The Standard Manual (DOC: A) describes the seven main information products that are kept by the company on its employees. These include:

1. Credentials
2. Placards
3. Resume
4. Personnel File
5. Temporary Legends
6. Long Term Legends

This file discusses Credentials and Placards. A Credential is an identification card that is issued when a member of the Company reports to an assignment, and is replaced when they are transferred to a new assignment. A placard is more permanent document that act as a more complete credential and as a coversheet for a company member's resume and personell file. These are the most common

A - Photograph

A high resolution black and white photograph for identification purposes. Photographs should be taken yearly, or when grooming standards or life experience changes the employee's physical appearance. Officers will have a stylized star embossed on the photograph. All credentials will use the official file image used by a placard to assure identification.

B - Bar Code

Bard code which provides quick access to the person's staff number. The staff number includes and employee number, their last name and two initials, and the year they entered company service. The staff number is a four or six digit numbers depending on the department. On occasion the staff number will have a single letter leading it, representing an employee who has had their staff number changed or has changed departments and needed to modify the form of their number.

C - Skills Tab

A listing of the four to eight most important skills known by the person.

D - Class Code

The year the employee entered Company service and their assigned category of their assignment scope. This categorical may be different than the actual assignment, for example a doctor being assigned as an administrator.

E - Position Held

Specific assignment category. The top term is the official assignment, the second term is the category of this assignment.

F - Group and Team

Currently assigned group and team within the Department. If the employee changes assignment the credential must be reissued.

G - Name Plate

The name plate has the spelling and the form of a person full official name.

H - Department

Department the officer is assigned to. Dustin-Rhodes Company has six departments, numbered one to six, each assigned a recognition color.

Department One handles all communications, assignments, and coordination between corporate departments. All badges are printed (when possible) in the color teal and property, documents, and other media use a roundel with the number "one" embossed on it. A capital letter "M" in teal is also used on official documents and uniforms.

Department Two is responsible for collecting, storing, and distributing information across all departments. It was formed from the original Rhodes Company elements in 1859. All badges are printed (when possible) in the color red and property, documents, and other media use a roundel with the number "two" embossed on it. The letter "K" in red is also used on official documents and uniforms.

Department Three coordinates all planning across the Dustin-Rhodes corporate body. It assures that different departments share a common set of goals and do not work against each other. All badges are printed (when possible) in the color purple and property, documents, and other media use a roundel with the number "three" embossed on it. The letter "O" in purple is also used on official documents and uniforms.

Department Four the Production, Commissary, and Logistics Department (Pro, Com, and Log) was formed from the manufacturing plants owned by the Dustin Corporation before the 1859 merger. The diversified nature of Dustin-Rhodes, which makes products for thousands of other companies, requires a department that can specialize in the process of acquiring raw materials, producing products for sale, and shipping those products to the end user. All badges are printed (when possible) in the color blue and property, documents, and other media use a roundel with the number "four" embossed on it. The letter "P" in blue is also used on official documents and uniforms.

Department Five is department which was formed from the extraneous elements of the Dustin Corporation corporate investigation teams made superfluous by the merger of 1859, and became a special projects team in the 1860s during the Civil War, competing with detective agencies like the Pinkerton Company. All badges are printed (when possible) in the color green and property, documents, and other media use a roundel with the number "five" embossed on it. The letter "T" in green is also used on official documents and uniforms.

Department Six was formed in 1873 as a special project known as "Winkle" as part of Department Two, transferred to Department Five in 1881, and formed its own department in 1899, then called Cylinder Research. This name remained in place until 1945 when it tool on its current name. All badges are printed (when possible) in the color orange and property, documents, and other media use a roundel with the number "six" embossed on it. The letter "N" in orange is also used on official documents and uniforms.

A Personnel file held by Department Six on an officer, and a placard transmitted by a wire fax in 1952. All Company identification documents were designed to survive transmission by low fidelity reproduction and to be based on print files held by Master Control and by the employee's home department.