AetheriaLore/Aetheria/Brainstorming/Vault Cleanup/index.md

Vault Cleanup

This room tracks evidence-backed repairs to the Aetheria vault. It is not canon. Its tickets exist to make canonical notes shorter, better supported, and easier to navigate.

Repair Contract

• Modeling identifies split authority, contradiction, duplication, unsupported claims, and navigation failures.
• Imagination researches stronger mechanisms and rhetorical shapes before prose is replaced.
• Clueless receives an isolated canon or story snippet and records the questions a reader cannot answer from it.
• Loremaster answers from named sources, labels story-local or draft evidence, and records unresolved questions as setting pressure rather than filling them by invention.
• Hands performs bounded cuts against named files and word limits.
• Soul verifies the actual diff against canon, negative checks, and reader-visible behavior.
• A repair is incomplete until Soul passes it. Smooth prose is not evidence.

Brevity is an invariant. Every paragraph must own a necessary claim. Every claim needs canonical support, an identified inference, or an explicit uncertainty. Examples must prove mechanism or consequence. Lists do not substitute for models. Expansion is guilty until it earns its words.

Wave 1: Foundations and Broken Surfaces

Ticket	Owner	Cut or repair	Gate	State
W1-01	Soliton Drive	Replace unsupported metrics, roadmap, branded stat blocks, and market ranking with infrastructure history, operating burdens, and doctrine.	818 → 400 words; lineage and maintenance verified.	Soul passed.
W1-02	Aether	Preserve the namesake, preferred frame, and quarantine role while deleting unsupported technological continuity and bounding human knowledge.	86 → 83 words; each property has an operational consequence.	Soul passed.
W1-03	Cognitive Interfacing	Define operator, interface, uses, coupling limits, and failure modes; remove undefined information density and omniscient thought-reading.	89 → 85 words; shared base mechanism does not steal faction-specific authority.	Soul passed.
W1-04	Oracular Computing	Remove false Turing-oracle analogy, instant arbitrary termination, and memory-only limit.	118 → 99 words; no deterministic fact recovery or arbitrary computation.	Soul passed after epistemic repair.
W1-05	Published broken links	Repair seven confirmed missing targets without creating stubs, then repair two multiline Starbridge links found by the exact resolver.	Net word growth <=0; exact resolver and site build pass.	Soul and production build passed.

Accepted Queue

Ticket	Pressure	Required cut
Q-08	Timeline and Historical Events each have duplicate file/folder owners.	Merge into folder indexes, delete duplicate roots, and reduce combined copy by at least 140 words.
Q-09	Published Nibu lore mixes accepted character truth with planning language and origin hypotheses.	Separate canon from design; reduce 2,130 words to 900–1,200.
Q-10	Power indexes omit most child notes while presenting themselves as maps.	Make child membership exhaustive and parent classification concise; total index prose <=300 words.
Q-11	Brain-Computer Interfaces and Mind Uploading repeat faction taxonomies, fake metrics, and generic futurist prose.	Rebuild their boundary around embodied access/maintenance versus copying/continuity/hosting, then verify together.
Q-12	Uplift describes species as job categories and assigns generic psychology.	Rebuild around imposed labor histories and divergent peoples. Existing unrelated edits currently occupy this file; preserve them until reconciled.
Q-13	Repeated filenames make eleven Pirate Metagame brainstorming links ambiguous.	Qualify each link with its phase directory; add no prose.
Q-14	Drive, tuner, interface, operator, crew, and receiver boundaries are stated but lack one adversarial handoff.	Trace a named difficult Aetheric-drive transition across all six owners. Include two adjacent-layer failures and the evidence distinguishing them without giving any participant the whole effect.
Q-15	Public qualification and suppressed sapient causation are separated in principle but lack a bounded case.	Define one operator qualification for a named configuration and local-condition envelope. Compare live, substituted, and replayed operation where safe; preserve alternative causes and record ownership without diagnosing esper status or consciousness.

