Investigation commenced the morning after Timeline Arbiter's midnight visit.
Rodriguez allocated Singapore facility's research complex fully—cleared ongoing projects, reassigned personnel, established joint investigation team comprising Coalition physicists and engineers alongside entity civilization dimensional researchers. Timeline 48 coordinated between both groups rather than deploying operationally, a shift in function that still felt unfamiliar after five years of primarily combat-oriented work.
Timeline Arbiter attended the first session briefly. Stated methodology preference clearly before departing: "I'll answer direct questions about safety. I won't guide interpretation. The conclusions you reach independently will mean more than conclusions I provide." Then left Timeline 48 with seventeen sectors of void network data and two civilizations' worth of analytical tools.
Sekar organized the data systematically within the first hour.
