Professor Amara Quill, whose grant conditions prohibit the university from owning participant recordings.
Historians, civil engineers, linguists, student researchers, a community liaison, and an external ethics panel.
Saint Morrow · Faction file · Credibility in public debate; dependent on community trust and university risk tolerance.
Meridian University Field Group
Study anomalous civic records ethically, keep living participants in control of their testimony, and publish reproducible research.
History
Every group keeps a record.
A cross-disciplinary research team formed after a public-history grant found addresses that existed in oral testimony but nowhere in the city archive.
AlliesVey Archive Trust, Quiet Cartographers, tenant groups.
OppositionGrant opportunists, coercive research offices, and the temptation to call undocumented lives a data problem.
Laboratories, special collections access, student fieldwork, and public research funding.
Audio kits, environmental sensors, laser measures, archival gloves, and redundant paper consent forms.
A converted seminar wing beside the Vey Archive, with one room reserved for community review.
VehiclesUniversity pool cars, accessible transit vouchers, and a borrowed equipment van.
Field identification
Recognizable by the work, not a costume.
UniformNo uniform; field teams use highly visible role badges and plain weatherproof clothing.
SymbolAn open notebook with a measured blank margin.
Paint Vault · faction tones
- lab coat white
- library green
- instrument blue
- ink black
STL concept · faction collection
Explore the miniature lines A miniature line with a reason to exist.
Research team, portable survey kit, archive handling set, field van, and campus lab interiors.