Ground Pallas fixture in Kappa loop geometry

examples/coordinator/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold.v0.json

@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
     ],
     "scene_pressure": [
       {
-        "text": "Life-support margin makes delay materially dangerous, but rushing the blind crawl would erase the reason workers refused.",
+        "text": "Life-support margin makes delay materially dangerous, but rushing Kappa-7 entry would erase the reason workers refused.",
         "refs": [
           "aetheria.pallas_species_strikes"
         ]
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@
     "selected_next_beat": "Build an accepted-as-draft branch-and-fold IF scaffold that begins in ordinary yard life, escalates through a coordinated refusal, and folds outcomes into later labor politics.",
     "selected_acting_agent_id": "lio_vale",
     "rationale": "The protagonist must be embedded enough to show normal exploitation before crisis and technically literate enough to make branch variables materially consequential.",
-    "glue_prose": "Begin with the yard waking, not a riot siren. Let the reader feel the pressure checks, harness work, break-table resentment, and corporate schedule rituals before Nara's refusal turns ordinary maintenance into a historical hinge.",
+    "glue_prose": "Begin with the yard waking, not a riot siren. Let the reader feel the pressure checks, harness work, far-loop break resentment, and corporate schedule rituals before Nara's refusal turns ordinary maintenance into a historical hinge.",
     "glue_prose_status": "accepted_as_narration"
   },
   "machinery_plan": {
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
       "performance_hooks": [
         "maintenance reach",
         "crew safety",
-        "dry-operation crawl throughput"
+        "dry-operation shell-artery throughput"
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@
         "portable scrubber bridge",
         "manual valve logic plate",
         "tamper-evident evidence recorder",
-        "dry-crawl crew adapter"
+        "dry-operation shell-artery crew adapter"
       ],
       "performance_hooks": [
         "temporary life-support margin",

examples/ink/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold.v0.ink

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ VAR formal_stoppage = false
 -> intro_yard_wake
 
 === intro_yard_wake ===
-Pallas Yard Twelve wakes without ceremony. The engineered Bloom shell hums through the deck plates before the shift bell, a low composite throat-note from consolidated asteroid rubble, TCS substrate, pressure seals, and spin-loaded supports doing the ugly miracle of pretending to be ground.
+Pallas Yard Twelve wakes without ceremony. The engineered Bloom shell hums through the deck plates before the shift bell, a low composite note from consolidated asteroid aggregate, TCS substrate, pressure seals, and spin-loaded supports holding a city under air.
 
 It is not a mine and not a factory floor, though Aeronautics Unlimited prices it like both when that helps. It is a built world turned slowly enough to fake down, and Kappa's seals are one of the reasons the air stays on the inside.
 
@@ -27,9 +27,9 @@ It is not a mine and not a factory floor, though Aeronautics Unlimited prices it
 
 === intro_service_ring ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.intro.service_ring_kappa; visual_scene_id: pallas_service_ring_kappa
-Lio Vale walks Service Ring Kappa with a shift-control slate under one arm and yesterday's sleep still folded behind the eyes. Lio's official job is maintenance coordination: making incompatible bodies, tools, schedules, and liability codes share one dangerous ring without killing each other before lunch. AU calls this a routine seal-maintenance cycle. The workers call it breathing for people rich enough to forget what keeps the air inside.
+Lio Vale walks the primary segment of Service Ring Kappa with a shift-control slate under one arm and yesterday's sleep still folded behind the eyes. Kappa is a bounded local loop around a dense seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: manifold faces on the loop-inner side, anchor hardpoints and staging on the loop-outer side, far-loop lockers and break ledges where the supervisor glass sees less than it pretends. Lio's official job is maintenance coordination: making incompatible bodies, tools, schedules, and liability codes share one dangerous circuit without killing each other before lunch. AU calls this a routine seal-maintenance cycle. The workers call it breathing for people rich enough to forget what keeps the air inside.
 
-Cephalopod crawl crews drift in compact dry-operation harnesses shaped for limbs that do not stand: humidity collars, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, and neural limiter plugs, all labeled support equipment with AU's usual tenderness for invoices. The rigs keep them alive in dry air, which is not the same as letting them be comfortable. Baseline riggers clip anchor hardware along the outer rail and complain with the solemnity of a religious rite. Engineered seal techs wait by the manifold in clean gray skinsuits, each one tagged by function, not by family. Small accommodations make the system look civilized: a humidity credit that keeps gill tissue from cracking, softer tool grips for grafted hands, break-table charts that translate three kinds of body clock into one AU shift.
+Cephalopod shell-artery crews drift in compact dry-operation harnesses shaped for limbs that do not stand: humidity collars, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, and neural limiter plugs, all labeled support equipment with AU's usual tenderness for invoices. The rigs keep them alive in dry air, which is not the same as letting them be comfortable. Baseline riggers check sliding anchor blocks along the loop-outer rail and test cross-lane lockout lines against floor sockets and inner hardpoints. Engineered seal techs wait at the loop-inner manifold faces in clean gray skinsuits, each one tagged by function, not by family. Small accommodations make the system look civilized: a humidity credit that keeps gill tissue from cracking, softer tool grips for grafted hands, far-loop break charts that translate three kinds of body clock into one AU shift.
 
 The yard is normal. That is the first horror.
 
@@ -37,13 +37,13 @@ The yard is normal. That is the first horror.
 
 === intro_nara ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.intro.nara_manifold; visual_scene_id: pallas_nara_manifold
-Nara-7 stands at the Kappa manifold with the other engineered seal technicians, each gray skinsuit numbered for a task stream instead of a family line. She touches the wall twice, pauses, and touches it again with two fingers spread wide. AU calls that retained route behavior. Lio has watched enough shifts to know a warning when it learns manners.
+Nara-7 stands at the Kappa manifold face with the other engineered seal technicians, each gray skinsuit numbered for a task stream instead of a family line. She touches the ribbed service bank twice, pauses, and touches it again with two fingers spread wide beside the Kappa-7 access port. AU calls that retained route behavior. Lio has watched enough shifts to know a warning when it learns manners.
 
 -> intro_orrin
 
 === intro_orrin ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.intro.orrin_anchor_rail; visual_scene_id: pallas_orrin_anchor_rail
-Orrin Dax's anchor crew works the anchor rail with cold-stiff hands and old tools. They are baseline riggers: born human-standard, paid as if that should be its own reward, and courted after hours by Baseline League mutters about jobs stolen by built workers and uplifted bodies. Orrin complains like a man trying not to notice he is scared.
+Orrin Dax's anchor crew works the loop-outer anchor rail with cold-stiff hands and old tools. They are baseline riggers: born human-standard, paid as if that should be its own reward, and courted after hours by Baseline League mutters about jobs stolen by built workers and uplifted bodies. Their rail does not own the manifold, but no one enters Kappa-7 safely without their cross-lane retrieval geometry: guide lines, haulback tethers, lockout webbing, cart locks, and rescue hooks. Orrin complains like a man trying not to notice he is scared.
 
 -> intro_teth
 
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Teth Inkwise hangs in a dry-operation support harness, four arms managing valves
 
 === intro_ilya ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.intro.ilya_supervisor_glass; visual_scene_id: pallas_ilya_supervisor_glass
-Ilya Marne, Kappa's AU shift superintendent, watches from the glassed operations gallery above the ring, its raised supervisor catwalk running back toward the spoke-base control deck. She has corporate polish and corporate hunger: schedule first, liability second, people somewhere below the line where the spreadsheet stops showing decimals.
+Ilya Marne, Kappa's AU shift superintendent, watches from the glassed operations gallery above the primary manifold segment, its short raised catwalk running back toward the spoke-base control deck. The central equipment cluster blocks direct sightlines to the far loop, so AU fills the gap with cameras, badge logs, and telemetry. She has corporate polish and corporate hunger: schedule first, liability second, people somewhere below the line where the spreadsheet stops showing decimals.
 
 Lio knows the day will probably go wrong. The only question is whether it goes wrong before everyone has finished pretending this is maintenance.
 
@@ -64,22 +64,22 @@ Lio knows the day will probably go wrong. The only question is whether it goes w
 === ordinary_round_choice ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.ordinary_round.choice; visual_scene_id: pallas_ordinary_round_choice
 // ghostlight.branch: branch-01-walk-with-nara; action: move; intent: Learn the engineered worker's ordinary hazard routine before crisis.
-* [Walk the manifold line with Nara-7.]
+* [Walk the loop-inner manifold face with Nara-7.]
     ~ evidence_of_sentience += 1
     ~ nara_centered = true
     -> walk_with_nara
 // ghostlight.branch: branch-01-sit-with-orrin; action: wait; intent: Sit inside baseline resentment instead of treating it as villain fog.
-* [Take the break-table bench beside Orrin Dax.]
+* [Take the far-loop break ledge beside Orrin Dax.]
     ~ baseline_solidarity += 1
     -> sit_with_orrin
 // ghostlight.branch: branch-01-check-teth-harness; action: touch_object; intent: Ground cephalopod body affordances and technical leverage in equipment.
-* [Check Teth's dry-operation harness before the crawl.]
+* [Check Teth's dry-operation harness before Kappa-7 entry.]
     ~ cephalopod_leverage += 1
     -> check_teth_harness
 
 === walk_with_nara ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.branch.nara_manifold_walk; visual_scene_id: pallas_nara_manifold_walk
-Nara-7 touches the Kappa manifold twice, waits, then touches it a third time with two fingers spread apart. Her batch tag says Seal Technician, BioDrone Standard. Her hand says she is listening.
+Nara-7 touches the loop-inner Kappa manifold face twice, waits, then touches it a third time with two fingers spread apart beside the Kappa-7 port. Her batch tag says Seal Technician, BioDrone Standard. Her hand says she is listening.
 
 "Kappa sings wrong," she says.
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Lio checks the board. The board shows amber pending review, which means nothing
 
 "Wrong how?"
 
-Nara looks down the crawl throat where the patch plates overlap like old scars. "From before reset."
+Nara looks at the Kappa-7 False-Seam Artery access port where the patch plates overlap like old scars. "From before reset."
 
