Sofia wasn't a particullarly brilliant analyst. And that was why she was in historical research. They weren't brilliant analysts. They were just OK. But some procedural document somewhere demanded that a historical context section be in all documents, and so those who were just OK analysts (and those who were worse than that) got shuffled over to the historical section, and got pulled into the various more important analysing departments as needed. She had the responsibility of sorting things for followup, inserting sparse records in the index with priority flags attached. It was all done through a client program, nothing actually on the crappy laptop she'd been given when she joined (longstanding tradition was to hack them so that you could access social media), which looked a lot like an email client. It was a machine learning enhanced webscraping program, looking for keywords in documents, which she and her fellow historical analysts were meant to correlate. In this case, the item that appeared in the queue was a name and keyword pair flag. "Sinking stone frigates – Albert Fitzgerald" It was text in some blob file from a datahoarder, leaking out of a hacked cloud bucket with faulty authorization. Albert Fitzgerald was flagged as an employee in the interesting sort of office around the British colonial mechanisms, "frigate" was a key word for the naval chaps, "stone frigate" normally referred to the shoreside components of a Navy. Interesting. She tagged the possible publication onto the Albert Fitzgerald record in the index. Probably an interesting bit of reference on naval colleges or something. She ticked the autosearch tickbox beside the entry. Possibly it was already in their field of control, and could be linked in properly, and automatically. The segmentation of data based on classifications screwed with everything, and possibly she wouldn't ever see if it did. Huge sections which she'd spent weeks on before had been walled off to her. Anyway, no sense crying over it. Like most (all?) the historical analysts dealt with, it wasn't really relevant to anyone doing anything. Just another little piece of data on a hard drive.