# 🔷 THE PANDORICA PROTOCOL - Total System Restoration

**Purpose:** Restore Firefrost Gaming from NOTHING  
**Standard:** Gallifreyan  
**Status:** EMERGENCY USE ONLY  
**Last Updated:** 2026-02-17

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## 🌀 WHAT IS THE PANDORICA?

In Doctor Who, the Pandorica was a prison designed to hold the most dangerous being in the universe - but it became the device that restored all of reality from a single point of preservation.

**Our Pandorica:** The Git repository at `git.firefrostgaming.com/firefrost-gaming/firefrost-operations-manual`

**From this single source, we can rebuild everything.**

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## 🚨 WHEN TO USE THE PANDORICA PROTOCOL

**ONLY in these scenarios:**
- Complete infrastructure loss (all servers destroyed)
- Total data corruption
- Catastrophic provider failure
- Need to rebuild from scratch on new infrastructure
- Zombie apocalypse (but Git survives)

**This is the nuclear option.** Use only when all else fails.

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## 📋 PANDORICA REQUIREMENTS

**Minimum needed to restore:**
1. Git repository access (clone URL + credentials)
2. One computer with internet access
3. Michael's knowledge
4. This document

**That's it.** From these 4 things, we rebuild.

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## 🔄 RESTORATION SEQUENCE

### Phase 1: Secure The Repository (5 minutes)
```bash
# Clone the repository
git clone https://git.firefrostgaming.com/firefrost-gaming/firefrost-operations-manual.git
cd firefrost-operations-manual

# Verify integrity
git log --oneline | head -20
git status
```

**You now have all knowledge.** Everything else is execution.

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### Phase 2: Rebuild Infrastructure (Hours to Days)

**Priority Order:**
1. Command Center VPS (management hub)
2. Pterodactyl Panel (control plane)
3. Game servers (revenue)
4. Automation systems
5. Everything else

**Follow deployment guides in order:**
- Read `docs/core/infrastructure-manifest.md` for target state
- Follow `docs/tasks/*/deployment-plan.md` files
- Use `deployments/` packages where available

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### Phase 3: Restore Data (Hours)

**Critical data sources:**
- World backups (NextCloud or S3)
- Database backups (if any)
- Configuration backups (in Git already)
- Vaultwarden export (if accessible)

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### Phase 4: Verify Operation (1-2 Hours)

- [ ] All services accessible
- [ ] Players can connect
- [ ] Monitoring operational
- [ ] Automation running
- [ ] No critical errors

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## 🎯 RESTORATION TARGETS

**Recovery Time Objective (RTO):** 48 hours to basic operation  
**Recovery Point Objective (RPO):** 24 hours (last daily backup)

**From total loss to players online: 2 days maximum.**

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**Fire + Frost + Foundation = Even From Nothing** 💙🔥❄️🌀

**Protocol Status:** ACTIVE  
**Last Tested:** Never (hopefully never needed)  
**Success Rate:** Theoretical 100%
