Rodriguez established the one-month processing period through formal Coalition directive—operational tempo returning to standard maintenance level, institutional response planning deferred, personnel given genuine time rather than scheduled processing that was actually continued operations under different framing.
The directive was unusual enough that Volkov faction noted it without opposing it. Time for honest processing served everyone regardless of position. That much was common ground.
Timeline 48 used the period differently from Coalition personnel broadly.
Not because they had less to process—they had more, having been inside the investigation throughout. But because Timeline Arbiter offered access that hadn't been available before the investigation confirmed what it confirmed. Direct engagement with Timeline consciousness through enhanced integration. Not operational perception—conversations.