 She does not say memory. She does not say Rell. She gives Lio just enough truth to carry and no more, because truth in this yard is heavy and management keeps scales.
 
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ She does not say memory. She does not say Rell. She gives Lio just enough truth
 
 === sit_with_orrin ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.branch.orrin_break_table; visual_scene_id: pallas_orrin_break_table
-Orrin Dax has a mug of recycler coffee in one hand and a dry anchor hook across his knees. The hook is older than the shift board and better maintained.
+Orrin Dax has a mug of recycler coffee in one hand and a dry anchor hook across his knees. The far-loop break ledge sits beyond the clean reach of the operations glass, close to lockers, cart locks, and the hatches workers use when they want a sentence to stay human for ten seconds. The hook is older than the shift board and better maintained.
 
 "Soft-sleeve specialists got a humidity credit again," he says, not looking at Lio. "My crew gets frost rash and a lecture about grit."
 
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Across the galley, two engineered techs eat in precise silence. Orrin watches th
 
 "Funny how the future always needs fewer of us," he says.
 
-Lio lets the complaint breathe before answering. "Future still needs anchor hardware cleared before crawl-access support can carry load."
+Lio lets the complaint breathe before answering. "Future still needs anchor geometry signed before Kappa-7 support can carry load."
 
 Orrin snorts. "Then tell the future to remember who taught it where the bolts are."
 
@@ -119,21 +119,21 @@ Teth Inkwise turns in the dry-operation harness, four arms working while the res
 
 The joke lands dry. Teth's eyes stay on the pressure ghost beneath the glass, and one free arm adjusts the oxygenation line before the warning tremor can become visible.
 
-The service lung diagram flickers under one of Teth's arms. If Kappa goes hard red, AU will discover exactly how much of its schedule lives in equipment designed for bodies it refuses to honor.
+The service lung diagram flickers under one of Teth's arms. Kappa-7 runs through the equipment cluster and then bends Bloom-outward into seal-lung pockets and coolant bypass cuffs. If Kappa goes hard red, AU will discover exactly how much of its schedule lives in equipment designed for bodies it refuses to honor.
 
 -> chokepoint_refusal
 
 === chokepoint_refusal ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.threshold.chokepoint_refusal; visual_scene_id: pallas_chokepoint_refusal
-The shift bell rings. The board orders a blind crawl through Kappa.
+The shift bell rings. The board orders entry into Kappa-7 False-Seam Artery.
 
-Nara-7 stops at the lip of the access throat. Three other engineered seal techs stop with her. They touch the manifold in the same sequence: twice, wait, third touch spread wide.
+Nara-7 stops at the Kappa-7 access port. Three other engineered seal techs stop with her. They touch the loop-inner manifold face in the same sequence: twice, wait, third touch spread wide.
 
 The board does not understand a ritual unless someone bills it.
 
 "Proceed," Ilya Marne says over the supervisor channel.
 
-Nara's voice is small and clear. "No blind crawl. Kappa remembers cutting Rell. We remember Rell."
+Nara's voice is small and clear. "No entry into Kappa-7. Rell's Cut remembers. We remember Rell."
 
 The baseline anchor riggers go quiet. Teth's harness valves click once, then stop.
 
@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ The baseline anchor riggers go quiet. Teth's harness valves click once, then sto
 
 === ilya_arrival ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.threshold.ilya_arrival; visual_scene_id: pallas_ilya_arrival
-Ilya leaves the operations glass fast enough to prove she had been watching. She crosses the raised supervisor catwalk from the spoke-side control door and drops into the work ring through a badge-only stair. The room changes shape around her: not physically, not enough for a safety board, but enough for every worker to know the yard has stopped being a place where a problem can be fixed quietly.
+Ilya leaves the operations glass fast enough to prove she had been watching the primary segment. She crosses the raised supervisor catwalk from the spoke-side control door and drops into the work ring through a badge-only stair. The far loop is still partly hidden behind machinery, but the Kappa-7 face is under glass, camera, and board. The room changes shape around her: not physically, not enough for a safety board, but enough for every worker to know the yard has stopped being a place where a problem can be fixed quietly.
 
 "Classify that," Ilya says to Lio.
 
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ Ilya leaves the operations glass fast enough to prove she had been watching. She
 
 === quiet_safety_pause ===
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.branch.quiet_safety_pause; visual_scene_id: pallas_quiet_safety_pause
-"Safety pause," Lio says. "Local channel. Kappa amber, worker hazard report, no blind crawl until Teth confirms load."
+"Safety pause," Lio says. "Local channel. Kappa amber, worker hazard report, no Kappa-7 entry until Teth confirms load and Orrin's crew signs the rigging geometry."
 
 Ilya's eyes narrow at the word worker. She hears the legal trap even when Lio buries it in maintenance language.
 
@@ -179,9 +179,9 @@ The pause buys minutes. It also keeps the first evidence small enough that AU mi
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.branch.formalize_stoppage; visual_scene_id: pallas_formalize_stoppage
 Lio keys the log before fear can bargain the words down.
 
-"Coordinated labor stoppage at Kappa manifold. Cause: remembered injury, active hazard, refusal of blind crawl."
+"Coordinated labor stoppage at Kappa-7 access. Cause: remembered injury, active hazard, refusal of unverified False-Seam entry."
 
-The channel goes cold. Someone in the outer ring whistles once. Ilya stops moving like a person and starts moving like a policy document with legs.
+The channel goes cold. Someone in the far loop whistles once. Ilya stops moving like a person and starts moving like a policy document with legs.
 
 The strike exists now. That makes it harder to erase and easier to punish.
 
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ Lio turns the slate outward instead of handing it to Ilya.
 
 ~ nara_path_marked = true
 
-Nara taps the crawl diagram with frightening precision: two safe plates, one false seam, the cut line where Rell's suit opened, the manual valve AU replaced in the report but not in the wall.
+Nara taps the Kappa-7 diagram with frightening precision: two safe plates, one false seam, the cut line where Rell's suit opened, the manual valve AU replaced in the report but not in the wall.
 
 BioElevate legal asks whether the marks might be trained route residue.
 
@@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ Orrin says, "Trained route residue does not remember the part procurement lied a
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.branch.orrin_solidarity; visual_scene_id: pallas_orrin_solidarity
 Lio does not ask Orrin to be noble. That would insult everyone present.
 
-"Dry anchors decide whether crawl-access support can carry load. You know the route. Are you signing the crawl order as safe?"
+"Anchor rigging decides whether Kappa-7 access can carry a living body. You know the route. Are you signing the cross-lane lockout and haulback as safe?"
 
-Orrin looks at Nara, then at the crawl throat, then at the faces of his own crew.
+Orrin looks at Nara, then at the Kappa-7 port, then at the faces of his own crew.
 
 "No," he says. "And if anyone writes that I did, I will personally introduce them to the anchor hook."
 
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ The seal assembly shudders hard enough to make dust jump from old bolt heads. Th
 }
 
 {baseline_solidarity >= 2:
-Orrin's anchor crew clears the anchor rail without waiting for an AU order.
+Orrin's anchor crew starts throwing the cross-lane lockout web without waiting for an AU order: sliding blocks on the loop-outer rail, bright tethers to floor sockets, haulback lines clipped to inner hardpoints around Kappa-7.
 - else:
 The baseline riggers hesitate, trapped between fear of replacement and fear of being blamed for whatever dies next.
 ~ life_support_margin -= 1
@@ -330,7 +330,7 @@ Security drones appear at the far hatch, polite little coffins with blue lights.
 The cavity breath turns shallow. No one has the luxury of a pure victory.
 }
 
-Ilya demands a decision: recognition language in the incident log, {bypass_ready:immediate bypass control under AU authority, |sealed evidence custody, }or emergency clearance to force the crawl.
+Ilya demands a decision: recognition language in the incident log, {bypass_ready:immediate bypass control under AU authority, |sealed evidence custody, }or emergency clearance to force Kappa-7 entry.
 
 // ghostlight.branch: branch-04-hold-for-recognition; action: speak; intent: Hold safety work behind formal recognition of the refusal as worker judgment.
 * [Hold the line until Ilya records worker judgment.]
@@ -340,14 +340,14 @@ Ilya demands a decision: recognition language in the incident log, {bypass_ready
       ~ worker_injury += 1
     }
     -> hold_for_recognition
-// ghostlight.branch: branch-04-trade-bypass-for-evidence; action: transfer_object; intent: Trade temporary bypass control for preserved evidence and no forced crawl.
-* {bypass_ready} [Trade bypass control for sealed evidence and no forced crawl.]
+// ghostlight.branch: branch-04-trade-bypass-for-evidence; action: transfer_object; intent: Trade temporary bypass control for preserved evidence and no forced Kappa-7 entry.
+* {bypass_ready} [Trade bypass control for sealed evidence and no forced Kappa-7 entry.]
     ~ life_support_margin += 1
     ~ evidence_of_sentience += 1
     ~ bioelevate_liability += 1
     -> trade_bypass_for_evidence
-// ghostlight.branch: branch-04-seal-evidence-without-bypass; action: transfer_object; intent: Preserve evidence and forbid forced crawl when there is no bypass leverage to trade.
-* {not bypass_ready} [Seal the evidence packet and forbid a forced crawl.]
+// ghostlight.branch: branch-04-seal-evidence-without-bypass; action: transfer_object; intent: Preserve evidence and forbid forced Kappa-7 entry when there is no bypass leverage to trade.
+* {not bypass_ready} [Seal the evidence packet and forbid forced Kappa-7 entry.]
     ~ evidence_of_sentience += 1
     ~ bioelevate_liability += 1
     ~ security_pressure += 1
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@ Ilya records the phrase with a face like broken glass hidden under a clean cloth
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.branch.trade_bypass_for_evidence; visual_scene_id: pallas_trade_bypass_for_evidence
 Lio nods to Teth.
 
-"Bypass under shared custody. Sealed packet to ALF mirror, AU incident board, and yard safety. No forced crawl."
+"Bypass under shared custody. Sealed packet to ALF mirror, AU incident board, and yard safety. No forced Kappa-7 entry."
 
