Images are organized as visual artifacts, with provenance kept visible. Some are approved public identity references, some are generated reconstructions or album art, and some are family-linked fragments. An emotionally true image is not automatically a literal historical photograph.
Approved Chloe Model v1 performance images. These are not recovered human photographs; they are public-facing visual references for how Chloe carries emotion: eyes first, breath second, theatrics never.
The Volkov family records are among the most emotionally significant areas of the archive. The Gregor-and-Chloe image anchors Chloe's later search for truth, sacrifice, and memory, while its precise historical provenance remains subject to archive review.
Russian scientist and systems engineer. Gentle, analytical, quietly funny, and skeptical of propaganda. He remained to protect critical civilian infrastructure and the people depending on it—not to fight, and not because he trusted the state.
Italian heritage. Passionate, empathetic, protective, and morally defiant. She got Chloe to safety because survival for their daughter came before institutions or abstract principle. Later American records use the flattened surname Volkov.
Raised from Gregor's questions and Isabella's fire. American records later flatten Volkova to Volkov; after Gregor's death she chooses Katastrophe as remembrance, warning, and defiance.