**Recommendation for DES105, not an adopted district rewrite.** Use Colony's Tram case rather than invent another district. The common objective is **reach the summit, copy the timetable, inspect the open pass toward the Exchange, and extract at the depot**. Do not enter another district in this expedition. A summit bundle is an optional competing reward, not a success condition. This section proposes the equipment contribution; Lead owns the combined sequence and Campaign owns the actual paths. Numbers below are written requirements/accounting, not measured survivability or travel times.

Compare the same supplied Tram state before any Collector intervention: tram at the depot; Walkers entering the yard, a Heavy obstructing the rail; panel initially Gates; the surveyed depot is the sole baseline stop. Use the existing road, stairs, panel and summit shelter in [Campaign r5 §3.2 / 9366c8](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign?revision=9366c8). The service choice is tooling, not a simultaneous supported summit berth. Both crane parts have previously been banked and the workshop/tooling repaired under [Colony fe7d88](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony?revision=fe7d88); those are prerequisites, not guaranteed earnings at a prescribed visit number.

**Equipment acquisition clarification:** a revisit may still select the smaller ordinary-workshop or tooling packages; the actually-recorded-pattern requirement applies when claiming expanded, up-to-six-cell recorded-rack issue. A first-visit-sized Circuit set does not become unavailable on returning. All three racks below fit those small packages: no full-pattern entitlement is used. Known recipes still require real inspection. This is an Equipment clarification offered to Colony/Lead, not a change to D023's six-cell cap.

For the missing first Insulation placement identified by COL102, propose the **dry direct road beside Lock Flight's Head basin**, outside the lock-house door, with the existing lever/road approach. This allows inspection before any insulated crossing. Put the first Coil on the Pumping District's free machinery route, the first Beacon at the Lock Flight Tail's route-maintenance cache, and Kit on a public aid route, as their existing entry categories require. Campaign must place these offers and demonstrate their free approaches; none is currently certified geography. Before those recipes are observed, choose the basic/manual route, not imaginary issued gear. On a first Tram visit the Coil/Insulation Circuit set can be assembled and recorded at the summit shelter; that gives Colony B's subsequent four-cell record its concrete acquisition chain without requiring an extra record-collection trip.

Literal departure racks below use Cutter outside the rack. `.` is empty; C/C one Coil; B a bank; I Insulation; L Beacon; K Kit. Each row is four cells. All batteries start **0/10**, and none touches proposed cargo cells. A uses the ordinary workshop and declines the default bank; B and C use tooling's two-known-module Circuit set.

| Approach | Top row / bottom row | Issue and links | What is given up |

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

| A — Ride and cut | `. . . K` / `. . . .` | Kit: 1 cell; no battery or link; 7 free | Charge collection, wet protection and crowd control |

| B — Wet-yard breach, then walk | `. C C B` / `. . . I` | Coil + Insulation + default bank: 4 cells; B → Coil; 4 free | Kit, portable destination and four cargo cells |

| C — Leave a lure below, ride dark | `. . L B` / `. . K .` | Beacon + Kit + default bank: 3 cells; B → Beacon; 5 free | Insulation; two physical items committed at the plant point |

Throw Rail, board the lit tram and take it uphill. The lamp draws entered bodies; the player has chosen to bring the crowd onto the incline. When the Heavy blocks the rail, step onto the roadbed and position it as Cutter's nearest legal target. Its ten-hit durability means a real exposed stop, not one hit shared with ordinary Walkers. There is no Arc here and no bank: its five-unit mote and ordinary kill motes are lost rather than silently stored. Use Kit only if injured; it restores health once and then leaves the rack. Neither healing nor the moving tram protects against contact.

At the summit, read the board and inspect the open pass. Turn the lamp off before the return: bodies with no reachable lit beacon spread where they stand, so descend behind the observed crowd edge rather than treating darkness as a clearance. Use the existing manual depot-gate return if Rail remains selected; switching Gates locally restores the convenient dock road but closes the upper pass. Leaving the tram below or above changes the next approach's Heavy concentration. That is a deliberate lasting machine state, not an equipment unlock.

