"The truth is rarely pure and never simple." — Oscar Wilde, 'The Importance of Being Earnest', 1895
BUREAU OF IMPOSSIBLE GEOGRAPHY — OFFICIAL SHARD ASSESSMENT Shard: The Architecture of Babel (Glossolaria-Prime) Assessing Officer: Bureau Senior Classified Analyst, Shard Assessment Division Report Status: FINAL — pending review by three committees whose jurisdiction overlaps in ways that guarantee this report will remain 'pending review' for a minimum of six months, which the Bureau acknowledges is itself a form of decision. THREAT LEVEL: AMBER-ASCENDING The Architecture of Babel represents a class of threat for which the Bureau's existing threat taxonomy was not designed. It is not hostile. It is not unstable in any conventional sense. Its agents are not, individually, engaged in activities that exceed the Bureau's standard tolerance for productive irregularity. Its geographic anomalies, while cartographically distressing, have not produced material harm. Its bleed signature, while unusually elegant in its mechanism, is currently rated as non-catastrophic. The threat, such as it i...
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