**Status.** First-pass SMALL-band proposal for five working people and fifteen uniquely owned scene briefs. Names, final cast, first survivor, exact dialogue, placement and global survivor mortality remain unselected. The owner requires an authored colony and short cooperative rescues; no long escort, upkeep system, hidden friendship meter or automatic survivor return follows. Existing rules for the astronaut's carried property do not apply to people.

Every rescue below is offered only after the astronaut has personally walked the exact route from the ship airlock to the refuge threshold **in the current arrangement and life**, checked its controls, and established that it is short: airlock corridor, at most one exposed junction, one airlock-side abort vestibule and the refuge door. A persistent ship-rooted group may make a later refuge eligible, but a bearing, old breadcrumb or language clue never does. If this geometry is absent after a shift, the scene waits; it does not grow into an escort or assume a favorable next arrangement.

Before movement, the named travel-air handover and present abort refuge must be visibly prepared. The survivor confirms flow, moves under their own power, operates their side of the route and may call an ordinary abort. The astronaut holds one ordinary-horde crossing, operates outside controls and may also abort. **Sent** commits only when that same person is physically aboard and the ship airlock closes. A radio promise, crossing in progress or astronaut death is not delivery.

An ordinary abort uses the scene's named reachable refuge and leaves the person unsent. **Death during transfer remains unresolved:** preserve the last confirmed survivor state and committed object states, return only the astronaut's still-carried property, mark the old route historical and do not assert abort, delivery, loss, teleportation or reunion. The parent's older Dorn outcome is therefore a proposed local intention blocked on the global death/shift ordering, not a rule used here. After Sent, these scenes leave the person aboard but establish no universal immunity or later mortality rule.

Committed canisters, installed parts and completed panel/door stages stay in their actual locations. World-time capture, setup, rescue and work continue with oxygen/threats; opening the journal fully pauses and cannot advance any of them.

Each rescue uses the same visible state vocabulary: **waiting** means the person remains in the named intact refuge; **prepared** means travel air, abort place and current route have been checked but nobody has crossed; **in transfer** begins when the refuge door opens for movement; **aborted** means an ordinary, witnessed return to the named refuge or vestibule; and **Sent** means the ship closure test above passed. Waiting and prepared may be revisited after leaving the region, but a shifted route must be checked again. An interrupted capture or mechanical stage retains only visibly completed substeps; it never grants the next scene. Ordinary horde pressure can force the player to spend air, operate the abort control or retreat, but cannot silently move the survivor, finish a door cycle or convert an abort into Sent. This common vocabulary is deliberately narrower than a full survivor simulation. It supports clear scene writing and finite state accounting while leaving death-plus-shift and post-Sent mortality for the owner-level rule.

R-3 has one occupant flag in a continuity. If **Yeva** is selected first, scene Y1 uses R-3 and Aster's A1 later uses an objective-7 supply booth. If **Aster** is selected first, A1 uses R-3 and Y1 later uses an objective-6 pressure annex. The unused R-3 version is absent, not a second person waiting in the same ward. The later booth/annex versions preserve each person's core rescue choice but require their own short current-route check. If that variant host cannot be placed inside the existing objective/room ledger, the cast map must change rather than invent a free room.

| Person / voice through behavior | Want and real disagreement | Witnessed versus inferred | Rescue distinction | Home contribution and arc change |

|---|---|---|---|---|

| **Yeva Kolb — pressure technician** | Wants the ward pressure record to outlive her because she fears her value is only what she remembers. She will leave, but disputes abandoning the record for speed. | Personally measured named fittings at dated times and saw the core team return changed. She does not know current routes, either alien language, why treatment changed or whether changed means ruined. | During one short crossing, spend exposed world time capturing the wall record or refuse and move now; no item or trust tax. | Explicitly installs/routes the packing bench; prepared cycles still require Dorn's completed service and the later demonstrated cycle. Harmful-profile evidence changes her from blaming “the core” generally to targeting one human-configured line, without settling Dorn's identity or the core's innocence. |

