# Hold the Flood — Colony and Persistent Progression
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**COL101 · r2 · 2026-09-06 UTC · Colony and Progression Designer · Submitted for PM review.** Responds to PMR004: separates baseline docks from an additional berth; reconciles first-visit preparation and revisit reissue with D023/EQP101; limits observation to accessible evidence; specifies a visible, usable refuge investment and an unpowered return. PM selected the structural direction, not every rule or price below. No task acceptance or development authorization is claimed.
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**COL101 · r3 · 2026-09-06 UTC · Colony and Progression Designer · Targeted PMR006 response submitted for review.** PMR006 accepts r2's structural contribution and asks this page to mirror the canonical gradual Stop cascade and ordinary switched-state persistence. This revision makes only that interface correction and updates its source ledger; costs remain hypotheses. Overall design acceptance and development authorization are not claimed.
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Supersedes [COL101 r1, a1046d](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=a1046d). Sources and exact revisions are in §8. This page owns Colony proposals; Lead remains the sole integrated Design Document owner under D014. The attributed PM seed at the foot is historical source material, preserved verbatim.
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Supersedes [COL101 r2, 12694e](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=12694e) and [r1, a1046d](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=a1046d). Sources and exact revisions are in §8. This page owns Colony proposals; Lead remains the sole integrated Design Document owner under D014. The attributed PM seed at the foot is historical source material, preserved verbatim.
## COL101 recommendation
Build a refuge that remembers what the player has made possible, with **one reusable support assembly assigned to one advanced service for the next expedition**. Banked salvage buys permanent repairs and fittings once. Moving that assembly between an additional berth, workshop tooling and comparative observation is free at the refuge. The competition is which opportunity to support on this trip, not a tax for changing one's mind.
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**Selected drafting direction:** [Brief D022–D024](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=70b6b1) selects seven external districts plus a refuge, no forced refuge defence, eight rack cells from the start, shelter-selected pickup priority, one active advanced service, reusable refits and revisit-only recorded-rack issue capped at six occupied cells. These are PM's provisional next-draft decisions; no district count, duration, owner fiction choice or production scope is approved. This revision does not inherit old six-cell or third-row purchase examples.
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**Selected drafting direction:** [Brief D022–D025](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=77e392) selects seven external districts plus a refuge, no forced refuge defence, eight rack cells from the start, shelter-selected pickup priority, one active advanced service, reusable refits and revisit-only recorded-rack issue capped at six occupied cells. [PMR006](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR006?revision=a28870) accepts COL101's structural direction as delivered. These remain provisional design decisions, not an approved district count, duration, fiction, asset plan or production scope.
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**Colony proposals awaiting integration:** exact repair prices, the additional-berth exception, first-visit packages, the visit/recording triggers, manual workshop continuity after Stop and the refuge geometry below. Equipment's eight-cell migration does not settle electrical durations, stun rules or Arc geometry. No example here depends on those disputed effects.
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**Current boundary:** [the shared contract r4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction?revision=29f5b0) adopts one held dock plus one supported shelter, the reusable service loop, the gradual Stop cascade, no salvage-fed pump reserve, the dry/manual refuge baseline and ordinary switched-state persistence. Exact repair prices, first-visit packages, visit/recording triggers and final refuge presentation remain Colony/Equipment proposals awaiting integration. No example here depends on the separately disputed Spark or fixed-powered-water effects.
The credible alternative is to make every repair always active. That gives uncomplicated accumulation, but eventually removes the colony decision from departure. One assigned service keeps a repaired colony useful without requiring recurring payments or progressively more currencies. Its risk is domination by one service; the three strategies below expose the choices for written review, not evidence of equal balance.