Verification Ledger

Wave 31

• Esper.md grew from 207 to 214 words to repair one authority leak: Parallax auditors classify inconsistent observations or continuity residue for a named receiving office and use; that office separately accepts the finding and applies only a restriction it already owns.
• Q-01, Q-02, Q-04, Q-05, and Q-07 were retired after Modeling mapped the live chain. Cognitive interfaces translate signals; Daedal reconciles embodied intent; Wavecrafters tune field and material coupling; drives exchange commanded momentum; sapient minds supply exceptional agency; public qualification need not admit that causal layer.
• Brain-computer interfacing now owns the Sol antecedent, and esper access distinguishes ordinary operation, anomalous performance, and conscious field action without making trauma, neurodivergence, meditation, or exposure a credential.
• Imagination pressure became Q-14 and Q-15: one adversarial drive-transition seam trace, and one public qualification with live, substituted, and replayed evidence. Soul rejected a separate residual ticket as duplication and passed authority, links, continuity, and hostile brevity.

Wave 30

• Daedal Houses.md grew from 1,046 to 1,163 words to close the boundary between bounded Figure automation and a possible machine-self claim before destructive maintenance can erase the only available communication or evidence.
• Rare emergence has no established common mechanism. Protective anticipation, persistent preference, refusal, or maintenance distress remain ambiguous among adaptive control, pilot residue, damage, manipulation, and possible selfhood; review does not establish consciousness.
• Preservation yields to named immediate hazards, while refusal remains limited to embodied integrity and affected systems. Helm, weapons, title, crown, crew safety, and downstream custody remain separate authorities.
• Q-03 and Q-06 were retired. Continuous somatic correspondence already requires legible intermediate states and reversible separation without a topological costume; Soul removed an attempted promotion of AFTER's distributed embodiment and wipe history into general Daedal canon, then passed continuity and hostile brevity.

Wave 29

• Rossum & Douglas.md grew from 241 to 735 words because a generic safety reputation was replaced with its missing product and power mechanism: bounded certification findings for named configurations, evidence sets, use envelopes, and periods of validity.
• Rossum's findings can travel between manufacturers, operators, insurers, ports, buyers, and procurement offices without transferring authority. Receivers decide recognition and access; configuration changes, maintenance gaps, new evidence, and degraded instrumentation can trigger review or expiry.
• The faction retains two supported lines: reliable AGI shells and failsafes, and thermal circulation, storage, switching, and envelope certification. Cryonix retains premium materials and emitter surfaces; Rossum does not decide consciousness, personhood, consent, legality, custody, or fairness.
• Implant standards, guarantees, invented Ganymede and Dominion contracts, ubiquitous market share, and universal insurer authority were cut. Soul passed chronology, faction boundaries, challenge paths, alternatives, links, and hostile brevity after bounding prevention claims and reducing the note from an 839-word draft to 735 words.

Wave 28

• Thermal Management.md grew from 777 to 799 words because supplier history and metaphor were replaced with the missing substrate: source, collection, transport, finite buffering or active lift, rejection, three limiting margins, propagated failure, observability, and maintenance.
• Every joule must be rejected, temporarily stored, exported with matter, or remain as rising internal energy. Pumps and temperature lift add heat; storage buys time; extraordinary emitters improve bounded interfaces without erasing transport or equilibrium constraints.
• Heat debt now requires continued generation while net rejection is withheld. Reducing load or redirecting/exporting heat can limit debt while spending capability or emission options; quiet operation does not automatically imply a filling buffer.
• Modeling separated company ownership and signature inference from the thermal substrate. Soul removed generalized repairability, universal dashboards and maintenance bundles, company tours, architecture catalogs, and observer-relative claims; physics, links, causal density, and the Thermal Signature Warfare handoff passed.

Wave 27

• Why Zhestokost’s Heavy-Weapons Specialization Works.md grew from 479 to 606 words because unsupported product claims were replaced with the missing causal loop: arsenal coordination, repeat production, visible thermal endurance, protected objectives, conditional PSC convertibility, and logistical failure.
• Zhestokost's advantage now comes from aligning foundries, stockpiles, ammunition, transport, maintenance, training, and command around heavy, repairable force rather than a unique weapon or uploaded-leader psychology.
• Named permit templates, automatic premium discounts, compliance proof, preferred-contractor status, the NiteLife pact, proxy portfolios, Moneta reserves, and universal equipment standards were cut. PSC recognition remains jurisdictional, evidence-dependent, and contestable.
• Clueless/Loremaster established that The Burden of Proof supports the physical viability and cost of a hot ballistic posture but proves no Zhestokost practice or PSC product. Soul passed faction ownership, thermal tradeoffs, capture boundaries, counterplay, links, and causal density.

