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52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

# Hold The Horde — Cast And Short Rescue Map

**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.

## Shared short-rescue boundary

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.

6f07a6	Anonymous	2026-09-09 11:02:40
Global04 alignment: armed-retreat prerequisites with quiet necessary but insufficient, full-attempt return mark, at-abort-refuge vocabulary, world outcome vs unconfirmed aboard knowledge in all five rescue scenes

Before movement, the named travel-air handover and present abort refuge must be visibly prepared, and under the accepted conditional candidate three further conditions must actually hold: the handed-over canister reads at or above that route's authored **full-attempt return mark** — outward attempt plus the longest return from any committed segment, including cycling back out of an unclosed ship airlock — a retreat line is **armed** that the survivor can operate with no astronaut input, and a local closure tell exists at the named refuge. **A quiet encounter is necessary but not sufficient:** quieting the room arms nothing by itself, and a scene lacking any of these is not eligible to begin. 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.

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

6f07a6	Anonymous	2026-09-09 11:02:40
Global04 alignment: armed-retreat prerequisites with quiet necessary but insufficient, full-attempt return mark, at-abort-refuge vocabulary, world outcome vs unconfirmed aboard knowledge in all five rescue scenes

An ordinary abort uses the scene's named reachable refuge and leaves the person unsent. **Death during transfer now has a conditional answer** in [Death Shift and Rescue Continuity](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Death%20Shift%20And%20Rescue%20Continuity), **pending owner reaction**: preserve the last confirmed survivor state and committed object states, return only the astronaut's still-carried property, and — where the line was armed — the survivor runs it inside a bounded window in which creatures and hazards cannot act on or block them, reaching the named counted abort refuge alive and unsent before the shift. The old route becomes historical. **What the astronaut knows is unchanged:** the closure tell is local to that refuge's control, nothing is transmitted aboard, and the present outcome stays unconfirmed until the player observes that refuge again in person. If the safeguard is not selected, or was not armed, the outcome returns to unresolved rather than to delivery, loss, teleportation or reunion. The parent's older Dorn outcome remains a local intention, not a universal rule. After Sent, these scenes leave the person aboard but establish no universal immunity or later mortality rule.

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

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.

6f07a6	Anonymous	2026-09-09 11:02:40
Global04 alignment: armed-retreat prerequisites with quiet necessary but insufficient, full-attempt return mark, at-abort-refuge vocabulary, world outcome vs unconfirmed aboard knowledge in all five rescue scenes

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; **at abort refuge** means the person is in the named counted refuge or vestibule — reached by an ordinary witnessed return, or by the armed retreat under the conditional candidate; 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.

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

## R-3 is one encounter, not two occupants

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.

## Five proposed people and arcs

| 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. |

00ce13	Anonymous	2026-09-08 21:10:23
HTH Systems: resolve Cast31 route, Stride, bench and culture interfaces

| **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. | First verify the one-junction side route while his boundary stays closed. Either use it, or commit opening the direct hoist with a Fork-carried compatible control trigger, then personally walk and verify that direct route before Dorn moves. The fixed hoist supplies power and motion. | Commissions the one-channel receiver and physically services the inherited bench compressor/housing; the full bench still needs Yeva's installation/routing and a demonstrated cycle. 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. This rack is not Story30's controlled comparison input. | 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 Stride in the approach gait plate: after Ivo gives a visible ready signal, the astronaut deliberately traverses its marked grounded distance to trigger the lamps. Or reclaim it and let Ivo use a fixed manual cue. Either way Ivo chooses the moment and walks the route himself; no survivor-trigger eligibility is proposed. | 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. |

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

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.

## Fifteen-scene ledger

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 |

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

6f07a6	Anonymous	2026-09-09 11:02:40
Global04 alignment: armed-retreat prerequisites with quiet necessary but insufficient, full-attempt return mark, at-abort-refuge vocabulary, world outcome vs unconfirmed aboard knowledge in all five rescue scenes

| **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 (astronaut knowledge); under the armed conditional safeguard the world outcome is the named counted abort refuge, alive and unsent, with only a local tell there. Sent waits for closed ship airlock. |

00ce13	Anonymous	2026-09-08 21:10:23
HTH Systems: resolve Cast31 route, Stride, bench and culture interfaces

| **Y2 — The dark bench.** Ship; Yeva primary. Requires Y1 Sent and the bench's inherited ship compressor head/housing; no Dorn required to begin her contribution. This is existing ship gear, not a station pickup or new portable item. | Greet or postpone; show/withhold the wall record; explicitly help seat the inherited head and route ship supply in world time. | Yeva's installation persists, but the bench remains **setup incomplete** until Dorn physically services the compressor/housing and both are followed by a demonstrated cycle. Either person may perform their contribution first. Ordinary refill/repack remain. No unseen completion while either person is absent. |

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

| **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. |

6f07a6	Anonymous	2026-09-09 11:02:40
Global04 alignment: armed-retreat prerequisites with quiet necessary but insufficient, full-attempt return mark, at-abort-refuge vocabulary, world outcome vs unconfirmed aboard knowledge in all five rescue scenes

| **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 aboard, never automatic delivery (astronaut knowledge); under the armed conditional safeguard the world outcome is the named counted abort refuge, alive and unsent, with only a local tell there. |