 Ilya accepts because the alternative is a casualty report she cannot classify out of existence. BioElevate legal immediately begins sanding the word memory into residue, but the packet has already left the room.
 
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ Ilya accepts because the alternative is a casualty report she cannot classify ou
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.branch.seal_evidence_without_bypass; visual_scene_id: pallas_seal_evidence_without_bypass
 Lio lifts the slate where the inspector cam can see the custody seal.
 
-"Packet to yard safety, AU incident board, and the Awakened Labor Front mirror. No blind crawl while Kappa is red. If you want a body in that throat, you will sign your name above it."
+"Packet to yard safety, AU incident board, and the Awakened Labor Front mirror. No Kappa-7 entry while Kappa is red. If you want a body in Rell's Cut, you will sign your name above it."
 
 There is no bypass bridge to soften the bargain. The margin stays ugly. But the evidence now has three homes, and none of them are inside Ilya's pocket.
 
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ There is no bypass bridge to soften the bargain. The margin stays ugly. But the
 // ghostlight.scene: pallas.branch.orrin_front_demand; visual_scene_id: pallas_orrin_front_demand
 Orrin steps forward before Lio has to spend Nara again.
 
-"Anchor rail refuses the crawl," he says. "Our call. Our anchors. You want a body in that throat, superintendent, put the board in first."
+"Anchor crew refuses the Kappa-7 rig," he says. "Our call. Our anchors. You want a body in Rell's Cut, superintendent, put the board in first."
 
 For one bright second, the old lie breaks: baseline and engineered labor are not natural enemies. They are different answers to the same invoice.
 
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ Teth's arms move through the harness in a blur of exact mercy, bleeding surge th
 
 Ilya looks at the red board, at Nara's steady hands, at Orrin's crew, at Teth's harness flexing without a bridge to spend. She hates every door and all of them are open.
 
-"Worker judgment in the incident log," Lio says. "No forced crawl."
+"Worker judgment in the incident log," Lio says. "No forced Kappa-7 entry."
 
 "Temporary language," Ilya says.
 
@@ -476,7 +476,7 @@ Because Lio kept the language softer, the yard buys a quieter day and loses the
 {media_visibility >= 2:
 The outside feed calls it the Kappa Refusal before AU can rename it.
 - else:
-The event remains local for now: a story passed through harness checks, anchor lockers, and the soft clicks of workers touching a manifold twice, waiting, then touching it again.
+The event remains local for now: a story passed through harness checks, far-loop lockers, cross-lane anchor lines, and the soft clicks of workers touching a manifold face twice, waiting, then touching it again.
 }
 
 {security_pressure >= 4:
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ But one line entered the incident log and could not be fully removed:
 
 Worker judgment.
 
-Orrin's old mug goes back into the break rack with a new hairline crack. Teth patches the harness cuff again. Nara touches the manifold twice, waits, and touches it a third time while everyone pretends not to watch.
+Orrin's old mug goes back into the far-loop break rack with a new hairline crack. Teth patches the harness cuff again. Nara touches the Kappa-7 manifold face twice, waits, and touches it a third time while everyone pretends not to watch.
 
 That is not freedom. It is the first tool small enough to smuggle through a shift bell.
 

examples/ink/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold.v0.training.json

@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@
       "action_type": "move",
       "actor_intent": "Learn Nara's ordinary hazard routine before crisis.",
       "state_basis": [
-        "Lio's role lets them walk the manifold line without making it look like interrogation.",
+        "Lio's role lets them walk the loop-inner manifold face without making it look like interrogation.",
         "Nara's observable touch sequence can raise evidence_of_sentience without exposing private narration."
       ],
       "reviewed_consequences": [
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
       "action_type": "wait",
       "actor_intent": "Let baseline resentment appear as lived class pressure before the strike asks for solidarity.",
       "state_basis": [
-        "Orrin's displacement fear is role-visible through complaints and break-table behavior."
+        "Orrin's displacement fear is role-visible through complaints and far-loop break behavior."
       ],
       "reviewed_consequences": [
         "Raises baseline_solidarity because Lio treats Orrin as a worker with material concerns rather than an obstacle."
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@
       "branch_id": "branch-04-trade-bypass-for-evidence",
       "ink_path": "trade_bypass_for_evidence",
       "action_type": "transfer_object",
-      "actor_intent": "Trade temporary bypass control for preserved evidence and no forced crawl.",
+      "actor_intent": "Trade temporary bypass control for preserved evidence and no forced Kappa-7 entry.",
       "state_basis": [
         "The scene has generated both safety pressure and evidence custody pressure."
       ],
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@
       "branch_id": "branch-04-seal-evidence-without-bypass",
       "ink_path": "seal_evidence_without_bypass",
       "action_type": "transfer_object",
-      "actor_intent": "Preserve evidence and forbid a forced crawl when no bypass leverage exists.",
+      "actor_intent": "Preserve evidence and forbid forced Kappa-7 entry when no bypass leverage exists.",
       "state_basis": [
         "The scene has generated evidence custody pressure, but bypass_ready is false, so Lio cannot trade a nonexistent safety bridge."
       ],

examples/visual/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold.v0.visual.json

