface-contact handler on the Pact desk, 25 years. Logistics Support Group cover, Suite 312, Reston.

Lorenzo (L. ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆)

Senior handler, Section 11, NM desk, 1980s–2010s. The eight-character redaction is consistent across the file; the full name does not appear in the public record.

Pat Donohoe

Apparatus figure inside the upward chain (referenced across the inbox / Cell-4 channel).

Daniel Wexler

Col. Daniel Wexler — working-group officer; d. 26–27 September 1961 at False Cape VA, ruled accidental. The "second set of footprints" — the working group's first attrition that is not a natural death.

Eleanor Wexler

Wexler's widow; Tucson 1976; d. 1994.

Frank Voss

Working-group officer who took Wexler's seat after the False Cape incident.

Helen Carlyle

Wesleyan historian; Bill Carlyle's niece; executor of his papers.

William "Bill" Carlyle