Wave 26

• Combat Doctrine.md fell from 1,514 to 852 words. It now owns force employment as a decision grammar: protected objective, incomplete evidence, staged commitment, divided authority, abort thresholds, sustainment, withdrawal, capture, and inspectable residue.
• Thermal physics, signature classification, PSC restrictions, ship-mind custody, continuity admissibility, timeline history, and faction tendencies remain with their owner notes. Capture no longer manufactures title or custody, and evidentiary consequences no longer masquerade as a universal record protocol.
• Clueless/Loremaster used The Burden of Proof as bounded evidence for command by verbs and separate surrender, safing, boarding, custody, title, wages, treatment, and rescue transitions. Those scenes informed the model without becoming a universal ship constitution or legal procedure.
• Soul removed the faction and technology tours, duplicate authority schemas, invented command pipeline, universal record mandates, meta-commentary about fiction, and a setting-wide infrastructure-preservation claim. Links, direct-entry comprehension, causal density, custody boundaries, and continuity-finding scope passed.

Wave 25

• Bloom.md and Bloom Habitat Anatomy.md fell from 2,416 to 1,752 words. Bloom now owns source-body conversion, commissioning readiness, research lineage, deployment, and political economy; Anatomy owns mature spatial grammar, flows, access, and failure propagation.
• The anatomy no longer presents a noun table as topology. Frame transfer remains a constraint without canonizing a universal hub, spoke, radiator, scale, or rotation arrangement; provisional Kappa, TCS-grade, quantitative, and story-layout research remains in brainstorming.
• Commissioning requires structural, pressure, thermal, evacuation, isolation, and maintenance readiness without inventing a universal certifier or record schema. Ramp operating control and outside certification pressure remain separate authorities.
• Clueless/Loremaster pressure recorded unresolved certification, governance handoff, repair authority, scale, build-time, and capacity questions rather than filling them. Soul removed premature hub certainty, unsupported AU allocation, duplicate failure catalogs, fictional offices, and false event sequencing; continuity, links, causal density, and direct-entry comprehension passed.

Wave 24

• Five game-design notes fell from 2,629 to 1,982 words. The index remains the public status owner; Terminus and Call of the Void are historical proposals rather than release targets, while Cat, her cases, and Terminus geography remain developmental.
• Narrative and Missions.md now owns mission admission, local occurrence, evidence, and consequence handoff. Scenarios record what happened locally; witnesses and provider systems retain authorship, and durable owners separately accept or reject exported effects.
• Implementation Signals.md no longer turns unpinned code archaeology into current architecture or roadmap. Its six reported surfaces are recovery targets until a named revision, paths, build receipt, observed behavior, and bounded owner inference exist.
• Clueless/Loremaster pressure exposed questions the vault cannot yet answer: the active release target, Terminus's canonical status, Cat's era and location, the adopted narrative runtime, and which older systems still build. Soul passed status metadata, canon boundaries, evidence provenance, links, and hostile brevity.

Wave 23

• Four material-economy notes grew from 2,574 to 3,349 words because missing authority replaced catalogs: blueprint, permission, production commitment, item instance, inventory possession, ship assembly, title, custody, consent, and claim now remain separate state.
• Economy and Production.md owns contestable provenance and material production; Ship-shape and Up to Specs.md owns installed assembly and refit receipts; Progression, Claims, and Consequence.md owns evidence-bearing claims and receiving-gate decisions.
• Recovery, towing, cooling, repair, possession, and inventory transfer no longer manufacture title or permission to sell, strip, copy, confine, alter, or disassemble. Candidate ship minds preserve expressed consent/refusal and competing medical, emergency, title, lien, and maintenance claims without inventing a singular custody owner.
• Colonies and Population.md replaced psychometric population control with plural households, services, representation, refusal, coercion, migration, care burdens, destination rights, and exit. Soul verified provenance uncertainty, refit failure, claim evidence, asset status, frontmatter, links, and population agency.