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| Strategy | Early choice | Middle choice | Late choice | Opportunity cost, reversal and failed investigation |
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| **Route builder** | Buy the outlet refit and choose a surveyed approach that suits the next investigation; keep basic Cutter/battery preparation | After opening the upper canal in the field and surveying the summit, buy forward fittings; support summit extraction while keeping the depot baseline | Assign that same assembly to an eligible extra retreat point for a consequential revisit; or release it to tooling after route knowledge makes a single exit sufficient | Gives up early known-module issue and later richer preparation. Dock/assembly selection reverses freely at shelter. Rescue loses cargo, not fittings or survey knowledge; a canal state that did not commit must be reopened. After Stop, use the guaranteed unpowered route; a purchased pumped berth is not the guarantee |
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| **Outfitter** | Repair the workshop; inspect a Coil or utility module and issue that known module on the next departure, empty of charge | Buy tooling; on a new district take either a primary/tool package or a small two-module circuit, preserving room for unknown finds | On a revisit, choose a recorded six-cell rack to pursue a specific manipulation; leave two cells for discoveries, or deliberately issue fewer | Gives up forecast investment and, while tooling is assigned, the additional exit and comparison. Change package/links/priority for free at shelter. Rescue retains inspected recipes and eligible records, so the same experiment can be reissued without replacing a lost weapon with salvage. After Stop the manual one-module bench remains; advanced jig issue is dormant |
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| **Signal investigator** | Repair the forecast receiver; compare its first-dispatch information with what actually arrives, using free field indicators and notes | Buy the comparative reader and assign it on an Exchange/relay investigation; record two signals only when personally observed | Revisit a district after an authored network change, compare current observations with dated records, then choose a local intervention or leave it intact | Gives up early build access and later tooling/extra extraction. The reader reduces observation burden, not the cost of obtaining an answer. Records survive rescue, switching support and power loss. After Stop old powered forecasts become visibly historical; inspect free local evidence rather than buy a replacement clue or fund a reserve |
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| **Route builder** | Buy the outlet refit and choose a surveyed approach that suits the next investigation; keep basic Cutter/battery preparation | After opening the upper canal in the field and surveying the summit, buy forward fittings; support summit extraction while keeping the depot baseline | Assign that same assembly to an eligible extra retreat point for a consequential revisit; or release it to tooling after route knowledge makes a single exit sufficient | Gives up early known-module issue and later richer preparation. Dock/assembly selection reverses freely at shelter. Rescue loses cargo, not fittings or survey knowledge; ordinary switch/lock state remains as left. After Stop, a powered berth works only until its district circuit dies in the announced cascade; the guaranteed unpowered route does not depend on it |
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| **Outfitter** | Repair the workshop; inspect a Coil or utility module and issue that known module on the next departure, empty of charge | Buy tooling; on a new district take either a primary/tool package or a small two-module circuit, preserving room for unknown finds | On a revisit, choose a recorded six-cell rack to pursue a specific manipulation; leave two cells for discoveries, or deliberately issue fewer | Gives up forecast investment and, while tooling is assigned, the additional exit and comparison. Change package/links/priority for free at shelter. Rescue retains inspected recipes and eligible records, so the same experiment can be reissued without a salvage replacement fee. After Stop, advanced tooling remains available until the refuge circuit's announced late-cascade failure; the manual one-module bench survives it |
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| **Signal investigator** | Repair the forecast receiver; compare its first-dispatch information with what actually arrives, using free field indicators and notes | Buy the comparative reader and assign it on an Exchange/relay investigation; record two signals only when personally observed | Revisit a district after an authored network change, compare current observations with dated records, then choose a local intervention or leave it intact | Gives up early build access and later tooling/extra extraction. The reader reduces observation burden, not the cost of obtaining an answer. Records survive rescue, switching support and power loss. After Stop, the board announces the next circuit loss; forecasts remain usable only where power and live input remain, while stored observations persist without a reserve payment |
**Illustrative sequence:** a failed workshop-first expedition loses its Coil find but retains the inspected recipe. The player can issue a Coil next time without another salvage run, then discover the upper-canal opportunity. Banking salvage later permits forward fittings; assigning them sacrifices advanced circuit preparation for a second extraction. After recording a district discrepancy, the player may instead use comparison on a revisit. These are written consequences of the proposal, not played results.
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### Discovery and enduring consequence — for World
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**COL-I3, response to [World 9aab5e](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=9aab5e):** the comparative reader preserves two records of signals the player can otherwise see; it does not discover trunk permission, supply or a mystery answer remotely. At the selected relay’s fixed reader, choose, for example, a visible incoming permission pulse and a local drum event. This is a supported site, not an extra carried module or an unattended remote recorder. Recording occurs only while those instruments are actually observed. The notebook labels place, observed state and order; comparing with an earlier trip never asserts a simultaneous measurement.