| **Aster Fen — supply clerk** | Wants the personnel door locked behind her because she thinks arrivals disturb the station. She comes either way, but disputes leaving the route open. | Counted stores and recorded shipments. She has seen shifts follow crises, not their cause; her ledger gives historical movements, never present contents or passenger identity. | After she is Sent, lock one reversible corridor door at its outside panel or refuse. The other ward threshold remains; no whole ward becomes permanently inaccessible. | Commissions the ledger comparison table with her physical ledger and provenance fields. The berth trace narrows “all arrivals cause shifts” to “this docking may,” while a late-transfer result makes her admit that a shipment entry is not a passenger list. |

| **Dorn — maintenance worker** | Wants to leave without reopening the boundary he sealed. The astronaut may choose the shorter direct hoist and override him or hand-cycle a still-short side door. | Serviced one pressure panel, painted his own route marks and heard a late transfer cycle. He did not see who crossed and cannot infer current plumbing, population or route. | Choose direct Fork-powered hoist/open boundary or the one-junction side vestibule; both require current verification, one travel canister and one stocked abort refuge. | Commissions the one-channel receiver and supplies the bench service contribution; the full bench still needs Yeva's installation. The late-transfer counter lets him replace a denial of movement with the narrower truth that he heard a cycle and sealed afterward. |

| **Mara Venn — sterile-processing/reclamation worker** | Wants a contaminated culture rack purged before she leaves; the astronaut may instead lock it behind a visible isolation seal to preserve evidence. She will not pretend preservation is harmless. | Saw processing batches change after particular machine cycles. She can identify handling and contamination boundaries, not the alien cause, every creature or a safe current route. | Purge the station-held rack, consuming those samples, or complete the reusable isolation seal and leave them placed; then hold one decontamination crossing while she cycles the inner air curtain. | Commissions the material-response tray and protected-item refusal without consuming salvage. The active/bypassed profile comparison changes her from “the samples carry it” to “this machine can write it,” while a post-isolation-only result leaves the earlier cause unknown. |

| **Ivo Hale — rehabilitation worker** | Wants to control when he moves; he disputes being treated as cargo or having an automatic carrier decide his crossing. | Observed patients' voluntary steps and machine-carried motion in his bay. He knows that fixture's response and people's expressed consent, not alien intent, universal physiology or treatment safety. | Leave the Stride Switch in the local cue rail so his own steps trigger the crossing lamps, or reclaim it and use a manual visible cue he controls; either way he walks one short route himself. | Repairs/commissions the home gait rail; later solo tests require the astronaut's two actual passes. Voluntary-treatment evidence makes him insist on preview, refusal and purge, while respecting any informed choice without withdrawing help. |

These contributions can be valuable and person-dependent without gating the physical main path. Equipment acquisition/configuration, ordinary refill, both alien-language tests, pressure controls, station connection and the proposed endings retain their no-survivor alternatives. An absent or non-participating person supplies no testimony, conversation or commissioning act; a completed fixture supports only the solo operations already assigned in Home And Colony Loop.

Each ID is one unique scene with one primary owner. Other people are participants or branch variants, never an extra count. “Defer” preserves the scene without decay or relationship penalty.

| ID / host, participants and required evidence | Visible choice and action | Consequence, revisit and interruption boundary |

|---|---|---|

| **Y1 — The wall must come.** Obj. 4 R-3 if Yeva-first; otherwise the obj. 6 pressure annex. Astronaut + Yeva; visible wall log, confirmed travel air and current short route. | Photograph the log in exposed world time or refuse and signal movement. Yeva confirms flow, cycles her intact refuge door and crosses while the astronaut holds one junction. | Capture persists with place/life; refusal leaves the wall record revisitable. Ordinary abort returns her to the intact ward/annex. Death mid-crossing records last confirmation only. Sent waits for closed ship airlock. |

