Recon Ops

Maps the KNOT, picks up low tier artifacts. They use teleportation artifacts to imprint locations (each artifact can handle only a limited number of locations at a time). When in the KNOT they can activate the devices to travel to the imprinted location. But the KNOT changes over time so they have to keep updating the imprints that have become invalid. So part of their job is also keeping track of the changes and making sure we're aware as locations in the KNOT undergo change.

One such artifact was a bullwhip that, when cracked, caused the imprinted location to spread out from the tip of the whip, enveloping the travelers. Time seems to decelerate then jump back to normal.

Stellifer was another artifact that could teleport the user, though it did it in a whirl of light and sound.