**Status:** Provisional design with an owner-confirmed journal-pause requirement. The Owner Brief requires limited carried oxygen, death on depletion, discovery-first play, meaningful hordes and expressive builds. It also requires the rest of the game—including enemies, oxygen and other world activity—to pause while the journal is open, even during combat. The record format, capture costs, display behavior and wider oxygen rhythm below remain proposals, not adopted canon or evidence of gameplay quality.
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**Status:** Provisional design with owner-confirmed journal pause and shared carrying direction. Spare oxygen competes with equipment and loot for carrying capacity; quantities remain open. The rest of the game—including enemies, oxygen and other world activity—pauses while the journal is open, even during combat. Record format, capture costs, display behavior and the wider rhythm remain proposals, not evidence of gameplay quality.
## Proposed exploration and recording rules
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Revisit the proposed record format or world-action boundary if planned core mysteries repeatedly need prolonged physical manipulation, or if later owner-authorized observation shows indiscriminate capture or abandoned clues. The owner-required journal pause is not reopened by those findings. No such validation exists yet.
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Important dependency: recorded locations must remain findable after a return, and the fate of stored in-game records on death must be explicit. Preserving them rewards risky discovery; losing them makes depletion threaten stored reference material as well as cargo. Neither rule can erase what the human player remembers or personally noted. This comparison does not decide map persistence or the wider death-loss system.
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Recorded locations must remain findable after return. Stored records persist through death as knowledge, while all equipment and loot still carried return aboard with the astronaut under the owner’s rule. Depletion can therefore bring a discovery and the remaining carried load home; that can be useful and receives no substitute penalty here. Oxygen already consumed remains spent, and a canister committed to a station fixture or survivor is not carried. World changes and survivor state follow their owning rules.