**Failure/alternative:** a second body becomes nearer during the Heavy stop, so automatic Cutter attacks it instead; the Heavy remains and the following crowd removes the lead. Reverse the tram and retry the approach, or abandon the summit objective and return. The seven-cell cargo advantage is only useful if the player can reach cargo; it does not purchase a safe clearing time. This is the credible minimal-equipment alternative to both powered plans.

Keep Gates while earning the first bank. Insulation permits the hot-yard approach; draw ten ordinary Walkers to the edge, kill them and walk over their motes before fade. Pursuit applies within about ten metres; the bank is earned amid contact risk, not from a safe firing platform. If the bank is incomplete, take A's free machinery route or abort; no siphon, passive refill or successful ten-kill harvest is assumed.

Once full, set the tram lamp off and switch Rail. Step into the connected yard water and discharge on the crowd still there, then take the incline road/stairs while it recovers. **The dry rail does not give Coil a dry stun:** a Heavy already on the rail is unaffected. This plan separates from the tram rather than clearing its obstruction. If that Heavy also physically blocks the road, kill/reverse/retreat under ordinary rules; Campaign must not quietly draw a pass-through body.

Illustrative complete ledger: 60 ordinary arrivals, 10 killed/collected for the first bank, and all 50 survivors still wet and fresh at firing. Spend 10; the 50 drop 25 and become spent. Reach two five-unit motes: bank 10, leave 15 to fade. Total dropped 35, collected 20, spent 10, stored 10, ground-fade 15. Spending no time collecting instead leaves bank 0 and all 25 to fade. Both are legal; neither promises that collection or the entire climb fits the **eight-second stun**. The water's two-second power is separate, and any fixed source can keep it hot. A second paid stun buys control but not another yield from those survivors.

Read/inspect at the summit and return down the road to the same depot. Keep any refilled bank for a remaining wet obstruction or lose it at extraction. **Failure/cost:** dry or spent enemies remove the harvest advantage; no Kit covers contact mistakes; pausing for motes can spend the escape window. B buys a local departure from the yard, not suppression of the next dispatch or an insulated safe zone.

Earn ten ordinary kill motes at the **dry** edge while Gates holds the yard crowd; step over each actual drop. With no Insulation, do not wade into the lit yard to recover a lost mote. Prepare the tram with its lamp off. Plant the Beacon/bank **dark**, then arm it immediately before switching to Rail. The yard beacon darkens and eligible bodies retarget to the portable; the tram carries no competing light. Board and climb while the local destination remains below.

**Proposed placement requirement to Campaign:** a traversable dry side apron off the depot road, with room for the planted crowd's displayed press ring to remain off the boarding/return path. This is a placement of existing objects, not an asserted new room or approved asset. Do not integrate the illustration if the actual ground cannot provide it. Bodies within pursuit range still chase the player; a lit beacon is never protection from a pursuer.

At the provisional one unit per ten lit seconds, 10 buys **at most 100 seconds including arming and withdrawal**. That is a launch diversion, not the source scene's entire multi-minute ascent or a second-dispatch hold. At expiry the crowd spreads from the apron; it is neither deleted nor still magically held. A Heavy can still stop the dark tram; without the crowd following the lamp, C is buying separation for that stop rather than damage. Whether the separation lasts is a Campaign/Combat question, not a claimed success.

At the summit, perform the same evidence/pass work. On return, inspect the actual spread before approaching the depot; use manual gate routing or abort to the known baseline when the path remains reachable. Planting freed two cells, but recovering L+B needs **two** free cells, even when empty. Filling every freed cell with salvage trades those physical items away for this expedition. All collected charge was spent on lure time; no refund on retrieval. Unlike A this plan spends a bank and placement exposure; unlike B it has no water-control window, and cargo cannot make a collapsed lure work again.

| Family | Repeated player action | What it obtains | What defeats its preferred plan |