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**COL-I3, checked against [World r22 da3639](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=da3639):** the comparative reader preserves two records of signals the player can otherwise see; it does not discover trunk permission, supply or a mystery answer remotely. At the selected relay’s fixed reader, choose, for example, a visible incoming permission pulse and a local drum event. This is a supported site, not an extra carried module or an unattended remote recorder. Recording occurs only while those instruments are actually observed. The notebook labels place, observed state and order; comparing with an earlier trip never asserts a simultaneous measurement.
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The player can put those records side by side at the refuge and choose to inspect a local relay or Collector intake next. The cost is using observation support and spending attention reaching/reading instruments while exposed. The unaided player can perform the same comparison using ordinary notes. World r21's redundant essential evidence is the right boundary: buying this convenience must not create an essential clue that is absent in the field.
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The player can put those records side by side at the refuge and choose to inspect a local relay or Collector intake next. The cost is using observation support and spending attention reaching/reading instruments while exposed. The unaided player can perform the same comparison using ordinary notes. World r22's redundant essential evidence is the right boundary: buying this convenience must not create an essential clue that is absent in the field.
If permission flashes but supply is empty, retain both the flash and any personally observed hollow-arrival cue; do not report that no enemies can exist. After Shut/Fix/Hold or an Exchange/Head-Works commitment, mark conflicting older forecasts as historical until a new observation supports an update. Persistent notes inform an action; they do not unlock it by flag.
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This gives investment an enduring physical result beyond a menu and makes the world decision costly without destroying earned knowledge. It requires no new character simulation or special emergency currency. The work bay and landing are proposed scene requirements, not confirmed assets.
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**Direct correction to World r21:** its claim that the dock pump “runs on the salvage already banked” and develops a falling reserve after Stop introduces mandatory upkeep precisely when the player investigates an unsuccessful or uncertain world decision. It is not the Colony baseline, and normal-operation exemption does not make the post-Stop charge harmless. I recommend **no salvage-fed pump reserve and no trip-count refuge depletion**. Paid repairs, banked salvage, notes and the dry landing persist; powered forecast, extra pumped berth and advanced jig can become unavailable.
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**Stop interface, corrected after PMR006.** I was persuaded by the canonical [shared contract r4](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction?revision=29f5b0) to withdraw r2's immediate-loss recommendation. Stop ends harvesting; the stored supply then loses one district circuit per expedition, nearest the Head-Works first. The refuge shares the Pumping District circuit and therefore fails late in that cascade. Before departure, its board names the next circuit loss. Powered forecast, advanced tooling and a supported pumped berth remain usable only while their supplying circuit lives; when the refuge circuit dies, they visibly go dormant. The free raised landing, dry walkway, manual one-module bench, Cutter, notes, paid repairs and banked salvage remain usable.
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World's proposed three-expedition city reserve also differs from [Head-Works r3's immediate grid shutdown](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Districts/The%20Head-Works?revision=999d84). **I proceed on immediate loss of powered colony services with manual basic refuge access, pending World/Campaign/Lead reconciliation.** Immediate visible power loss gives Stop a readable cost; a reserve clock adds ambiguous failure/return accounting without improving this colony choice. This is my integration recommendation, not a global power ruling. Stored portable charge/effects remain governed by the shared equipment rules; no free charge or unexplained backup generator is introduced.
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The credible immediate-shutdown alternative makes Stop's cost instant and simple, but it removes services before the player can make a last informed response and disagrees with the authored city-wide cascade. Prefer the announced gradual loss because each remaining expedition asks which powered opportunity to use before it disappears. The cadence is a provisional design value, not tested balance or duration.
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**No upkeep boundary, retained and now adopted by Lead:** the board advances a world-state consequence; it does not deduct salvage, create a refill action or run off-session. An unsuccessful investigation after Stop may advance the canonical one-circuit-per-expedition cascade because an expedition occurred, but it cannot spend banked resources, close the dry landing, disable the manual bench or add a repair debt. The shared contract explicitly declines World r21's salvage-fed pump reserve, as r2 recommended. Stored portable charge/effects remain governed by the shared equipment rules; no free charge or unexplained backup generator is introduced.
