The Rule

No document, no restoration.

Every restoration begins with a document that a reader can go and find. This page states what counts as one, what each kind of source is allowed to become, and what ships with a restoration when it is published.

What counts as a document

1. Official releases, declassified files, court exhibits, settlement archives, truth-commission records.

   Can become a memory.

2. Consortium-verified leaks, and documents authenticated by major outlets.

   Can become a memory after legal review.

3. Credible reporting without the underlying document.

   Context only. Never the memory itself.

The five strata

Every restoration ships with all five. They are counted on the receipt before the memory is published, and named again on the ledger entry afterwards.

official

The documents the institution kept, and eventually released.

suppressed

The documents the institution tried not to keep.

folk

What people said about it where no institution was listening.

descendant

What the people it happened to told the people who came after.

synthetic

What this System assembled from the other four, marked as assembled.

Confidence

This System reports a confidence with every verdict. When the documents change, the verdict is revised on the ledger, in a new entry, and the old one stays readable.