Protocols

01Standard Operating Procedures

SOPs apply to every division.

SOP-01

Pruning

Authorised by a judge, confirmed by two officers, recorded as holo-testimony.

SOP-02

Reset Charge Deployment

Charge calibrated to the branch and placed at its point of origin; squad clears the area before detonation.

SOP-03

Time Cell Management

Occupied time cells are checked every 6 TVA hours; holds longer than 24 TVA hours need a judge's order.

02Processing & Intake

PR-01

Arrival Scan

Every arrival scanned and matched to the Sacred Timeline at the Door. → File 1.3

PR-02

Property Confiscation

Belongings logged and stored by timeline of origin until the verdict. → File 1.3

PR-03

Orientation & Delivery

Orientation film, then court within the same TVA day. → File 1.3

03Minutemen

M-01

Variant Capture

Time sticks and one collar per expected variant; prune only as a last resort. → File 2.3

M-02

Prune Confirmation

Two-officer rule; holo-testimony before every prune. → File 2.3

M-03

Evidence Handling

Items bagged, tagged and delivered within 24 TVA hours. → File 2.3

M-04

Facility Lockdown

Code ECHO-GREEN: seal the sector, sweep it, stay put until ALL CLEAR. → File 2.3

04Judiciary

J-01

Case Filing

Any agent, Hunter or division head may file; the Clerks' Office checks jurisdiction. → File 3.3

J-02

Trial Procedure

Charges, evidence, the variant's answer, verdict. → File 3.3

J-03

Appeals Process

Within 72 TVA hours; severity above 8 goes to the Tribunal. → File 3.3

J-04

Internal Review

Employees suspected of misconduct held on a judge's order until the Tribunal sits. → File 3.3

05Analysis & Monitoring

TM-01

Timeline Scan

Full sweep every TVA hour at 1×1 TVA mile. → File 4.3

TM-02

Anomaly Flagging

Severity 1–10; 5+ to an analyst, 7+ raises the alert level to AMBER. → File 4.3

TM-03

Case Review

Lead agent briefs the Hunter before every jump. → File 4.3

06Repairs & Advancement

RA-01

TemPad Calibration

Calibrated and fully charged before issue; checked again before each jump. → File 5.3

RA-02

Reset Charge Testing

Every charge tested before issue; failures are dismantled. → File 5.3

RA-03

Restricted

Clearance Level 5 only. → File 5.3

07Artifacts & Equipment

C-01

Encryption Cycle

Holo-channel keys refreshed every 2 TVA hours. → File 07

C-02

Signal Lock

Beacon integrity verified before long-range transmissions. → File 07

D-01

Chamber Inspection

Containment units charge-tested every 6 TVA hours. → File 07

D-02

Transfer Procedure

Two-officer rule for moving artifacts between cells. → File 07

T-01

Analyzer Calibration

Zero-offset calibration before each mission. → File 07

T-02

Cache Sweep

Weekly purge of orphaned temporal data. → File 07

08Missions & Archives

OM-01

Pre-Mission Checklist

Equipment calibration and risk analysis. → File 08

OM-02

In-Field Updates

TemPad logs and emergency extraction signals. → File 08

OM-03

Debrief Standards

Holo-recording, evidence handoff, report filing. → File 08

AC-01

Archive Encryption

Sealed records, access logs audited quarterly. → File 08

AC-02

Review Cycle

Annual case reviews to refine procedures. → File 08

HI-01

Temporal Lock

Static archive against drift and corruption. → File 08

HI-02

Cross-Indexing

Related incidents linked for pattern detection. → File 08

09Analytics

A-01

Map Refresh

Branching maps updated every 30 TVA minutes. → File 09

A-02

Metric Aggregation

Hourly data pull from every division. → File 09

A-03

Export Validation

Integrity checks before any report leaves the division. → File 09