IN> Backfiling (Trade)

[John Dallman]

In article <BAY122-W42F06889705EEA7DC0E7F8A7B80 at phx.gbl>, 
thausgt at hotmail.com (Perrin Rynning) wrote:

> Sorry if I'm coming onto this thread late. Wouldn't this attunement 
> simply add additional information to the Archives, rather than change 
> or delete the information already there? 

Yes. This, in itself, is extraordinarily useful in a war. Reading a bit 
about the cryptography and deception operations of WWII will be helpful 
here. 

> I visualize the Archives as having it's very own time-date stamping
> mechanism as part of the overall data-tracking system, which would
> immediately indicate that the paperwork that this attunement produces
> was not filed (nor stamped, nor briefed, debriefed, indexed or
> numbered) appropriately... but only with respect to the Archive 
> itself and not to the paperwork in the mortal world.

Well, if that's how you visualise the Archives... Given that Kronos is 
described as the only being who can consistently find stuff in the 
Archives, I tend to assume it's a bit less organised than that. Since, 
after all, it is necessary for many of Hell's purposes to be able to 
fabricate evidence, an overall data-tracking system seems undesirable. 

-- 
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