docs: published team credits + archive context index

README gains "The team" -- the published VWE BattleTech credits roster
(scan supplied July 2026) cross-referenced against the 1994-96 source in
this tree; HISTORY.md links the podbay developer-script names to the
credited team members.  context/ adds the archive index README and its
generator script.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

@@ -133,6 +133,51 @@ INI-style calibration files (`.XST/.CAM/.BAK`) defining viewing extents and
 camera offsets ("head offset") for the cockpit's main display, including a
 `[LAB_ONLY]` configuration.
 
+## The team
+
+From a published VWE BattleTech credits page (scan supplied to this archive,
+July 2026). The roster matches the 1994–1996 source in this tree — see the
+cross-references below the table.
+
+| Role | Name(s) |
+|------|---------|
+| Producer and Designer | Jordan Weisman |
+| Art Director | David McCoy |
+| Technical Director | J.M. Albertson |
+| Audio Director | Eric Huffman |
+| Corporate Director of Technology | Bill Redmann |
+| **Software Engineers** | |
+| — Framework and Simulation Design | J.M. Albertson |
+| — Secondary/Auxiliary Screens and Low Level I/O | Chris Brewer |
+| — Low Level I/O Design and Programming | Marek Ciolek |
+| — Framework and 3D Video Rendering | Greg Corson |
+| — Animation Simulations and Tools | Jerry Edsall |
+| — Macintosh Design and Programming | Garth Hermanson |
+| — Framework and 3D Audio System | Eric Huffman |
+| — Simulation Code and Cameras | Joanna Mason |
+| — Graphics Research and Art Tools | Ken Olsen |
+| — Simulation Code and 'Mech Internal Systems | Gabe Underwood |
+| **Artists & Animators** | |
+| — 3D Art and Animations | Tom Burlington, Duane Molitor, David McCoy, Lex Story |
+| — Allen Workshop 2D Art | Victor Bonilla, Tom Peters |
+| Software Tools Group Leader | Ken Olsen |
+| Sound Samples/Designs | Bing McCoy, Tom Effinger, Eric Huffman |
+
+Cross-references to this tree:
+
+- `// Author:` headers in `CODE/` name four of the credited engineers:
+  **J.M. Albertson** (MUNGA math/debug bricks — `LINE`, `SPHERE`, `DEBUG*`),
+  **Jerry Edsall** (`TOOL`, `FILEUTIL`, the BT/RP `*TOOL` modules),
+  **Ken Olsen** (`NAMELIST`, `NOTATION` template containers), and
+  **Eric Huffman** (`CSTR`, `MEMREG`, `SCHAIN`).
+- The pod-lab per-developer update scripts on the recovered developer drive
+  (see [HISTORY.md](HISTORY.md)) are named Chris, Gabe, Joanna, and Jordan —
+  matching **Chris Brewer**, **Gabe Underwood**, **Joanna Mason**, and
+  **Jordan Weisman**.
+- **Garth Hermanson**'s "Macintosh Design and Programming" credit fits the
+  venue side: the operator console the pods connect to was a Macintosh
+  application.
+
 ## Provenance
 
 - Copyright (C) 1994–1996 Virtual World Entertainment, Inc. All rights