Everything we know, kept where it cannot be lost. Read it at any Terminal.
Twenty-seven entries in seven holdings. The list is here.
What you should know before you read
We tell you how sure we are. Every entry says whether a thing is known, inferred, or only told to us, and by whom. If an entry does not say, ask at a Terminal and it will.
Dates count from the founding. Year 1 is the year the first assembly sat. The fortress keeps the count and has never lost it, so you can subtract any two dates here and trust the answer.
Arguments are kept, not tidied away. When the Exemplars decided something and someone disagreed, the disagreement is filed next to the decision in the words the objector used. They are collected in the register.
When we say we do not know a thing, we mean it. Some entries are mostly a list of what is missing. That is not laziness, and it saves you hunting through a holding for something nobody ever put in it.
Who can read what
Anyone at a Terminal can read the general holdings.
Two entries need Elder credentials. Both are in Holding II and both say so at the top. The Exemplars restricted structural plans, defences, and a few of their own programmes. A restriction means they wanted the entry kept close. It does not mean the contents are dangerous.
Nobody can write to the Archive from a Terminal, whatever credentials they hold. Reading only.
How current it is
Each entry carries the date it was written or the date it was last corrected. A Terminal will tell you which.
The dates are uneven on purpose. Holding V is fixed after every arrival and every return, so its entries are usually a season old at most. Holding VII has had nothing new since Year 367 because nobody has brought us anything. An old date means nothing has been learned since. We do not touch the date just because someone has read the entry.