Wave 22

• Five space/readability notes now form one information chain: navigation forecasts a route, local gravity visualization exposes motion, heat and sensors produce evidence, and visual/audio presentation preserves confidence through player commitment.
• The cluster grew from 2,669 to 2,865 words because missing contracts replaced code archaeology: route-source age, shared-contact provenance, local-motion proof, why-detected feedback, warning arbitration, and redundant accessibility channels now have owners.
• The Grid is explicitly an instrument rather than physical canon; Aetheric drives exchange momentum rather than generate private gravity fields. Procedural maps and prototype nebulae remain historical evidence, not canonical topology or material terrain.
• Pre-Elysium can remain austere and instrument-driven while post-Elysium expression follows canon-bounded phenomena. Soul verified asset provenance, frontmatter, local links, contact disagreement, route handoffs, projection uncertainty, warning priority, and the prohibition against effects revealing unobserved truth.

Wave 21

• Playable Layers.md, Action RPG Layer.md, Corporate Strategy Layer.md, and Persistent Universe and Reset Loop.md fell from 3,758 to 2,230 words. Cockpit and corporation play now define independent minimum proofs; neither requires a persistent world or the other layer to become playable.
• Playable Layers.md exclusively owns the optional regional-pressure exchange. Scenarios validate inputs and own local projections; only the named durable owner may commit returned market, asset, route, claim, inventory, or faction consequences.
• The corporation layer gained bounded governance, delegation, workforce refusal, insolvency, and finite end conditions while losing Conquest sequencing and unversioned combat-kernel architecture. The cockpit layer retains material ship state, engineering under stress, port claims, and consequential return.
• At Wave 21, the reset loop became a 427-word historical campaign framework bounded by Temporal Nonlinearity. Nibu and Parallax authority theft, old/new metaphysics equivalence, product cadence, and carryover policy were cut. Final Soul passes verified status metadata, links, standalone proofs, and durable-owner seams. A later design decision restored ../../Game Design/Persistent Universe and Reset Loop as Aetheria's long-horizon north star without restoring those discarded authority leaks.

Wave 20

• Nibu Attached Shuttle Story.md fell from 3,387 to 1,516 words. It now owns one developmental pre-Rupture playable episode rather than Nibu's origin wound, first violence, final crew, or direct route to the Rupture junkyard.
• The player is a junior systems and maintenance operator whose access work, records, repairs, and physical interventions feed a six-stage contract-to-aftermath loop. Four author-facing lenses organize branches without becoming visible morality meters.
• Nibu's capabilities now require power, compatible interfaces, physical paths, and consent or emergency breach. Thermal deception spends real heat, the BCI bridge belongs to this crew's architecture, and embodied hull/records/command surfaces replace portable-core language.
• Clueless/Loremaster restored the centuries of later crews and custodians, most of whom die before her degraded hull reaches the junkyard by the Rupture. Soul verified the outcome ledger, finished-fiction/character-owner handoff, chronology, links, and frontmatter.

Wave 19

• The public game-design cluster fell from 18,699 to 4,445 words. The index now owns navigation and status, Aetheria Client and Modes.md owns the candidate shell and durable continuity boundaries, Aetheria Starbridge.md owns the playable session concept, and the key-art brief owns one production composition.
• Starbridge is consistently a developed draft GDD: concept-stage, not shipped, and not a release roadmap. Its compact proof retains asymmetric roles, pilot refusal, support work, heat, salvage, recovery, construction, scenario provenance, visible authority, success tests, and unresolved shared decisions.
• Arena, Conquest, persistent-world play, and the reset loop are historical hypotheses or design ancestry rather than current commitments. Monetization, generation pipelines, prompt revision history, exhaustive catalogs, and unversioned protocol claims were cut rather than moved into new owners.
• Clueless/Loremaster pressure separated setting truth, game-design choice, and implementation evidence. Soul repaired status inflation, ownership-of-people language, optional Barracks leakage, two broken section anchors, and missing non-canon art metadata; links, frontmatter, table, callout, and asset checks passed.

