2026-09-09 11:03:16
Anonymous:
Global04 alignment: population variants selected only at a death shift and never on a living return, E03 qualification preserved, armed-retreat prerequisites with quiet necessary but insufficient across all five rescue extensions
hold the flood/encounter and mechanism placement inventory.md ..
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## Shared encounter contract
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Warnings remain visible independently when they overlap. A group can enter only through a shown current route after local perception, a named mechanism alarm or a completed Caller brace; it must already exist in the encounter's finite roster. A call never manufactures replacements. Defeating the listed population wins that expedition's local combat with no reactive elite or reduced reward. Later visits may have a different authored population, but cleared enemies do not stand back up during the same expedition.
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Warnings remain visible independently when they overlap. A group can enter only through a shown current route after local perception, a named mechanism alarm or a completed Caller brace; it must already exist in the encounter's finite roster. A call never manufactures replacements. Defeating the listed population wins that expedition's local combat with no reactive elite or reduced reward. Later visits may have a different authored population, but cleared enemies do not stand back up during the same expedition. **Which visit may differ is now specified:** a different finite authored population variant is selected only at a **death shift**, never on a living return and never on a load. A living return preserves this arrangement's population membership entirely — defeated creatures stay defeated, survivors keep their room/group membership, and nothing is replaced, escalated or reduced because the result was clean. That selection is also independent of the player's build, kill speed or reward, and E03's later variant remains restricted to a later death-shift exactly as stated in its own row.
An ordinary controller uses the current single-actuator rule: Threat Sensor offers one target-bearing trigger only when its one connected ordinary actuator is ready and a nearest visible valid hostile exists. Manual Trigger starts one manual wave after facing/target/material preview. Fork copies trigger/type/wave and conserves usable payload; fixed machinery supplies its own power. Stride triggers only from the astronaut's deliberate grounded traversal. No example assumes a second ordinary actuator, unseen target, universal Arc permission or stat tier.
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**Objective and approaches.** Perform the same-astronaut grounded crossing and feet-still carrier pass, then choose whether to remove Stride. If R07 is visibly adjacent, its separate coupler release may follow; otherwise the assembly waits. (1) Opening rig: Sensor→Projector handles the nearest visible target when ready; Manual→Barrier faces the locked bolt line while one capture stage completes. (2) Four-A movement rig on revisit: Stride→Projector plus Manual→Barrier. Only the astronaut's deliberate grounded pass can source the shot; belt motion, Ivo, shove and recoil cannot. (3) Baseline: bait line lock into the pillar, step through the cool detent, isolate the Presser with the cutter, and withdraw after either committed observation.
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**Rescue/state work.** If Ivo is selected and R05/R06 form a personally walked current short route to the ship, R06 must be stocked and the combat made quiet before I1. Ivo signals readiness; the astronaut triggers installed Stride or Ivo uses the fixed manual cue, then he walks. Missing R06 adjacency waits—no belt ride becomes an escort. Test captures, Carousel clamp, Stride/coupler locations and survivor confirmation persist; current aim, detent and crowd do not.
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**Rescue/state work.** If Ivo is selected and R05/R06 form a personally walked current short route to the ship, R06 must be stocked and the combat made quiet before I1. **Quiet is necessary but not sufficient** under the accepted conditional candidate: the crossing is eligible only if his travel canister also reads at or above the route's full-attempt return mark, a retreat line to R06 is armed that he can operate alone, and R06 carries a local closure tell. Death mid-crossing then leaves him at R06 alive and unsent as world truth, while the astronaut learns nothing aboard. Ivo signals readiness; the astronaut triggers installed Stride or Ivo uses the fixed manual cue, then he walks. Missing R06 adjacency waits—no belt ride becomes an escort. Test captures, Carousel clamp, Stride/coupler locations and survivor confirmation persist; current aim, detent and crowd do not.
### E03 — Latch while occupied
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**Approaches and objective.** The objective beyond killing is one short cooperative crossing. (1) Opening rig: face Manual→Barrier across the Flanker chevron while Sensor→Projector selects the nearest visible hostile; move to change that candidate. (2) If Nozzle is already owned, Manual→Nozzle can spoil the locked Flanker lane or separate Pressers, but recoil cannot trigger Stride. (3) Baseline: lengthen the side route around the bollard, leave each locked arc, use hard cover/cutter and retreat to R01. The Arc grid may be observed, left or removed; no rescue state depends on it.
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**Cast variants and state.** R13 holds Yeva-first or Aster-first, never both. The occupant operates the inner door and walks; either party can call ordinary abort to counted R12. Sent requires that same person aboard with ship airlock closed. Death during transfer records last confirmation and an unconfirmed outcome; it is not ordinary abort, delivery or loss. Quiet-window/population state is current; stocked checkpoints, wall capture, Arc location and confirmed survivor state follow their owners. If the route has two exposed junctions or no present abort refuge, the scene waits.
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**Cast variants and state.** R13 holds Yeva-first or Aster-first, never both. The occupant operates the inner door and walks; either party can call ordinary abort to counted R12. Sent requires that same person aboard with ship airlock closed. Death during transfer records last confirmation and an unconfirmed outcome **aboard**; under the armed conditional safeguard the world outcome is counted R12, alive and unsent, with a tell on R12's local control only. Quieting E04 alone does not arm it: the marked return margin, the survivor-operable retreat line and that local tell must all exist. It is not ordinary abort, delivery or loss. Quiet-window/population state is current; stocked checkpoints, wall capture, Arc location and confirmed survivor state follow their owners. If the route has two exposed junctions or no present abort refuge, the scene waits.