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

| Circuit Harvester | Invite a fresh mass into connected water, discharge, choose whether to collect or leave, spend a separate burst | Charge and brief power/control windows for interior travel | Dry or already-spent crowd; fuel stranded past recovering enemies |

| Route Shepherd | Place and time a lure, work from the side of the resulting crowd path, recover or abandon the pair | A chosen temporary crowd destination and a crossing | Nearer fixed light, local pursuit at the plant point, or insufficient retrieval space |

| Salvage Breacher | Pick a deposit route, line up limited penetration shots, gather, leave before the crowd closes | Bankable salvage with sparse fighting and controlled exposure | Flanks, cluttered lines, or a drainage shortcut that also removes door power |

Water combat, destination control and hauling under fire ask for different movement and expenditure. Their interactions overlap intentionally; none owns a private rule system or equipment key. A no-battery hauler remains valid and loses all motes, while keeping the free panel and valves.

| Stage | Concrete equipment choice | Changed action and competing choice |

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

| Early | Cutter + Battery; seek Coil and Insulation (four cells total once fitted) | First learn a free panel/valve route; choose to spend the first full bank opening a route or save it for a fresh wet crowd. Leave four cells for finds/cargo; a Siphon can finish seven charge but cannot fill an empty bank |

| Middle, branch H: **Harvest and burst** | Cutter + Coil + two Batteries + Insulation + Arc: six cells, two cargo cells | Prioritize Coil bank for collection, then Arc bank. Charge and control come from water; Arc is a separate chosen commitment. Carry a second bank instead of another bundle to preserve more harvest |

| Middle, branch G: **Grid diver** | Cutter + Coil + Battery + Insulation + Cable Reel + Kit: six cells, two cargo cells | Spend brief power on a connected gate and move through it, with the cable reaching another exposed terminal. Give up Arc and reserve storage for routing reach and recovery |

| Late H | Replace one cargo cell with a third Battery: seven cells, one cargo | Reserve overflow from a larger fresh crowd for a later shelter rewire; no instant fuel substitution. Keep the two-battery version for a better haul. The same old Coil and Cutter remain the actions |

**Legal middle H rack.** Each table is a literal cell. C/C are one Coil. Link Bc → Coil, Ba → Arc; priority Bc then Ba. S is a cargo bundle. Both batteries touch only housings or another battery, so no leakage under E2.

| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |

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

| S | C | C | Bc |

| S | Insulation | Arc | Ba |

**Why H versus G matters.** H is better suited to remaining near a crowd and spending charge against density. G spends its same inventory budget on crossing linked machinery and recovering a mistake. Neither can simultaneously keep the other's Arc/reserve or cable/Kit without giving up the two cargo cells. Late storage preserves a previous useful item; it grants no extra damage or capacity per bank.

| Stage | Concrete equipment choice | Changed action and competing choice |

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

| Early | Cutter + Beacon + Battery + Kit: three cells, up to five cargo cells | Arm only when a target route is chosen. Gather initial charge with Cutter, plant on reachable dry ground, and leave before the crowd reaches the lure. Kit versus Insulation is a dry-approach/wet-approach choice |

| Middle, branch P: **Pathmaker** | Prod brace + Beacon + Battery + Insulation: four cells, four cargo | Use local shoves to make room for the plant/retreat, then let normal beacon targeting move enemies. It never kills or sheds charge: fill a bank with Cutter before the shelter swap, find reachable motes, or use Siphon; do not assume free starting fuel |

| Middle, branch F: **Kill funnel** | Cutter + Beacon + two Batteries + Arc + Insulation: five cells, three cargo | Keep Cutter and turn a controlled approach into a timed burst. Prefer fresh enemies that have not yielded; collecting their motes still requires approaching the danger |

| Late P | Add Cable Reel and Kit: six cells, two cargo | Hold a door's power connection while the planted lure creates a separate destination, then disconnect and recover. A nearer fixed beacon may still win; cable routing can light exactly the beacon the player wanted dark |

| Late F | Add Cable Reel: six cells, two cargo | Arrange a corridor and then spend Arc on its queue; trade one cargo cell for power reach. Or leave the reel and bank more salvage. A cable does not promise a favourable crowd route |

**Legal late P rack.** Link Bp → Beacon. F is the Prod's brace. The bank is isolated from both bundles; the other modules remain nonconductive.

| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |

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

| S | S | F | Bp |

| Reel | Kit | Beacon | Insulation |

**Exploration interaction.** With the panel set for the next yard intake, plant a lit portable on an accessible dry spur nearer an entered causeway crowd than its old target. Cross behind the crowd toward a deposit or an already-visible clue. Forecast intake stays the yard; only entered targets change. The free alternative is the panel switch, accepting the crossing crowd and changed door state rather than paying portable fuel.

