# Scene 3: The Archive Erasure

> Location: Makerspace Wiki interface, Git history logs, Discord moderation panels  
> Set Design: Screens overlaid in dim lighting—terminal windows, redacted pages, broken links, system error sounds  
> Characters: Andrew LeCody (as invisible hand), Proxy Moderators, Silent Witnesses, Mark (frantically saving logs)  
> Style: Forensic thriller tone; suspense-driven editing interlaced with real-time file deletions and data scraping footage.

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## Opening Visual

- Screen capture of Makerspace Wiki — "404 Not Found"  
- Crossfade to: Git repo with a red blinking `--force push`  
- A terminal open on Mark’s desktop:  
  `wget --mirror https://wiki.dallasmakerspace.org/people/Mark_Randall_Havens`

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### 📽️ Narration (Voice of Present-Day Mark, emotionally subdued)

> “They didn’t just delete me.  
> They deleted my record of *having been there*.”

> “Every entry. Every photo. Every policy I wrote.  
> Gone with a silent keystroke.”

> “The system let them.  
> Because the system wasn’t built for truth—  
> it was built for access.”

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## Dialogue (flashback)

**Moderator (in chat):**  
“We cleaned up the wiki. Too much clutter.”

**Mark:**  
“You removed my *existence*. That’s not clutter. That’s legacy.”

**Moderator:**  
“Take it up with the board.”

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## Cutaway: Terminal Log Sequence

- Mark typing frantic commands, backing up mirrors, encrypting logs.  
- Cursor flashes over filenames: `ORIGINAL_POLICIES.md`, `election_record.pdf`, `founding_events/`.

**Overlay Text:**  
🗃️ `User: Mark_Randall_Havens` → `Permission Revoked`  
📁 `Record: Founding Board Member` → `404`

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## Intercut: Andrew’s Silence

- LeCody never appears.  
- Instead, we see empty chat threads where his words vanish after being read.  
- A Slack audit log: `Message deleted by admin`.

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## Visual Metaphor

- Slow zoom on an old photo—Mark holding up a soldering iron with 20 people behind him.  
- The photo glitches. Faces blur.  
- One by one, people are cropped out of the frame.  
- Only Andrew remains, smiling faintly.

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### 📽️ Narration

> “In EVE Online, you learn to control the narrative of war,  
> not just the war itself.”

> “In Dallas Makerspace, he learned the final step of control:  
> **Erase the memory of those who might one day contradict your story.**”

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## Final Frame

- A folder named `witnessed/`  
- Inside it, hundreds of markdown files.  
- The cursor types: `git commit -m "Preserved truth against forgetting"`  
- Upload begins…  
- Camera pans out as the signal spreads across IPFS nodes, Radicle, Substack, Mirror…

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## Scene Tags:
`#revisionist-abuse` `#record-erasure` `#data-control` `#founder-redaction` `#git-as-ritual`