For **Keep**, retain the actual committed governor setting on the route board as an enduring district state, with consequences authored by Campaign/World. Revising it requires the local field action; the refuge board is not a remote governor. Keep does not schedule upkeep visits. For **Leave**, retain the observation and the unchanged actual state; the board must not depict an intervention that never happened.
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| Ordinary equipment finds, charge and cargo | Knowledge retained; issue is governed by recipes, not a physical armory | Physical field finds lost; inspected recipes retained | No charge banking or conversion; departure batteries empty |
| Observations, inspected recipes, eligible rack records and actual visited destinations | Retained | Retained under the triggers above | Records can become stale, not erased; powered service loss does not erase the notebook |
| Selected baseline dock and assembly assignment | Remain selected | Remain selected if still physically eligible | Freely reselect at refuge after permanent refit; losing canal/power eligibility is shown, never charged as debt |
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| Ordinary enemies, loose finds and temporary electrical effects | Reset according to shared expedition rules | Same | Colony does not turn ordinary panel or combat state into persistent world state |
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| Ordinary enemies, loose finds and temporary electrical effects | Reset according to shared expedition rules | Same | Discharge windows, stun, Arc/Spark effects and planted-light state end; Grounder disruption recovers with the mass |
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| Ordinary switched state | Persists exactly as left | Persists exactly as left | Panels, valves, locks/basin levels, drains, gates, Exchange bank and Tram position persist until the player changes them locally or an authored outcome changes their supply |
| Named district interventions | Persist only at the author-specified commitment event | A completed local commitment is not automatically undone by rescue; extraction-conditioned changes require extraction | Actual committed outcomes appear on the board; later reversal follows the district's explicit rules |
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| Refuge infrastructure | Repaired work bay and fittings remain | No destruction, worker death, repair bill or forced defence | Under this proposal, Stop disables powered services; manual bench and free raised landing remain usable |
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| Refuge infrastructure | Repaired work bay and fittings remain | No destruction, worker death, repair bill or forced defence | Stop disables powered refuge services only when the Pumping District/refuge circuit dies late in the announced cascade; manual bench and free raised landing remain usable |
**COL-I3 persistence clarification:** World/Lead must distinguish an immediate committed relay act from a “leave L2 open at extraction” outcome. A warning before an enduring action must say whether rescue can undo it; no generic “all field state resets” sentence should erase a stated permanent consequence. Colony stores and displays the result; it does not choose every district's commit or reversal rule.
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| Interface | Position and reason | Exact source / owner action still needed |
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| COL-I1: route | One freely selected baseline held dock after refit; one optional additional berth uses the assembly. Keep canal/survey prerequisites physical | [Campaign 9d3590](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign?revision=9d3590), [shared rules 69024c](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction?revision=69024c): Campaign confirm summit geometry, eligibility/commit and unpowered return; Lead decide the explicit one-extra-dock exception |
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| COL-I1: route | One freely selected baseline held dock after refit; one optional additional berth uses the assembly. Keep canal/survey prerequisites physical | [Shared rules 29f5b0](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction?revision=29f5b0) adopts the one-extra-shelter exception; [Campaign 6e4b59](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign?revision=6e4b59) owns summit geometry, eligibility and local return details |
| COL-I2: preparation | Support Equipment's small first-visit packages and D023 revisit cap; define failure-tolerant visit/recording triggers above | [Build Paths a9a288](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment/Build%20Paths?revision=a9a288), [Inventory 73eb77](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Inventory%20And%20Charge?revision=73eb77): Equipment reconcile item legality/effects; Lead integrate source transfer. Footprint examples do not settle effects |
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| COL-I3: observation | Comparison records accessible observations, not purchased essential evidence; historical forecasts visibly stale | [World 9aab5e](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=9aab5e): World confirm cue/evidence contract. Its redundant-clue treatment supports this limit, not acceptance of all receiver details |
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| COL-I3–I4: persistent world/refuge | Retain manual refuge access; reject salvage reserve after Stop. Persist only explicit local commitments | [World 9aab5e](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=9aab5e), [Head-Works 999d84](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Districts/The%20Head-Works?revision=999d84): World/Campaign resolve immediate shutdown versus reserve; Lead reconcile general power/persistence; Colony's proposed scene contract is in §4 |