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

| **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. |

6f07a6	Anonymous	2026-09-09 11:02:40
Global04 alignment: armed-retreat prerequisites with quiet necessary but insufficient, full-attempt return mark, at-abort-refuge vocabulary, world outcome vs unconfirmed aboard knowledge in all five rescue scenes

| **D1 — Keep the section shut?** Obj. 6 sealed receiving section; Dorn primary. Requires damaged-lock sleeve, travel canister, stocked airlock-side vestibule and the one-junction side route walked this life while the sealed direct boundary remains untouched. | Use the verified side door; or install Fork in the direct hoist's compatible control seat and commit opening the boundary. The fixed hoist supply/control provides power and motion; Fork passes the trigger. Opening is preparation, not a rescue offer: afterward the astronaut must personally traverse/check the direct route before signaling Dorn. | A verified side departure uses its checkpoints. A direct opening persists even if the newly exposed route proves too long, blocked or unsafe; in that case rescue remains waiting until an actually walked short route exists. If it passes, Dorn operates inside controls and both routes converge on the same present abort vestibule, not a refuge chain. Fork stays installed until reclaimed. Original room vents on departure. Death/shift versus abort ordering follows the conditional candidate: last confirmation only aboard (astronaut knowledge); under the armed conditional safeguard the world outcome is the named counted abort refuge, alive and unsent, with only a local tell there; the safeguard remains pending owner reaction. |

00ce13	Anonymous	2026-09-08 21:10:23
HTH Systems: resolve Cast31 route, Stride, bench and culture interfaces

| **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 physically inspects/services the inherited compressor head and bench housing already aboard. This work can persist before Yeva routes the supply. If her installation is complete, run receiver → reclaim Fork → demonstrated bench cycle → reclaim; otherwise perform receiver/service only or postpone. | Receiver address, completed physical service and Yeva's separate installation retain distinct visible states. No prepared canister exists until both contributions are complete and the player performs the cycle. This one scene owns the shared Coming Home interaction; Yeva's appearance is not another scene. General later solo use follows Home28. |

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

| **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. |

6f07a6	Anonymous	2026-09-09 11:02:40
Global04 alignment: armed-retreat prerequisites with quiet necessary but insufficient, full-attempt return mark, at-abort-refuge vocabulary, world outcome vs unconfirmed aboard knowledge in all five rescue scenes

| **M1 — Clean side.** Obj. 8 decontamination booth; Mara primary. Requires travel air, current one-junction route and clean abort vestibule. Its local expendable rack is distinct from Story30's two equivalent living culture patches and from any later M2 salvage sample. | Purge this station-held rack, visibly consuming only its contents, or close its reusable isolation seal and preserve it in place; then cue Mara's inner air curtain and hold the junction. | Purged rack contents stay consumed; sealed contents remain placed and may support only a later authored use if reachable. Neither branch grants, removes or gates Story30's controlled comparison inputs, reconstructs a missed profile record, guarantees recovery or supplies M2. Mara crosses under her own power. Ordinary abort returns her to the clean vestibule; death mid-crossing remains unconfirmed aboard (astronaut knowledge); under the armed conditional safeguard the world outcome is the named counted abort refuge, alive and unsent, with only a local tell there. |

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

| **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. |

6f07a6	Anonymous	2026-09-09 11:02:40
Global04 alignment: armed-retreat prerequisites with quiet necessary but insufficient, full-attempt return mark, at-abort-refuge vocabulary, world outcome vs unconfirmed aboard knowledge in all five rescue scenes

| **I1 — My pace.** Obj. 2 rehab/calibration bay; Ivo primary. Requires travel air, current short route and braced airlock-side alcove. | Leave Stride in the approach plate; when Ivo visibly signals ready, the astronaut performs the established deliberate grounded traversal and its trigger cues the lamps. Or reclaim Stride and let Ivo press the bay's fixed manual cue before walking. Astronaut holds the single junction. | Stride's observed eligible subject remains the astronaut; Ivo controls when the crossing begins and moves under his own power. Installed/reclaimed state is exact, with no extra part or capacity cost. Neither branch grants rescue or acquisition automatically. Ordinary abort reaches the braced alcove; death mid-crossing records only last confirmation (astronaut knowledge); under the armed conditional safeguard the world outcome is the named counted abort refuge, alive and unsent, with only a local tell there. |

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

| **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. |

## Three dependency schedules

**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.

00ce13	Anonymous	2026-09-08 21:10:23
HTH Systems: resolve Cast31 route, Stride, bench and culture interfaces

**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; she may complete Y2's installation before or after Dorn physically services the inherited bench gear, but prepared cycles wait for both contributions and a demonstrated cycle. All physical language, pressure and equipment paths remain available before either joins.

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

**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.

## Finite content accounting

| 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. |

00ce13	Anonymous	2026-09-08 21:10:23
HTH Systems: resolve Cast31 route, Stride, bench and culture interfaces

| **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 verified side route plus an optional committed-and-then-verified direct route; 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. A failed direct-route check leaves its opened boundary as a cost; it grants no new geometry. |

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
HTH Systems: propose five-person cast and bounded short-rescue scene map

| **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, costs and still-open choices

**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.