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PM563 final coherence38: align accepted contracts and date completed preparation
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The player traverses the proposed route and stocks its designated abort refuge with a separate reserve canister. Breadcrumbs record visited passages, not current safety, continued access or exact oxygen cost.
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- **Direct route:** an installed relay-family part powers the hoist while its feed holds. The part frees carried capacity but is unavailable to the rig. Retrieval stops the powered access without reversing every opened-section consequence. The shorter crossing overrides Dorn's wish. The companion article proposes a population/hazard connection with unknown contents and severity; this is not guaranteed punishment or an implied trust deduction.
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- **Long route:** keep the relay and preserve his boundary. The suit's baseline cutter releases visible jammed door bolts; each manual door cycle takes world time. The vacuum route costs distance, oxygen, preparation trips and exposure. No repressurisation capability is assumed.
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- **Direct route:** Fork installed in the compatible control seat carries the trigger; the fixed hoist supplies its own power and motion. The installed part frees carried capacity but is unavailable to the rig. Retrieval removes its control function without reversing the opened boundary or completed work. The shorter crossing overrides Dorn's wish. The companion article proposes a population/hazard connection with unknown contents and severity; this is not guaranteed punishment or an implied trust deduction.
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- **Short side route:** keep Fork and preserve his boundary. The baseline cutter releases visible jammed door bolts; each manual door cycle takes world time. Exposed preparation and air remain costs, but this alternative must fit the same short one-junction crossing and counted abort vestibule. No repressurisation capability or longer refuge-chain substitute is assumed.
Travel air and staged reserves compete with equipment and salvage while carried. Committed supplies are not simultaneously available in the astronaut's pack. A consumed reserve pays for a waiting state; it is not recoverable player oxygen. Under the owner’s death rule, only property still carried returns aboard; staged canisters and installed parts remain where committed.
## A finite route with an abort destination
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This example has a finite authored sequence of refuges ending at a vestibule beside the ship airlock. Before any departure, the next segment has an explicit stocked abort destination.
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Cast And Short Rescue Map's D1 is the current correction of this older local example: one personally walked junction crossing, using either the verified side route or the direct route after it is opened and verified. Both converge on the same present counted abort vestibule. The earlier sequence of refuge stops is not an offered rescue route. If neither route and its abort destination meet the short current geometry, departure waits.
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For an intermediate segment, it is a pressure vestibule immediately shipward of the exposed junction. During an interruption Dorn crosses into it using his travel canister's emergency margin and closes its stationward door from inside. He does not seal it on the wrong side and then need to pass through that seal. Its staged reserve supports the same bounded waiting convention, without a player refill or hidden countdown.
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On the final approach, the last vestibule is the abort destination. Unlike the original damaged room, it can reseal. Interruption returns Dorn there unsent; a new reserve must be staged before each attempt. No refuge beyond the ship or automatic successful delivery is required. This authored abort behaviour is a local rule whose clarity and credibility remain to be tested in a later authorised phase.
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On an ordinary living abort, Dorn reaches that prepared vestibule using his travel canister's reserved margin and closes its stationward door from inside; he does not seal himself outside the refuge. Its staged reserve supports the existing bounded waiting convention, with no player refill or hidden countdown. A renewed attempt needs fresh travel air, the current short route rechecked and that same destination restocked. No refuge beyond the ship, fixed shipward access after a shift, or automatic delivery is guaranteed. Death during transfer follows the separately conditional safeguard below, not an extension of ordinary abort.