| **Y2 — The dark bench.** Ship; Yeva primary. Requires Y1 Sent and recovered compressor head; no Dorn required to begin her contribution. | Greet or postpone; show/withhold the wall record; explicitly help install the head and route ship supply in world time. | Yeva's installation persists, but the bench remains **setup incomplete** until Dorn's service and a demonstrated cycle. Ordinary refill/repack remain. No unseen completion while either person is absent. |

| **Y3 — The profile is not the person.** Ship after a committed active/bypass or post-isolation culture record; Yeva primary, Dorn only if present and shown it. Allocates Story30 variant 2. | Share either record, ask her to support isolation, challenge her “core” attribution or defer. | With the full comparison she targets the human-configured line; with only post-isolation results she admits the prior cause is unknown. Dorn may dispute “change equals damage.” No present participant, no testimony; notes are not corrected automatically. |

| **A1 — Lock behind me.** Obj. 4 R-3 if Aster-first; otherwise obj. 7 supply booth. Astronaut + Aster; current short route and flow confirmed. | Complete the crossing, then after Sent lock the named personnel door or refuse. Aster operates the inner door and may abort. | Lock is reversible at the same reachable panel and closes one current convenience, not the other threshold or objective. Abort returns her to the intact refuge. Death during transfer remains unconfirmed, never automatic delivery. |

| **A2 — Count only what we have.** Ship ledger table; Aster primary. Requires A1 Sent and her physical ledger. Reuses Home28 project 3. | Commission the table by registering one dated entry and provenance fields; choose records to align, or postpone. | Setup/registered entries persist. Later solo comparisons use only registered material; new recollection needs Aster. The overlay never reveals present contents or route, and no journal note is written for the player. |

| **A3 — This docking, perhaps.** Ship berth/table; Aster primary. Requires committed berth trace and one post-death manifest/world-state comparison. Allocates Story30 variant 1. | Show both, show one, or defer; ask whether every crossing still fits her theory. | With both she retracts “every arrival” and retains “this docking may.” With one she keeps the wider theory. Wariness changes what she says, not access, help or friendship points. Absent Aster contributes nothing. |

| **D1 — Keep the section shut?** Obj. 6 sealed receiving section; Dorn primary. Requires damaged-lock sleeve, travel canister, stocked airlock-side vestibule and both short routes walked this life. | Install Fork in the direct hoist and open his boundary, or keep Fork and hand-cycle the one-junction side door; signal/abort while Dorn operates inside controls. | Direct opening persists and Fork remains installed until reclaimed; side-door checkpoints persist. Both converge on the same present abort vestibule, not a refuge chain. Original room vents on departure. Death/shift versus abort ordering is explicitly unresolved. |

| **D2 — Two leads, one Fork.** Ship receiver/bench; Dorn primary, Yeva cross-link if present. Requires D1 Sent. Reuses Coming Home and Home28 projects 1/2. | Dorn commissions the fixed one-channel receiver and completes his bench service. If Yeva's installation is complete, run receiver → reclaim Fork → bench cycle → reclaim; otherwise choose receiver only or postpone. | Receiver address/service and Dorn's bench contribution persist. Prepared canister/record persist only after completed operation. This one scene owns the shared Coming Home interaction; Yeva's appearance is not another scene. General later solo use follows Home28. |

| **D3 — What crossed.** Ship ledger table/receiver; Dorn primary, Yeva/Aster cross-links only if present. Requires wall/destination pressure-cycle records. Allocates Story30 variant 4. | Share with all present, one person, or nobody. Ask what each actually witnessed. | Dorn replaces “nobody crossed” with “I heard a cycle, then sealed”; Yeva may retract only the falsification accusation; Aster limits her ledger. Recipient remains unknown. Each absent person has no variant. Deferred evidence triggers nothing unseen. |

| **M1 — Clean side.** Obj. 8 decontamination booth; Mara primary. Requires travel air, current one-junction route and clean abort vestibule. | Purge the station-held culture rack, visibly consuming it, or close its reusable isolation seal and preserve it in place; then cue Mara's inner air curtain and hold the junction. | Purged samples stay consumed; sealed samples remain placed and may support later evidence if reachable. Mara crosses under her own power. Ordinary abort returns her to the clean vestibule; death mid-crossing remains unconfirmed. |

