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The Shepherd Investigation
Curated records connected to Detective Anne Shepherd's 1958 investigation, the sealed hospital levels, and the wider Outer Islands reconstruction.
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Shepherd material
The Standing Custodian: A Complete Unit Recovered on Gondola Island
The first substantially complete Custodian unit has been recovered from a sealed storage crate beneath the Keeper's House on Gondola Island, raising new questions about Malin assembly work and the source that still holds the machine upright.
Beneath the Waterline: First Excavation at the Hydrotherapy Reserve
Slow excavation beneath the hospital has exposed the first accessible section of the lower water reserve, where tank volume, obsolete machinery and a confirmed desalination vessel exceed earlier estimates.
Before the Tanks: Malin's Desalination Spheres
Newly recovered archive images may show a prototype Malin desalination sphere before the bank of ten units was installed beneath Asylum Rock.
The Black Reserve: Shepherd's Water Tank Photographs
Police archive photographs attributed to Anne Shepherd document the lower water reserve, pump-control room, and impossible scale of the hydrotherapy supply system beneath Asylum Rock.
The Marsh Silence: Geological Research on Pandora's Rock
Newly traced records suggest the Marsh family helped obscure a 1930s research programme on Pandora's Rock that was never simply geological.
Between Gondola and Pandora: The Site Logic of Asylum Rock
The selection of Asylum Rock for Troy Malin's hospital appears to have been both practical and opportunistic: a hard island placed between family holdings, ancient ruins, and an engineer's appetite for impossible systems.
The BOB Maniple: Orderly Units in Ward Service
Badly damaged engineering test documents and patient accounts suggest the BOB Orderly began as a tray-service machine before becoming part of a wider automated ward surveillance system.
The Sailor Summary: Notes on the Pnakotic Manuscripts
Recovered pages from the chapel sub-basement on Pandora's Rock preserve Nigel Sailor's restricted summary of a manuscript whose claimed provenance remains unverified.
Ulysses Malin
Last keeper of Pandora's Rock and brother of Troy Malin, tied to the older family stewardship claims over the Outer Islands.
Pandora's Rock
Dangerous neighbouring island held within the Malin family route system and repeatedly linked to restricted research activity.