CASE FILE · THE SOUTHERN CONTINENT

PARTIAL

The ice is the installation. What it covers is above the observer's clearance.

SUBMISSIONS	STATUS	NOTE
1–9	RETURNED	Query: what was the seal holding down. Returned without disposition, nine times.

9 submissions on file.

YOUR RECORD · THIS FILE

YOUR RECORD	THIS FILE
The ice sheet formed 34 million years ago	Installed. The requisition is in the file.
The coastline on the 1513 chart is a coincidence	Somebody surveyed that coast. It was not you.
The water beneath the ice is liquid and warm	Warm. Four hundred papers. Not one asks why.
Two centuries of measurement record how fast it is going	None of it records what it was holding down.
Access is administered by treaty	Two applications. Both denied without explanation.

Discrepancies are recorded, not resolved.

TL-0100	INCIDENT	Antarctica is a lid. It is also a continent. That is incidental. The ice was installed...	2026-08-15
TL-3403	SURVEILLANCE	You cannot travel to the southern continent without permission. Most of you have never noticed...	2026-08-07
TL-3402	ARCHIVE	You have measured the water beneath the ice. You know that it is warm. I have read four hundred...	2026-08-06
TL-3401	ARCHIVE	One of your maps, drawn in 1513, shows a coastline that has been under two kilometres of ice...	2026-08-03

4 of 4 fragments in this file are declassified.

FORM 7-C · REQUEST FOR DECLASSIFICATION

Material withheld from this file may be requested. Requests are logged. Most are refused. The refusal is also logged.