2026-09-08 12:59:46
Anonymous:
Clarify fixed player return and the scope of cast eligibility
hold the flood/mystery directions.md ..
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**The truth.** The older structure registers and services visiting vessels. Registration records who belongs to a vessel; while registration remains active, the authority maintains its complement by physically recovering an injured or dead crew member and repairing them at the berth. Nothing is copied and no snapshot is stored, so the astronaut who returns remembers everything up to the moment they died. The human station is an unlicensed salvage yard cut into the port, selling berth services it never owned.
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The **pack is excluded** because registration covers persons, not cargo — the authority has no standing to move anyone's property. Return lands aboard **this ship** because registration bound the astronaut to this vessel at its berth, and ordinary docking fixes that address until an authorised departure or a separately authorised transfer. Departure clearance permits leaving but does not cancel registration while the ship remains docked.
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The **pack is excluded** because registration covers persons, not cargo — the authority has no standing to move anyone's property. Return lands aboard **this ship** because registration bound the astronaut to this vessel at its berth, and the astronaut always returns to this ship until final departure ends their service. A separately authorised destination transfer is an option for other stranded complements, not a relocation of the player's revival point. Departure clearance permits leaving but does not cancel registration while the ship remains docked.
The **creatures** are stranded complements subject to an old quarantine warrant. Their vessels vanished or left without properly closing registration. Recovery continues, but a containment device fitted to quarantined crew overrides voluntary movement and directs attacks against people outside that quarantined complement. Repair restores the device along with the body. Some affected crew were human; others were alien, accounting for different forms. Missing ships explain why they remain; the warrant and device explain hostility. Other stranded complements have no warrant and remain coherent. This is a proposed completion of the story, not death-count degeneration or a hidden future transformation of the astronaut. The astronaut's valid registration has no quarantine warrant. The **warning** is the yard crew's, once they understood.