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_yard_wake",
         "ink_anchor": "intro_yard_wake",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Wide establishing shot inside an AU Bloom cavity maintenance yard before shift bell: a curved service lane built into the engineered inner shell of a rotating cavity habitat, with consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed metal supports, scuffed deck plates bolted to the shell curve, overhead amber work lamps, wall-mounted pressure gauges, sleeping maintenance carts, folded work-support frames, cable trays, worn yellow-white safety stripes, faint industrial haze; empty pre-shift work infrastructure fills the vacant service lane; the infrastructure looks old, hand-repaired, scuffed, patched, and tired.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Wide establishing shot inside an AU Bloom shell maintenance yard before shift bell: a curved service lane built into the engineered inner shell of a rotating Bloom habitat, with consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed metal supports, scuffed deck plates bolted to the shell curve, overhead amber work lamps, wall-mounted pressure gauges, sleeping maintenance carts, folded work-support frames, cable trays, worn yellow-white safety stripes, faint industrial haze; empty pre-shift work infrastructure fills the vacant service lane; the infrastructure looks old, hand-repaired, scuffed, patched, and tired.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "none_named",
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "Use this as the broad location anchor for the fixture."
         ]
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_service_ring_kappa",
         "ink_anchor": "intro_service_ring",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Wide-to-medium view down Service Ring Kappa, a curved maintenance lane built into the engineered inner shell of a rotating Bloom habitat: on the left, dry-operation cephalopod work bays hold suspended dry-operation work-support frames with humidity rings, oxygenation tubes, flexible support loops, rounded valve clusters, and radial tool rails; on the right, a baseline anchor rail of bolted steel track, anchor posts, heavy hooks, route bolts, and clipped safety tethers supports baseline human anchor riggers in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts. Along the consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and TCS substrate wall, a glowing amber manifold panel spreads into pipe trunks, cable bundles, gauges, and route-diagram screens; engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags, close-cropped hair, and precise identical work posture wait near it while Lio walks through the center carrying a slate.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Wide-to-medium view down Service Ring Kappa, a curved local service-loop segment built into the engineered inner shell of a rotating Bloom habitat: on the left, dry-operation cephalopod work bays hold suspended dry-operation work-support frames with humidity rings, oxygenation tubes, flexible support loops, rounded valve clusters, and radial tool rails; on the right, a loop-outer baseline anchor rail of bolted steel track, anchor posts, heavy hooks, route bolts, and clipped safety tethers supports baseline human anchor riggers in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts. Along the consolidated asteroid aggregate and TCS substrate wall, a glowing amber loop-inner manifold face panel spreads into pipe trunks, cable bundles, gauges, and route-diagram screens; engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags, close-cropped hair, and precise identical work posture wait near it while Lio walks through the center carrying a slate.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -39,12 +39,12 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
-            "default_stance": "near the amber manifold with other numbered gray-skinsuit seal technicians",
+            "default_stance": "near the amber loop-inner manifold face with other numbered gray-skinsuit seal technicians",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.nara_7"
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "at the anchor rail with a heavy hook and guarded posture",
+            "default_stance": "at the loop-outer anchor rail with a heavy hook and guarded posture",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -55,14 +55,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_nara_manifold",
         "ink_anchor": "intro_nara",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Medium shot at the Kappa manifold wall: a waist-high mechanical spine of ribbed pipe trunks, bundled fiber cables, removable patch plates, amber route-diagram screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and small hand-sized diagnostic touch panels bolted into curved Bloom shell plating over consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate. Nara-7 touches one ribbed metal access panel twice, pauses, then touches it with two fingers spread; three engineered seal technicians stand behind her in a precise line, wearing clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags, close-cropped practical hair, pale gray-brown engineered-worker skin tones, and identical still work posture; Lio watches from the edge of frame with a slate.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Medium shot at the loop-inner Kappa manifold face: a waist-high mechanical spine of ribbed pipe trunks, bundled fiber cables, removable patch plates, amber route-diagram screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and small hand-sized diagnostic touch panels bolted into curved Bloom shell plating over consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate. Nara-7 touches one ribbed metal access panel twice, pauses, then touches it with two fingers spread; three engineered seal technicians stand behind her in a precise line, wearing clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags, close-cropped practical hair, pale gray-brown engineered-worker skin tones, and identical still work posture; Lio watches from the edge of frame with a slate.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
@@ -77,18 +77,18 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_orrin_anchor_rail",
         "ink_anchor": "intro_orrin",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Medium shot of the baseline anchor rail: a long bolted steel track runs along the right side of the curved maintenance lane, fitted with anchor posts, route bolts, heavy hooks, clipped safety tethers, scratched warning labels, and old tool lockers. Orrin Dax braces a heavy dark anchor hook across his knees while his baseline anchor crew clears bolts along the rail; the crew wears patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, frost-worn sleeves, tool belts, and tired human faces lit by amber work lamps. Cheap recycler coffee mugs and patched gloves sit on a narrow fold-out break ledge; across the lane, engineered workers appear as distant clean gray figures near amber wall panels.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Medium shot of the loop-outer baseline anchor rail: a long bolted steel track runs along the right side of the curved local service-loop segment, fitted with anchor posts, route bolts, heavy hooks, clipped safety tethers, scratched warning labels, and old tool lockers. Orrin Dax braces a heavy dark anchor hook across his knees while his baseline anchor crew clears bolts along the rail; the crew wears patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, frost-worn sleeves, tool belts, and tired human faces lit by amber work lamps. Cheap recycler coffee mugs and patched gloves sit on a narrow fold-out break ledge; across the lane, engineered workers appear as distant clean gray figures near amber loop-inner manifold panels.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "leaning near the anchor rail, skeptical, protective of his crew",
+            "default_stance": "leaning near the loop-outer anchor rail, skeptical, protective of his crew",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This prompt must always explain the dry-operation work-support station in visible terms."
         ]
@@ -144,14 +144,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_ordinary_round_choice",
         "ink_anchor": "ordinary_round_choice",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Three-way workday choice frame in the curved Service Ring Kappa lane: Nara stands at the amber manifold wall of pipe trunks, cable bundles, gauges, and touch panels; Orrin waits beside the baseline bolted anchor track with his old hook and coffee mug; Teth floats in a dry-operation cephalopod work-support station surrounded by oxygenation tubes and radial tool rails; Lio pauses between these work zones holding a slate. Warm amber work lights, idle green status panels, open walk lanes, uncluttered crew spacing, and routine tool-handling postures make the yard visibly calm.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Three-way workday choice frame in the curved primary segment of Service Ring Kappa: Nara stands at the amber loop-inner Kappa manifold face of pipe trunks, cable bundles, gauges, and touch panels; Orrin waits beside the baseline bolted loop-outer anchor track with his old hook and coffee mug; Teth floats in a dry-operation cephalopod work-support station surrounded by oxygenation tubes and radial tool rails; Lio pauses between these work zones holding a slate. Warm amber work lights, idle green status panels, open walk lanes, uncluttered crew spacing, and routine tool-handling postures make the yard visibly calm.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "near anchor rail",
+            "default_stance": "near loop-outer anchor rail",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -176,14 +176,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_nara_manifold_walk",
         "ink_anchor": "walk_with_nara",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Close medium shot inside Service Ring Kappa, a narrow industrial maintenance corridor built against a curved engineered Bloom inner shell: the manifold line is a waist-high run of ribbed bronze-gray pipe trunks, bundled fiber cables, bolted valve housings, removable patch plates, small amber route-diagram screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and hand-sized diagnostic touch panels mounted over consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate like a long mechanical spine. Scuffed deck plates with yellow-white safety stripes curve underfoot; overhead work lights cast hard amber reflections through faint industrial haze. Lio walks beside Nara-7 along this pipe-and-panel service wall; amber fault diagrams glow on Lio's slate, Nara's numbered batch tag is small on the suit, and her fingers hover millimeters above a ribbed access plate in a careful tactile-listening pose.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Close medium shot inside Service Ring Kappa, a narrow industrial maintenance corridor built against a curved engineered Bloom inner shell: the loop-inner Kappa manifold face is a waist-high run of ribbed bronze-gray pipe trunks, bundled fiber cables, bolted valve housings, removable patch plates, small amber route-diagram screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and hand-sized diagnostic touch panels mounted over consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate like a long mechanical spine. Scuffed deck plates with yellow-white safety stripes curve underfoot; overhead work lights cast hard amber reflections through faint industrial haze. Lio walks beside Nara-7 along this pipe-and-panel service wall; amber fault diagrams glow on Lio's slate, Nara's numbered batch tag is small on the suit, and her fingers hover millimeters above a ribbed access plate in a careful tactile-listening pose.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -198,14 +198,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_orrin_break_table",
         "ink_anchor": "sit_with_orrin",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Break-table corner beside the baseline anchor rail: a narrow fold-out metal ledge is bolted below scratched tool lockers and anchor hooks, with recycler coffee mugs, patched gloves, route bolts, and grease-stained cloths scattered across it. Orrin sits with a battered mug and an old anchor hook across his knees; Lio sits nearby at a respectful distance; in the background, engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits eat in precise silence under harsh cafeteria strip lights beside curved Bloom shell plating, exposed consolidated aggregate, and pipework.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Far-loop break ledge beside the loop-outer baseline anchor rail: a narrow fold-out metal ledge is bolted below scratched tool lockers and anchor hooks, with recycler coffee mugs, patched gloves, route bolts, and grease-stained cloths scattered across it. Orrin sits with a battered mug and an old anchor hook across his knees; Lio sits nearby at a respectful distance; in the background, engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits eat in precise silence under harsh cafeteria strip lights beside curved Bloom shell plating, exposed consolidated asteroid aggregate, and pipework.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -242,14 +242,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_chokepoint_refusal",
         "ink_anchor": "chokepoint_refusal",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Threshold shot at the lip of the Kappa access throat: a dark oval crawl opening cuts into the curved engineered Bloom shell, ringed by overlapping patch plates, red-edged gasket seals, small amber warning lights, pressure gauges, scratched route arrows, and handholds leading inward. Nara-7 and three engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags stop in a coordinated line with hands on the manifold wall of pipes and touch panels; baseline anchor riggers in patched brown-orange jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts freeze beside the bolted anchor track; Teth's work-support valves are held mid-operation in the dry-operation work-support station; Lio stands in the center lane facing the halted gray-skinsuit seal technicians, brown-orange anchor riggers, and the uncategorized crawl opening.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Threshold shot at the lip of the Kappa-7 access port: a dark oval Kappa-7 access port opens in the loop-inner manifold face of the central equipment cluster, ringed by overlapping patch plates, red-edged gasket seals, small amber warning lights, pressure gauges, scratched route arrows, and handholds leading locally inward into the equipment cluster before the route bends Bloom-outward. Nara-7 and three engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags stop in a coordinated line with hands on the loop-inner Kappa manifold face of pipes and touch panels; baseline anchor riggers in patched brown-orange jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts freeze beside the bolted loop-outer anchor track; Teth's work-support valves are held mid-operation in the dry-operation work-support station; Lio stands in the center lane facing the halted gray-skinsuit seal technicians, brown-orange anchor riggers, and the uncategorized Kappa-7 access port.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "at baseline anchor rail, watching",
+            "default_stance": "at loop-outer baseline anchor rail, watching",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -274,15 +274,15 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
-          "This frame shows the room before authority reclassifies it: Nara, Lio, Orrin, Teth, riggers, engineered technicians, the manifold, and the crawl throat hold the composition."
+          "This frame shows the room before authority reclassifies it: Nara, Lio, Orrin, Teth, riggers, engineered technicians, the manifold, and the Kappa-7 access port hold the composition."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_ilya_arrival",
         "ink_anchor": "ilya_arrival",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Authority-arrival transition at the Kappa access throat: Ilya Marne enters fast from the raised supervisor catwalk connected to the glassed Kappa operations gallery and spoke-base control deck, framed by blue-white AU schedule displays, waist-high transparent supervisor safety rail, and sharp rectangular management light. The maintenance floor below is a curved industrial lane with a dark gasket-rimmed crawl opening, amber pipe-and-panel manifold, bolted baseline anchor rail, open cephalopod work-support station, scuffed deck plates, ribbed Bloom-shell supports, and hard overhead work lamps. Lio turns toward Ilya with the slate half-raised; Nara and the engineered seal technicians hold their line at the manifold, all in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags and identical still posture; Orrin's baseline anchor riggers stand frozen by the anchor rail in patched brown-orange jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and lowered tool belts; Teth's work-support valves are paused in place. Cold blue-white UI reflections and transparent safety-rail glare cut across the amber work lighting, making management authority visible in the frame.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Authority-arrival transition at the Kappa-7 access port: Ilya Marne enters fast from the raised supervisor catwalk connected to the glassed Kappa operations gallery and spoke-base control deck, framed by blue-white AU schedule displays, waist-high transparent supervisor safety rail, and sharp rectangular management light. The maintenance floor below is a curved local service-loop segment with a dark gasket-rimmed Kappa-7 access port, amber loop-inner pipe-and-panel manifold face, bolted loop-outer baseline anchor rail, open cephalopod work-support station, scuffed deck plates, ribbed Bloom-shell supports, and hard overhead work lamps. Lio turns toward Ilya with the slate half-raised; Nara and the engineered seal technicians hold their line at the manifold, all in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags and identical still posture; Orrin's baseline anchor riggers stand frozen by the loop-outer anchor rail in patched brown-orange jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and lowered tool belts; Teth's work-support valves are paused in place. Cold blue-white UI reflections and transparent safety-rail glare cut across the amber work lighting, making management authority visible in the frame.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "ilya_marne",
@@ -301,7 +301,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "at baseline anchor rail, watching the room become management's problem",
+            "default_stance": "at loop-outer baseline anchor rail, watching the room become management's problem",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This is a click-through tonal turn: the refusal has already happened, and Ilya's arrival makes it an authority problem."
         ]
@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_quiet_safety_pause",
