2026-09-08 13:20:01
Anonymous:
Apply owner authority to shared oxygen carrying
hold the flood/exploration structure.md ..
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Barriers and reach are not alternatives. A sealed door is shut, and opening it changes access; restoring a hoist changes access *and* travel cost at once. The emphasis is that barriers are station state the player can act on with what they understand, rather than locks waiting on a key found elsewhere. Nor is the reachable set a ring drawn around the ship: oxygen limits time and capability, so reach is shaped by route, hazard and load, and can run deep along a cheap path and shallow across a costly one.
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Reach also depends on spare canisters competing with equipment and salvage for capacity — a rule proposed in [Oxygen and Observation](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Oxygen%20and%20Observation) and [Build Comparison](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Comparison), not owner canon. This structure does not depend on it holding.
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Reach also depends on spare canisters competing with equipment and salvage for capacity — an owner decision recorded in the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief). The detailed capacity model and this proposed station structure remain separate design questions.
This has a consequence worth stating plainly: explored space becomes the corridor to unexplored space. The player will cross early areas many times, so those areas must not be inert.
