Bureau of Architectural Field Operations founded as successor to ECHO's observational mandate. Formal mission: document Architect-era installations. Actual mission: inherited without full context.
Chartered in 2058 as the successor to ECHO's observational mandate. Big Game dates the Bureau's field programme to the late 2040s, when gene-forging escaped the military supply chain and the civilian ecology could not absorb what was released; the ECHO bible has the mandate inherited informally from 2042. CL-011 reads the three as a sequence: mandate, programme, charter.
Ruled · CL-011
The Bureau's charter date is 2058 (the Setting Guide). The late-2040s founding in Big Game describes the field programme the Bureau absorbed, and the ECHO bible's '2042 onward' the informal inheritance of the observational mandate. A sequence, not a contradiction.
Decision recorded 2026-09-04
canon: Start date = 2058
OT Print Edition Collection/TC_SettingGuide_Print_Edition/chapters/CH01_TheUpheaval.md
in-world: Start date = late 2040s
OT Print Edition Collection/OT_BigGame_Print_Edition/chapters/CH02_BAFO.md
in-world: Start date = 2042 onward
OpTac Setting & Cities/OT_ECHO_Lumenfeld_Integrated_Bible.md