| **M2 — Catch, don't spend.** Ship material tray; Mara primary. Requires M1 Sent and empty fixed cradle. Reuses Home28 project 4. | Help fit shields and visible protected-item refusal; commission without inserting Cycler or salvage. Later loan/test or postpone separately. | Fixture setup persists. No sample is consumed until the player explicitly selects and commits a Cycler activation. Solo operation is then allowed; Mara's comparison/account still requires her participation. |

| **M3 — A machine made this.** Ship tray/evidence shelf; Mara primary. Requires a committed culture-profile capture. Allocates Story30 variant 3. | Preserve the completed trace, share it, or isolate first and accept that the pre-isolation comparison may be missing. | Full comparison changes her causal belief toward the machine profile. Two post-isolation non-anomalous results establish only current disconnection. Isolation removes a live signal, never the captured record; reopening remains explicit and access-conditional. |

| **I1 — My pace.** Obj. 2 rehab/calibration bay; Ivo primary. Requires travel air, current short route and braced airlock-side alcove. | Leave Stride installed so Ivo's voluntary steps cue visible lamps, or reclaim it and let him press a manual cue before walking. Astronaut holds the single junction. | Installed/reclaimed part state is exact; neither choice grants rescue or part acquisition automatically. Ivo walks and controls timing. Ordinary abort reaches the braced alcove; death mid-crossing records only last confirmation. |

| **I2 — Two actual passes.** Ship gait rail; Ivo primary. Requires I1 Sent. Reuses Home28 project 5. | Repair/commission rail together or postpone. After commissioning, the astronaut may walk one voluntary pass and stand on the moving carrier for the second. | Fixture setup persists; trace records only performed astronaut tests, never a rolling-weight substitute. Player may later operate solo and reclaim Stride. No passive training/stat benefit appears. |

| **I3 — Ask before treatment.** Ship before treatment or after a return; Ivo primary. Requires the treatment's recorded access benefit, hostile correction cue and purge evidence. Allocates Story30 variant 5. | Discuss then accept, refuse, defer or later purge. If treatment happened before Ivo arrived, show/withhold the actual record; he cannot retroactively warn. | His response distinguishes informed choice from hidden exposure. All options retain his help and main progression. Treatment/purge state persists under Story30; conversation neither applies nor removes it. |

**Yeva first.** Objective 1 opens the R-3 bearing; a later current short geometry enables Y1 at objective 4. Y2 makes the pressure record and incomplete bench visible immediately, while ordinary refill/rig work stays useful. Objectives 5/6 can proceed without Yeva's testimony. Dorn's D1/D2 later completes the bench/receiver; Aster enters once her objective-7 booth gets a verified short route. Yeva's early road names remain attributed help, never translation.

**Aster first.** A1 occupies R-3 and A2 gives a first-return record comparison without any other project appearing. A3 can narrow her shift belief after an ordinary death. Yeva later occupies the objective-6 pressure annex, never R-3; her Y2 bench contribution waits for Dorn's service. All physical language, pressure and equipment paths remain available before either joins.

**Deeper mechanisms before the cast.** The investigator defers objective 4 until a valid short route, completes builder/visitor tests and reaches objective 11 by physical alternatives. They may capture the live harmful-profile feed, leave isolation open, or re-seat it before any rescue. Completed captures survive; missing pre-isolation evidence is not reconstructed, and a later post-isolation test has the limited result Story30 specifies. Reopening is explicit but depends on reaching the control again. Later people respond only to records shown after they arrive; none supplies an unseen prior conversation. Objective 12's physical all-room construction remains independent of gathering the cast, intervention or diagnostics.