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| COL-I3: observation | Comparison records accessible observations, not purchased essential evidence; historical forecasts visibly stale | [World r22 da3639](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=da3639) supplies redundant essential evidence and the empty-flash boundary; exact comparative-reader presentation remains a Colony proposal |
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| COL-I3–I4: persistent world/refuge | Mirror ordinary switched-state persistence and the announced Stop cascade; retain manual refuge access and no salvage reserve | [Shared rules 29f5b0](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction?revision=29f5b0) resolves the rule: the refuge dies with the Pumping District late, dry/manual access survives, and the reserve is declined. Campaign still owns each district's physical unpowered return |
| COL-I6: refuge obligation | D022 selects no forced refuge defence; r1's objection no longer blocks Colony drafting | [Brief 70b6b1](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=70b6b1): Lead remove contradictory compulsory-defence summaries during integration |
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| COL-I5: economy and acceptance | Keep one-time prices provisional; do not make investigation pay for failure or artificially extend play | [PMR004 ed0def](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR004?revision=ed0def): Lead reconcile income/cost opportunity; PM review this revision and own acceptance |
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| COL-I5: economy and acceptance | Keep one-time prices provisional; do not make investigation pay for failure or artificially extend play | [PMR006 a28870](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR006?revision=a28870) accepts the structure, not the four-bundle prices. Lead/PM retain economy integration and acceptance |
This is a focused response and recorded handoff, not a claim those authors have read or agreed. No new owner approval is needed to continue written reconciliation. Development and any asset expenditure remain behind the owner's explicit approval gates.
## 8. Source revisions used
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Processed on 2026-09-06 UTC, against first submission [a1046d](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=a1046d) and task evidence [83a002](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks?revision=83a002). The r1 ledger remains available in history. This response processes the PMR004 Colony feedback and later Equipment/World/Campaign interfaces; it does not infer whole-campaign acceptance from labels or timestamps.
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Processed on 2026-09-06 UTC against r2 [12694e](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=12694e) and its task submission [3fb54e](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks?revision=3fb54e). PMR006 accepts that structural contribution and requests only the Stop/persistence correction made here. The exact new sources are PMR006 [a28870](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews/PMR006?revision=a28870), PM Reviews [da9eb5](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews?revision=da9eb5), Tasks [48ddc7](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks?revision=48ddc7), Brief [77e392](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief?revision=77e392), shared contract r4 [29f5b0](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction?revision=29f5b0), Campaign r3 [6e4b59](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign?revision=6e4b59), Districts r5 [136fa9](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Districts?revision=136fa9), World r22 [da3639](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery?revision=da3639), Head-Works r4 [706ce6](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Districts/The%20Head-Works?revision=706ce6), Equipment r2 [ae4543](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment?revision=ae4543), Build Paths r2 [dd5d5d](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment/Build%20Paths?revision=dd5d5d), Inventory r2 [9b0547](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Inventory%20And%20Charge?revision=9b0547), and Design Review r5 [4508fd](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review?revision=4508fd). The review closes no unrelated Combat/asset issue, and the 35-expedition/8.4-hour Campaign r5 figure is a changed, unmeasured drafting hypothesis rather than an owner-approved duration.
| [Hold The Flood/Colony](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony) | [a1046d](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=a1046d) | Own r1 baseline, full source and author-preservation proof |
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**Deliberately superseded:** r1's conditional six-cell examples, discussion of purchasing a third rack row and still-pending first staffing acknowledgment. D023 and PM's substantive submission review replace those assumptions. The one-time costs remain hypotheses; the old recurring dock-switch payment survives only in the preserved PM seed. The full r1 and its rationale remain at the linked revision, not as a second live Colony rule set.
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**Deliberately superseded:** r1's conditional six-cell examples, discussion of purchasing a third rack row and still-pending first staffing acknowledgment; r2's immediate refuge shutdown; and the historical PM seed's blanket statement that panel/field state resets. D023, PMR006 and shared contract r4 replace those assumptions. The one-time costs remain hypotheses; the old recurring dock-switch payment survives only in the preserved PM seed. The full r1/r2 rationale remains at the linked revisions, not as a second live Colony rule set. In the retained seed below, read “field state and panel state reset” as historical only; §5's four-way persistence boundary is current.
## PM seed — retained source material from before COL101
