2026-09-09 12:45:34
Anonymous:
PM563 final coherence38: align accepted contracts and date completed preparation
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# Hold The Horde — Save and Content State
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**Status.** First-pass design contract, not an implementation, storage schema, owner-selected save policy, or proof that every station arrangement is valid. The continuity promises below preserve current owner decisions; the save/resume package is a provisional default offered for review. The order of a death-triggered shift and an in-progress survivor transfer, survivor loss, full-station behavior, and alive-return population behavior remain unresolved.
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**Status.** First-pass design contract, not an implementation, storage schema, owner-selected save policy, or proof that every station arrangement is valid. The continuity promises below preserve current owner decisions; the save/resume package is a provisional default offered for review. The death/transfer order has the explicitly conditional proposal below; selection of its protected safeguard, wider survivor loss and full-station behavior remain open. A living return selects no replacement population, as the current expedition contract below states; exact transient hold presentation remains later detail.
## What continuity promises the player
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**Population boundary.** A death shift may select one different finite authored population for the new arrangement; a **living return** selects none — defeated creatures stay defeated for that arrangement, survivors keep their room membership, and nothing is replaced because the result was clean. Persistence must therefore attach population variant selection to the death-shift boundary, never to a living return or a load.
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Open owner/design decisions are: single-line versus reloadable saves and exact slot behavior; save availability and non-journal menu pause behavior; the protected-retreat safeguard itself and survivor loss eligibility; the final shift mechanism and whole-station completion behavior; alive-return population/transient reset rules; and the player-facing recovery policy for incompatible or damaged saves. No answer is inferred from silence.
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Open owner/design decisions are: single-line versus reloadable saves and exact slot behavior; save availability and non-journal menu pause behavior; the protected-retreat safeguard itself and survivor loss eligibility; the final shift mechanism and whole-station completion behavior; exact transient hold/reset representation within the stated no-replacement living-return rule; and the player-facing recovery policy for incompatible or damaged saves. No answer is inferred from silence.
