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I Can Claim the Talents of the Dead • Season 5: War of Gates

Chapter 484: The Margin at the Order Time

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The first measurement file arrived without the page defining its reference correction.

Juno opened the accompanying index, found the missing item and stopped the reconstruction. The Aegis technician supervising access said the values had already been corrected for the public summary. She asked him to identify which values were raw and which had been adjusted.

He pointed to the wrong column, checked his own working note and corrected himself. Juno recorded the correction without treating it as evidence of deception. The file used two similar headings inherited from an older instrument export. It was quite capable of confusing someone who worked with it daily.

The unaffiliated engineer sat opposite her with a separate copy. She had not built the stadium anchors or worked for Aegis. The commission had asked her to check Juno’s calculation, including any assumption that favored the team making the complaint.

“Neither column has a usable reference until that page comes,” she said.

The supervisor requested it through the authorized archive route. They waited under the access observer’s eye, using the interval to compare the file index with the commission’s request. The release included the inner monitor, one outer monitor, a calibration check and a partial maintenance record. A second outer station’s detailed history remained withheld. The interval after the first command report contained gaps.

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