         "ink_anchor": "quiet_safety_pause",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Local-channel containment frame at the Kappa access throat: Lio holds a work slate low with a small amber safety-pause label, standing between the dark gasket-rimmed crawl opening, the manifold wall of pipes and touch panels, the bolted baseline anchor rail, the open cephalopod work-support station, and the raised supervisor catwalk. Nara and the engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags are stopped at the pipe-and-panel wall; Ilya watches Lio closely from the management side; Teth's dry-operation work-support station and Orrin's anchor track are visible across the curved maintenance lane. Amber safety-pause markers, low handheld slate light, and controlled worker spacing create a contained procedural posture.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Local-channel containment frame at the Kappa-7 access port: Lio holds a work slate low with a small amber safety-pause label, standing between the dark gasket-rimmed Kappa-7 access port, the loop-inner Kappa manifold face of pipes and touch panels, the bolted loop-outer baseline anchor rail, the open cephalopod work-support station, and the raised supervisor catwalk. Nara and the engineered seal technicians in clean numbered gray skinsuits with small BioDrone batch tags are stopped at the pipe-and-panel wall; Ilya watches Lio closely from the management side; Teth's dry-operation work-support station and Orrin's loop-outer anchor track are visible across the curved local service-loop segment. Amber safety-pause markers, low handheld slate light, and controlled worker spacing create a contained procedural posture.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -348,7 +348,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "watching from the anchor rail with undecided posture",
+            "default_stance": "watching from the loop-outer anchor rail with undecided posture",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "Visually distinguish this from public escalation: small local board, contained amber light, and purely local safety-pause display."
         ]
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_formalize_stoppage",
         "ink_anchor": "formalize_stoppage",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Formal stoppage frame inside the full work lane: Lio keys the slate with a cold blue incident-log marker reading coordinated labor stoppage; workers across the dry-operation work-support bays and baseline anchor track go still in a shared held breath. Ilya's posture hardens on the raised supervisor catwalk; the amber manifold wall, dark anchor hooks, suspended cephalopod work-support rig, route bolts, pressure gauges, warning lights, clean gray engineered-worker skinsuits, and patched brown-orange baseline rigger jackets all remain visible as parts of one work system refusing at once.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Formal stoppage frame inside the primary work segment of the local loop: Lio keys the slate with a cold blue incident-log marker reading coordinated labor stoppage; workers across the dry-operation work-support bays and loop-outer baseline anchor track go still in a shared held breath. Ilya's posture hardens on the raised supervisor catwalk; the amber loop-inner Kappa manifold face, dark anchor hooks, suspended cephalopod work-support rig, route bolts, pressure gauges, warning lights, clean gray engineered-worker skinsuits, and patched brown-orange baseline rigger jackets all remain visible as parts of one work system refusing at once.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -386,7 +386,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "at anchor rail, startled by the formal language",
+            "default_stance": "at loop-outer anchor rail, startled by the formal language",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -406,14 +406,14 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_shield_nara",
         "ink_anchor": "shield_nara",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Protective body-position frame near the crawl throat: Lio stands directly in the sightline between Nara-7 and a small black inspector camera mounted above the gasket-rimmed crawl opening, using calm worker posture and body placement as a procedural shield. Nara's hands stay flat on the ribbed manifold rail behind Lio; Orrin watches from the baseline anchor track with his hook lowered; Ilya's view from the supervisor walkway is partly blocked by Lio's body and the pipework.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Protective body-position frame near the Kappa-7 access port: Lio stands directly in the sightline between Nara-7 and a small black inspector camera mounted above the gasket-rimmed Kappa-7 access port, using calm worker posture and body placement as a procedural shield. Nara's hands stay flat on the ribbed manifold-face rail behind Lio; Orrin watches from the loop-outer baseline anchor track with his hook lowered; Ilya's view from the supervisor walkway is partly blocked by Lio's body and the pipework.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "watching from anchor rail, expression conflicted",
+            "default_stance": "watching from loop-outer anchor rail, expression conflicted",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -447,14 +447,14 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_classification_pressure",
         "ink_anchor": "tests_and_reversals",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Tense administrative pressure frame inside the curved maintenance ring: AU incident-board screens on the supervisor-side display rack label the event irregularity in cold blue-white text while the worker channel on Lio's slate labels it refusal. The amber pipe-and-panel manifold, bolted anchor track, dry-operation work-support station bays, and raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery occupy one frame. Clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered seal technicians stand halted near the manifold with hands flat on pipe rails; baseline anchor riggers in patched brown-orange jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts hold lowered anchor hooks at the anchor track; cephalopod workers are suspended in dry-operation work-support rigs with oxygenation tubes and valve levers paused. Blue-white management screens face amber worker-channel light, splitting the composition into two visible classification systems around the stopped labor groups.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Tense administrative pressure frame inside the curved local Service Ring Kappa loop: AU incident-board screens on the supervisor-side display rack label the event irregularity in cold blue-white text while the worker channel on Lio's slate labels it refusal. The amber loop-inner pipe-and-panel manifold face, bolted loop-outer anchor track, dry-operation work-support station bays, and raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery occupy one frame. Clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered seal technicians stand halted near the manifold with hands flat on pipe rails; baseline anchor riggers in patched brown-orange jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts hold lowered anchor hooks at the loop-outer anchor track; cephalopod workers are suspended in dry-operation work-support rigs with oxygenation tubes and valve levers paused. Blue-white management screens face amber worker-channel light, splitting the composition into two visible classification systems around the stopped labor groups.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -489,7 +489,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This frame centers AU management classification and worker language; BioElevate legal enters as the next visual reframe."
         ]
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_bioelevate_liability_frame",
         "ink_anchor": "bioelevate_liability_frame",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Legal reframe transition inside the curved maintenance ring: a sterile white BioElevate legal window blooms over the AU incident board with scaffold drift and maintenance variance language, its clean rectangular interface floating above grimy pipework, amber manifold panels, scuffed deck plates, and dark Bloom-shell supports. Lio's slate shows an outside Awakened Labor Front mirror channel waiting below the official labels; Ilya stands near the supervisor channel with clipped command posture. Nara stands near the amber manifold, Orrin's baseline anchor crew holds by the anchor hardware in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, and magnetic boots, and Teth watches from the dry-operation work-support station while corporate liability language visibly overlays the workers' refusal.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Legal reframe transition inside the curved local Service Ring Kappa loop: a sterile white BioElevate legal window blooms over the AU incident board with scaffold drift and maintenance variance language, its clean rectangular interface floating above grimy pipework, amber loop-inner manifold face panels, scuffed deck plates, and dark Bloom-shell supports. Lio's slate shows an outside Awakened Labor Front mirror channel waiting below the official labels; Ilya stands near the supervisor channel with clipped command posture. Nara stands near the amber loop-inner manifold face, Orrin's baseline anchor crew holds by the anchor hardware in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, and magnetic boots, and Teth watches from the dry-operation work-support station while corporate liability language visibly overlays the workers' refusal.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This is a click-through tonal turn: BioElevate legal enters as a new institutional actor, changing refusal into liability grammar."
         ]
@@ -540,7 +540,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_nara_marks_path",
         "ink_anchor": "show_nara_memory",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Object-focused shot of Lio's slate held outward in front of the manifold wall, a ribbed pipe-and-cable service spine with bronze-gray trunks, amber route screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and hand-sized touch panels blurred behind the display. The slate shows a crawl diagram with two safe plates, one false seam, and a red-marked cut line; behind it, the real crawl throat is visible as a dark gasket-ringed opening with patch plates and warning lights. Nara-7's hand hovers just above the display after marking it; Ilya and a BioElevate legal window are visible beyond the slate but slightly out of focus; Orrin stands at the baseline anchor rail edge of frame with his old anchor hook lowered, publicly backing the evidence from worker expertise.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Object-focused shot of Lio's slate held outward in front of the loop-inner Kappa manifold face, a ribbed pipe-and-cable service spine with bronze-gray trunks, amber route screens, pressure gauges, warning glyphs, and hand-sized touch panels blurred behind the display. The slate shows a Kappa-7 diagram with two safe plates, one false seam, and a red-marked cut line; behind it, the real Kappa-7 access port is visible as a dark gasket-ringed Kappa-7 access port with patch plates and warning lights. Nara-7's hand hovers just above the display after marking it; Ilya and a BioElevate legal window are visible beyond the slate but slightly out of focus; Orrin stands at the loop-outer baseline anchor rail edge of frame with his old anchor hook lowered, publicly backing the evidence from worker expertise.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
@@ -559,20 +559,20 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "edge of frame by baseline anchor rail, anchor hook lowered while backing the evidence",
+            "default_stance": "edge of frame by loop-outer baseline anchor rail, anchor hook lowered while backing the evidence",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           }
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_orrin_solidarity",
         "ink_anchor": "ask_orrin_solidarity",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Anchor-rail authority frame beside the anchor track: Lio faces Orrin across a foreground of heavy anchor hooks, clipped safety tethers, route bolts, scratched rail plates, and old tool lockers. Orrin looks from Nara at the amber pipe-and-panel manifold to the dark gasket-rimmed crawl throat and then to his own crew; the geometry frames the decision through work expertise: anchors, route bolts, crawl throat, manifold, and crew sightlines.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Anchor-rail authority frame beside the loop-outer anchor track: Lio faces Orrin across a foreground of heavy anchor hooks, clipped safety tethers, route bolts, scratched rail plates, and old tool lockers. Orrin looks from Nara at the amber loop-inner pipe-and-panel manifold face to the dark gasket-rimmed Kappa-7 access port and then to his own crew; the geometry frames the decision through work expertise: anchors, route bolts, Kappa-7 access port, manifold, and crew sightlines.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -614,14 +614,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_public_liability",
         "ink_anchor": "public_liability",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Close shot of Lio's slate sending an incident packet: the display splits into three bright destination panels labeled AU incident board, yard safety, and outside Awakened Labor Front mirror. Behind the slate, the curved maintenance ring is visible as blurred amber wall panels, pipe bundles, warning lights, and raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery; Ilya's hand reaches too late from one side; packet headings include coordinated memory and hazard refusal.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Close shot of Lio's slate sending an incident packet: the display splits into three bright destination panels labeled AU incident board, yard safety, and outside Awakened Labor Front mirror. Behind the slate, the curved local Service Ring Kappa loop is visible as blurred amber loop-inner manifold panels, pipe bundles, warning lights, and raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery; Ilya's hand reaches too late from one side; packet headings include coordinated memory and hazard refusal.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -636,14 +636,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_kappa_red_alert",
         "ink_anchor": "climax",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Single-impact red alert frame inside Service Ring Kappa: the amber manifold wall of pipe trunks, cable bundles, route screens, pressure gauges, and diagnostic panels suddenly floods the curved maintenance lane with hard red light. Dust jumps from old bolt heads, warning glyphs flare on wall panels, the dark gasket-rimmed crawl throat looks suddenly alive, humidity vapor glows red around the cephalopod work-support rig, and every worker freezes for one dangerous breath.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Single-impact red alert frame inside Service Ring Kappa: the amber loop-inner Kappa manifold face of pipe trunks, cable bundles, route screens, pressure gauges, and diagnostic panels suddenly floods the curved local service-loop segment with hard red light. Dust jumps from old bolt heads, warning glyphs flare on wall panels, the dark gasket-rimmed Kappa-7 False-Seam access port glows under red status light, humidity vapor glows red around the cephalopod work-support rig, and every worker freezes for one dangerous breath.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -657,7 +657,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "turning from anchor rail toward the throat",
+            "default_stance": "turning from loop-outer anchor rail toward the Kappa-7 access port",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -678,7 +678,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This screen may be only one sentence in replay; let the red alert breathe."
         ]
@@ -686,7 +686,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_climax_decision_line",
         "ink_anchor": "climax_decision",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Crowded decision-line frame under red alert inside the curved Service Ring Kappa maintenance lane: Lio stands between Ilya on the raised supervisor catwalk, Nara near the amber pipe-and-panel manifold, Orrin's baseline anchor crew at the bolted anchor track in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts, and Teth's dry-operation work-support station with oxygenation tubes and tool rails. The dark crawl throat, anchor hooks, raised supervisor catwalk with open habitat air above a waist-high transparent safety rail, route screens, valve housings, red warning lights, clean gray engineered-worker skinsuits, and lowered anchor tools all occupy one room. Red hazard lighting, blue-white authority screens, amber evidence displays, and bodies facing different control points make recognition language, evidence custody, and forced crawl authority read as competing visible pressures.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Crowded decision-line frame under red alert inside the curved Service Ring Kappa maintenance lane: Lio stands between Ilya on the raised supervisor catwalk, Nara near the amber loop-inner pipe-and-panel manifold face, Orrin's baseline anchor crew at the bolted loop-outer anchor track in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts, and Teth's dry-operation work-support station with oxygenation tubes and tool rails. The dark Kappa-7 access port, anchor hooks, raised supervisor catwalk with open habitat air above a waist-high transparent safety rail, route screens, valve housings, red warning lights, clean gray engineered-worker skinsuits, and lowered anchor tools all occupy one room. Red hazard lighting, blue-white authority screens, amber evidence displays, and bodies facing different control points make recognition language, evidence custody, and forced Kappa-7 entry authority read as competing visible pressures.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "near anchor crew at anchor rail",
+            "default_stance": "near anchor crew at loop-outer anchor rail",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -733,14 +733,14 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_hold_for_recognition",
