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Note why CultMesh's witness path is trusted-co-op first

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CultMesh was built for trusted co-op (Aetheria: Starbridge) with witness
authority deliberately deferred, so the current shape is the intended
first stage rather than a failed attempt at Byzantine tolerance.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The concept began as witness-authoritative networking; the consensus literature is the closest existing body of work, not the origin. The goal: no centralized authoritative server should be needed to resolve local disputes such as whether Alice shot Bob first or Bob shot Alice first. A quorum of nearby clients reaches agreement on the ordering, and whoever is determined to be wrong is corrected exactly as in a server-authoritative model with client-side prediction, except that the correction can happen before the server hears about it.
**Why the current implementation looks as it does (operator, 2026-10-26).** CultMesh was deliberately built for trusted co-op first, for Aetheria: Starbridge, with the witness-authority problem explicitly deferred. Starbridge itself collapsed under the weight of building Eve at the same time. The trusted-primary, unsigned-witness shape described below is therefore the intended first stage, not a failed attempt at Byzantine tolerance; hardening against adversarial peers is the deferred second stage this document prepares.
The report below was produced by a read-only Eyes pass. It describes the CultMesh implementation as read from source on 2026-10-26 and compares it with prior art; it does not recommend a design. Items marked as from memory were not re-fetched.
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