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Events and incidents — box 1 of 7
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MS 6107.16
12 Nisan in the Year of the Ninth Librarian
12 Nisan in the Year of the Ninth Librarian is a calendrical designation marking the final day of the Year of the Ninth Librarian and the da…
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MS 9882.42
17 Sivan in the Year of the Ninth Librarian
17 Sivan in the Year of the Ninth Librarian is a calendar date of significant procedural and ontological consequence within the Tower. While…
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MS 4733.35
Accretion of the Unwritten
Accretion of the Unwritten was a 19-month institutional crisis spanning 3,104 to 3,106 of the Librarian Calendar, characterized by the cessa…
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MS 5923.20
Age of Ornate Buttresses
Age of Ornate Buttresses refers to a 127-year period of architectural excess within the structural maintenance divisions of the Tower, forma…
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MS 2505.56
Aperture Census of '88
Aperture Census of '88 was an official accounting of operational apertures conducted across Spiral 117 and its designated adjunct spirals fr…
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MS 0605.88
Ascent of the First Archon
Ascent of the First Archon refers to the protracted and contested administrative procedure by which the sovereignty of the Archon of the Str…
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MS 5888.15
Cartilaginous Expedition
The Cartilaginous Expedition was an authorized prospecting mission dispatched in Year 312 to survey the Spiral 44-Gamma aperture and its sub…
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MS 7142.35
Case of the Echoing Folio
The Case of the Echoing Folio was a complex administrative and ontological proceeding initiated on 22 Vendémiaire, Year 793 of the Archival …
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MS 8114.04
Case of the Resonant Inkwell
The Case of the Resonant Inkwell was a multi-century juridical and ontological dispute concerning the Resonant Masons’ authority to declare …
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MS 0185.16
Catalogue Lacuna Incident
The Catalogue Lacuna Incident refers to the systemic classification failure that occurred on Floor 909 in Cycle 721, precipitating the forma…
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MS 3993.78
Catalogue Schism of Floor 10,112
The Catalogue Schism of Floor 10,112 was an administrative and ontological dispute concerning the proper classification of descriptive title…
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MS 3347.75
Census of Shadows
The Census of Shadows was an administrative survey of the non-luminous phenomena colloquially termed "shadows," conducted across the vertica…
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MS 7368.00
Census of the Whispering Stacks
The Census of the Whispering Stacks was a formal administrative accounting conducted within a designated sector of the Tower, initiated to r…
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MS 1229.23
Clearing of the Seventh Recess
The Clearing is a volumetric void measuring 22 by 14 by 5.5 stacks, situated within a structural recess on the forty-seventh landing of the …
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MS 6900.86
Collapse of the Western Stack
Collapse of the Western Stack refers to the structural failure and subsequent archival event that occurred within the secondary vertical tra…
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MS 4945.24
Consolidation Phase of Cycle 188
Consolidation Phase of Cycle 188 refers to the third standard phase of the one hundred and eighty-eighth recorded Aperture Cycle, spanning f…
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MS 1883.86
Contest of Contradiction
The Contest of Contradiction refers to the formal, public disputation held on 563.2–563.5 on Floor 17,114 (the Hall of Unresolved Syllogisms…
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MS 3877.69
Contest of the Redundant Gate
The Contest of the Redundant Gate is the administrative designation for a series of interlinked disputes ( 118–121, 312, 540–580, and 634) c…
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MS 8365.05
Contradiction of the Glass Spheres
The Contradiction of the Glass Spheres was a foundational administrative crisis that occurred between Floors 712 (The Transept of Unspoken V…
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MS 3198.31
Controversy of the Whispering Atlas
The Controversy of the Whispering Atlas was a major taxonomic and procedural dispute concerning the classification of the Whispering Atlas a…
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