Aliyah chose three people from Vorra's engineering crew before the morning's first compound rotation began.
The selection criteria were not the ones an administrator would have used. She was not looking for the three most senior or the three with the most formal technical credentials. She was looking for the three who, during the foundation perimeter compound application work of the previous days, had noticed the same surface behavior discrepancy in the compound's curing phase that Aliyah herself had noted three weeks earlier. Two had logged it in the application record. One had mentioned it to Vorra directly.
Three people had noticed a discrepancy that the standard application protocol did not flag as significant. That was the filter.