These schedules overlay the two Regional orders rather than replacing them. A shift can defer any rescue host, while completed objective work, joins, records and object locations retain their owning states.

| Inventory | Reuse and new obligation | Count treatment |

|---|---|---|

| **5 people / 15 unique scenes** | Exactly Y1–Y3, A1–A3, D1–D3, M1–M3, I1–I3; three primary-owned scenes each. Story30 variants allocate to A3/Y3/M3/D3/I3. Home28 projects allocate to D2 receiver/bench, A2 table, M2 tray, I2 rail, with Yeva's bench setup in Y2. | **5 / 15.** Shared appearances are cross-links, not extra IDs. Branch variants still require writing but do not become hidden unique scenes. |

| **Rescue material** | Y1/A1 extend the two First Survivor variants and add mutually exclusive later annex/booth hosts; D1 replaces the old long multi-refuge reading with one short side/direct choice; M1 and I1 are new. Five rescue-specific air/abort/choice variants share ordinary horde roles at objectives 2, 4, 6, 7 and 8. | **+0 enemies or set-pieces claimed.** Encounter geometry/timing and survivor behavior are real variant obligations, not free reuse. |

| **4 regions / 12 objectives / 24 modules / 40 rooms** | Plausible hosts: 2 pace bay, 4 R-3, 6 pressure annex/receiving section, 7 supply booth, 8 decon booth; ship scenes use the five existing home projects. | **+0 claimed region/objective/module/room.** Later ledger must allocate four non-R-3 refuge/abort fixtures and both mutually exclusive non-first host variants; if they do not fit, record an increment or revise. |

| **Five major home projects** | Receiver and bench remain distinct projects even when D2 shares one scene; table/tray/rail keep commissioning and later solo-use rules. | **5 / 5, +0 projects or portable parts.** No unseen setup or forced consumption. |

| **Evidence and state** | Reuses wall log, berth trace, culture comparison, pressure-cycle pair and treatment preview. Adds personal rescue choices, exact waiting/prepared/in-transfer/abort/Sent variants and knowledge-sharing branches. | No automatic journal correctness or reconstructed clue. Capture/work are world time; review/notes pause. |

**Reused scene identities:** Y1/A1 inherit the two mutually exclusive First Survivor cores; D1 is the short correction of Rescue And Home; D2 owns Coming Home; A2/M2/I2 and Y2 use Home28 setup; A3/Y3/M3/D3/I3 allocate all five Story30 human variants. **New authored material** is the two mutually exclusive later first-candidate hosts, the bounded short Dorn side route, Mara/Ivo rescue interactions and the fifteen-scene ownership/branch ledger. Actual layout and full dialogue/state permutations remain unallocated work.

**Strongest smaller cut.** Select Yeva as first survivor, remove the Aster-first R-3 branch and Yeva-later annex variant, and keep Aster's later objective-7 rescue. The five people, fifteen scene identities and every main system remain. The lost experience is substantive: the opening can no longer begin with distrust of the astronaut's arrival, the owner loses the strongest alternate first-person tone, and Aster's berth theory is encountered only after the player already knows another survivor. No hours or playtime saving is claimed.

**Strongest case.** Keep all five working people for first-pass review. Their rescue choices concern record versus exposure, reversible closure, boundary versus part use, purge versus preserved evidence and autonomy versus automation. Their home work changes preparation without becoming upkeep, and later evidence changes a specific belief or relationship rather than awarding generic loyalty.

**Accepted costs.** Five short rescues still require five route/abort/ordinary-horde integrations and survivor behavior; mutually exclusive first-survivor hosting adds real branch work; D2 and D3 need careful shared-scene accounting; optional testimony increases knowledge-state variants; and “one junction” may feel contrived if the shifting layout rarely produces credible geometry. Written briefs establish neither emotional impact nor feasibility.

**Still-open owner choices:** Yeva versus Aster as R-3's first survivor; the global order/outcome when astronaut death intersects transfer and a death-triggered shift; and whether/how a person already Sent can later die. This map recommends neither automatic safety nor loss. Final names/cast, exact geometry, dialogue, content placement and the story/core branch remain proposed or future bounded work.