Trace the carton through the supply network and determine who used the western route—and why.
STORE CORP / CHAPTER FILE
A HARD WAY OUT
A possible route toward Capital West appears beside two damaged response units and an ordinary carton of milk tied back to STORE distribution.
- RECORDS
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- OBJECTS
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- STATUS
- IN CIRCULATION
CHAPTER SUMMARY / EVENT + EVIDENCE
WHAT THE CHAPTER ESTABLISHES.
The product, route and intercepting unit all originate inside the same STORE system.
Someone moved west, two machines tried to stop them, and the only surviving witness is a mass-produced object.
PUBLIC01
Consumer objects placed in ordinary circulation.
CHAPTER OBJECTS / KNOWN + UNRECOVERED
THE MATERIAL RECORD.
Every chapter is built around its objects. Digitized entries open into individual records; text entries remain where the corresponding object has not been recovered.
RECORD 01 / PUBLIC01 DIGITIZEDMilk
2% Vitamin A+D Reduced Fat Milk, produced by Food Store, the agricultural division of STORE CORP that absorbed the USDA in 2022. Food Store employs a flat geographic price structure to control national supply levels, consumer cost and direct distribution.