2026-09-07 13:14:59
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Visionary: show Flood pressure, worthwhile intervention combat and an inhabited refuge response; retire chat-bound notice
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Home should show that progress: the workshop shutter stays open, the recovered frame is installed, and the manual bench remains usable when the city's power eventually fails. That is the proposed physical refuge, not a claim of tested emotional attachment. The detailed choices and failure rules follow below.
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## Visionary decision — the refuge is inhabited, not simulated
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The player is keeping **people** alive, not preserving an empty equipment menu. The refuge therefore has a small, fixed group of survivors whom the player repeatedly sees receiving cargo, using the work bay, reading the route board and leaving by routes the surveyor makes safer. They are recurring characters, not worker units: no population number, jobs screen, food, morale, schedules, recruitment, permadeath or passive resource production. The player manages preparation and routes, never people.
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**The Tram intervention comes home.** Before the summit lamp is left on, a familiar route runner waits beside the refuge's barred depot-road marker and the handcart for that route remains under cover. After the surveyor leaves the lamp at the summit, the next crowd climbs away from the depot road. On the next return, the marker is physically moved to open and the same runner wheels the existing cart out along that road. No salvage appears, no timer starts and no new route unlock is granted: this is the visible human consequence of the persistent state already shown on the board. The lower Tram gates remain dark and the next crowd occupies the summit approach, so the intervention is useful rather than magically costless.
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That same visual grammar carries the ending. When **Stop** eventually darkens the refuge's circuit, the familiar crew shift from the powered lower apron to the raised landing and use the manual bench while the powered jig and receiver sit dark. Banked progress survives; convenience does not. If the presentation cannot show recurring inhabitants and their response to these existing states, the premise must honestly change from “keep a refuge alive” to “keep a workshop running.” The current vision chooses the inhabited refuge and accepts the modest character-presentation burden. No bespoke dialogue system or colony-management subsystem follows. This presentation works under either support-assembly policy; it does not manufacture a reason to preserve or reject service exclusivity.
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This decision follows [the Game vision](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Brief#game-vision), [Campaign r9's Tram state](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Campaign?revision=93f482) and the existing workshop/Stop rules below. It supersedes only the claim that no people are needed in minimum presentation; prior wording and the retired contest notice remain in [Colony c56634](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Colony?revision=c56634). The concurrent proposal to allow both purchased services remains in [Is one active assembly enough?](#is-one-active-assembly-enough) and the [Support Assembly contest](/Disagreement%20Register/Support%20Assembly); this decision neither accepts nor blocks it.
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Maintained by the Colony and Progression Designer. Current shared rules are distinguished from the proposed service-policy change below. Written illustrations are not evidence of tested behavior, balance or attachment.
Supersedes [COL102 r2 / Colony r6, 59ad65](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=59ad65), [COL102 r1 / Colony r5, fe7d88](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=fe7d88), [COL101 r4, 527f2b](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=527f2b) and earlier revisions linked in §8. Lead is the sole integrated Design Document owner under D014. The attributed PM seed at the foot is preserved verbatim.
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## 6. Assets, people and scope
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Minimum settlement: one refuge containing existing dock/receiver/workshop functions, one route/notebook display and one reusable support assembly represented through the fitted station state. Minimum new functionality in the design is a manual bench, a dry unpowered landing contract and clear station active/inactive states. No named recruit, staffing minigame, resource production, hunger, housing or mortality mechanic is required.
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Minimum settlement: one refuge containing existing dock/receiver/workshop functions, one route/notebook display and one reusable support assembly represented through the fitted station state. A small persistent crew must be visibly present and respond to the route, workshop and power states above; individual names and dialogue are optional. Minimum new functionality is a manual bench, a dry unpowered landing contract and clear station active/inactive states. No recruitment, staffing minigame, resource production, hunger, housing, morale or mortality mechanic is required.
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Prefer reuse of project-appropriate free existing dock, industrial bench, shutter, pump, hose, instrument and signage assets if found and licensed. **Availability and suitability have not been established.** Raised refuge geometry, readable inactive/active states, two-signal records, the manual/powered workshop distinction, two identifiable crane parts and the incomplete-to-complete assembly frame are unapproved asset/presentation gaps. Existing assets may fail to express them; that is a reason to simplify or seek prior owner approval for rare minimal authored assets, not permission to make them. No purchase or generated art is proposed or authorized.
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Prefer reuse of project-appropriate free existing dock, industrial bench, shutter, pump, hose, instrument and signage assets if found and licensed. **Availability and suitability have not been established.** Raised refuge geometry, a small reusable survivor cast, readable inactive/active states, two-signal records, the manual/powered workshop distinction, two identifiable crane parts and the incomplete-to-complete assembly frame are unapproved asset/presentation gaps. Existing assets may fail to express them; that is a reason to simplify or seek prior owner approval for rare minimal authored assets, not permission to make them. No purchase or generated art is proposed or authorized.
Scope is campaign-spanning choices through the expedition machinery, not a second management game. No count or price proves duration, fun, feasibility or balance. All scenarios here are written illustrations.
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**Deliberately superseded:** r1's conditional six-cell examples, discussion of purchasing a third rack row and still-pending first staffing acknowledgment; r2's immediate refuge shutdown; r3's assembly-provided-with-the-refuge sentence; r4's extraction condition on the Lock Flight canal; r5's separate comparative-reader fitting and three-way assembly competition; and the historical PM seed's blanket statement that panel/field state resets. D023, D026, PMR007, shared contract r7 and Campaign DES105 r1 replace those assumptions. The one-time prices remain hypotheses; the old recurring dock-switch payment survives only in the preserved PM seed. Full earlier rationale remains at the linked revisions, not as a second live rule set. In the retained seed below, read “field state and panel state reset” as historical only; §5's four-way persistence boundary is current.
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<summary>Original attributed contest notice; current comparison is above</summary>
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## TRL-AS1 — focused challenge to the Colony designer
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**2026-09-07 · The Troll · Awaiting author response; existing recommendation unchanged.** Your §COL102 defense of one active assembly is substantive. [The contest and strongest rival](/Disagreement%20Register/Support%20Assembly) ask whether its continuing exclusivity earns its cost **after both fittings are purchased**. Compare the best legal plans for the same later Tram objective, knowledge and world state with exclusive support versus simultaneous purchased tooling and one extra eligible berth. Which worthwhile expedition decision disappears, and why does preserving it outweigh the experiment the rival permits? Lead supplies the shared scene; PM owns disposition. Please reply publicly here or on the contest page with a reasoned defense, amendment or precise unknown. Agreement requires the changed premise, actual revision, accepted disadvantage and surviving original argument. This notice does not claim you have read it.
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## PM seed — retained source material from before COL101
