Define Megiddo Vault fleets

Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Factions/Megiddo.md

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 Megiddo specializes in defensive systems because its theology has no ordinary victory condition. It does not expect to conquer Elysium or force the old universe to return. Its military purpose is to preserve witnesses, archives, communities, and instruments until the next disclosure.
 
-Its habitats are built as nested sanctuaries with independent life support, compartmentalized networks, redundant inertial references, and physically isolated archives. The deepest compartments are mortuary cryovaults. External systems are treated as useful but untrusted. Critical records exist in several material forms so that no software migration, memory revision, or hostile custody claim can silently become the only surviving account. Observation chambers track familiar flatspace physics with obsessive precision, searching less for spectacular anomalies than for minute evidence that local normality is maintained rather than natural.
+Megiddo is divided among a handful of mobile fleets, each organized around a **Vault**: a spherical mortuary megastructure hidden inside layers of escorts, industry, habitation, decoys, and defensive works. The sphere encloses the greatest possible volume behind the least armored surface. Successive shells place machinery and occupied compartments around the cold core, forcing an attacker to cross the living fortress before reaching the dead.
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+A Vault does not radiate its own waste heat during ordinary concealment. Closed coolant circuits carry it to exchange vessels that depart on changing routes, transfer their load to remote radiator farms or expendable thermal masses, and return cold. No tender is permitted to preserve a complete map of both the fleet and its rejection sites. During pursuit or siege, the chain contracts and heat accumulates behind armor. Stored thermal margin therefore measures how long a Vault can remain hidden after its ferries are cut off.
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+The surrounding fleet provides independent life support, compartmentalized networks, redundant inertial references, and physically isolated archives. External systems are treated as useful but untrusted. Critical records exist in several material forms so that no software migration, memory revision, or hostile custody claim can silently become the only surviving account. Observation chambers track familiar flatspace physics with obsessive precision, searching less for spectacular anomalies than for minute evidence that local normality is maintained rather than natural.
 
 Megiddo vessels favor interception, denial, evacuation, and survival under conditions of incomplete information. Layered armor, redundant radiators, passive sensors, decoys, hardened communications, and point defense matter more than pursuit or territorial bombardment. Their most characteristic systems preserve a protected interior while treating the surrounding environment as potentially adversarial. Even offensive actions are described as boundary maintenance: stopping an intrusion, breaking observation, or keeping a route open long enough for a sanctuary to withdraw.
 
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 Daily life remains less austere than outsiders expect. Families cook, study, argue, trade, repair machinery, celebrate, and complain about schedules inside the sanctuaries. The movement could not survive on dread alone. Its danger lies in making every ordinary attachment provisional. A career outside the fortress, friendship with a flatlander, or affection for an Elysian place can be interpreted as **naturalization**: allowing an unverified world to become emotionally native before its claim has been proved.
 
-Death exposes the doctrine at its most material. Megiddo does not bury its dead in Elysium. Bodies are prepared, documented, sealed, and lowered into vast **Return Vaults**, where redundant cryogenic systems preserve them against the possibility that humanity may one day regain access to sacred ground. The dead are not patients awaiting revival. They are a population awaiting burial.
+Death exposes the doctrine at its most material. Megiddo does not bury its dead in Elysium. Bodies are prepared, documented, sealed, and conveyed inward to a Vault, where redundant cryogenic systems preserve them against the possibility that humanity may one day regain access to sacred ground. The dead are not patients awaiting revival. They are a population awaiting burial.
 
-The vaults turn eschatology into infrastructure. Every generation increases the mass that must be cooled, guarded, audited, and carried through evacuation. Senior families purchase private bays and elaborate provenance records; ordinary members enter dense communal racks maintained by the same technicians who keep food stores and sanctuary life support operating. A failed compressor becomes a mortuary emergency. During siege, commanders must choose between power for the living, concealment from an attacker, and temperatures promised to people who can no longer object.
+The Vaults turn eschatology into infrastructure. Every generation increases the mass that must be cooled, guarded, audited, and accelerated whenever a fleet moves. Senior families purchase private bays and elaborate provenance records; ordinary members enter dense communal racks maintained by the same technicians who keep food stores and fleet life support operating. A failed exchange vessel becomes a mortuary emergency. During siege, commanders must choose between power for the living, concealment from an attacker, and temperatures promised to people who can no longer object.
 
-Megiddo teaches that this burden proves fidelity: the community refuses to let the Unverified Creation finish what death began. Critics within and beyond the faction see a different captivity. The living inherit maintenance obligations to an ever-growing congregation of preserved dead, while grief cannot complete itself without conceding that Elysium is somewhere a person may finally rest. Outsiders call the vaults corpse holds or freezer crypts. Megiddo records them as deferred cemeteries.
+Megiddo teaches that this burden proves fidelity: the community refuses to let the Unverified Creation finish what death began. Critics within and beyond the faction see a different captivity. The living inherit maintenance obligations to an ever-growing congregation of preserved dead, while grief cannot complete itself without conceding that Elysium is somewhere a person may finally rest. Outsiders call the Vaults corpse worlds or freezer crypts. Megiddo records them as deferred cemeteries.
 
 Exit is formally permitted but socially expensive. A departing member retains their civil identity and property under negotiated rules, while losing access to protected archives, communal guarantees, specialist education, and the expectation of shelter during a future disclosure. The institution does not need to imprison everyone who doubts it. It can make the outside world carry the full cost of being treated as real.