You leave home with a modest rig, fight through a growing horde, discover a powerful interaction between your equipment and the station, and return with something that changes the next expedition. That sequence must be exciting on the third trip as well as the first.

The owner chose fresh hordes each expedition and regular combat growth with larger transformations. Permanent changes and physically carried property remain, while temporary power resets on returning home. The [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief) records the requirements.

The main reading path now begins with [The Game](/Hold%20The%20Flood/The%20Game), follows [three expeditions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Expedition%20Proposal), returns to [the people aboard](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Coming%20Home), and opens into [discovery in the changing station](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Connecting%20The%20Station). [Hordes and Builds](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hordes%20and%20Builds) explains the current examples; [Build Comparison](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Build%20Comparison) presents alternative controls and payoffs for owner reaction.

Fifteen proposal or editorial packages completed review and response today: builds/expeditions, hospital story/survival, regular growth on a renewed route, a second route state after permanent source seals, the six-page reading path, the moving-scan expedition, the short-rescue comparison, the station-completion payoff, the campaign scope comparison, the language journal, the whole-campaign overview, the cast and rescue map, the equipment guide, the Receiver Vault expedition, and the enemy guide. [Combat Rules](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Combat%20Rules) and the room/encounter references describe the two concrete route states. They preserve completed work while giving fresh opposition a physical route. Other seal combinations and shifted layouts remain design work.

The new Ricochet and Gravity mechanisms remain proposed replacements for parts of the detailed build rules. The [hospital-story alternatives](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Hospital%20Story%20Directions) remain revisable. Completed review does not select them for the owner or establish fun, balance or duration.

The [Moving Scan Expedition](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Moving%20Scan%20Expedition) now places the lamp in Cable Junction. Three source areas supply the rising fight; ordinary growth precedes the electrical climax. Observations from three positions reveal a receiver across a void, and the player unfolds and walks a bridge to it. Living return preserves the useful shortcut. A changed alignment makes the old samples historical and exposes a visible rewind for a new scan.

The price is a fourteenth proposed major mechanism and substantial rail, bay, bridge and receiver geometry. The room, encounter, combat and information references now agree; physical fit and the intended pleasure remain untested.

[Whole Game Outline](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Whole%20Game%20Outline) completed review and response at 15:26. It follows the player’s journey from forced docking through deeper investigation and optional secrets. The page makes the horde scale, growing builds, useful discoveries and relationships concrete, with carried equipment and open choices preserved. The home-loop page’s old living-return clearance wording has also been corrected to fresh hordes after either return.

The [Equipment Catalogue](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment%20Catalogue) completed review and response at 16:05. It starts with a working build, then shows each part's visible behavior, useful combinations and costs. The shared references now make clear that a failed attempt preserves the rig's current readiness, and that a part installed aboard is already home while remaining outside the carried inventory.