The Fliade Survey's First Year on the Ground

2831 UCSD is the first year on the ground of the Survey Corps' surface party on Fliade, working the upper levels of the cavern networks that belong to the people the survey calls the Pandoids and who call themselves, in the record's translation, the Told. The year is the record's arithmetic from the survey's own count, which dates 2832 UCSD as its second year on the ground and 2834 UCSD as its fourth.

The Told keep their record by speaking it; the record converts their intervals into UCSD and marks that it has done so. No telling of the up-people's coming is dated by the record.

Canon facts:

• Fliade is a first-contact world, and the Frontier Transformation Protocols' sapience clause applied before any proposal was on any table.
• There is no settlement authorisation and none has been sought; the standing doctrine is the longest survey window and the lightest presence.
• What the Archive holds about Fliade is observational: nothing in it is an account the Told gave of themselves.

See: Fliade, The Told, Hesper Nakagawa.