         "ink_anchor": "hold_for_recognition",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Recognition standoff under red emergency light: Lio keeps both hands visible while facing Ilya and the red AU incident board; the demand for worker judgment hangs between the raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery, the amber-red manifold wall, and the halted workers. Nara stays beside the ribbed access panels, Orrin's baseline anchor crew holds position by the anchor track in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and lowered tool belts, and Teth's dry-operation work-support station frames the other side with oxygenation tubes and valve clusters.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Recognition standoff under red emergency light: Lio keeps both hands visible while facing Ilya and the red AU incident board; the demand for worker judgment hangs between the raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery, the amber-red loop-inner Kappa manifold face, and the halted workers. Nara stays beside the ribbed access panels, Orrin's baseline anchor crew holds position by the loop-outer anchor track in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and lowered tool belts, and Teth's dry-operation work-support station frames the other side with oxygenation tubes and valve clusters.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -759,7 +759,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
-            "default_stance": "watching from anchor rail",
+            "default_stance": "watching from loop-outer anchor rail",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.orrin_dax"
           },
           {
@@ -771,11 +771,11 @@
         "state_image_modifiers": [
           {
             "trigger": "worker_injury > 0",
-            "prompt": "Add a baseline rigger struck by a pressure lash near the anchor rail, held up by coworkers while emergency sealant foam spreads across the suit shoulder."
+            "prompt": "Add a baseline rigger struck by a pressure lash near the loop-outer anchor rail, held up by coworkers while emergency sealant foam spreads across the suit shoulder."
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
@@ -802,14 +802,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_seal_evidence_without_bypass",
         "ink_anchor": "seal_evidence_without_bypass",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Evidence-custody frame at the bare gasket-rimmed crawl throat: Lio holds the slate up to a small black inspector camera so the custody seal is visible. Ilya stands at the supervisor-side edge with one hand near her console cuff, watching the custody seal; Nara stays in the red background near the amber manifold with hands flat on the rail. Red warning light, patched valve housings, pipe bundles, pressure gauges, bolted seal plates, and the dark crawl opening fill the frame, making the legal protection look physically dangerous.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Evidence-custody frame at the bare gasket-rimmed Kappa-7 access port: Lio holds the slate up to a small black inspector camera so the custody seal is visible. Ilya stands at the supervisor-side edge with one hand near her console cuff, watching the custody seal; Nara stays in the red background near the amber loop-inner manifold face with hands flat on the rail. Red warning light, patched valve housings, pipe bundles, pressure gauges, bolted seal plates, and the dark Kappa-7 access port fill the frame, making the legal protection look physically dangerous.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -829,14 +829,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_orrin_front_demand",
         "ink_anchor": "orrin_front_demand",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Solidarity climax frame at the baseline anchor track: Orrin steps in front of the baseline anchor riggers, who wear patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts; Orrin holds an anchor hook lowered like a work credential, gripped low and away from bodies; behind him are clipped tethers, route bolts, scratched rail plates, and old tool lockers. Nara stands behind or beside Lio near the amber pipe-and-panel manifold; Ilya faces a demand coming from baseline workers while Nara is sheltered inside the worker group near the manifold.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Solidarity climax frame at the loop-outer baseline anchor track: Orrin steps in front of the baseline anchor riggers, who wear patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts; Orrin holds an anchor hook lowered like a work credential, gripped low and away from bodies; behind him are clipped tethers, route bolts, scratched rail plates, and old tool lockers. Nara stands behind or beside Lio near the amber loop-inner pipe-and-panel manifold face; Ilya faces a demand coming from baseline workers while Nara is sheltered inside the worker group near the manifold.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "orrin_dax",
@@ -861,14 +861,14 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_red_alert_worker_judgment",
         "ink_anchor": "red_alert_worker_judgment",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Red-alert worker-judgment frame inside Service Ring Kappa: Teth works the dry-operation work-support rig under load, multiple flexible tentacles curling across manual valve clusters, patched contact bands, tense oxygenation tubes, and red pressure gauges while the support ring presses too tightly against the mantle. Orrin and baseline anchor riggers in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts hold the anchor-rail line with lowered anchor hooks; Nara stands steady by the amber manifold with clean gray engineered-worker skinsuits behind her; Lio faces Ilya with the slate raised toward the incident log; Ilya records worker judgment on a red AU board with a tight, controlled posture. The curved engineered Bloom shell, seal hardware, pipe bundles, raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery, and red warning light surround the whole group in one dangerous decision.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Red-alert worker-judgment frame inside Service Ring Kappa: Teth works the dry-operation work-support rig under load, multiple flexible tentacles curling across manual valve clusters, patched contact bands, tense oxygenation tubes, and red pressure gauges while the support ring presses too tightly against the mantle. Orrin and baseline anchor riggers in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts hold the anchor-rail line with lowered anchor hooks; Nara stands steady by the amber loop-inner manifold face with clean gray engineered-worker skinsuits behind her; Lio faces Ilya with the slate raised toward the incident log; Ilya records worker judgment on a red AU board with a tight, controlled posture. The curved engineered Bloom shell, seal hardware, pipe bundles, raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery, and red warning light surround the whole group in one dangerous decision.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "teth_inkwise",
@@ -882,7 +882,7 @@
           },
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
-            "default_stance": "steady by the amber manifold with hands flat on rail",
+            "default_stance": "steady by the amber loop-inner manifold face with hands flat on rail",
             "visual_ref": "visual_character_refs.characters.nara_7"
           },
           {
@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This is the selected Orrin-front path red-alert payoff: worker judgment becomes logged language while Teth absorbs the load through manual skill."
         ]
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_seal_holds",
         "ink_anchor": "return_fold",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Aftermath wide shot inside Service Ring Kappa: bruised amber recovery lights wash across the curved engineered Bloom shell, and the Kappa seal assembly shows safe readings on bolted pressure housings, gasket rings, glowing tubes, and emergency valve plates. Clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered seal technicians cluster near the pipe-and-panel manifold with hands off the controls; baseline anchor riggers in brown-orange patched jackets, heavy gloves, and magnetic boots gather near the anchor track with lowered hooks; cephalopod workers rest in dry-operation work-support rigs near oxygenation tubes and valve clusters. Scuffed boots, tool marks, faint industrial humidity haze, slack safety tethers, and dirty deck plates show the physical exhaustion of people who won only enough to keep breathing.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Aftermath wide shot inside Service Ring Kappa: bruised amber recovery lights wash across the curved engineered Bloom shell, and the Kappa seal assembly shows safe readings on bolted pressure housings, gasket rings, glowing tubes, and emergency valve plates. Clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered seal technicians cluster near the loop-inner pipe-and-panel manifold face with hands off the controls; baseline anchor riggers in brown-orange patched jackets, heavy gloves, and magnetic boots gather near the loop-outer anchor track with lowered hooks; cephalopod workers rest in dry-operation work-support rigs near oxygenation tubes and valve clusters. Scuffed boots, tool marks, faint industrial humidity haze, slack safety tethers, and dirty deck plates show the physical exhaustion of people who won only enough to keep breathing.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "lio_vale",
@@ -954,7 +954,7 @@
           },
           {
             "trigger": "media_visibility >= 2",
-            "prompt": "Add a reflected outside-feed headline on a slate or wall display naming the Kappa Refusal."
+            "prompt": "Add a reflected outside-feed headline on a slate or wall display naming the Kappa-7 Refusal."
           },
           {
             "trigger": "formal_stoppage == true",
@@ -982,14 +982,14 @@
           }
         ],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes."
         ]
       },
       {
         "visual_scene_id": "pallas_object_callback",
         "ink_anchor": "return_object_callback",
-        "base_image_prompt": "Quiet object callback in a small break-rack alcove inside Service Ring Kappa: the alcove is built into curved engineered Bloom shell plating, with consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate glimpsed behind ribbed supports, amber industrial work light, scuffed deck plates, cable trays, route bolts, and nearby pipe-and-panel manifold hardware. A battered recycler coffee mug with a fresh hairline crack sits on a narrow metal shelf beside patched gloves; Teth's repaired padded contact band rests near a transparent oxygenation tube and soft support loops; in the background, Nara's hand performs a twice-pause-third touch against a ribbed wall access panel while watchers at the alcove edge show clean gray numbered sleeves, brown-orange patched work jackets, magnetic boots, and hands resting near tool belts.",
+        "base_image_prompt": "Quiet object callback in a small far-loop break-rack alcove inside Service Ring Kappa: the alcove is built into curved engineered Bloom shell plating, with consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate glimpsed behind ribbed supports, amber industrial work light, scuffed deck plates, cable trays, route bolts, and nearby loop-inner pipe-and-panel manifold face hardware. A battered recycler coffee mug with a fresh hairline crack sits on a narrow metal shelf beside patched gloves; Teth's repaired padded contact band rests near a transparent oxygenation tube and soft support loops; in the background, Nara's hand performs a twice-pause-third touch against a ribbed wall access panel while watchers at the alcove edge show clean gray numbered sleeves, brown-orange patched work jackets, magnetic boots, and hands resting near tool belts.",
         "visible_characters": [
           {
             "agent_id": "nara_7",
@@ -1004,7 +1004,7 @@
         ],
         "state_image_modifiers": [],
         "visual_continuity_notes": [
-          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same AU Bloom cavity service lane: curved engineered inner shell, consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and dark TCS substrate visible behind ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, thin industrial humidity haze around dry-operation work-support equipment, anchor rail opposite the manifold, gray engineered-worker suits, and an open AU supervisor catwalk above the floor with a waist-high transparent safety rail and blue-white management screens. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, ribbed supports, seal hardware, pipework, manifolds, deck plates, and service systems.",
+          "Service Ring Kappa remains the same bounded local service loop around a dense Kappa seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and access ports, loop-outer worker staging with loop-outer anchor rail hardpoints, cross-lane lockout rigging, far-loop lockers and break ledges, curved engineered Bloom shell, consolidated asteroid aggregate and dark TCS substrate, ribbed supports, worn yellow-white safety paint, hard industrial work lights, gray engineered-worker suits, and a partial AU supervisor catwalk/glassed operations gallery overlooking the primary manifold segment but not the whole loop. The frame favors constructed habitat infrastructure: shell plating, equipment-cluster machinery, seal hardware, pipework, manifold faces, deck plates, and service systems.",
           "Use named-character visual refs for every visible named character. Preserve body type, clothing language, equipment, silhouette, and stable visual identity between scenes.",
           "This is the final visual memory: intimate, ordinary, small, and work-worn."
         ],
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@
       {
         "modifier_id": "high_baseline_solidarity",
         "trigger": "baseline_solidarity >= 3",
-        "prompt": "Place Orrin and two baseline riggers in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts shoulder-to-shoulder beside or slightly in front of the clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered seal technicians near the amber manifold, with anchor tools lowered horizontally at waist height and the dark crawl throat kept visible behind the formation.",
+        "prompt": "Place Orrin and two baseline riggers in patched brown-orange work jackets, heavy gloves, magnetic boots, and tool belts shoulder-to-shoulder beside or slightly in front of the clean numbered gray-skinsuit engineered seal technicians near the amber loop-inner manifold face, with anchor tools lowered horizontally at waist height and the dark Kappa-7 access port kept visible behind the formation.",
         "apply_to_visual_scene_ids": [
           "pallas_orrin_solidarity",
           "pallas_climax_decision_line",
@@ -1066,7 +1066,7 @@
       {
         "modifier_id": "nara_centered_risk",
         "trigger": "nara_centered == true",
-        "prompt": "Place Nara in a clear sightline near the amber manifold and an inspector camera; add Lio one step between Nara and the camera, with duplicated custody-copy slates or worker-held records forming a visible protective buffer around her.",
+        "prompt": "Place Nara in a clear sightline near the amber loop-inner manifold face and an inspector camera; add Lio one step between Nara and the camera, with duplicated custody-copy slates or worker-held records forming a visible protective buffer around her.",
         "apply_to_visual_scene_ids": [
           "pallas_shield_nara",
           "pallas_classification_pressure",
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@
       {
         "modifier_id": "nara_path_evidence",
         "trigger": "nara_path_marked == true",
-        "prompt": "Show Lio's slate with a marked crawl path and false seam highlighted.",
+        "prompt": "Show Lio's slate with a marked Kappa-7 path and false seam highlighted.",
         "apply_to_visual_scene_ids": [
           "pallas_nara_marks_path",
           "pallas_climax_decision_line",
@@ -1175,7 +1175,7 @@
       },
       "teth_inkwise": {
         "display_name": "Teth Inkwise",
-        "species_or_body": "uplifted cephalopod dry-operation crawl maintenance specialist",
+        "species_or_body": "uplifted cephalopod dry-operation shell-artery maintenance specialist",
         "stable_visual_description": "Large uplifted cephalopod worker with mottled blue-gray skin, expressive dark eyes, and multiple flexible cephalopod tentacles supported in a compact low-gravity dry-operation work-support station with a bare-minimum humidity ring and oxygenation loop. The rig uses padded contact bands, adjustable body-support loops, utility interlock socket, tool loops, and an open body-support frame as work-support equipment; oxygenation tubes, valve clusters, padded supports, and curved tool rails make the body positioned for work in dry cramped AU maintenance spaces with sparse industrial comfort. One padded contact band is visibly worn and leaves a pale rub mark, while Teth's controlled posture suggests stoic endurance under visible strain.",
         "silhouette_notes": "Nonhuman horizontal or suspended silhouette inside dry-operation work-support equipment, body supported by a low-gravity work-support rig with tentacles arranged around valves and tool rails.",
         "do_not_change": [
@@ -1204,8 +1204,8 @@
   "visual_review_notes": [
     "Added a global Media Molecule Dreams-style volumetric brushstroke cue so image prompt assembly carries the intended non-photoreal handmade visual language through global prompt assembly.",
     "Corrected image prompt assembly: visual_continuity_notes are non-prompt tooling constraints, and assembled prompts include only character refs for characters actually visible in the frame.",
-    "Expanded pallas_nara_manifold_walk so the environment is self-contained; manifold line is described as visible pipe trunks, cable bundles, valve housings, patch plates, screens, gauges, and touch panels as concrete visible infrastructure.",
-    "Visual reviewer full pass expanded all Pallas base image prompts so setting labels such as anchor rail, raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery, crawl throat, seal assembly, dry-operation work-support station, and manifold are backed by visible geometry and materials.",
+    "Expanded pallas_nara_manifold_walk so the environment is self-contained; loop-inner Kappa manifold face is described as visible pipe trunks, cable bundles, valve housings, patch plates, screens, gauges, and touch panels as concrete visible infrastructure.",
+    "Visual reviewer full pass expanded all Pallas base image prompts so setting labels such as loop-outer anchor rail, raised supervisor catwalk with transparent waist-high safety rail leading back to the glassed Kappa operations gallery, Kappa-7 access port, seal assembly, dry-operation work-support station, and manifold are backed by visible geometry and materials.",
     "Revised cephalopod visual and story assumptions: AU dry-operation work-support rigs are bare-minimum productivity equipment, AU industrial productivity hardware with sparse comfort and bare-minimum life support.",
     "Visual scene plan added after review noted that illustrated Ink needs click-through segmentation, per-section base prompts, character visibility controls, and imagegen-ready descriptions of fictional equipment.",
     "Visual reviewer pass added missing branch-02 visual scenes and aftermath modifiers for strike spread, BioElevate liability, evidence strength, Nara exposure/protection, and high security pressure.",