Wave 18

• README.md now separates shared owner notes, finished story authority, and developmental material while retaining the repository map and shared-engine commands. A local claim becomes shared canon only when its owner note incorporates it.
• The front page fell from about 1,146 to under 850 visible words. It preserves the shunt, altered physical regimes, genre range, bounded authorship, story pressures, finished-fiction evidence, and reader routes while removing release, funding, payroll, publisher, and recovery claims.
• Narrative Themes.md fell from 2,007 to about 1,100 words. Six lenses now hold acceleration, administrative personhood, mutability, reality drift, institutional action, and care without faction tours, contemporary analogies, writing instructions, or resolved consciousness claims.
• Soul repaired an inaccurate publication label, a link that conflated the repository with its writing process, and an undefined promotion boundary. Frontmatter, HTML wrappers, local links, story-status labels, and owner boundaries passed direct inspection. No site build was needed for the Markdown-only cut.

Wave 17

• Biodrone.md fell from 861 to 659 words. It now owns the purpose-grown biological labor category, material dependence, provenance, variable cognition, and recognition conflict without fake specifications, invented product histories, or a universal hidden inner life.
• Substrate-Matched Cognition.md fell from 730 to 660 words. Developmental embodiment, probabilistic fit, copy uncertainty, commercial fit and drift, and distributed deployment authority replace universal product-role psychology and duplicated company or custody doctrine.
• Ratfolk.md fell from 1,161 to 681 words. A minimal biological and displacement spine now supports plural societies, contested representation, accessibility, translation failure, and first-contact pressure without species-wide phobias, government, religion, technology tree, or political destiny.
• Final verification repaired the Pallas strike's premature ALF attribution, defined biodrone and uplift by provenance rather than recognition, and restored the evidence-action boundary in AGI Esper.md.

Wave 16

• Restrictions on Warfare.md fell from 920 to 818 words. It now owns the bounded PSC-era architecture of permits, bonds, evidence, recognition, sanctions, arbitration, access, and contingent enforcement without turning invented financial products or automatic surveillance into universal law.
• Ship Mind Custody.md fell from 1,517 to 892 words. Shared-body authority, emergency safing, recorded handoffs, rescue and recovery, maintenance dependence, and unequal bargaining replace faction catalogs, universal selfhood tests, and Nibu-specific fixtures.
• Continuity Admissibility Finding.md fell from 1,401 to 583 words. A finding now classifies contradiction-bearing evidence for one named office and use while recording alternatives, non-findings, challenge, review, and expiry; it neither proves truth nor imposes custody.
• Port-Insurer Compact.md fell from 859 to about 620 words. Participating offices accept separate in-scope findings and apply only actions they already own. The shared protocol cannot merge jurisdictions or let a berth-routed finding become an insurer or title restriction.
• Final verification removed the obsolete helm fixture from Parallax Auditors.md and clarified in Nibu.md that auditors make evidence admissible while receiving offices impose material restrictions.

Wave 15

• Bloom.md fell from 2,439 to 1,048 words. It now owns the verified research lineage, bounded construction sequence, standards ecosystem, deployment leverage, labor dependency, and territorial consequences of manufactured habitable volume; mature anatomy remains in Bloom Habitat Anatomy.md.
• Thermal Signature Warfare.md fell from 1,902 to 896 words. It now owns heat as observable history, constrained classification, forced revelation, Cold Wake signature shaping, and unequal access to thermal ambiguity without duplicating engineering, combat doctrine, or game systems.
• Thermal Death Culture.md fell from 1,842 to 743 words. Thermal trust, classed margin, practical warning habits, varied mourning, and the stigma of deliberate cooling denial replace invented universal rites, faction and species profiles, legal procedure, and design instructions.
• Final verification removed an anachronistic Cinderlace attribution from the 2241–2248 Cold Wake Panic; the Cinderlace research lineage begins in 2351.

