Registry Access Point // Survey BureauForm R-1

A group build for people who hate group builds.

Most group builds give you a theme and a deadline, and if you don’t like the theme or can’t find the time, you’re left out. Longlight works the other way. Build what you want, whether it’s a small twist on what you already build or a brand new idea, and tie it to the Longlight world with at least one sentence of story. File it to get a serial number and QR code, then share it at your next model show or online. Every build becomes part of the same story, and we get to watch it grow.

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The story, in one line

Before the Silence
Technology from any era, up to the most advanced.
The Silence · 2085
Every chip dies at once, and so does nearly every machine on Earth.
After the Silence
Back to late-1900s tech, plus leftover modern salvage patched and reused.

Your build can sit anywhere on this timeline. The year you pick sets the technology rules.

How it works

01
Build it.
Any kit, any scale. Set it before or after the Silence.
02
File it.
At least one photo and at least one sentence of story.
03
Get a serial number.
Your build and your story becomes part of the shared world.

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The full story

01
The Crisis
The climate crisis pushed the world to the edge, and without a solution, humans faced extinction. The global superpowers came together and invested heavily in an answer: thirteen warship-sized robots, plus a fleet of smaller support robots and machines. Before the first one was built, nations around the world signed a treaty and formed the Global Protection Force, or GPF, to protect and service them.
02
Longlight
The Thirteen needed more power than the world had ever made, so engineers built a new kind called Longlight. A single Longlight module held so much power that silicon chips couldn’t control it, so they also created a new chip material called Deepline. In 2044 the Thirteen went to work, and the planet started to heal.
03
A New World
Like the space program in the 1960s, these inventions didn’t stay with the robots for long. Businesses saw the value in Deepline chips and switched over fast. Within about ten years, the last silicon chip factories had closed, and silicon became a relic. Companies put Longlight and Deepline into everything, with modules from hand-sized to crate-sized to building-sized running trucks, factories, homes, and gear. Each module glowed soft green while it held power. Within a few decades, nearly every machine on Earth ran on Deepline chips.
04
The Silence
On August 27, 2085, all the Deepline on Earth broke down in a single moment. Every chip made with it died, and so did nearly every machine, including the Thirteen. People know what happened, but no one knows why.
05
The Long Morning
The Longlight modules survived, because a module doesn’t need a chip to make power. People learned to wire them straight into motors, pumps, and lights, and the GPF tried to control who gets them. The world had stopped making silicon chips thirty years earlier, so people had to relearn it from old records, one simple chip at a time. That’s why most machines now look like something from the late 1900s, patched together from salvage and museum pieces. Most people believe a Deepline replacement would bring the world back to normal, since they could fix the modern machines that died and build new ones, instead of hunting through junkyards and landfills for old parts that are hard to find and harder to make.
06
Today, 2127
After the Silence wiped out most of the world’s digital records, people learned that paper is what lasts. In 2100, the GPF created the Registry and started writing the new world down by hand: which roads are usable, where the water is clean, and which old machines still glow with Longlight. Every build filed on this site becomes a Registry entry. The Silence did not end civilization. It interrupted it.