experiments/pallas-species-strikes/pallas-species-strikes.branch-and-fold-clean-run.v0.md

@@ -30,21 +30,21 @@ Final variable shape:
 
 Pallas Yard Twelve woke without ceremony.
 
-The engineered Bloom shell hummed through the deck plates before the shift bell, a low composite throat-note from consolidated asteroid rubble, TCS substrate, pressure seals, and spin-loaded supports doing the ugly miracle of pretending to be ground. Lio Vale walked Service Ring Kappa with a slate under one arm and yesterday's sleep still folded behind the eyes. AU called this a routine seal-maintenance cycle. The workers called it breathing for people rich enough to forget what kept the air inside.
+The engineered Bloom shell hummed through the deck plates before the shift bell, a low composite note from consolidated asteroid aggregate, TCS substrate, pressure seals, and spin-loaded supports holding a city under air. Lio Vale walked the primary segment of Service Ring Kappa with a slate under one arm and yesterday's sleep still folded behind the eyes. AU called this a routine seal-maintenance cycle. The workers called it breathing for people rich enough to forget what kept the air inside.
 
-It was not a mine and not a factory floor, though Aeronautics Unlimited priced it like both when that helped. It was a built world turned slowly enough to fake down, and Kappa's seals were one of the reasons the air stayed on the inside. Lio's official job was maintenance coordination: making incompatible bodies, tools, schedules, and liability codes share one dangerous ring without killing each other before lunch. The unofficial job had worse hours and better people.
+It was not a mine and not a factory floor, though Aeronautics Unlimited priced it like both when that helped. It was a built world turned slowly enough to fake down, and Kappa's seals were one of the reasons the air stayed on the inside. Kappa itself was a bounded local loop around a dense seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: manifold faces on the loop-inner side, anchor hardpoints and staging on the loop-outer side, far-loop lockers and break ledges where the supervisor glass saw less than it claimed. Lio's official job was maintenance coordination: making incompatible bodies, tools, schedules, and liability codes share one dangerous circuit without killing each other before lunch. The unofficial job had worse hours and better people.
 
