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REX-003
Titanic: The Night the System Failed
- History
- Human Systems
- Modern
- Europe
- North America
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-009
Apollo 11: The First Moon Landing
- Exploration
- Science
- Modern
- North America
- Space / Off-world
- Counterfactual
- Historical Reconstruction
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-010
Pearl Harbor: The Morning That Changed the Pacific
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- Historical Reconstruction
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-012
Midway: The Turning Point in the Pacific
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Oceania
- Counterfactual
- Historical Reconstruction
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-014
Chernobyl: The First 72 Hours
- History
- Human Systems
- Modern
- Europe
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-015
Endurance: Trapped in Antarctic Ice
- Environment
- Exploration
- Modern
- Polar
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-016
Apollo 13: The Mission That Came Home
- Exploration
- Human Systems
- Modern
- North America
- Space / Off-world
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-026
Iwo Jima: The Island Beneath the Battle
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Asia
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- Historical Reconstruction
Details
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-027
Six Weeks: The Fall of France, 1940
Military history / command systems / civilian displacement
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Europe
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_reconstruction
- Subjects
- World War II
- France 1940
- command systems
- Categories
- military history
- systems history
- Ways in
- Watch
- Experience
- Live Systems
- What it does
- timeline playback
- decision points
- systems model
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-028
Voyager: Beyond the Solar System
Spacecraft engineering / planetary science / deep-space operations
- Exploration
- Science
- Modern
- Space / Off-world
- Historical Reconstruction
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- evidence_based_reconstruction
- Subjects
- Voyager program
- planetary science
- spacecraft engineering
- Categories
- space history
- science
- Ways in
- Watch
- Experience
- Live Systems
- What it does
- timeline playback
- mission decisions
- systems model
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-032
Hiroshima: Before and After 8:15
War memory / civilian testimony / nuclear weapons and peace education
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Asia
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- Historical Reconstruction
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_testimony_led
- Subjects
- Hiroshima
- civilian testimony
- nuclear weapons
- peace education
- Categories
- history
- war memory
- ethics
- Ways in
- Civilian Timeline
- Reflection
- What it does
- timeline playback
- evidence ledger
- reflection prompts
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-041
San Francisco 1906: The City That Moved
Earthquake / fire / lifelines, displacement and urban recovery
- Human Systems
- Science
- Modern
- North America
- Historical Reconstruction
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_disaster_with_directional_coupled_city_model
- Subjects
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake
- San Andreas Fault
- urban fire
- water infrastructure
- displacement and recovery
- Categories
- earth science
- urban history
- disaster
- infrastructure
- Ways in
- Witness
- Investigate
- City System
- What it does
- fourteen-state earthquake-to-recovery timeline
- ground, water, fire and displacement model
- persistent civic priorities
- evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-042
Everest 1924: The Mystery Above the Clouds
Mountaineering history / high-altitude physiology / evidence and unresolved mystery
- Exploration
- Science
- Modern
- Asia
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- Historical Reconstruction
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_expedition_with_unresolved_summit_claim
- Subjects
- 1924 British Mount Everest expedition
- George Mallory
- Andrew Irvine
- high-altitude physiology
- historical evidence
- Categories
- mountaineering history
- physiology
- exploration
- evidence
- Ways in
- Witness
- Investigate
- Oxygen Field
- What it does
- fourteen-state expedition-and-evidence timeline
- directional hypoxia and oxygen model
- persistent evidence judgements
- evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-046
The Birth of the Internet
Technology history / packet switching / nodes and global connectivity
- History
- Human Systems
- Modern
- Global
- North America
- Historical Reconstruction
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_technical_history_with_qualitative_packet_model
- Subjects
- packet switching
- ARPANET
- TCP/IP
- Domain Name System
- NSFNET
- Categories
- technology history
- computer science
- communications
- networks
- Ways in
- Witness
- Packet Desk
- Protocol Lab
- What it does
- fourteen-state packet-to-internetwork timeline
- packetisation, routing and reassembly teaching model
- persistent architecture decisions
- evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-051
World War I: The System That Went to War
Alliance systems / industrialised war / trenches and social mobilisation
- Conflict
- Human Systems
- Modern
- Europe
- Global
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_global_war_history_with_evidence_bounded_signal_and_logistics_comparison
- Subjects
- First World War
