It was a weapon.
"We built it to catch lies. But lies, once removed, have to go somewhere. They live in the operator now. I have told three truths today. I am not sure I remember how." odme manual
To the uninitiated, it was a bureaucratic oddity—a dusty procedural guide for a machine no one remembered building. But to the "Ink-Stained," the handful of archivists with the clearance to read it, the ODME Manual was something else entirely. It was a weapon