2. **Commitment at an observed condition** — a staged action, oxygen coupling or survivor transfer that is live while one of three named facts is true: the astronaut is displaced out of reach of the control, a creature is within reach of that control, or the coupling has been broken. These are observations, not a forecast that failure is imminent.

6. **Persistent facts** — carried/installed labels, join state, roster counts, evidence provenance. Available on inspection or in the journal rather than continuously. **Bands 1 and 4 never fall into this band and are never suppressible by any option:** tank level, the reserve mark, condition and actuator readiness are always present.

**The clutter cut.** During world time the field display does **not** carry the rig diagram — ports, links and the explanation of which branch a packet reached. **Every actuator's own readiness and selected target stay visible**, because readiness is band 4 and is never suppressed. Also kept: the manual special's facing, and storage saturation as a state change rather than a running meter. The full diagram is one input away in the paused journal. **Sacrificed:** the branch explanation — why a part that was ready still did nothing this wave. **Kept:** every individual part state needed to act, and the evidence to work the rest out afterwards.

Forty-one states in nine bands. "Non-colour" and "non-audio" name the form that must carry the same information when colour or sound is unavailable.

| Suit tank level | Worn instrument, direct reading | Filled bar with numeric level and a labelled fixed or player-set reserve notch | None; it is a reading |

| Selected canister and fill | Manifest and coupling control; four states — ordinary-full, prepared-full, partial, empty | Four distinct labelled fills, not one gradient; prepared-full marked as its own state | Couple/decouple; coupling is world time. Uncoupled while out of reach |

| Interruption | Cancel, displacement out of reach, occupied control | Names which of the three occurred, and what was preserved | Re-approach; damage alone never cancels |

| Committed record and provenance | The capture; the record thereafter | Place, arrangement/life, source kind and factual limit on the record | Capture is world time and atomic — interrupted before commit yields nothing |

| Confirmation provenance | Whether the astronaut saw it or the survivor reported it | Stated on the state itself; a survivor's flow confirmation stays theirs | None; it is never promoted to direct observation |

| Home project state | The fixture aboard | Four labelled states: unavailable, setup incomplete, commissioned, person not participating now | Inspect, commission in world time, postpone. Postponing costs nothing |

| Field display density (the clutter cut) | Reduced | Bands 1–5 always present, readiness included; only the branch explanation moves to the pause | At reduced density the reason a ready part did nothing is diagnosed after, not during | **Yes** |

**1. The Fork, installed or carried, at the noisy stage.** On arriving at Cargo Turn, four opening parts plus one canister use 6 of 10 carrying units and all 4 rig spaces. Picking up the loose Fork raises carrying use to 7; installing that same carried Fork moves it to *Elsewhere* and returns use to 6, with rig area still 4. Keeping it packed uses 7. On installation, the board's own source supplies the power, and the Fork passes that one board pulse to both compatible outputs so the rack and the patient-bay shutter hold together. Keeping it packed leaves the lane open. At the final fastener four things go live at once: the stage's completed marks, the Caller's brace, a Presser's locked strike, and the tank reaching its labelled reserve notch. **The priority decision:** the reserve notch takes its anchored position and does not flash over anything; the locked strike takes the single direction marker because it alone has a bearing; the brace stays visible at its source without a second arrow. Nothing is suppressed and nothing is merged. Barrier's own readiness is visible throughout, at reduced density as at full. What reduced density withholds is why a ready Barrier still did nothing on a given wave — the branch explanation — and that is one pause away. This four-cue case needs no new creature: the Caller and Pressers are the placement's existing population.

**2. A spend, then a refusal downstream.** The player selects conductive scrap for the Cycler, which is linked through Fork to Arc Emitter and Capacitor. The commit preview states one thing in words: *this consumes the selected scrap permanently.* It does **not** say which branches will accept, because that would be predicting an assembled rig's outcome, which the parent forbids. What the player has instead is individually observed: Arc Emitter shows its own readiness on itself, Capacitor shows its own saturation, and the links were validated one at a time when drawn. Reading them is the player's work, and the reduced-density display keeps exactly those readings.

**Counts after this revision.** 41 inventoried states in 9 bands (6 body/supply, 6 equipment/capacity/rig, 3 rewire/eligibility, 4 work/commitment/withdrawal, 3 threat, 7 place/evidence, 5 station joining, 5 people/home, 2 story/late); 5 journal sections; 4 manifest sections; 10 proposed options; 4 walkthroughs; 6 cue-priority bands. Three states were added — the tether and its radius, capture-in-progress, and the ship instrument report.

**Checked.** No cue is shaped like a conclusion: the reserve mark is a level, not a route cost, and band 2 fires on named observations rather than on a forecast. No preview evaluates an assembled rig; acceptance and refusal are shown at each part on resolution. Conservation: no cue implies one object in two places, *Elsewhere* shows no capacity, and each part is charged its own stated cost once. Pause: nothing reachable in the journal completes a world-time process. Provenance: every state names its source and limit, and survivor confirmation is never promoted to direct observation. Actions: every row's action exists in a named source article rather than being invented here. Accessibility: every band 1–5 state has a stated non-colour and non-audio form.

**Gaps, left open rather than invented.** Target override or reselection is unchosen. General menu pause is proposed only. Rescue-versus-shift ordering, survivor loss, save policy, the final joining mechanism and whole-station completion behaviour remain owner or design decisions; hosted warning and reset needs use preparation-closed Encounter33, with its design proposals still distinct from owner selections. Specific mapping deltas belong to the global-04 and placement alignments. A complete cast dialogue, glyph, string and full state-transition inventory is later work, not this article.

**Scope note — what this delivers and what remains.** This is the parent inventory's **first component**: the finite state list with provenance, non-colour and non-audio forms and refusals, plus the journal/manifest structure and the option set with defaults. It is **not** a new envelope and no hours are subtracted on the strength of it, because a first-pass list is not the exhaustive one the estimate covers. What remains inside that 35–59 role-hours: a cue-by-cue form specification for every authored creature, mechanism, face and fixture rather than the 41 representative states here; the per-screen structure below section level; option interactions with each other; and the failure-message wording. Those must be deduplicated against survival cue work rather than added to it. No implementation, prototype, simulation, playtest, asset, framework or platform decision is proposed or performed here, and nothing above establishes that any of it is legible, usable or enjoyable.