The First Revisit to Counterpane

About 2817 UCSD the Survey Corps folds back to the one surveyed membrane of Counterpane, to the shelter the first party left at the quietest gradient it could find, and does the thing a confirmation requires: the same three sealed sources, carried through the fold, braided on the same bench in the same cold shelter, read as a joint distribution that is not ours, and written as carried. Nothing is a finding on the membrane. The hull folds home, the bench is taken apart on a floor that has never been anywhere, every instrument is asked whether the transit changed it, and only then does the number become a reading.

It is the first of six revisits before the seventh, which departed in the early spring of 2829 UCSD with Chief Ranger Tissadelle Shepherd commanding its general operations department (Honest Clocks (S03E02C03)). Chief Ingrid Halvorsen of the Survey Corps has run the three-source bench on every revisit from the second onward, and has never once called what it reads there a finding until it is home. The reading has been confirmed at every revisit.

Canon facts:

• The first revisit to Counterpane fell about 2817 UCSD; the record fixes six revisits between the first party of 2814 UCSD and the seventh revisit of early spring 2829 UCSD, and the year of the first is the record's even spacing of them.
• Every revisit has carried the same three sealed sources and braided them on the same bench; the difference has been confirmed at every revisit, by instruments that came home and passed audit.
• Ingrid Halvorsen ran the bench on every revisit from the second onward, not the first.
• A value read on the membrane is carried as cargo and filed as a reading only after audit at home, from the first revisit on.

See: Counterpane: The Discrepant Archecluster, Honest Clocks (S03E02C03), Pending a Lead (S03E02C02), Ingrid Halvorsen, The Counterpane Reading Accepted at Home.