Orientation · part II

Field Manual

This is the abridgement. The full manual runs nine hundred pages, most of them procedure, and in time you will be made to read every one of them. What follows is what a Civilian must know in the first month; for it is in the first month that most who find a seal are lost.

Standing instruction

Nothing herein is written to encourage you. Where a thing is dangerous, it is said so, and the number is given; where a thing is a trap, that too is said, and then the manner of its use is taught regardless — for the operative who is protected from an answer makes the decision late, and alone, and badly.

Sections

§ 1

Ohr

Light: how it is grown, what it runs, and the other kind — the enemy’s — which you are free to use, and will.

§ 2

Issue

What you will be given, in the order you will have earned it. Plate, blades, and the wings.

§ 3

Corruption & the Tree

What it costs to carry the enemy, and the ten measures of what you are becoming instead.

First month

In order, and none of it optional; for every step below exists because somebody once skipped it.

Find Adamant. It lies below — anywhere beneath the surface, thickest near a hundred meters, and likelier in deepslate. All else on this list flows from it.
Smelt Shefalite Crystal into Shefalite Ingot . A common furnace suffices. This is the black metal of which every Seraphim thing is finally made.
Press coal into Graphene Sheet . Four of it, or a single diamond if fortune has been kind. Graphene is the means by which anything here holds a charge.
Make Initiate plate and a Herev. Both at an ordinary bench. You are then, by the only measure that matters, armed.
Find a Sinai entrance. They are rare, and they are unremarkable by design. Within is a Fabricator; and a Fabricator is the line between salvaging technology and making it.
Build a Crystallizer . It grows Ohr out of Shefalite and living matter while you are elsewhere. The operative who skips this step spends a career rationing light.
Alloy Seraphic Steel Ingot . Fabricator work. From here the tree opens, and does not close again.

What is in the manual

Class	Count	Notes
Blocks	100	Ores, structure, machines, and the enemy's own.
Items	138	Materials, consumables, weapons, plate, construct parts.
Procedures	56	Bench and Fabricator both.

Counts taken from the complex inventory, which is to say from the mod's own generated data rather than from anyone's memory of it.

And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. Deuteronomy 6:7