Numbering schedule · NS-01
Two different numbers do two different jobs. The member number tracks people and grows in order. The serial number identifies a subject and is mostly random.
SM
Subject type
Keeps the record searchable.
0002
Member number
Bakes in authorship — who filed it.
4C1A
Random tail
Unique, salvaged texture, never repeats.
TYPE — MEMBER — RANDOM
Every surveyor gets a permanent member number, assigned in order as people join. Matt is member one. Jake is member two. The first community surveyor to sign up is member three, and the count climbs from there. This number shows seniority, so an early number quietly means an early surveyor.
The tail is drawn at random from four slots, from 0000 through 9999, and checked so no two subjects ever collide. If the space ever fills, or the world simply needs more room, it extends to a fifth slot, then a sixth, and the system keeps working.
Member one and member two share one founding pool of sequential tails, 0001 through 0200, handed out in order as either of them files — whoever files next takes the next number. Once that shared run reaches two hundred, both founders drop into the random queue like everyone else.
Every other surveyor, member three and up, is random from their first filing. This gives exactly two hundred founding builds total, split between the two founders however the filing falls, each counting up in an unbroken sequence no one else can ever have.
Field atlas · chapter six
Registry codes are the shared language of the rebuilt world. A code does not imply ownership. It means a site has been recorded, corrected, argued over, and entered into common memory. A settlement carries the code of its anchor, and one town may hold several codes at once.
Site codes
Risk marks
A glow mark is an overlay, not a rating. It rides on top of any color and means Longlight has been seen there. Survey dates are painted small beneath the code: SVY 3/44 means the third month of 2144. An old date is its own warning. When the letter and the band disagree, trust the fresher paint.
Road chalk
Modules are not given site codes, because modules move. They are logged in ledgers by their effect, their last seen location, and their current keeper, and a wise trader checks the ledger before buying anything that hums.
On enrollment
The Registry generates a digital surveyor card shown on your profile, plus a downloadable print copy. It stays spare and official, like a real credential with plenty of quiet white space.