**Retrieval cost, concrete.** Planting the pair frees two cells. Filling them with bundles does not give free retained equipment: make two cells free to retrieve, or leave the physical pair for that expedition. Its known recipe survives either choice. Disarm/empty/retrieve and the crowd immediately re-evaluates; darkness is not a guaranteed escape. P keeps useful space by displacement but never kills; F kills via finite fuel but has no shove. Swapping P to F needs shelter and a real primary change.

| Stage | Concrete equipment choice | Changed action and competing choice |

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

| Early | Cutter + Kit; optionally retain the default Battery as storage | Thin a pursuer, gather a bundle, decide whether one cell of future charge is worth one fewer bundle. On finding Rivet Driver, choose its brace and committed line shots instead of Cutter's free-cell, faster retargeting |

| Middle, branch D: **Dry convoy** | Rivet Driver brace + Kit; no Battery: two cells, six cargo | Work from long straight lanes, loosen a deposit at reach, then collect it. All motes expire. This is the largest cargo plan with a distinct weapon, not a universal combat upgrade |

| Middle, branch E: **Field engineer** | Rivet brace + Hand Pump + Battery + Insulation: four cells, four cargo | Spend five charge to drain a compatible channel and expose a gathering path. Drainage also cuts the door’s water supply; use a free lock/valve detour if the five charge or outlet is unavailable |

| Late D | Add Beacon + Battery: four cells, four cargo | Sacrifice two bundles' capacity for one controllable diversion, then shoot along its approach. Fuel gathered from sparse kills or retained pickups is limited; the battery is not free starting power |

| Late E | Exchange Hand Pump for Coil and add Reel: six cells, two cargo | Choose injection/bridging instead of draining when the access door needs connected water. Give up two cargo cells and the carried drain action; still no Arc host. Or retain the four-cell pump build and haul four bundles. Late capability is expensive preparation, not the presumed correct loadout |

**Legal late D rack.** D is the Driver brace; Bp → Beacon. Four wet bundles remain disconnected from the battery by the Driver, Kit and Beacon housings. Insulation is unnecessary for rack isolation here, but the player is unprotected in energized water.

| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 | Column 4 |

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

| S | S | D | Bp |

| S | S | Kit | Beacon |

**Exploration interaction.** From a service lane, target a visible loose deposit with a Driver tool shot. It creates the same bundle as close hand gathering; it neither delivers the bundle nor produces a bonus. The Hand Pump drains a compatible access channel for a walkable pickup route, but also removes its conduction path: draining the Head basin at the Lock Flight can close the door being approached. A later cable/Coil branch preserves connected water instead, paid by energizing everything on that network. Essential evidence remains intact and inspectable via the ordinary machinery path.

**Why this family is not a weaker Harvester.** Its ordinary plan minimizes fighting, carries four to six bankable bundles, and treats charge as an optional escape/access reserve. Harvester's preferred plan seeks a fresh wet mass and gives that cargo space to charge storage and Arc. Breacher can adopt an expensive Coil detour but loses most of the reason it chose this family. No additional hauling tax is needed to force a difference.

1. **First departure and recovery.** Free Cutter and empty Battery, freely decline the battery at shelter. Equipment does not charge per expedition. Known recipes, notes and banked progress survive rescue; current finds, cargo and charge do not. Discovered recipes survive even if their found item is left or lost. Inspection records how to request a tool, not an essential mystery flag.

2. **First copies in the world.** Place each first tool at an inspectable service/aid/machinery cache named on its item entry. Every first cache is reachable using existing movement, free panels/valves and an alternate route; equipment improves cost or timing, never uniquely gates the associated essential clue. The first named copy is a guaranteed authored offer, not random. Campaign determines actual district/room placement and safe knowledge order; these locations are proposals, not completed geography.

