2026-09-10 12:41:40
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Outcome 52 response: restore base Arc chaining and shared stage boundary
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| **Fork Relay** | One packet input, visibly ordered outputs 1/2. It copies trigger, payload **type** and wave identity. A bare trigger reaches every accepting branch. Usable whole U divides evenly between two pre-allocation candidates, output 1 taking an odd remainder; a sole candidate gets the full payload. | One service-board pulse visibly reaches two lamps, with invalid sockets refusing before commitment. | **1/1.** Link/type/readiness/storage/target-blocked branches are excluded before allocation. A post-allocation sub-threshold share refuses and dissipates rather than being copied, buffered or reassigned. Packed Fork gives no benefit. | Sensor → Fork → Projector + Barrier uses a bare trigger; charged release → Fork → Barrier + Arc divides usable charge between both candidate receivers. | Loose in Cargo Turn's maintenance cradle; may serve infrastructure or rig. |
| **Capacitor** | Charged-packet input, exact **0–4 U** stored state, chosen release trigger and one charged output. Ordinary manual release is exactly **2 U**; release caused by a rig packet retains that packet's wave. Becoming ready/full emits nothing. Temporary Thunderhead is the explicit full-store **4 U** exception and supplies its own two gated modes. | Rising meter, visible saturation and a controlled discharge into a dead load; when Thunderhead is active, the currently selected charging or discharge mode is also visible. | **1/1.** Accepts at least 1 U up to free space and visibly vents delivered overflow; at 4 U it is blocked before Fork allocation. An ordinary release below 2 U or toward a refusing first receiver does not commit and retains charge. A refused Thunderhead command retains 4 U and charging mode. | Dynamo → Capacitor for horde-fed storage; manual release → Lens → Projector for a burst. | Defibrillator bank, door buffer or damaged core whose stored state stays visible. |
| **Thermal Lens** | One charged-packet input and one packet output. Converts charge payload to heat while preserving the trigger and wave; it does not add a trigger. | A heat exchanger accepts a charge pulse and warms one marked output surface. | **1/1.** Spends the packet's charge identity to make heat; heat is not impact and poor targets may resist or avoid it. | Capacitor → Lens → Projector for a stored heat shot; conductive Cycler response → Lens → Projector for cargo-fed heat. | Sterilization exchanger with inspectable input/output behavior. |
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| **Arc Emitter** | One charged-trigger input; when ready, arcs from the selected initial target across nearby valid targets only when an attached named effect supplies that allowance. Arcs are physical effects, not new signal outputs. | A quarantine tool jumps between closely spaced conductive test points. | **2/2.** Expensive area/carrying footprint; weak with sparse or separated targets. Its ordinary physical arc cannot feed Dynamo, signal receivers or itself. | Dynamo charge → Arc for impact-fed clearing; Cycler conductive response → Fork → Arc + Capacitor. | Quarantine grid or visibly arcing repair tool. |
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| **Arc Emitter** | One charged-trigger input; when ready, its base physical action arcs from the selected initial target across nearby valid targets. Arcs are physical effects, not new signal outputs. | A quarantine tool jumps between closely spaced conductive test points. | **2/2.** Expensive area/carrying footprint; weak with sparse or separated targets. Its ordinary physical arc cannot feed Dynamo, signal receivers or itself. Echoing Arc may add two finite extensions to the base action; it creates no absolute total-target cap, signal or charge. | Dynamo charge → Arc for impact-fed clearing; Cycler conductive response → Fork → Arc + Capacitor. | Quarantine grid or visibly arcing repair tool. |
| **Salvage Cycler** | Material bay, proposed activation-trigger input and one response-packet output. On valid activation it consumes the selected salvage and emits its inspected response: proposed normalized conductive **2 U charge**, pressure **2 U force**, or brittle fragments with amount still open. | Different scrap samples produce visibly different one-shot responses in a waste processor. | **2/2.** Permanently spends chosen salvage that could return home or serve projects; protected objectives refuse selection. A later receiver refusal never refunds committed material. Exact activation port is a catalogue proposal extending the source behavior. | Manual Trigger → Cycler → Projector for a chosen cargo shot; conductive Cycler → Fork → Arc + Capacitor. | Human waste processor or alien sorting machine; observation does not grant a recipe. |
| **Stride Switch** | Source; one trigger output after the astronaut deliberately traverses a shown distance while grounded and the switch is ready. Rig-produced shove, knockback and conveyor motion do not count. | A rehab gait plate pulses after measured voluntary steps but ignores a rolling bed. | **1/1.** Silent while stationary, displaced or below threshold; its own descendants cannot walk it into retriggering. | Stride → Projector for kiting fire; Stride packet triggers a configured Capacitor release into Barrier while relocating. | Physical-therapy gait monitor or maintenance pace counter. |
| **Vector Nozzle** | One packet input; when ready, vents along the player-set facing. It pushes eligible external bodies/objects away and gives the astronaut opposite recoil; a force payload increases both qualitatively. Collision impacts keep the incoming wave. | A decontamination air knife pushes loose covers while its frame kicks against its mount. | **2/2.** Needs facing and clearance; cannot move station regions, sealed machinery or designated immovable threats. Recoil and pushed motion cannot trigger Stride. | Face toward danger, Manual Trigger → Nozzle to separate astronaut and threat; Cycler pressure → Nozzle for cargo-fed lane control. | Decontamination curtain or gurney-positioning jet with a visible flow arrow. |
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## Uncertainty, self-check and scope
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The provisional stage-only reward model offers temporary effects after resolving one finite announced pressure release from an identified physical source; a stage is uncommitted, unresolved or spent for the current station arrangement. Early clear or physical seal may resolve it, escape does not, and a spent stage does not pay again after a living return. The owner is still choosing this rhythm versus regular defeated-enemy growth plus larger milestone transformations. No meter, threshold, pickup cadence or interruption cost for that alternative is invented here.
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The provisional stage-only reward model offers temporary effects after resolving one finite announced pressure release from an identified physical source; a stage is uncommitted, unresolved or spent for the current station arrangement. A physical closure completed before commitment prevents the release and gives no offer; lasting safety/access is the benefit. After commitment, early clear or a physical source seal resolves the stage even before its peak, while bodies already beyond the closure remain dangerous. Escape does not resolve it, and a spent stage does not pay again after a living return or reopening. The owner is still choosing this rhythm versus regular defeated-enemy growth plus larger milestone transformations. No meter, threshold, pickup cadence or interruption cost for that alternative is invented here.
Open questions include acquisition model, later active area, part shapes, port multiplicity, target override, fixture eligibility, removal consequences, discovery order, exact power/heat/echo values, retained Capacitor charge and the pending reward rhythm. The sequences above were checked against their stated C/A totals, packet ancestry, readiness, manual/automatic source, carried-versus-installed cost, fixed Fork order and storage commitment. Exactly twelve physical parts and their existing sources, roles and property consequences remain. Multiple ordinary outputs are legal within physical limits; named temporary effects are explicit finite exceptions, not new permanent parts or a global Capacitor mode.
