2026-09-08 12:59:46
Anonymous:
Clarify fixed player return and the scope of cast eligibility
hold the flood/mystery consequences.md ..
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The apparent resolution is repair plus informed escape clearance: a real way out while still docked, so revival continues into the deeper path. Final departure ends service and completes the story. Continue/load returns before that choice with achievements and world changes intact. A mortal post-credits phase is a separate owner exception, not part of any mystery by default.
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Each baseline covers the astronaut only. Exclusion says nothing about another person’s loss or immunity; local rescue, abort and Sent rules remain. Eligibility needs a decision only when a scene offers a named, consenting person registration, admission or assignment.
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Among the astronaut and rescued cast, only the astronaut's eligibility is confirmed in these comparisons. Other registered complements and clinic patients already exist within the proposed fiction. Exclusion says nothing about another person’s loss or immunity; local rescue, abort and Sent rules remain. Eligibility needs a decision only when a scene offers a named, consenting person registration, admission or assignment.
## 1. The Registry — connected alien institution
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Sent survivors are not in the docking-time complement. A concrete later offer to register one would require owner choice because it changes who can return; absent that scene, no global loss rule is reopened.
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**Decisive clue.** *Observation:* before one old registration is cancelled, an addressed creature killed in ordinary combat triggers a recovery transaction; after cancellation it does not, while a still-active control registration does. *Testimony:* Dorn saw the same service move salvage but not its destination. *Inference:* active registration causally gates person recovery. The rival is a historical register merely observing another cause; the differing post-cancellation result weakens it. Tagged material traced from service transfer into berth treatment can support the transport path, not exclusive causation or metaphysical identity.
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**Decisive clue.** *Observation:* before one old registration is cancelled, an addressed creature killed in ordinary combat triggers a recovery transaction; after cancellation it does not, while a still-active control registration does. *Testimony:* Dorn saw service carriages cross one junction, but did not see their contents or destination. *Inference:* active registration causally gates person recovery. The rival is a historical register merely observing another cause; the differing post-cancellation result weakens it. Tagged material traced from service transfer into berth treatment can support the transport path, not exclusive causation or metaphysical identity.
## 2. The Appropriated Unit — human project, alien mechanism