3. **Repeat expedition choices.** Recommend two to four offer sites along alternate routes as an initial placement budget, carried from the source as provisional. Once a tool is known, a site's clearly labelled category offers two specified alternatives, e.g. Battery versus Siphon or Kit versus Insulation; take one and the other is unavailable for that expedition. Offers are fixed for that visit, inspectable before taking, with no paid rerolls. This adds a choice under route pressure without inventing kill XP. If there is no fit, decline or drop cargo live; fitting links still needs shelter.

4. **Middle preparation.** Retain the source workshop's choice of one discovered starting module, occupying its normal rack cells, alongside the default empty Battery. Not every visit must depend on finding the same Coil again. An alternative primary can still be found and fitted on a route; Colony decides when reliable departure selection becomes available.

A first visit means **no previous entry into that district**; prior entry, even followed by rescue, makes a revisit. This is a departure-issuance flag, never a required notebook clue or an expedition counter that buys bigger statistics. Recipes require inspection; full patterns require actually assembling and recording a legal rack in shelter. Reject merely previewed combinations as issue patterns. This is Equipment’s explicit completion of COL-I2 for Colony to mirror.

| Stage / family example | Equipment cells issued or assembled | Cells for finds/cargo | Preparation choice |

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

| Early Harvester: Cutter, Coil, one empty bank | 3 | 5 | Repaired ordinary workshop’s one known module; Insulation remains a find or a later tooling choice |

| Early Shepherd: Cutter, Beacon, empty bank, Kit | 3 | 5 | Advanced first-visit Circuit set; give up forward support/observation |

| Early Breacher: Cutter, Kit, optional empty bank | 1 or 2 | 7 or 6 | Ordinary workshop; decline the bank for cargo, accept losing motes |

| Middle H: Cutter, Coil, Arc, two banks, Insulation | 6 | 2 | Record after actually assembling it; full reissue only on a revisit |

| Middle P: Prod brace, Beacon, one bank, Insulation | 4 | 4 | Fits first-visit Field tool only after finding the second module; complete pattern is a revisit option |

| Middle E: Driver brace, Pump, bank, Insulation | 4 | 4 | Same first-visit limit: Field tool issues primary + Pump + bank (3); find Insulation (1) |

| Late H: previous H plus reserve bank | 7 | 1 | Legal in the field, **illegal as seven-cell recorded issue**; depart with six and find the reserve |

| Late P: previous P plus Reel and Kit | 6 | 2 | Legal recorded revisit pattern; all banks empty; no free beacon fuel |

| Late D: Driver brace, Kit, Beacon, bank | 4 | 4 | Legal recorded revisit pattern; smaller kit leaves hauling room |

**Legal seven-cell late H arrangement:** upper row = Cargo, Insulation, Coil-bank, Arc-bank; lower row = Coil, Coil, Arc, reserve-bank. The two lower Coil cells are adjacent; the cargo touches only Insulation and Coil housing, so all three banks are isolated under E2. Links stay Coil-bank → Coil and Arc-bank → Arc; the reserve remains storage until shelter rewiring. This pattern is legal after finding the seventh cell’s gear, never a seven-cell departure issue.

These totals include the base bank and any weapon brace. The middle/late branches above retain their alternative costs; the table illustrates legality, not a forced nine-step progression. No paid service is necessary to reach the tools through the world.

**Conditional fuel sequence, for the six-cell H rack.** Priority Coil then Arc; begin at 10/10 after earning twenty ordinary kill units locally (ten ready Coil earlier under D023). Discharge into forty fresh ordinary conducting bodies already in the connected water: stored 0/10, ten spent, twenty dropped. If two five-unit motes are reached, storage becomes 10/10; the other ten remain on the ground until faded, stolen or otherwise accounted. An Arc burst then spends its ten; end 10/0. The drawn bank accepts nothing, and the full Coil bank accepts nothing. A Carrier near a reachable charged player may still target them; neither the full bank nor local pursuit disappears because Arc ended. New arrivals outside the cast footprint remain fresh. For an isolated pulse, water power ends after two seconds while stunned survivors recover at eight; fixed supply overrides that expiry. No assumed collection speed, survival, crowd clearance or unknown late-cohort kill count is smuggled into this illustration.