## Transfer states
| State | What establishes it | Next action |
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| Waiting | Dorn is in his current supported refuge | Postpone, explore, prepare or revise the route |
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| Prepared | Travel air connected and confirmed **by Dorn**; next segment traversed this life; designated abort refuge stocked; route equipment ready; the current encounter quiet; and a retreat line armed that he can operate without the astronaut. The handed-over canister must read at or above the route's authored **full-attempt return mark** — the outward attempt plus the longest return from any committed segment, including cycling back out of an unclosed ship airlock — confirmed on the local preparation gauge | Request movement; Dorn confirms readiness and his preference. An under-supplied request refuses before the refuge door opens |
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| Prepared | Travel air connected and confirmed **by Dorn**; chosen short route traversed this life; designated abort refuge stocked; route equipment ready; the current encounter quiet; and a retreat line armed that he can operate without the astronaut. The handed-over canister must read at or above the route's authored **full-attempt return mark** — the outward attempt plus the longest return from any committed segment, including cycling back out of an unclosed ship airlock — confirmed on the local preparation gauge | Request movement; Dorn confirms readiness and his preference. An under-supplied request refuses before the refuge door opens |
| In transfer | Dorn accepts and leaves | Hold the ordinary horde, operate controls, signal movement or call abort; only the original damaged room is permanently lost on opening. **Under the pending candidate**, if the astronaut dies here the armed line runs inside a bounded window in which creatures and hazards are frozen and cannot act on, block or damage him, and he reaches the named abort refuge before the shift |
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| At abort refuge | An interrupted transfer reaches its designated destination | Defer under the bounded waiting rule, or bring fresh travel air, recheck the segment and stock the next abort destination |
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| At abort refuge | An interrupted transfer reaches its designated destination | Defer under the bounded waiting rule, or bring fresh travel air, recheck the current short route and restock the same abort destination |
| Sent / colony | Dorn is inside the ship and the airlock closes | His authored interpretation and proposed canister-packing contribution become available aboard |
The short defence uses ordinary hordes. Clearing the route first can reduce pressure but does not promise an empty crossing. The astronaut chooses route, timing, diversion and abort; Dorn crosses under his own power, operates controls and can call an abort. Both staged movement and continuous escort require survivor behaviour; neither has been demonstrated here.
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| Outcome | Persistent result | Player's next choice |
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| Postpone or abort before departure | Dorn stays in the current refuge; its waiting support remains. Uncommitted equipment and installations follow their existing rules | Continue another objective, revise preparation, or retrieve available equipment |
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| Intermediate interruption | Original room remains vented if already opened; Dorn reaches the prepared shipward refuge. Travel emergency margin and its waiting reserve are committed/spent | Prepare the next segment with fresh travel air and its designated reserve; recover installed or staged equipment; or defer |
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| Final-approach interruption | Dorn returns to the resealable last vestibule, unsent; the staged reserve supports waiting | Restock that same vestibule and supply fresh travel air before retrying the ship approach |
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| Ordinary interruption during the short crossing | Original room remains vented if already opened; Dorn returns to the one present prepared abort vestibule, unsent. Actual travel air and waiting reserve commitments stay spent | Recheck the current short route, supply fresh travel air and restock the same destination; recover available committed equipment or defer |
| Astronaut dies before a departure | Everything still carried returns aboard with the astronaut. Dorn remains in his current waiting refuge, not necessarily the original room | Resume rescue, recover committed equipment, or pursue another objective after revival |
| Astronaut dies during transfer | Everything still carried returns aboard. **This row was a local intention for this scene, never a universal rule.** Under the pending candidate the world outcome is that Dorn reaches the named abort refuge alive and unsent — and the astronaut does **not** learn it: the abort door leaves a closure tell on the local refuge control only, nothing is transmitted aboard, so his present state is unconfirmed knowledge until the player reaches that refuge again and observes it | Resume with fresh supplies and a fresh current-route check; the shift has made the old route historical |
| Astronaut dies after Sent | Dorn remains aboard; everything still carried returns with the astronaut | Continue with Dorn still part of the colony |
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## Alternative and accepted costs
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Continuous physical escort makes sustained protection visible and permits preferences, cooperation and the same canister economy. Its broader traversal and detour reliability are costs; the staged proposal trades those for authored refuges and controlled transitions. Either can feel compelling or tedious. Reopen this local preference if the crossings feel automatic, Dorn's actions are unclear, or the short defence cannot carry the intended human stake. No written comparison proves balance, emotional impact, feasibility or campaign duration.
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The earlier continuous-escort comparison explains the original tradeoff, but a long escort or repeated refuge chain is outside the owner's constraint. The current short-route comparison retains preferences, cooperation and the canister commitments at one junction. Reopen its local design if the crossing feels automatic, Dorn's actions are unclear, or the short defence cannot carry the intended human stake. No written comparison proves balance, emotional impact, feasibility or campaign duration.