- July Crisis
- mobilisation and railways
- industrial and trench warfare
- imperial labour and civilian mobilisation
- Categories
- military history
- political history
- industrial history
- labour history
- global history
- Ways in
- Witness
- Signal Table
- War Load Board
- What it does
- fourteen-state crisis-to-armistice sequence
- diplomatic signal and reversibility audit
- qualitative rail-capacity and transferred-cost model
- persistent causal judgements and evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-053
The Chinese Civil War: The Struggle for China
Modern China / politics and warfare / social mobilisation and regional order
- Conflict
- Human Systems
- Modern
- Asia
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- multi_source_modern_chinese_conflict_history_with_claim_level_evidence_grading_and_bounded_system_comparison
- Subjects
- Chinese Civil War
- Kuomintang and Nationalist government
- Chinese Communist Party
- social mobilisation and land reform
- regional and international order
- Categories
- modern Chinese history
- political history
- military history
- social history
- East Asian history
- Ways in
- Witness
- Source Matrix
- Control & Consent
- What it does
- fourteen-state political, military and social sequence
- PRC, ROC, primary-source and academic terminology comparison
- qualitative territory, logistics, legitimacy and civilian-burden system
- persistent source judgements and evidence trace
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-054
The Korean War: A Peninsula Divided
Cold War / international intervention / civilians, borders and armistice systems
- Conflict
- Human Systems
- Modern
- Asia
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- multi_source_post_colonial_and_cold_war_history_with_actor_specific_civilian_evidence_and_bounded_armistice_comparison
- Subjects
- Korean War
- post-colonial division of Korea
- international military intervention
- civilian displacement and violence
- armistice and the Korean Demilitarized Zone
- Categories
- Cold War history
- Korean history
- military history
- civilian and humanitarian history
- international relations
- Ways in
- Witness
- Boundary Desk
- Armistice System
- What it does
- fourteen-state colonial-exit-to-armistice sequence
- dated surrender-line, moving-front and demarcation comparison
- qualitative demarcation, prisoner and supervision trade-off system
- persistent actor-specific source judgements and evidence trace
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-076
Bletchley Park: Breaking Enigma
Cryptanalysis / intelligence / international human-machine collaboration
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Europe
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- System Exploration
Details
- Epistemic profile
- bletchley_park_enigma_with_explicit_international_relay_interception_bombe_human_review_intelligence_distribution_secrecy_and_credit_boundaries
- Subjects
- Enigma's electrical path, daily settings and operating procedures
- Y-station interception, traffic analysis and communications-network context
- the Polish, French and British relay of cryptanalytic knowledge
- cribs, menus, Bombes, candidate verification and decryption workflow
- Hut 3 analysis, controlled Ultra distribution, secrecy and distributed credit
- Categories
- Second World War
- cryptography
- intelligence history
- computing history
- teamwork
- Ways in
- Signal Trace
- Bombe Lab
- Intelligence Audit
- What it does
- fourteen-state machine-to-intelligence-network sequence
- qualitative intercept quality, crib strength, Bombe capacity and analyst context comparison
- machine, log, memoir, declassified record and institutional history separation
- persistent traffic analysis, international credit, automation and intelligence-use evidence trace
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-098
Java Sea 1942: The Alliance That Could Not Fight as One
Follow an emergency coalition through fragmented reports, mixed doctrine, limited endurance and the unexpected reach of the Type 93—without turning defeat into a national blame story.
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Asia
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Epistemic profile
- synthetic_1942_abda_campaign_reconstruction_with_report_fusion_air_sea_gap_mixed_formation_type93_surprise_fuel_night_action_and_structural_not_national_blame_boundaries
- Subjects
- ABDA's emergency command structure and multinational Combined Striking Force
- air reconnaissance, fighter protection, report fusion and incomplete operational pictures
- mixed signals, formation doctrine, refuelling, ammunition and repeated sorties
- Japanese screening tactics, long-range Type 93 salvos and night-fighting preparation
- De Ruyter and Java, the invasion delay, Sunda Strait and later coalition memory
- Categories
- Second World War
- maritime history
- coalition warfare
- Netherlands East Indies
- naval communications
- Ways in
- BATTLE TRACE
- COORDINATION LAB
- CAUSAL FIELD
- What it does
- fourteen-scene ABDA-to-archive reconstruction spanning January to March 1942
- continuous 32-second environment, mobility, formation, signal, visibility, strike, pressure and uncertainty animation
- qualitative alliance-cohesion, information-clarity, combat-pressure and fuel-margin comparison
- four persistent three-option decisions yielding eighty-one bounded combinations linked to a twelve-source evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-099
Leyte Gulf 1944: Four Battles for the Philippines
Connect Palawan Passage, the Sibuyan Sea, Surigao Strait, Samar and Cape Engaño through reports and command chains—without reducing Halsey or Kurita to one personality flaw.
