For 2,400 years a long line of people — philosophers, mystics, engineers, geologists — have refused the straight line of history. Some were scholars; some were dreamers; a few were charlatans. We keep their fire and their errors in plain sight, and we label every claim for what it is. This is the company you are joining.
Every one of them felt the same pull — that the line is not straight — and most lacked the one thing that would have saved them: a way to tell a clue from a wish. So the careful went down with the credulous. We keep their fire and add the rule. Grade every claim. Show the counter-case. Bring a single period-impossible artifact past the Wall, and the whole story turns in a day. You are the next seeker — but this time you carry a map, and a rule.