Location:Seven Peaks — Battalion Barracks, Training Yard, Verdant Spire
Date/Time:TC1854.08.18-20
The final tally arrived on a formation display at 06:00 on the third day after assessment began.
Sera stood in the barracks corridor and read it the way she read every operational report: once for the numbers, twice for the implications, three times for the things the numbers didn't say.
312 soldiers assessed. 78 Tier 1 (strong forge impulse, immediate training potential). 152 Tier 2 (latent pathways, sustained development required). 82 Tier 3 (dormant potential, catalyst unknown).
Below the tally, Coop's annotation in the precise shorthand of a man whose mind worked in systems: Tier distribution stable across all cohorts. No demographic, service-length, or cybernetic-type correlation with tier placement. The pathway responds to the individual, not the hardware. Recommend: unified training structure with tier-specific acceleration tracks.
