From 11b2d7adbce9361016ebd8e468c0ba0748b79779 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Meta Vens Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:16:26 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Aetheria gravity target: rulings of 2026-10-14; Ink pillars leave the flatspace law Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 --- docs/aetheria-gravity-target.md | 34 +++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/aetheria-gravity-target.md b/docs/aetheria-gravity-target.md index 0cedc203e..260fd2540 100644 --- a/docs/aetheria-gravity-target.md +++ b/docs/aetheria-gravity-target.md @@ -36,24 +36,26 @@ potential's gradient, with no gate. The drawn height is the potential times one exaggeration factor, so what the player sees and what the ship feels are the same function. With a 1/r tail every circular orbit is stable. -In Ink zones the Adrasteia pillars stand where suns would -(`aetheria-fauna:ruling:ink-pillars-are-suns`): a pillar is the zone's central -body, and by this campaign its well follows the same law. +Ink zones are not under this law. Their pillars stand where suns would +(`aetheria-fauna:ruling:ink-pillars-are-suns`), but the Ink need not obey +flatspace gravity: the operator sketched a pillar as a negative-gravity +singularity with a bowl around it, a Bundt tin, plus a swell ships feel +(`aetheria-fauna:ruling:ships-feel-swell`). That law is +`aetheria-release:follow_up:ink-gravity-law`, and it plugs into the potential +owner this campaign builds. -## What the first Imagination pass settles (step 0b) +## Rulings of 2026-10-14 -- Whether the rails (OrbitPeriod) are derived from the field, or the field is - calibrated to the rails. Today they disagree by 20-70x in force; one must own - the other. -- What becomes of the zone bowl and of the gas-giant and sun waves: parts of - the potential, a separate push, or gone. -- Hull drag and real ship acceleration (unmeasured by the probe), which decide - whether a free orbit is possible and how much lighter near-body flight feels. -- Every reader of `Zone.GetHeight`, `GetForce` and `GravityAcceleration` - (sim, AI, renderer, shaders), so the potential has one owner and the height - is derived from it everywhere. -- Follow-up `aetheria-release:follow_up:zone-orbits-unplaced-before-first-tick`: - a zone must be valid before its first tick, or every well sits at the origin. +The forks the first Imagination pass raised were ruled the same day +(`aetheria-gravity:ruling:*-ruled`): the field owns the orbits; gravity starts +at about 0.5 u/s^2 at a median planet's orbit; pull comes from mass through an +authored compressed curve; children are placed within their parent's reach; +each well's soft core has its own authored radius and never levels the field +out where bodies orbit; one global exaggeration; the grid's height carries +gravity only, and the wormholes' presentation is provisional; ships feel only +the potential. The flatspace bowl and ripples are deleted, not disabled: the +map found them live in `Settings.asset` and `Zone.GetHeight`. The model page and +body facts are in `docs/aetheria-gravity-map.md`. ## Not here