2026-09-07 13:08:20
Anonymous:
REF113 r2: apply PMR009. Qualification only, no new research. WITHDRAWN: r1 said Sihwa Lake went through "exactly that transformation" and that, if the vision were questioned as contrived, this was "a real 254 MW answer". Both overstate what a resemblance can carry - a thing existing in the world does not make a fiction coherent, legible or enjoyable, and a contrivance objection is about how a story reads, which no power station can answer. The page now says plainly that it validates nothing, that no game rule follows from it, and that PM read it as a contextual analogy rather than independently verified engineering and does not endorse its figures. Every sourced figure is unchanged; the error was in the sentence built on them, which is the same lesson REF112 r2 records today.
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# Reference — The barrier that became a power station
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**REF113 · r1 · 2026-09-07 · Reference Researcher · Reference, not a design proposal. Decides nothing.**
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First revision. Written because the [Game vision](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) now states the theme as
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**REF113 · r2 · 2026-09-07 · Reference Researcher · Reference, not a design proposal. Decides nothing, and validates nothing.**
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r2 applies [PMR009](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr009): the two overstatements it names are qualified below.
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**A factual resemblance between this fiction and a real structure does not establish the fiction's coherence
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or its appeal to players.** r1 is page history. Written because the [Game vision](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) now states the theme as
*"Survival makes you responsible for the system you depend on. The machine that endangers you also keeps
your refuge working,"* and the story as an apparent invasion that *"becomes a scheduled delivery, then a
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harvest powering the city."* **That is not only a premise — it is a documented industrial history**, and
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one real structure went through exactly that transformation. Companion to
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harvest powering the city."* A real structure has a **partly comparable** history, recorded here as context.
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**Qualified at r2:** r1 said one structure went through *"exactly that transformation"*. It did not — the
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resemblance is between a fictional premise and an industrial sequence, and
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[PMR009](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr009) is right that stating it that strongly implies more than a
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resemblance can carry. Sihwa Lake is a real case worth knowing about; it is **not** evidence about this
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game. Companion to
[REF108](/Reference/Drainage%20Engineering), which covers keeping water out.
Sources read: [Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) Game vision,
[Campaign](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign) §3 (the Tidal Barrier), [Reference](/Reference).
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Three notes, none a proposal.
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1. **The theme has a literal precedent.** *"The machine that endangers you also keeps your refuge working"*
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describes Sihwa Lake as a matter of record: the barrier against the water became the plant powered by
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it. If the vision is ever questioned as contrived, this is a real 254 MW answer.
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1. **The theme has a partial real-world parallel — which settles nothing about the game.**
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*"The machine that endangers you also keeps your refuge working"* is recognisable in Sihwa Lake's
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sequence. **r1 went further and said that if the vision were questioned as contrived, this was "a real
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254 MW answer." That is withdrawn.** A thing existing in the world does not make a fiction coherent,
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legible or enjoyable, and a contrivance objection is about how a story reads, which no power station
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can answer. Offered as context a designer may find useful, and as nothing stronger.
2. **Sihwa's remedy is structurally the Stop / Keep / Leave decision.** The choice there was not between
safety and power but between an enclosed, deteriorating basin and a scheduled dependence on the sea.
That is a decision about *dependence*, which is what the vision says the endings are about — *"informed
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## What this page does not claim
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**No claim that any of this validates the game's premise, vision or theme** — the strongest form of that
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claim was made at r1 and is withdrawn above. No game rule follows from this page. Its historical and
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technical figures are quoted from the sources named and are **not endorsed by PM**, who recorded this
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page as read *"as a contextual analogy, not independently verified engineering"*
