Standard 01
True Work
Every filing must show your own genuine work, whether a concept, a drawing, a build in progress, or a finished piece. The Registry records real work honestly claimed, not empty claims and not work passed off from someone else.
Standing order · 08 standards in force
Survey
Standards
Every surveyor files under these standards. Reports that fall outside them are returned for revision — not struck. Read them once and file with confidence.
Standard 02
Own Hand
You may only file work that is yours. Kits built from a box are welcome, but the filing must be your build, not another person's model shown as your own.
Standard 03
In the World
A filing must fit the world of Longlight, a rebuilt world at a 1980s mechanical level with its relics and factions. Work that clearly belongs to another setting can be filed only once it has been brought honestly into ours.
Standard 04
Clear Record
The photo or image must show the subject plainly enough to be recorded. A blurry, dark, or hidden subject cannot be surveyed.
Standard 05
Honest Note
The field note must describe the piece truthfully. You may invent your surveyor's story, but you may not lie about what the work is or how it was made.
Standard 06
Right Type
The subject must be filed under the correct subject type, so the record stays searchable. A vehicle goes under a vehicle, a site under a site.
Standard 07
Plain Respect
No filing may carry hateful, cruel, or explicit content. The Registry is a shared table, and everyone keeps it clean.
Standard 08
One Subject, One Serial
Do not file the same build again for a new number. New photos, updates, and stage changes go under the subject's existing serial as fresh filings, because the record grows, it does not repeat.
Glossary
Registry terms
- Build
- One object on file — a machine, tower, corridor, settlement, and so on. A vehicle and the scene it stands in are one build. Each build has one permanent serial and gathers many surveys over time.
- Survey
- A dated field report on one build at one moment. A build's page holds every survey record filed on it, newest first.
- Surveyor
- A commissioned contributor authorised to file a build. Each surveyor has a public page listing their surveys.
- Serial vs. Survey ID
- The serial identifies the build for life (e.g. a Settlement carries an SM code). The survey ID identifies one individual survey about it.
- Anchor
- The single most striking physical feature a surveyor records — the detail that anchors the report.
- Condition & Risk
- A build's access grade: A — Open · C — Caution · X — Closed · U — Unmapped.
- Canon vs. Community
- Canon builds are part of the established world canon; community builds are founded by surveyors and grow the world outward.
- Ledger / Pedigree
- Modules and vehicles (MOD builds) are tracked as a ledger — an ordered pedigree of who held them and what changed — rather than a set of standalone surveys.
Build types
- Diorama (DIO)
- Cataloged under the DIO designation.
- Vehicle (VEH)
- Cataloged under the VEH designation.
- Flying vehicle (FLY)
- Cataloged under the FLY designation.
- Robot (ROB)
- Cataloged under the ROB designation.
- Marker (MRK)
- Cataloged under the MRK designation.
- Other (OTH)
- Cataloged under the OTH designation.
Returned reports may be revised and filed again.