Wave 14

• Territories.md fell from 2,047 to about 1,120 words. It now maps layered geographic, infrastructural, and cognitive authority without turning regions into uniform cultures or overlapping movements into one polity.
• Combat Doctrine.md fell from 6,442 to about 1,500 words. The note now owns four recurring decisions—finding and committing, enduring and cooling, disabling and capturing, proving and governing—while physics, hardware, faction practice, fiction, and game design retain their own authority.
• Bloom Habitat Anatomy.md fell from 3,727 to about 1,380 words. Mature physical grammar, resource flows, access, maintenance, and failure cascades replace provisional material grades, universal room taxonomies, Pallas story blocking, and production checklists.
• Final verification kept story- and game-specific mechanics out of the canon notes and corrected single-hub, housing-market, and exterior-failure overclaims.

Wave 13

• Artificial General Intelligence.md fell from about 873 to 649 words. AGI is now a capability and political category embedded in compute, power, maintenance, interfaces, custody, and institutional authority rather than a branded product ladder or consciousness benchmark.
• Advanced Superconductors.md fell from about 873 to 546 words. The note owns bounded superconducting and coil behavior, quench, fabrication, inspection, repair, and certification without fake specifications or conflation with cooling and emitters.
• Fusion.md fell from about 998 to 531 words. Reactor physics, plant labor, outages, grid dependence, class priority, and safe failure replace invented efficiencies, fuel ladders, vendors, and autonomous-progress history.
• Soul rejected unsupported allocations of Cryonix materials and fusion power inside the FTL assembly. The final notes preserve the recorded materials and grid contributions while leaving their precise technical roles unknown.

Wave 12

• Pirate Coalition.md fell from about 971 to 628 words. Pirate power now rests on fragmented reputation, illicit routes, labor, capture, and the contradiction between escape infrastructure and predation rather than a unified code or romantic culture.
• Aya Collective.md fell from about 928 to 596 words. Its federation carries shared food, water, repair, sanctuary, evacuation, and defense obligations while local autonomy, scarce capacity, informal authority, and militarization remain live conflicts.
• Activist Network.md fell from about 586 to 467 words. It retains Major placement as cross-jurisdiction authentication and handoff infrastructure without absorbing member movements, clinics, routes, witnesses, or ideology.
• Soul removed unsupported pirate insurgent logistics, constitutional powers for the Hellas Congress, settled specialist authority after the Food Security Wars, and a repeated vanguard conclusion. An ancillary combat-doctrine repair replaced a pre-Elysium shield dependency with armor and compartment survival.

Wave 11

• Cymata Systems.md fell from 1,201 to about 643 words. It now owns cognition growth, voicing, fit review, records, and licensed lines while technology, hulls, deployment certification, downstream custody, and Nibu's uncertain provenance retain separate owners.
• Framgång.md fell from 1,100 to about 672 words. Therapeutic aspiration, pilgrimage retail, and institutional alignment remain useful services whose commercial and administrative links turn distress into recurring work.
• Sol Dominion.md fell from 1,097 to about 753 words. The four-contributor synthesis now coordinates infrastructure through shared records and permissions without Helios, invented ministries, omniscient prediction, or Zhestokost's mobilization doctrine.
• Soul removed unsupported motives for Dominion's external relationships and rejected an invented Cymata worker-clearance regime. The final worker surface records the supported conflict between recognized self-claim and commercial drift.

Wave 10

• Cryonix.md fell from 1,331 to about 643 words. It now owns premium materials, clean fabrication, licensing, certification, bounded territory, and labor exposure without claiming the whole thermal economy.
• Aeronautics Unlimited.md fell from about 1,233 to 610 words. AU owns Bloom deployment, ramps, logistics, project claims, and failure allocation while Orbital Forge retains cavity standards and portable engineering.
• Finch Cybernetics.md fell from about 1,233 to 771 words. Finch owns clinical integration, embodiment bridges, maintenance, and coverage; BCI, uploading, EternaMind, and Cryonix retain their separate seams.
• Soul rejected unsupported claimshare equity, a VitaForge tissue-interface role, direct enforcement/ranking language, and editorial authority routing. The final cross-note test cleanly assigns a vessel fault among AU logistics, Cryonix materials, and Finch embodiment.

