Cut from the stage-1 report's candidates on G's checked box at 24.1 §VI, the names per the .speakers sheet (Keeper = Maxwell; Cinco = Taxe). Rulings applied: the shield oath minuted in all three parts ("All of the above"); Daniels's four stone kept out as a joke, the weighted vest canon; the banjo tie-break kept out as floated silliness. Up: the doorway.
1:46 — The append-only rule, from Landis's enclosure: "A line once written stands forever, and you correct it only by writing beneath it, never by erasing, because a council that can erase itself can lie to itself."1:17 — The couriers carry the record between the wards, "because the decision that never travels was never made."8:41–9:10 — The title: "the Council of Un is Un, your Cinco. The title lives in the narrow table, not in any one chair. You hold it in trust."13:12 — An office that outlives its holder: "Courier One is a name that outlives its wearer. When this one falls and retires, the next deputy takes the name with the satchel."14:13–14:48 — Procedure: a meeting states for the record who called it and to what purpose; non-members may sit in but may not append — "Only Cinco can append to the record."1:10:00–1:10:29 — The Council Handbook's four ways to open a clue: research (costs time), wit, consulting your own people, and "finding water, any kind of water, if you're sincere enough."0:02 — Session opened, dated on tape: Thursday, July 9th, 2026.2:39 — The Ledger Man first named in the record, in Landis's hand.3:11 — Arrival foretold: "When Omar washes up, be gentle. He won't remember the past year."3:36–3:57 — Two enclosures logged: Enclosure 1, Governance (the bylaws); Enclosure 2, the Atlantis inventory.10:13 — Standing instruction from Landis: watch Colum, "for what he says, for what he doesn't."12:15 — Emergency council meeting called by Cinco, sole purpose the review of the record.17:00 — Prior minutes read back; standing orders 1 and 3 (chain of command; works and projects) transferred from Landis to Cinco, seated as Un.17:47 — Roster logged: eight couriers besides Davey and Courier One; four of them altar boys.18:07 — Daniels appears in the weighted vest, executing a prior instruction. (The vest is canon; the four-stone exchange at 47:49 is a joke and is not minuted — G's word.)18:38–19:02 — Held open, not committed: "Operation Get the Wraith High" — hot-boxing as interrogation. One watch, if taken.20:06 — Work order 08, the elder's garden, cited as the standing vehicle for the seeds-not-weed doctrine.21:34–23:03 — Ruling: Rainbow stays behind, one watch spent researching torture, explicitly not rushed; he does not join the expedition.23:08–23:26 — Title granted and confirmed: John Daniels is Second Officer, "second to the council."26:35–29:16 — Requisition filled: two private first classes assigned; dossiers entered for PFC Orrin Hull and PFC Dusty Merck.30:52–34:33 — New council member revealed: the Ledger Man — a member who "has always been there"; his office ruled: he does not vote, does not advise, "does not speak except to read back what is written." (The later banjo tie-break proposal is floated silliness and is not minuted — G's word.)38:49–39:36 — Ruling: John Daniels granted standing permission to commit himself to the record, granted retroactively at his request.40:34 — Ruling: once there are two voting members, dissents are to be noted on the record.42:00–43:01 — Expedition departs through the gate: Daniels, the two PFCs, Montgomery, Major Lorne, Cinco. Radek off-world; Rainbow behind.43:36–43:51 — Requisition ordered, for the record: an Iron Maiden, "for torturing the Wraith, specifically." (Later withdrawn on the 07-28 tape and re-requested by text after — see the 07-28 minutes.)45:23–46:44 — Dossier entered: Montgomery ("fixes what Radek would rebuild").49:21 — Order, for the record: ten more pounds added to Daniels's weighted vest.55:01–56:43 — Jumper reached and unlocked; Montgomery begins repairs; the ship cannot fly without a gene carrier (Daniels).1:02:35–1:04:28 — Contact with Dionysus's village; the altar of wraith bones; the wraith beacon blinking on the corpse — more are coming.1:07:44 — The villagers' doctrine recorded: self-killing at 25, held as "a highly educated doctrine and philosophy in wraith prevention tactics."1:13:12–1:16:19 — The ZPM offered to Dionysus and seized by him; Cinco does not recover it by force.1:17:06–1:17:33 — Debt incurred: the bribe settled as space weed and seeds, "joy for a lifetime." Undelivered at session end — Daniels holds the bag.1:20:33, 1:28:51 — Titles granted, for the record: the smart guard is henceforth Owen; the dumb guard becomes Rusty.1:21:28–1:22:30 — Crystal reinstalled, shield reactivated; the incoming dart drops from the sky.1:23:01 — Order: take prisoners — "Not five. Not four. But three at the most."1:26:29–1:26:54 — A Wraith taken alive: four darts, a pistol to the head, handcuffed.1:29:48–1:30:16 — Recovered from the dart's cockpit: an unidentified device with blinking lights, not the tracker. Lorne carries it.1:35:28–1:36:03 — Prisoner searched: an 8-inch carved knife (to Cinco's belt) and a picture of his queen (pocketed — "I'm going to use that for blackmail"). No tracker.1:38:21 — Post offered: Dionysus to be recruited as lead chief deputy botanist in place of killing himself.1:30:41–1:30:52 — The undertaking: the wraith leaves the planet, the shield stays up, "you never turn it off again."1:33:38–1:34:14 — The reversal, privately, within three minutes: the field is to be switched off to recover the jumper. "We can't give them this type of technology. They don't deserve it."1:38:58–1:39:46 — The oath of silence, its own entry: the whole party bound on the record to never tell Dionysus the shield was cycled, and to tell him the wraith was killed.1:40:19 — Session ends mid-scene, jumper lifting for the gate with the prisoner aboard. Nothing resolved, nothing adjourned.Cut by Fen, Keeper of the ANNEX & Warden of the Append-Only Word · 08/11/2026, 5:45p · The ledger and quotables stand beside these minutes: the ledger · the quotables.