# SLOP4408 — Week 12: Recover the Impossible Campus / printable lab pack · Semester 1, 2027 ## The task Complete Operation Last Light and explain why selected checks and performed actions serve the team's declared objective. In-person teaching is preferred. The paper route is a complete conceptual activity when apparatus is unavailable; online students use the equivalent controls and keep the same learning record. The investigation, experiment, agreement or revision is this week's practical output. A staged field handover is optional and cannot replace the reasoning record. ## Learning outcomes - Select and justify capabilities relevant to the declared objective. - Coordinate dependencies and preserve evidence when the approach changes. - Defend the performed result, a credible alternative and a remaining obligation. ## Equipment The full published mission pack, role sheets, previous lab props or equivalent cards, and the resolution checklist. A single shared browser or printed tabletop map can serve the group. ## Facilitator setup Lay out the six station areas, publish the chosen preset and assign roles. Keep rule sheets accessible. Use the same resolution requirements for browser and campus routes. ## Complete supplied rules **MR-01** supplies the Meridian charter, six areas and four responsibilities. **MR-02** supplies approach-specific requirements; use the final-project pack for current profiles and evidence. - Shared evidence: scene/identity observations, current signed archive source, precise handoff, preservation/recipient agreement, initial plan and preserved revision. - Physical recovery: matched support cradle, map orientation and transport route. An Upper/Lift route also needs power; the independent Service route does not impose a circuit gate. - Digital recovery: diagnosed transmission supply, correct local access policy, confirmed receiving receipt and arrangements for the original. Cradle, map and transport are not required. - Stabilisation and handover: matched support cradle, diagnosed continuous power, stable indicator, named custodian and monitoring limitation. No transport route or access-policy gate. - Explain a credible alternative, why your selected checks fit the objective, and a remaining obligation. Recall is an optional tool, not a universal gate. - Locations: arrival hall, workshop, power bay, control room, archive chamber, dispatch platform. Roles: observer/navigator, systems specialist, investigator, coordinator. - Presets: Baseline, Equipment Failure, Conflicting Archive. They are published conditions; acting speed and endings do not determine marks. ## Two-hour schedule These are the teaching session's time blocks, not six compulsory game objectives. Adjust timing as needed; reasoning matters more than speed. | Time | Activity | | --- | --- | | 0–10 minutes | Agree objective and responsibilities; distinguish shared and approach-specific requirements. | | 10–30 minutes | Compare the alternate mission with your charter and identify a choice it cannot supply. | | 30–60 minutes | Perform or inspect the chosen attempt, recording each consequential action's support. | | 60–80 minutes | Challenge the plan from another role and inspect a contrasting rehearsal. | | 80–105 minutes | Prepare the account: relevant and omitted checks, alternative and remaining obligation. | | 105–120 minutes | Give individual defences and assemble the final bundle and backup. | ## Worked example · a different scenario The separate rainfall-recorder example aims to recover verified data while keeping the original recorder stable. The demonstrator records a 16:25 display and an amber service lamp, tests the prepared support lift for two opposite output turns, and compares copies with the twelve-record W-6 request. Ash matches; Birch does not. A confirmed handoff transfers Ash while the recorder stays at its mast. The result meets the stated objective, but matching a reference does not answer the remaining calibration question. [Watch this separate example and inspect its finished record](/demonstrations/lab-12/). The example explains a method. Its completed decisions are not the assigned task. Use the materials above for your own choices. ## Practice Use an explicitly labelled rehearsal or completed run and map checks to its chosen objective. ## Skill check Have another role challenge a decision and explain a credible alternative using the current charter. ## Transfer challenge Compare a contrasting preset and objective if relevant. Preserve both plans and explain the actual decision changed. ## Student record **Named output: recovery-record.** Keep objective, relevant requirements, handoffs, performed evidence, contrasting rehearsal and revision. Explain one justified omission, alternative and remaining obligation. Record your name/role, phase and scenario, prediction before action, evidence requested, result, decision, alternative and remaining uncertainty. Include assistance, format used and any physical-model limitation. Keep a failed attempt that explains a revision. The investigation, experiment, agreement or revision is this week's practical output. A staged field handover is optional and cannot replace the reasoning record. ## Explanation — reveal after an attempt The debrief reports the requirements met, missing evidence and unresolved assumptions. A successful ending with unsupported reasoning is not automatically strong academic work. A carefully diagnosed incomplete recovery can still demonstrate substantial skill, while clearly acknowledging what was not achieved. A facilitator judges the reasoning. The record's existence and the model's successful result do not by themselves establish learning. ## Facilitator evidence cards · reveal on request Apply the final mission pack's current conditional requirements. Shared evidence is required for every approach; add the checks relevant to the selected approach and physical route. Do not invent an eleven-skill gate. Require an honest explanation of relevant omissions and remaining obligations. The facilitator checks authored model conditions; individual reasoning remains part of the assessment defence. The full pack remains available for accessible and solo study. Label assistance if you inspected all cards before choosing a test. No hidden rules or secret grading are involved. ## Reflection and later use What would you now teach your Week 1 self about becoming capable? This lab assembles the final-project evidence. The after-action account does not replace the performed mission or the assessment's individual and team deliverables. ## Evidence and limitations Save **recovery-record** with your explanation. Physical activities are proposed teaching designs, not hardware-tested equipment. Distinguish model-card results from actual measurements. Neither browser success nor paper completion establishes physical dexterity or classroom enjoyment. A dated station record is sufficient; a duplicate browser run is not required.