Wave 9

• NeuroSyn.md fell from 1,800 to about 592 words. Its live authority is industrial BCI service, work access, telemetry, and the transition from safety infrastructure to labor governance; Corvid society, BCI mechanics, and NeuroPulse weapons remain elsewhere.
• Zhestokost.md fell from about 1,526 to 632 words. The note now centers emergency logistics hardened into government, dependable provision exchanged for command authority, and the class structure around assignment, Moneta, industry, and continuity.
• Lucent Media.md fell from about 1,361 to 796 words. Distribution, advertising, reputation, labor, and celebrity estates now carry its power without universal surveillance, invented life stages, or annexing independent suppliers.
• Soul rejected editorial authority-map language, one universal adverb, and Lucent's misclassification of Corriedales. An apparent broken Zhestokost doctrine link was traced to shell encoding; the exact UTF-8 target exists and is substantive.

Wave 8

• Daedal Houses.md fell from 2,766 to about 1,046 words. The Houses now own Figure embodiment, labor, markets, Fists, and rare Concord governance while interface, drive, esper, custody, tuning, and admissibility mechanics remain with their source notes.
• Wavecrafters.md fell from 1,839 to about 661 words. It now owns tuning products, ritualized operating knowledge, concealed exceptional labor, service dependence, and the Undertow without claiming thrust, universal monopoly, or remote-timeline access.
• Parallax Auditors.md fell from 2,657 to about 709 words. Auditors issue admissibility findings; receiving offices retain enforcement. Unsupported founding chronology, universal ability catalogues, and residue-caste extrapolation were cut.
• Story material informed reader pressure without leaking AFTER, Calyx, the Fivefold, Meridian, or academy practice into faction canon. Soul rejected three stolen causal/enforcement claims and five pieces of editorial or repeated prose before the final focused reviews.

Wave 7

• Cognitum.md fell from 1,309 to about 507 words and now owns recruitment, procurement, labor culture, markets, cutouts, and political access. Neuromorphic Firmware.md fell from 1,198 to about 416 words and owns capture, branching, conditioning, reduction, and the range of shipped artifacts.
• A Clueless/Loremaster pass established what a fresh reader could not infer from an isolated product snippet. Supported answers shaped the cut; missing AGI comparisons, reduction implementations, deployment behavior, and consciousness tests remain explicit pressure rather than invented canon.
• Ancillary repairs removed Cognitum's false AGI product line, restored the FTL shunt's causality to FTL Trigger, and replaced unsupported Identity Abyss outputs with the sourced firmware economy.
• Soul rejected contractual moral responsibility and an invented live alliance with continuity firms. The repair now separates assigned liability from diffused responsibility and shared research lineage from corporate cooperation.

Wave 6

• Corvid Collective.md fell from 1,180 to about 404 words. Its methods now follow surveillance history, small-body access, distributed caches, and infrastructure dependence rather than innate mischief; rescue, isolation, and local-survival cells allocate risk differently.
• Portia Line.md fell from 1,512 to about 522 words. Scaffold mechanics, discovery evidence, community variation, and the unresolved person/equipment boundary remain; repeated metaphors, biography, and sanitized legal recognition were cut.
• Cetacean Navigators.md fell from 1,161 to about 470 words. Corridor authority now rests on trained crews, records, interfaces, arbitration, and dependency. The note exposes sanctions, incumbent advantage, rescue costs, sanctuary conflict, and wet/dry access inequality without assigning reciprocity to cetacean nature.
• Soul rejected Rossum & Douglas chronology theft, inflated Chaos Weaver labor, abstract Corvid plurality, resolved Portia ontology, softened containment, overstated corridor jurisdiction, invented sanctions, and a compressed event tour. Final source, plurality, authority, link, and hostile-brevity reviews passed.

Wave 5

• Q-12 rebuilt Uplift.md from 1,040 to 357 words. The note now owns biological-uplift boundaries and cross-lineage history rather than classifying peoples by assigned job or inherited psychology.
• The rewrite keeps the 2268 Portia recognition event, corporate labor-line pattern, variable legal status, Pallas coalition, and bounded FTL contribution. Lineage cultures and detailed histories remain with their owner notes.
• Soul rejected unresolved category links, an invented legal ladder, imprecise Pallas participants, and a sentence that conflated cetacean routing with uploaded/machine stabilization. Final continuity, authority, stereotype, and link reviews passed.
• A user continuity correction clarified Nibu's centuries among successive crews before the junkyard. The attached-shuttle episode now sits explicitly inside that earlier history; the junkyard is her condition at the Rupture, when reset reach begins.

