Define Daedal naval body doctrine

Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Politics/Combat Doctrine.md

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 [[Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Factions/Wavecrafters|Wavecrafters]] favor tuned systems and operator discipline: phase-aware stealth, aetheric drive tricks, waveguide weapons, difficult-to-copy thermal modes, and configurations that are strong when flown correctly and embarrassing when merely purchased.
 
-[[Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Factions/Daedal Houses|Daedal Houses]] favor embodied control at ship scale: humanoid Figures, pilot-specific somatic envelopes, modular hand-carried systems, violent vector changes, grappling, rescue, and close work in unstable fields. Their doctrine is strongest where a single pilot can make a complex hull move as one body and weakest under long-range saturation, sensor conflict, pilot desynchronization, or the ordinary economic demand to haul cargo without making it a spiritual event.
+[[Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Factions/Daedal Houses|Daedal Houses]] favor embodied control at ship scale: humanoid Figures, pilot-specific somatic envelopes, interchangeable forearm systems, distributed limb thrust, violent vector changes, grappling, rescue, and close work in unstable fields. Their doctrine is strongest where a single pilot can make a complex hull move as one body and weakest under long-range saturation, sensor conflict, pilot desynchronization, or the ordinary economic demand to haul cargo without making it a spiritual event. Production Figures share naval drives, radiators, hardpoints, armor standards, and service infrastructure with conventional vessels while integrating them into House-specific bodywork.
 
 Later Concord Figures extend that doctrine through reversible transformation and multi-vessel assembly. They are rare strategic projects rather than a standard hull class: several pilots preserve local ownership of their component Figures while synchronizing into one larger body map. The combined form gains extraordinary close-control authority, but formation damage, interrupted transformation, disagreement, desynchronization, and attacks on the docking anatomy can turn its greatest concentration of force into an immobilized cluster of irreplaceable ships.
 

Aetheria/Worldbuilding/Post-Elysium/Factions/Daedal Houses.md

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 Mechanical transformation can still destroy somatic coherence. Every hinge must preserve a continuous sensory relation; changing load paths must register as posture, and temporary asymmetries as phases of one body. The first transformable Figures spend years rehearsing sequences ordinary machinery could complete in seconds.
 
+### Naval Body Doctrine
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+Production Figures preserve the lineage of the ships and yards that build them. Their drives, radiators, sensor apertures, armor laminates, docking collars, hardpoints, pressure fittings, and service standards come from the same catalogs used by conventional Aetheria vessels. A House does not arrange naked ship modules into a person. It integrates familiar naval systems beneath cultivated bodywork whose proportions, thermal behavior, and movement grammar belong to that House. Compatibility appears at disconnect seams, equipment collars, nozzle geometry, maintenance access, and the quiet fact that a yard already owns most of the tools required to service the machine.
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+The somatic envelope requires legible anatomy, not literal imitation of every human extremity. Mature Figures often carry interchangeable forearm sleeves in place of permanent hands. A sleeve may contain docking manipulators, point defense, sensors, salvage tools, weapons, or cargo interfaces while preserving the pilot's experience of reaching and acting through an arm. Retractable hands remain common in yard and rescue bodies, but they are one tool lineage among several rather than the inevitable terminus of a humanoid vessel.
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+The same distinction shapes the legs. A Figure's lower limbs are major vector-control structures containing drives, verniers, radiators, armor, and docking surfaces. Their arrangement preserves the felt relation among hip, knee, reach, and orientation while allowing the extremity to end in a propulsion or bracing assembly. Under gravity, some Figures can brace, crawl, kneel, or walk with specialized contact gear. Those capabilities are concessions to stations, moons, and damaged infrastructure. In free flight the whole body moves: shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, forearms, and lower legs continually alter thrust geometry, thermal exposure, sensor baseline, and moment of inertia.
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+This gives production Figures a recognizable visual discipline. They favor coherent silhouettes, large controlled armor surfaces, and selective mechanical exposure at joints and service interfaces. Their grace comes from systems designed around embodied motion, not from concealing a terrestrial robot beneath spacecraft decoration. The naval-industrial lineage remains legible even when no individual component remains externally ship-shaped.
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 ### The Laughter Cut
 
 The first orbital-scale Figure was built as a mobile yard body after the shunt. Conventional tugs and distributed drones performed poorly around a damaged fabrication complex where Aetheric interference kept turning synchronized work into a sequence of individually reasonable mistakes. The Figure could brace hull sections, carry modular yard tools, cross debris under its own field, and let one senior operator feel the whole repair problem as load against a body.
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 ### A Minor Ship Power
 
-The Houses captured a valuable section of the post-Elysium ship market without displacing conventional yards. Figures excel where control coherence matters more than efficient volume: close escort, debris navigation, mobile shipyard work, precision salvage, station defense, boarding, siegebreaking, and rescue around unstable fields. Hands accept tools, weapons, tow assemblies, shield projectors, and modular mission packages without rebuilding the whole hull. Limbs change radiator exposure, armor posture, and thrust geometry during a fight. A trained pilot can grapple a vessel, brace a failing station, or continue working through damage that leaves ordinary control systems negotiating with themselves.
+The Houses captured a valuable section of the post-Elysium ship market without displacing conventional yards. Figures excel where control coherence matters more than efficient volume: close escort, debris navigation, mobile shipyard work, precision salvage, station defense, boarding, siegebreaking, and rescue around unstable fields. Standardized forearm interfaces accept manipulators, weapons, tow assemblies, shield projectors, and modular mission sleeves without rebuilding the whole hull. Limbs change radiator exposure, armor posture, and thrust geometry during a fight. A trained pilot can grapple a vessel, brace a failing station, or continue working through damage that leaves ordinary control systems negotiating with themselves.
 
 The costs remain severe. Limbs and joints expose maintenance surfaces; humanoid volume is poor for freight and cruise; distributed actuators add mass and difficult heat paths. Figures are conspicuous, expensive to armor, and vulnerable to missiles, saturation attacks, and sensory desynchronization. Conventional fleets remain better at most fleet work.