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  "id": "inspector",
  "name": "The Inspector",
  "aliases": [
    "Inspector"
  ],
  "type": "character",
  "reality": "fictional",
  "loreStatus": "established",
  "summary": "The Inspector arrives after things have gone wrong. He reads the damage, contains it, and leaves a record.",
  "traits": [
    "Tall and slender, with a long black leather coat, brass fittings, an ivory robe, and black gloves.",
    "Glossy black helmet dome, brass rings at both temples, and one smooth blank ivory shield-shaped faceplate. No eyes, slits, mouth, split line, or two-tone face.",
    "A brass pocket chronometer scans with amber light. His observatory drone is an ivory kite shape with brass trim and one amber eye.",
    "Calm, dry, and precise. He contains the spiders rather than killing them."
  ],
  "style": [
    "Use the canonical Case File 01 v4 helmet plates for new artwork. The original board remains a record of the earlier design.",
    "The supplied film notes call for painterly dark science fiction, crisp ink lines, red emergency light, amber accents, and fog.",
    "He has no speaking mouth. The film uses voice-over; the motto stays in his actions rather than becoming a spoken slogan."
  ],
  "collections": [
    "world-concept",
    "starlight-menagerie",
    "shackled-prison"
  ],
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    "id": "inspector-card-v1",
    "url": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/inspector-card-v1.png",
    "previewUrl": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/inspector-card-v1-480.webp",
    "alt": "The Inspector in his black coat, holding a brass chronometer beneath a blank ivory faceplate.",
    "caption": "Proposed portrait generated from the Case File 01 v4 helmet and production references.",
    "status": "approved",
    "version": 1,
    "sourceLabel": "Case File 01 v4 reference pack",
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    "selectedUrl": "/field-guide/assets/portraits/inspector-card-v1-1200.webp",
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  },
  "primaryReferenceId": "inspector-canonical-helmet-v4",
  "variants": [
    {
      "id": "inspector-original-board",
      "name": "Original steampunk board",
      "description": "The coat, brass details, chronometer, and drone begin here. The original split-face helmet is an earlier design.",
      "collectionId": "world-concept"
    },
    {
      "id": "inspector-case-file-v4",
      "name": "Case File 01 v4: locked helmet",
      "description": "One uninterrupted ivory shield covers the front of the black dome. The source pack says this simpler design stopped the face drifting during video generation.",
      "collectionId": "starlight-menagerie"
    }
  ],
  "appearances": [
    {
      "title": "The Inspector: Case File 01",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie.html#video",
      "collectionId": "starlight-menagerie",
      "description": "He and his drone investigate Doorly Orbital after spiders overrun the station."
    },
    {
      "title": "Shackled Prison",
      "url": "/gamelab/shackled-prison.html",
      "collectionId": "shackled-prison",
      "description": "Across the shaft, he checks his chronometer and takes notes. His drones search the prison."
    }
  ],
  "relationships": [
    {
      "targetId": "inspector-attendant-drone",
      "label": "Appears with",
      "status": "established"
    },
    {
      "targetId": "inspector-chronometer",
      "label": "Carries",
      "status": "established"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
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      "title": "Unpublished source notes: The Inspector, Case File 01 v4 reference pack",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "id": "inspector-case-file-01-film",
      "title": "The Inspector: Case File 01",
      "url": "/gamelab/starlight-menagerie.html#video",
      "revision": "sha256:840087439c7b587cbaeda83d0eada3333e8f55fd38aa4f28a3057290c24a6931"
    },
    {
      "id": "shackled-prison-cast",
      "title": "Shackled Prison: the cast",
      "url": "/gamelab/shackled-prison.html",
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    },
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  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-30",
      "text": "Added the supplied Case File 01 v4 reference pack, its canonical helmet, and the published film and game appearances."
    }
  ],
  "spoilers": [
    "Case File 01 v4 names the waking Apostate Engine as the cause of the Menagerie’s ruin.",
    "The source notes identify the escaped service drone as Seven. The Inspector follows its lifeboat toward IslandLab but does not yet know who escaped. This is a connection within the film, not a claim that every project shares a single history."
  ],
  "questions": [
    "Who is the keeper, and what did they know about the Engine?",
    "Who does the Inspector report to?",
    "His real name and origin remain undefined.",
    "Where does the missing lifeboat lead?"
  ],
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      "url": "/field-guide/assets/inspector/case-file-01-entry.png",
      "previewUrl": "/field-guide/assets/inspector/case-file-01-entry.webp",
      "alt": "The Inspector enters Doorly Orbital with his observatory drone.",
      "caption": "Painted start frame from the Case File 01 production pack, not a capture from the finished film.",
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      "previewUrl": "/field-guide/assets/inspector/case-file-01-scan.webp",
      "alt": "The Inspector scans tread marks with his chronometer.",
      "caption": "Painted start frame: the chronometer scans the marks left in the station.",
      "status": "approved",
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      "previewUrl": "/field-guide/assets/inspector/case-file-01-web.webp",
      "alt": "The Inspector and his drone weave amber hard-light threads.",
      "caption": "Painted start frame: temporary hard-light webs contain the spiders. The reference notes say he contains rather than kills them.",
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      "sourceLabel": "Case File 01 v4 reference pack",
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      "url": "/field-guide/assets/inspector/helmet-canonical-v4.png",
      "previewUrl": "/field-guide/assets/inspector/helmet-canonical-v4.webp",
      "alt": "The Inspector’s single ivory faceplate, shown from the front and three-quarter view.",
      "caption": "The locked helmet for Case File 01 v4. One blank ivory shield replaces the older split-face design.",
      "status": "approved",
      "version": 1,
      "sourceLabel": "Case File 01 v4 reference pack",
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      "caption": "Original steampunk character board. Historical reference: Case File 01 v4 supersedes its split-face helmet with one blank ivory faceplate.",
      "status": "approved",
      "version": 1,
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  ],
  "revision": 2,
  "updated": "2026-10-30"
}