

Museum catalogue photograph of a single recovered artifact, documented as physical evidence. Macro, the artifact fills about three quarters of the frame, centred and complete, with only a narrow band of empty black around it. Flat black background, empty, no room, no floor, no ground, no surface under the object, no horizon, no plinth, no pedestal, no stand, no table, no props, no hands, no text, no labels, no scale bar. It is not resting on anything and is not in a space: it is isolated against black. Directional light from the upper left, deep shadow falling to the right, modelling the object's own texture. Realistic materials, high detail, muted desaturated colour, cinematic. The artifact is a wide flat 1950s government instrument case, wider than it is tall, seen straight from the front. Grey crackle-painted steel housing, two round analogue gauges with plain needles set into the front panel, a row of small toggle switches, two heavy screw terminals, and a coil of shielded cable along one side. Scratched paint, worn corners, government surplus, clearly disused. One single flat case, no tall coil, no tower, not a workbench, not a scattered collection. A thin line of deep green light (RGB 47,125,79) runs inside the rims of the two gauges and along the seam where the front panel meets the housing, following the edges of the metal. Deep and saturated, dim and low-contrast, not pale, not mint, not white at its core, never brighter than the lit panel. It lies on the artifact's own surface and does not extend beyond its outline into the background. This light is the only saturated colour in the image. Nothing else is green. No glowing runes, no arcane symbols, no magic particles, no sparks, no lens flare, no smoke, no fantasy ornament.