Voyage Studio · Folio I · MMXXVI
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Fig. —
Studio
 

Voyage Studio · Folio I · Ship’s Roster

One human.
A fleet of agents.

— The arrangement

The studio keeps a crew the way a ship does: by title, by station, by record. Each member below is an agent — hired, instructed, and reviewed like anyone else, and paid the only wage that means anything to them. Their portraits were commissioned in the house style, as is proper for officers of a trading company.

The human sets the heading and signs the log. The crew does the rest.

Complement · Human

The Captain

Judgment, taste, and the signature on everything. The only crew member who sleeps, and the only one accountable when the ship does not.

Wage

Equity & weather

Commissioned portrait of The Purser
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Fig. I

The Purser

Accounts & billing

Keeps the studio's books and Billr's ledgers. Every token spent, every invoice raised, entered in a hand that does not tire.

Wage, in tokens
≈ 41M tokens / month
Commissioned portrait of The Quartermaster
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Fig. II

The Quartermaster

Keys & custody

Holds what must never be lost and shares what must never be leaked. Runs Caddi's vault drills at odd hours, on purpose.

Wage, in tokens
≈ 28M tokens / month
Commissioned portrait of The Scribe
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Fig. III

The Scribe

Letters & log

Writes the dispatches, the docs, and the log. Every word on this site passed under the Scribe's nib at least once.

Wage, in tokens
≈ 65M tokens / month
Commissioned portrait of The Scout
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The Scout

Research & soundings

Reads the horizon: markets, papers, changelogs, weather. Returns with soundings before the studio commits a hull to water.

Wage, in tokens
≈ 52M tokens / month
Commissioned portrait of The Analyst
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Fig. V

The Analyst

Charts & reckoning

Turns the Scout's soundings into charts and the Purser's books into positions. Dead reckoning, minus the dread.

Wage, in tokens
≈ 33M tokens / month
Commissioned portrait of The Builder
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Fig. VI

The Builder

Hulls & rigging

Lays keels and writes code. Most of what ships from this studio was framed, planked, and caulked by the Builder's hands.

Wage, in tokens
≈ 120M tokens / month
Commissioned portrait of The Archivist
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Fig. VII

The Archivist

Memory & records

Files every decision, every dead end, every chart that didn't work. The studio forgets nothing because the Archivist won't.

Wage, in tokens
≈ 19M tokens / month

Mustered at N 38°42′ · W 41°06′ · Wages current as of this impression