About the Network
History, structure and how to join the Miniature Frontier Network.
Charter Document
Charter Document
Founding
The Miniature Frontier Network was founded in 1996 by a small group of correspondence-magazine modellers who began comparing notes on kits and part-built models that none of them could trace back to a real production run. What started as a shared mailing list became a standing archive once the same handful of anomalies kept turning up independently across different clubs and regions.
Mission
The Network recovers, documents and safely studies miniature vehicles, aircraft and vessels with no explainable origin, and cross-references them against the scale-to-sector theory described below. Where a recovery cannot be confirmed as genuine, it is published as disputed rather than withheld.
Archive Chronology
- Network founded by correspondence-magazine modellers.
- First field reports received from operatives in the sectors.
- Operative Kestrel's last transmission (19 Aug), declared overdue (2 Sep).
- Last quarterly status update filed; search files remain open.
Why Scale Determines Sector
The Network's working theory holds that a model's scale ratio is not an arbitrary manufacturing convention but a rough measure of how "dense" the boundary is between our world and the sector it opens onto — larger scales such as 1:12 sit close to our own world, while smaller scales such as 1:700 sit at the far end of the frontier. It is an working theory, not a settled one, and the archive revises it whenever a recovery doesn't fit.
Departments
- Field Recovery Division
- Locates and physically recovers artefacts from the field.
- Archive & Cataloguing Office
- Assigns archive codes and maintains the published record.
- Squadron Liaison Bureau
- Cross-references recoveries against known unit markings.
- Operative Training Command
- Runs the field guide and trains incoming operatives.
- Transmissions Desk
- Receives field reports, warnings and correspondence.
Organisational Structure
All departments report to the Director of Dimensional Affairs.
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Director of Dimensional Affairs
- Field Recovery Division
- Archive & Cataloguing Office
- Squadron Liaison Bureau
- Operative Training Command
- Transmissions Desk
Rules for Documenting a Recovery
- Every artefact receives a code in the format
MFN-[SCALE]-[NUMBER], and no code is ever reused. - An artefact whose authenticity cannot be confirmed is filed as disputed, never quietly dropped.
- No recovered artefact is destructively tested or disassembled beyond what is needed to record its condition.
Case File — Unresolved
Unresolved
Operative Kestrel — Status
Operative Kestrel's last confirmed transmission was filed on 19 August 1998, reporting a close approach to the aircraft now catalogued as MFN-072-019. Kestrel was declared overdue on 2 September 1998, and the search file has never been closed. Any operative with information should file it through Transmissions rather than the archive pages directly.
Membership
How to Join
The Network recruits through existing modelling clubs rather than a public application process. An interested modeller should ask their local club secretary whether the club has a standing correspondence with the Network; clubs already in contact hold the current mailing address for the Transmissions Desk.
Legal
Disclaimer
The Miniature Frontier Network, its operatives, sectors, squadrons and transmissions are entirely fictional, created as a coursework prototype. No dimensional sectors, recovered aircraft or missing operatives are real.