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Asia
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Epistemic profile
- synthetic_1944_leyte_gulf_reconstruction_with_four_battle_areas_decoy_force_separate_command_chains_san_bernardino_taffy3_and_multi_causal_kurita_withdrawal_boundaries
- Subjects
- Sho-Go's four-force design and the Center Force route through Philippine passages
- submarine and carrier-air attacks in Palawan Passage and the Sibuyan Sea
- Nishimura and Shima in Surigao Strait and Ozawa's carrier decoy to the north
- Halsey, Kinkaid, separate command chains, TF 34 signals and San Bernardino Strait
- Taffy 3 off Samar, Kurita's cumulative withdrawal decision and the Leyte landings
- Categories
- Second World War
- maritime history
- Philippines
- naval command
- carrier warfare
- Ways in
- THEATRE TRACE
- COMMAND LAB
- CAUSAL FIELD
- What it does
- fourteen-scene four-battle-area reconstruction spanning 23–26 October 1944
- continuous 32-second environment, mobility, formation, signal, visibility, strike, pressure and uncertainty animation
- qualitative force-location, report-confidence, landing-pressure and command-overload comparison
- four persistent three-option decisions yielding eighty-one bounded combinations linked to a twelve-source evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-105
The Russo-Japanese War 1904–05: The War That Reordered East Asia
Trace how transport, finance, siege and fleet endurance turned a regional imperial contest into a global shock—and keep Korea and China inside the frame.
- Conflict
- Human Systems
- Modern
- Asia
- Europe
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Epistemic profile
- evidence_bounded_russo_japanese_war_reconstruction_with_imperial_rivalry_rail_capacity_port_arthur_mukden_baltic_fleet_tsushima_portsmouth_and_affected_population_limits
- Subjects
- Russian and Japanese imperial rivalry in Korea and Manchuria
- the Trans-Siberian Railway, mobilisation, credit and supply capacity
- Port Arthur, mines, blockade, siege engineering and human cost
- Mukden, the Baltic Fleet's global voyage and the Battle of Tsushima
- the Treaty of Portsmouth and coercive consequences for Korea, China and the region
- Categories
- East Asian history
- Russo-Japanese War
- imperial history
- military logistics
- naval history
- Ways in
- CAMPAIGN TRACE
- CAPACITY LAB
- CAUSAL FIELD
- What it does
- fourteen-scene evidence-bounded campaign reconstruction with explicit operational, diplomatic and civilian limits
- continuous 32-second rail, siege, fleet readiness, information, escalation and uncertainty animation
- qualitative supply reach, fleet readiness, information clarity and escalation pressure comparison
- four persistent three-option decisions yielding eighty-one bounded combinations linked to a twelve-source evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-106
Operation Barbarossa 1941: The Invasion of the Soviet Union
Investigate the invasion as both a failed short-war plan and a war of annihilation—without turning alternate orders into a playable path to Nazi victory.
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Europe
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_operation_barbarossa_reconstruction_with_ideological_war_short_campaign_assumptions_encirclement_logistics_soviet_regeneration_mass_violence_moscow_reversal_and_memory_boundaries
- Subjects
- Directive 21, ideological conquest and unsupported short-war assumptions
- frontier surprise, encirclements and the depth of Soviet regeneration
- roads, rail-gauge conversion, fuel, maintenance and logistics breakdown
- occupation policy, mass murder, prisoner starvation and the siege of civilians
- Operation Typhoon, the Soviet counteroffensive and the clean-Wehrmacht myth
- Categories
- Second World War
- Eastern Front
- Holocaust history
- military logistics
- historical memory
- Ways in
- CAMPAIGN TRACE
- PLANNING AUDIT
- CAUSAL FIELD
- What it does
- fourteen-scene evidence-bounded and non-graphic reconstruction with operational, ideological and victim evidence kept together
- continuous 32-second front, transport, resistance, system failure, civilian danger and uncertainty animation
- qualitative planning confidence, logistics margin, Soviet resistance and civilian danger comparison
- four persistent three-option audit decisions yielding eighty-one bounded combinations linked to a twelve-source evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-108
The Boxer Crisis 1900: Siege, Intervention, and Empire
Follow a local and imperial crisis through Boxer networks, a divided Qing state, two Beijing sieges, multinational intervention, civilian exposure and the imposed settlement.
