2026-09-09 11:32:58
Anonymous:
Clarify exact collar sample continuity under PM532
hold the flood/home and colony loop.md ..
@@ 51,7 51,7 @@
| # | Person and want | Input, fixture and actual operation | Visible result and changed next action | Reclaim, postpone, revisit; bounded knowledge |
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| **1 — Collar receiver (reused)** | **Dorn**, a replaceable station-maintenance worker, wants to know whether the section he sealed behaved as expected. | Loan the Fork Relay to the commissioned, addressed receiver while its bus is powered. Start one ship-supplied poll while world time runs; poll neutrality and a cleared display latch are separate branch readiness checks. | With both branches ready, the display shows one value drift and return. A poll-only acceptance places a sample in an unlatched buffer but shows only **incomplete**: the value is unreadable and uncapturable until a later cleared-display attempt, and clearing discards it. Attempts never combine samples. | Once a complete observation is made, reclaiming Fork stops monitoring but does not erase the witnessed value or Dorn’s attributed statement. Postponing yields neither. A later poll is a new dated reading, not proof that the section held, a route, direction, cause or safety verdict. |
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| **1 — Collar receiver (reused)** | **Dorn**, a replaceable station-maintenance worker, wants to know whether the section he sealed behaved as expected. | Loan the Fork Relay to the commissioned, addressed receiver while its bus is powered. Start one ship-supplied poll while world time runs; poll neutrality and a cleared display latch are separate branch readiness checks. | With both branches ready, the display shows one value drift and return. Dorn states what he expected and that a failing sensor could look identical. The player can choose the known panel as a next objective: inspect it, trace which volume its line currently samples and check the sensor. A poll-only acceptance places a sample in an unlatched buffer but shows only **incomplete**: that sample is never readable or capturable. Clearing discards it; a later complete poll produces a wholly new sample. Attempts never combine samples. | Once a complete observation is made, reclaiming Fork stops monitoring but does not erase the witnessed value or Dorn’s attributed statement. Postponing yields neither. A later poll is a new dated reading, not proof that the section held, a route, direction, cause or safety verdict. |
| **2 — Packing bench (reused)** | **Yeva**, a replaceable pressure technician, wants the compressor routing she installed—and Dorn serviced—to make an expedition materially different. | Secure and clamp one eligible vessel, seat Fork, and deliberately run a witnessed cycle using fixed ship power and unlimited ship oxygen. The valve accepts below 12 O; the compressor accepts only when the vessel begins that wave at 8–11 O. | Starting at 0–7 O, valve alone fills incrementally to at most ordinary-full **8 O**. A later wave beginning at 8–11 O lets both branches accept and fills exactly to **12 O prepared-full**, still at proposed 2 C. Fork supplies no gas or power. | Reclaiming Fork ends further preparation; already prepared gas remains in completed canisters. Postponement leaves ordinary refill available. Returning later resumes from the vessel's last exact committed amount, without decay. The result says what the bench did, not how much oxygen an unknown route will require. |
| **3 — Ledger comparison table (new)** | **Aster**, or a replaceable supply clerk, wants to test whether a dated movement in her ledger corresponds to something the astronaut actually recorded rather than treating her memory as a map. | The player chooses two already committed records tied to known room instances or generations and one dated ledger entry. At a fixed illuminated table, player and clerk align only visible anchors; recording the resulting overlay is a separate world-time capture. No portable part is required. | A physical overlay exposes one bounded match or contradiction—for example, the same cabinet mark but a different threshold face. The player chooses whether to revisit that known room, compare a named fixture, or ignore the lead in favor of another expedition. | The table can be left at any stage and nothing is lost. Completed overlays remain aboard; they are not automatic journal annotations. Aster’s conclusion stays attributed and historical. It cannot reveal a present neighbour, current contents, walkable route, translation or which witness is right. |
| **4 — Material response tray (new)** | **Mara Venn**, a replaceable sterile-processing/reclamation worker, wants to stop calling visibly different station scrap “the same rubbish.” | The player may loan an owned **Salvage Cycler** to a fixed catch cradle and select one unprotected salvage sample. A ship fixture supplies the deliberate activation trigger and catches the output while the player watches. Once activation commits, the selected sample is consumed under the Cycler’s existing rule. | The catch box visibly contains the sample’s inspected conductive, pressure or brittle response, and a world-time capture can preserve that result. The player may pack a matching expendable sample and Cycler for a chosen cargo-spending rig, or keep the carrying space/value and use a non-consumption build. | Reclaiming Cycler ends testing and returns the same part; the recorded response remains, but no ammunition, recipe or new part remains in the tray. Postponement consumes nothing. Revisiting with another sample is a new voluntary spend. Mara can compare observations, but equipment discovery, use and the same source-fixture evidence remain available without her. |
