Appendix: The 9L-SRE World

9L-SRE is set in a cyberpunk world where digital ghosts haunt servers, networks, and hardware. Reporters submit sightings, and a feline response team investigates the incidents.

Nine Lives: Spectral Reliability Engineering connects the team’s resilience with the project’s playful take on Site Reliability Engineering. The setting centers on technological ghost-catching rather than the occult.

The response team

Moxie “Hotfix” Mallow is the selected first playable demo agent. She works under Chief Maxwell “Watchdog” Blackwell. Her partner and friendly rival, Rowan “Runtime” Locke, wants to understand why an incident happened even after Mallow has contained it.

The Agent Roster introduces the wider cast, their backstories, and their relationships. These details give the demo its narrative context; they do not define API fields or application permissions.

Technical behavior for restoring fictional profiles belongs in Core: Data and reset.