Wave 4

• Q-09 rebuilt Lore/Nibu.md from 2,130 to 1,022 words. Character canon now owns her embodied condition, bounded provenance hypothesis, pre-Rupture attached-shuttle history, reset experience, and custody exposure; game-design alternatives and general mechanics returned to their owner notes.
• Q-11 rebuilt Mind Uploading.md from 2,097 to about 705 words and cut Brain-Computer Interfaces.md from 472 to about 314. Uploading owns instantiation, hosting, branching, and continuity disputes; BCI owns mediated access for an existing mind.
• Soul rejected unsupported supplier roles, an incorrect pre-junkyard reset boundary, generic embodiment confused with Finch's embodiment bridges, and a false claim that uploads were absent from FTL stabilization. Hands repaired each source leak.
• Final authority, continuity, and hostile-brevity reviews passed. No drafting language, fake metrics, unsupported transfer certainty, or unresolved links remain in the three notes.

Wave 3

• Q-08 moved era order and named-event membership into Timeline/index.md and Timeline/Events/index.md, deleted the two flat duplicate owners, and qualified every inbound link. All 25 event notes appear exactly once under dates verified against their source files.
• Q-10 made the Powers root a three-category router and each category index an exhaustive local map: 12 Major, 23 Minor, and 5 Defunct. The broader Factions index no longer carries a partial duplicate roster.
• Soul rejected two category claims: the FTL experiment did not create Elysium, and the Pan-Solar Consortium was not a counterpower. Hands corrected the causal sentence and flattened the Major list.
• Final continuity, structure, and hostile-brevity reviews passed. Q-08 cut at least 218 conservative tokens against a 140-word requirement; the four Power indexes total 177 conservative tokens against a 300-word ceiling. All new wiki targets resolve.

Wave 2

• Q-01/Q-04/Q-07 now assign separate owners to interface translation, embodied intent, field tuning, commanded momentum exchange, and esper agency. The seven-note mechanism pass cut 1,125 words before Soul repairs.
• Q-02 permits public certification of operator performance while reserving secrecy for sapient causal agency. Continuity Soul passed the evidence path from performance through residue and regulation.
• Q-03 makes Figures normally non-sapient and rare machine-self emergence a custody problem, not an automatic grant of hull authority. Daedal canon owns the general rule; The Body That Asks owns AFTER.
• Q-05/Q-06 rebuilt the pre-Elysium BCI note from 1,109 to 472 words, anchored Daedal's Sol lineage, and replaced mathematical costume with continuous somatic correspondence.
• Q-13 qualified eleven ambiguous brainstorming links. Structural Soul resolved every target under Obsidian semantics and found no new lore-link failures.
• Hostile brevity Soul rejected unsupported Trigger history, overbroad institutional claims, residual terminology drift, and one over-cut support sentence. Hands repaired each defect; final continuity, brevity, and structural reviews passed.

Wave 1

• Continuity Soul confirmed Soliton lineage, infrastructure, and faction ownership against institutional and faction notes. It rejected two broad claims and one repeated conclusion; Hands cut them before final pass.
• Continuity Soul initially rejected Oracular Computing because bare cryptanalysis still implied deterministic key recovery. Hands added an explicit epistemic boundary; the second review passed markets, warfare, research, and cryptographic consequences.
• Hostile Soul caught an accidental Aether retcon and unsupported Cognitive Interfacing detail. Hands restored the namesake, preferred frame, and quarantine role, then removed unearned failure taxonomy. The second continuity review passed both notes.
• Structural Soul passed all seven named link repairs, found two malformed multiline links on the published Starbridge page, and reduced the remaining exact resolver debt to eleven ambiguous links inside brainstorming artifacts.
• The production build parsed 206 published Markdown files and emitted 499 files. The only build output was the existing Node punycode deprecation warning.

Passing narrow syntax or link checks never substitutes for checking the setting claim the prose makes.