2026-09-10 12:47:09
Anonymous:
Align preventive closure, current return routes and transfer-gallery encounter
hold the flood/mechanical interfaces and opening quantities.md ..
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Pending the owner's growth-rhythm choice, this reference models stage-only upgrades. Regular defeated-enemy growth plus larger milestone transformations is the alternative; its meter, thresholds, pickup behaviour and interruption cost are not defined here.
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An eligible stage is one finite, announced pressure release from an identified physical source. It moves from **uncommitted** to **unresolved** when that release's attackers/arrivals commit. It moves to **spent** and offers one temporary choice when the player clears all attackers committed to that release or completes a physical seal that ends their access. Clearing the current lane while further committed attackers still feed is suppression, not resolution. If the finite release is cleared or its access is sealed before the announced peak, it pays immediately; no struggle threshold is required. Break and seal present the same choice even though their combat, oxygen and access costs may differ.
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An eligible stage is one finite, announced pressure release from an identified physical source. It moves from **uncommitted** to **unresolved** when that release's attackers/arrivals commit. A physical closure completed before commitment prevents the release and gives no combat-upgrade offer; safety, access and mechanism-owned completed work remain its benefits. After commitment, it moves to **spent** and offers one temporary choice when the player clears all attackers committed to that release or completes a physical seal that ends their access. The seal stops further access but leaves already-arrived bodies active; quiet requires clearing or separating those bodies. Clearing the current lane while further committed attackers still feed is suppression, not resolution. If the committed finite release is cleared or its access is sealed before the announced peak, it pays immediately; no struggle threshold is required. Preventing commitment accepts less temporary growth in exchange for safety and access. Break and seal present the same choice even though their combat, oxygen and access costs may differ.
Escape leaves the stage unresolved and re-entry resumes it. A spent stage stays spent for the current station arrangement across a living return; reopening the same seal cannot pay again, and physical seal persistence follows its mechanism. A later release is a new eligible stage only when separately authored, announced and sourced. Death itself pays nothing. Every chosen temporary upgrade and any earned-but-unchosen offer expires on return aboard. Carried property, recorded knowledge and the unresolved stored-Capacitor persistence question remain separate.