### E05 — Builders' runs through heat and veil
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**Objective and approaches.** Close a cap/complete the pressure cycle, capture the source counter, then choose Dynamo and regulator core against carrying space. (1) Opening rig: Sensor→Projector attacks a visible target; Manual→Barrier can catch the hose, and only a Dynamo already locally clamped to that Barrier would receive the impact—none is assumed before recovery. Use retraction plus the Bank's opposite lane for one cap. (2) Under the proposed later six-A allowance, Sensor→Projector plus Manual→Nozzle occupies five A/C; face Nozzle to push the committed Flanker into the draw lane while accepting recoil/clearance and one less unit of free carrying than a four-part rig. (3) Baseline: bait hose into pillars, leave radius, cross on the quiet beat, hand-close one cap and withdraw. Language may guide the marked bypass but cannot make it open.
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**Cast and evidence extensions.** E06's finite population may also gate access to R18/R19 through a currently shown route, but it does not become a new encounter. Dorn at R18 requires a verified current side route; direct-hoist opening commits before its newly exposed route is walked. Yeva's later R19 variant requires counted R12 as current abort and a one-junction route. Any absent geometry waits. Story card/ratchet at R18, controlled culture comparison at R19 and source cycle at R20 are separate world-time observations.
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**Cast and evidence extensions.** E06's finite population may also gate access to R18/R19 through a currently shown route, but it does not become a new encounter. Dorn at R18 requires a verified current side route; direct-hoist opening commits before its newly exposed route is walked. Under the conditional safeguard his crossing additionally needs the marked full-attempt return margin, an armed retreat he can operate to the counted abort room, and that room's local closure tell; a quiet window alone does not supply them. Yeva's later R19 variant requires counted R12 as current abort and a one-junction route. Any absent geometry waits. Story card/ratchet at R18, controlled culture comparison at R19 and source cycle at R20 are separate world-time observations.
**Persistence.** Cap, cutter, line-cycle, record-drawer, direct boundary, comparator observation, released rewards and object locations persist. Bank phase, tether, population and routes do not. A carried Dynamo/core returns once; an unremoved source does not. Death mid-rescue remains unconfirmed, distinct from an ordinary witnessed abort.
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**Objective and approaches.** Operate/capture the corrective third pair and cross-register cases; on a first source visit, decide whether to remove the one Cycler or leave it in the sorter. (1) Opening rig: break the Boltspitter line with the station, move around the veil edge so Sensor→Projector has a valid target, and face Manual→Barrier only for the locked bolt. (2) On a later return after its committed removal, the source cradle is visibly empty and that same owned Cycler may be in a four-A Manual Trigger (1)→Cycler (2)→Projector (1) rig, leaving Sensor/Barrier aboard. A protected or invalid sample refuses before activation and is not spent; once Cycler validly accepts/consumes selected salvage, a later Projector refusal for readiness/target/occlusion does not refund it. If Cycler was left at source, this branch is unavailable; another acquisition model would need an explicitly different origin and is not assumed here. (3) Baseline: walk ceramic strips, lure a strike onto the enabled Grid from cover, wait for recharge, or cut both clamps/throw the breaker before recording.
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**Aster rescue extension.** If non-first Aster waits in R22, E07 must enter a quiet window before A1. The astronaut must separately walk a current ship→one-junction→R24 abort→R22 refuge route; R24 must be stocked and Aster operates her door. Transfer machinery does not transport her. Missing geometry waits. Her later lock is reversible from the outside panel and cannot seal the whole objective.
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**Aster rescue extension.** If non-first Aster waits in R22, E07 must enter a quiet window before A1 — necessary but, under the conditional safeguard, not sufficient without the marked return margin, an armed survivor-operable retreat to counted R24 and R24's local closure tell. The astronaut must separately walk a current ship→one-junction→R24 abort→R22 refuge route; R24 must be stocked and Aster operates her door. Transfer machinery does not transport her. Missing geometry waits. Her later lock is reversible from the outside panel and cannot seal the whole objective.
**Persistence.** Pair operations/captures, Grid clamp/breaker state, Cycler location, any consumed sample and confirmed survivor state persist. Grid charge, veil, aim and population reset. An interrupted capture yields no record; an interrupted transfer operation retains only its named completed fixture stage. Old pair locations after death are historical even when their records remain valid evidence.
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**Mara rescue extension.** After a real quiet window, R26 can host M1 only if the astronaut has walked its one-junction route and stocked counted R27 as clean abort. Mara chooses/operates her inner curtain and walks; her rack purge or seal is distinct from Story30 cultures. Nozzle removal changes the air knife, not the A↔B service transformer. Missing geometry waits rather than adding refuge stages.
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**Persistence.** Completed cap/pin, rack choice, wall panel, converter mode, Nozzle/exchanger locations, and committed captures persist. Unpinned balance returns neutral and uncapped Bank phase resets on withdrawal/death. Placed loose mass stays where placed and warns/retriggers normally. Death returns carried rewards and shifts routes; it creates no rescue conclusion.
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**Persistence.** Completed cap/pin, rack choice, wall panel, converter mode, Nozzle/exchanger locations, and committed captures persist. Unpinned balance returns neutral and uncapped Bank phase resets on withdrawal/death. Placed loose mass stays where placed and warns/retriggers normally. Death returns carried rewards and shifts routes. It creates no rescue conclusion the astronaut can read: under the conditional safeguard Mara's armed retreat reaches her counted clean abort room alive and unsent, and that fact stays a local tell there rather than anything transmitted aboard.
