Independent expedition leader moving toward an Architect-era site before the GCOA contracted survey seals it. The orbital survey data that identified the site came from a data covenant violation. He has been building a cover documentation trail for two years.
Independent archaeologist. Moving toward an Architect-era site identified from restricted orbital survey data. Three competing teams en route. When the GCOA contracted survey arrives, the site closes to independent academic access for at least a decade. He intends to be first.
The survey data came from a contact who obtained it through a data covenant violation. He used it without asking how they got it. Two years of parallel documentation work constructing a trail that would make the identification appear to have come from open-source analysis. It almost would have, eventually.
Currently three days from the target site in the Patagonian Interior. Terracotta expedition jacket. The dead credentials include a survey chip from the last Architect-era site he found legitimately — that one is on a chain.