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@ -91,6 +91,35 @@ does not earn state authority merely by crossing CultNet. Separate persistence
or leases are justified only for a future shared spatial Verse with an explicit
owner and lifecycle; they are not part of the Aetheria daemon contract.
## Terminus Simulation Clock
Terminus uses a daemon-owned, user-controllable simulation clock. Pause and slow
rates provide unbounded tactical decision time. High rates provide transit time
compression so a physically larger world does not require the player to watch
uneventful coasting in real time. Supported requested rates currently range from
pause through `128x`; Starbridge remains real-time-owned.
The requested simulation rate is not a renderer time scale. The daemon advances
the deterministic fixed-step simulation repeatedly and publishes one coherent
sample of the resulting state. Unity, Electron, bots, and other Eve clients may
interpolate presentation between samples, but cannot advance committed game
time or invent intermediate outcomes.
Time compression must eventually distinguish requested rate from effective
rate. Decision-relevant daemon facts, including contact, hostile targeting,
damage, weapon readiness, arrival, resource discovery, cargo events, docking,
and failed orders, will clamp or pause the effective rate according to an
explicit player policy. The interruption fact must name its reason and the
simulation time at which it occurred; the daemon may not simulate past that
boundary before publishing it. This attention policy is daemon-owned gameplay
state, not client heuristics.
Compressed stepping must not multiply control-plane traffic. Commands and
receipts retain their ordinary typed CultMesh path, SoA consumers receive the
latest complete leased frame, and reactive UI state is sampled at a bounded
publication cadence. Internal fixed steps remain deterministic and testable
without requiring a renderer or wall-clock delays.
## Current Mechanism
The repo is mid-migration.