The Story Sweep — what the new medium can newly do

Where the Standing Frontier Sweep watches eight commercial-and-scientific veins and the HKG sweep watches longevity, the Story Sweep watches one question on a rhythm: what can the storytelling medium newly do? New XR surface, new interactive-narrative result, new participatory-economy mechanic, new agentic-character tool — each is a candidate, and each becomes a card only once a primary source and a date are attached.

The output is capability, not lore. Every verified card ends with a "so we should" aimed at a story-maker: this is now possible, so The Call (or a work like it) could use it to pull one more person across the threshold. The garden's job is to keep the medium's frontier mapped and fresh so the myth-building never runs on last year's assumptions about what a headset, a phone, a voice, or an agent can hold.

The line we never cross. The sweep verifies the medium; it never "verifies" the story. The Call and its world are owned canon — imaginative, deliberate, and labeled as canon. Keeping the two apart is exactly what lets this garden be the most creative shelf in the cabinet and still carry a receipt on every factual claim.