GCOA intelligence analyst, nineteen years building the world archive. Has been selectively redacting tactical coordinates from the public-facing access layer for six years. Internal archive complete. External layer is his editorial judgment.
The GCOA archive is, in its current form, a geopolitical instrument wearing the livery of neutral scholarship. He wants to produce the other version — the one that shows where the water goes, who lives downstream, what the terrain actually does rather than what faction doctrine says it does. Nineteen years in. Approximately thirty-five percent done.
For six years he has withheld coordinates and facility locations from the public-facing layer — not corrupting the record, controlling it. Anything he assesses as giving one faction a tactical advantage over the others. The internal archive is complete. The external layer is curated. He has not told the GCOA.
Access logs still trend upward. He checks daily. He knows it is not a permanent condition.