FILE: MAR-26-013 — NOTES TOWARD A COSMOLOGY
Multi-decade case file documenting an apparatus of long duration engaged in the observation and periodic cultivation of one (1) subject substrate. Working group convened ▆▆ ▆▆▆ ▆▆▆▆ at ▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆▆. Contains 22 personnel of interest and 55 sites of operational significance. Cross-references constellation graph (sep. file).
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.
AARI polar researcher at Vostok station; co-authors with Yegorov and Volkov. Has the 1998–2014 anomalous-returns dataset on her hard drive.
Retired math teacher, Asheville NC; born late 1946 / early 1947. Marina's father.
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.
Pop's dog. "The boss of everything," per Pop.
Eric Hauschild's daughter — 50s, Berkeley; daughter Iris in Montreal.
Pop Marquez's granddaughter. Eleven years old in the summer of 2003 in Alamogordo.
Ray "Pop" Marquez — Marisol's grandfather, Alamogordo, NM. Lotaburger cap, small black notebooks.
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.
Sentinel Cartograph contractor, lead on the Lomas-aftermath cell. Author of the three-point Compression-Event memo.
Freelance journalist (ex-Verge), Crown Heights. Working the Lampreysong / Castellanos / FOIA-cluster investigation; noticed by the apparatus.
Section 14 media liaison; brushed-nickel hair, standing Sentinel engagement. The "we need a move on this" voice.
Senior surface-contact handler on the Pact desk, 25 years. Logistics Support Group cover, Suite 312, Reston.
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.
Apparatus figure inside the upward chain (referenced across the inbox / Cell-4 channel).
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.
Wexler's widow; Tucson 1976; d. 1994.
Working-group officer who took Wexler's seat after the False Cape incident.
Wesleyan historian; Bill Carlyle's niece; executor of his papers.
Lt. Col. (ret.) William "Bill" Carlyle — original-nine working-group officer 1956–72; memoirist 2003–05; d. 2019. His niece Helen is the executor of his papers.
Operator-class senior technician at the gathering depicted in story 14 / book ch 15; Veth-skenn's counterpart on the older interval.
Operator-class technician; the narrating voice of story 14 / book ch 15. Senior technician at the technicians' gathering; carries P5/P6 procedural memory across cycles.