- Conflict
- Human Systems
- Modern
- Asia
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Epistemic profile
- multi_source_boxer_crisis_1900_reconstruction_with_heterogeneous_boxer_networks_divided_qing_authority_two_sieges_intervention_civilian_protection_occupation_protocol_and_attribution_limits
- Subjects
- rural pressure, heterogeneous Boxer networks and Chinese Christian communities
- a divided Qing court, contradictory orders and broken rail and telegraph corridors
- the Seymour expedition, Dagu, diplomatic rupture and two Beijing siege sites
- Tianjin logistics, multinational relief and unequal civilian protection
- occupation, plunder, dispersed responsibility and the imposed Boxer Protocol
- Categories
- late Qing history
- Boxer Crisis
- imperial intervention
- siege and civilian history
- treaty systems
- Ways in
- CRISIS TRACE
- CIVILIAN CORRIDOR LAB
- POWER FIELD
- What it does
- fourteen-scene evidence-bounded reconstruction that separates Boxer groups, Qing institutions, civilians and multinational forces
- continuous 32-second corridor, communication, siege, relief, occupation, escalation and uncertainty animation
- qualitative escalation, civilian security, communication and supply, and Qing sovereign latitude comparison
- four persistent three-option decisions yielding eighty-one bounded combinations linked to an eighteen-source evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-111
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962: Thirteen Days from Nuclear War
Enter a crisis in which evidence was incomplete, authority was distributed and several events moved faster than the leaders controlling them.
- Conflict
- History
- Modern
- Europe
- Latin America
- North America
- Historical Reconstruction
- Interactive Decision
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_cuban_missile_crisis_reconstruction_with_bounded_counterfactual_intelligence_quarantine_command_fragmentation_black_saturday_b59_secret_diplomacy_and_verification_boundaries
- Subjects
- U-2 reconnaissance, NPIC interpretation and evidence uncertainty
- ExComm response options, quarantine design and selective enforcement
- public warning, United Nations evidence and allied legitimacy
- Black Saturday, fragmented command and the B-59 encounter
- public-private diplomacy, dismantlement, verification and later Jupiter withdrawal
- Categories
- Cold War history
- nuclear crisis
- intelligence history
- diplomacy
- command systems
- Ways in
- THIRTEEN DAYS
- ESCALATION LAB
- COMMAND FIELD
- What it does
- fourteen-scene evidence-bounded reconstruction with explicit observation, inference and uncertainty layers
- continuous 32-second environment, mobility, coordination, signal, visibility, event, pressure and uncertainty animation
- qualitative escalation pressure, evidence confidence, diplomatic space and command control comparison
- four persistent three-option decisions yielding eighty-one bounded combinations linked to a fourteen-source evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)
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REX-114
Partition 1947: The Border That Displaced Millions
Follow the accelerated transfer of power through incomplete maps, disrupted institutions and civilian lives that cannot be reduced to population arrows.
- Civilization
- History
- Modern
- Asia
- Documentary / Evidence-led
- Historical Reconstruction
Details
- Epistemic profile
- documented_partition_1947_reconstruction_with_bounded_humanitarian_interpretation_accelerated_transfer_boundary_delay_punjab_bengal_rail_relief_consent_tracing_estimate_and_living_memory_boundaries
- Subjects
- pre-border kinship, trade and transport across Punjab and Bengal
- Cabinet Mission, accelerated transfer and boundary commissions
- independence before boundary publication and civilian movement in Punjab
- railways, relief, repeated displacement in Bengal and family tracing
- consent, organised protection, uncertain estimates and living memory
- Categories
- South Asian history
- decolonisation
- Partition of India
- forced migration
- humanitarian history
- Ways in
- CIVILIAN WITNESS
- SAFEGUARD LAB
- MEMORY FIELD
- What it does
- fourteen-scene evidence-bounded and non-graphic reconstruction with explicit observation, inference and uncertainty layers
- continuous 32-second environment, mobility, coordination, signal, visibility, event, pressure and uncertainty animation
- qualitative civilian risk, information confidence, family continuity and civic trust comparison
- four persistent three-option decisions yielding eighty-one consent-bound combinations linked to a nineteen-source evidence ledger
- Published by
- Richseen Originals (@richseen-originals)