Research Sharing — Partner AUREATE

1.0 The Partner

The programme maintains a single external research-sharing arrangement, with a civilian scholarly collection that has the expertise to study recovered objects the programme cannot, and the discretion to do so quietly. The partner is referred to internally only by codename — AUREATE — and never by its public identity in programme traffic. Externally it accessions under the prefixes the programme knows as the Athenaeum and the Aurei; internally, both are AUREATE.

The arrangement is asymmetric and deliberately so. AUREATE receives selected non-hazardous material and the scholarship that goes with it. It does not receive the programme's operational core, and it does not ask.

2.0 What Is Shared, and What Is Not

• Shared — inert artefacts. Recovered objects with no energetic or charge hazard: stone, worked metal, survey samples. The Colonnade Fragment from GG-D2 is the type case, held on open loan for display and study.
• Shared — survey scholarship. Sanitised imagery, environmental data, and material analysis from surveyed destinations, stripped of bearings, dial procedure, and anything that would let a reader reach a place.
• Withheld — energetic materiel. Everything under IRONWRIGHT. Drûl energy weapons never leave the vault and are never described to AUREATE in working detail.
• Withheld — dial doctrine. The bearing-and-lock procedure and the dialling discipline. The lock is a mental act; a procedure shared is a procedure that can be carried.
• Withheld — charged hazards. Objects that fight an operator. The Ashfall Reliquary is accessioned with AUREATE but held under sealed-study terms, off display, because it orients overnight toward the floor — it is pointing home.

3.0 Loan Register

The register is append-only and mirrors the discipline of the Destination Registry: nothing is removed; recall changes status, not the row.