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Timeline
Chronology from 1947 to 1998 with redactions.
Full chronology from LIM discovery through Zone seal and the 1998 Driver narrative. On record marks canon anchors. Classified years may show torn-page treatments.
LIM technology first light
On record: LIM technology developed on the Washington Olympic Peninsula with U.S. government cooperation.
ARDA established · Deep Zone
On record: ARDA established. Outer Zone carved around western Clallam County (near Forks) — this is the Deep Zone boundary in later cartography language.
Mid Zone boundary
On record: Zone expansion establishes the Mid Zone boundary.
Allen Turner · prior Mass Hallucination
On record: Allen Turner dies in an experiment that triggers the previous Mass Hallucination (~40 years before 1998 events). Research facility site remains a restricted memory in personnel files.
After-action: full casualty list and coupling parameters
Well association: confirmed / denied / inconclusive
Outer Zone ~3,600 sq mi
On record: Zone expands to almost the entire Peninsula — Outer Zone boundary. This is the surface the Driver first reaches in later accounts.
Steady-state containment
Internal memo: Programs Epsilon residual and Sigma planning. Remnant catalog grows. ARC devices refined under Oppy's guidance.
ARDA disestablished · Zone sealed
On record: ARDA disestablished; Zone evacuated and sealed.
Driver enters the Zone
On record: A Driver enters; encounters Remnants, ARC device, Colossal Cappy, the Murals, the Well, Mass Hallucination source; Tobias's sacrifice; escape.
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Signal integrity: poor. Characters may be OCR artifacts.