OSINT-6 CHANGELOG 260221
The OSINT-6 United States Factbook combines three kinds of material that readers need to distinguish at a glance. It describes real places, institutions, laws, infrastructure, and equipment. It introduces a fictional intelligence organization and fictional missions. It also adds game rules. Mixing those categories without control would make the book easier to draft and harder to trust.
We assigned every passage to Verified Information, Fictional Material, or Game Rules. Verified Information covers the United States and its documented institutions, practices, and physical environment. Real organizations keep their correct names, authorities, jurisdictions, and public relationships.
Fictional Material covers the Administrative Coordination Office, its personnel, facilities, internal history, priorities, and missions. The book identifies ACO as fictional when it first appears and wherever a reader could mistake its activities for claims about an actual organization.
Game Rules cover Character Options, equipment mappings, agent statistics, operational procedures, and mission mechanics. These rules establish what happens during play. They don't claim that real institutions or equipment operate according to OSINT-6 mechanics.
The three categories can occupy the same section. A mission might use a real airport, a fictional Office team, and a game procedure for access or surveillance. We didn't solve that overlap by isolating reality, fiction, and rules into unrelated books. Labels and transitions identify when the category changes, while source notes support the factual claims.
This decision also limits the authority of the finished book. It can provide a researched operational setting, but it isn't an authoritative source about the United States. Readers can follow the citations to the underlying material when they need research rather than game preparation.
The classification system therefore performs two jobs. It protects the factual material from invented detail, and it gives the fictional material enough verified context to remain plausible.