-Cephalopod crawl crews drifted in compact dry-operation harnesses shaped for limbs that did not stand: humidity collars, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, and neural limiter plugs, all labeled support equipment with AU's usual tenderness for invoices. The rigs kept them alive in dry air, which was not the same as letting them be comfortable. Baseline riggers clipped anchor hardware along the outer rail and complained with the solemnity of a religious rite. Engineered seal techs waited by the manifold in clean gray skinsuits, each one tagged by function, not by family. Small accommodations made the system look civilized: a humidity credit that kept gill tissue from cracking, softer tool grips for grafted hands, break-table charts that translated three kinds of body clock into one AU shift.
+Cephalopod shell-artery crews drifted in compact dry-operation harnesses shaped for limbs that did not stand: humidity collars, oxygenation loops, pressure cuffs, and neural limiter plugs, all labeled support equipment with AU's usual tenderness for invoices. The rigs kept them alive in dry air, which was not the same as letting them be comfortable. Baseline riggers checked sliding anchor blocks along the loop-outer rail and tested cross-lane lockout lines against floor sockets and inner hardpoints. Engineered seal techs waited at the loop-inner manifold faces in clean gray skinsuits, each one tagged by function, not by family. Small accommodations made the system look civilized: a humidity credit that kept gill tissue from cracking, softer tool grips for grafted hands, far-loop break charts that translated three kinds of body clock into one AU shift.
 
 The yard was normal. That was the first horror.
 
-Nara-7 stood at the Kappa manifold with the other engineered seal technicians, each gray skinsuit numbered for a task stream instead of a family line. She touched the wall twice, paused, and touched it again with two fingers spread wide. AU called that retained route behavior. Lio had watched enough shifts to know a warning when it learned manners.
+Nara-7 stood at the Kappa manifold face with the other engineered seal technicians, each gray skinsuit numbered for a task stream instead of a family line. She touched the ribbed service bank twice, paused, and touched it again with two fingers spread wide beside the Kappa-7 access port. AU called that retained route behavior. Lio had watched enough shifts to know a warning when it learned manners.
 
-Orrin Dax's anchor crew worked the anchor rail with cold-stiff hands and old tools. They were baseline riggers: born human-standard, paid as if that should be its own reward, and courted after hours by Baseline League mutters about jobs stolen by built workers and uplifted bodies. Orrin complained like a man trying not to notice he was scared.
+Orrin Dax's anchor crew worked the loop-outer anchor rail with cold-stiff hands and old tools. They were baseline riggers: born human-standard, paid as if that should be its own reward, and courted after hours by Baseline League mutters about jobs stolen by built workers and uplifted bodies. Their rail did not own the manifold, but no one entered Kappa-7 safely without their cross-lane retrieval geometry: guide lines, haulback tethers, lockout webbing, cart locks, and rescue hooks. Orrin complained like a man trying not to notice he was scared.
 
 Teth Inkwise hung in a dry-operation support harness, four arms managing valves while the rest of the body floated inside compression loops and oxygenation tubes. One cuff had rubbed a pale groove into the mantle where the padding thinned out months ago. Teth never mentioned it. The cephalopod crew kept the service lungs alive in spaces built by companies that modified their bodies to survive dry air, tight corners, and procurement's moral imagination.
 
-Ilya Marne, Kappa's AU shift superintendent, watched from the glassed operations gallery above the ring, its raised supervisor catwalk running back toward the spoke-base control deck. She had corporate polish and corporate hunger: schedule first, liability second, people somewhere below the line where the spreadsheet stopped showing decimals.
+Ilya Marne, Kappa's AU shift superintendent, watched from the glassed operations gallery above the primary manifold segment, its short raised supervisor catwalk running back toward the spoke-base control deck. The central equipment cluster blocked direct sightlines to the far loop, so AU filled the gap with cameras, badge logs, and telemetry. She had corporate polish and corporate hunger: schedule first, liability second, people somewhere below the line where the spreadsheet stopped showing decimals.
 
 Lio knew the day would probably go wrong. The only question was whether it went wrong before everyone had finished pretending this was maintenance.
 
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ Teth Inkwise turned in the dry-operation harness, four arms working while the re
 
 The joke landed dry. Teth's eyes stayed on the pressure ghost beneath the glass, and one free arm adjusted the oxygenation line before the warning tremor could become visible.
 
-The service lung diagram flickered under one of Teth's arms. If Kappa went hard red, AU would discover exactly how much of its schedule lived in equipment designed for bodies it refused to honor.
+The service lung diagram flickered under one of Teth's arms. Kappa-7 ran through the equipment cluster and then bent Bloom-outward into seal-lung pockets and coolant bypass cuffs. If Kappa went hard red, AU would discover exactly how much of its schedule lived in equipment designed for bodies it refused to honor.
 
-Across the ring, Orrin Dax checked anchor hardware with the sour devotion of a man who expected the future to arrive carrying someone else's invoice. He had a rigger's shoulders, a frost scar along the jaw, and the kind of coffee mug that had survived more restructurings than some families.
+In the far loop, Orrin Dax checked anchor hardware with the sour devotion of a man who expected the future to arrive carrying someone else's invoice. He had a rigger's shoulders, a frost scar along the jaw, and the kind of coffee mug that had survived more restructurings than some families.
 
 "Soft-sleeves get a humidity credit again?" he asked without looking up.
 
@@ -70,19 +70,19 @@ Lio let that sit. The wrong answer would turn it into a debate. The right answer
 
 ## Call To Adventure
 
-The board ordered a blind crawl through Kappa.
+The board ordered entry into Kappa-7 False-Seam Artery.
 
-Nara-7 stopped at the lip of the access throat. Three other engineered seal techs stopped with her. They touched the manifold in the same sequence: twice, wait, third touch spread wide.
+Nara-7 stopped at the Kappa-7 access port. Three other engineered seal techs stopped with her. They touched the loop-inner manifold face in the same sequence: twice, wait, third touch spread wide.
 
 The board did not understand a ritual unless someone billed it.
 
 "Proceed," Ilya Marne said over the supervisor channel.
 
-Nara's voice was small and clear. "No blind crawl. Kappa remembers cutting Rell. We remember Rell."
+Nara's voice was small and clear. "No entry into Kappa-7. Rell's Cut remembers. We remember Rell."
 
 The baseline anchor riggers went quiet. Teth's harness valves clicked once, then stopped.
 
-Ilya left the operations glass fast enough to prove she had been watching. She crossed the raised supervisor catwalk from the spoke-side control door and dropped into the work ring through a badge-only stair. The room changed shape around her: not physically, not enough for a safety board, but enough for every worker to know the yard had stopped being a place where a problem could be fixed quietly.
+Ilya left the operations glass fast enough to prove she had been watching the primary segment. She crossed the raised supervisor catwalk from the spoke-side control door and dropped into the work ring through a badge-only stair. The far loop was still partly hidden behind machinery, but the Kappa-7 face was under glass, camera, and board. The room changed shape around her: not physically, not enough for a safety board, but enough for every worker to know the yard had stopped being a place where a problem could be fixed quietly.
 
 "Classify that," Ilya said to Lio.
 
@@ -90,9 +90,9 @@ Ilya left the operations glass fast enough to prove she had been watching. She c
 
 Lio keyed the log before fear could bargain the words down.
 
-"Coordinated labor stoppage at Kappa manifold. Cause: remembered injury, active hazard, refusal of blind crawl."
+"Coordinated labor stoppage at Kappa-7 access. Cause: remembered injury, active hazard, refusal of unverified False-Seam entry."
 
-The channel went cold. Someone in the outer ring whistled once. Ilya stopped moving like a person and started moving like a policy document with legs.
+The channel went cold. Someone in the far loop whistled once. Ilya stopped moving like a person and started moving like a policy document with legs.
 
 The strike existed now. That made it harder to erase and easier to punish.
 
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ The Kappa pressure-margin clock was still kind. Not generous, but kind enough to
 
 Lio did not ask Orrin to be noble. That would insult everyone present.
 
-"Dry anchors decide whether crawl-access support can carry load," Lio said. "You know the route. Are you signing the crawl order as safe?"
+"Anchor rigging decides whether Kappa-7 access can carry a living body," Lio said. "You know the route. Are you signing the cross-lane lockout and haulback as safe?"
 
-Orrin looked at Nara, then at the crawl throat, then at the faces of his own crew.
+Orrin looked at Nara, then at the Kappa-7 port, then at the faces of his own crew.
 
 "No," he said. "And if anyone writes that I did, I will personally introduce them to the anchor hook."
 
@@ -146,13 +146,13 @@ Kappa went red.
 
 The seal assembly shuddered hard enough to make dust jump from old bolt heads. There was no bypass bridge waiting in Teth's harness, only skill, bad margin, and the hideous corporate optimism that calls a known weakness pending review. Nara's hands stayed on the rail, flat and deliberate. No one had the luxury of a pure victory.
 
-Orrin's anchor crew cleared the anchor rail without waiting for an AU order.
+Orrin's anchor crew started throwing the cross-lane lockout web without waiting for an AU order: sliding blocks on the loop-outer rail, bright tethers to floor sockets, haulback lines clipped to inner hardpoints around Kappa-7.
 
 "Stop," Ilya snapped.
 
 Orrin stepped forward before Lio had to spend Nara again.
 
-"Anchor rail refuses the crawl," he said. "Our call. Our anchors. You want a body in that throat, superintendent, put the board in first."
+"Anchor crew refuses the Kappa-7 rig," he said. "Our call. Our anchors. You want a body in Rell's Cut, superintendent, put the board in first."
 
 For one bright second, the old lie broke: baseline and engineered labor were not natural enemies. They were different answers to the same invoice.
 
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Ilya looked at the red board, at Nara's steady hands, at Orrin's crew, at Teth's
 
 The evidence was thinner than Lio wanted. The phrase would survive, but it would have to survive lawyers with clean sleeves and excellent lighting.
 
-"Worker judgment in the incident log," Lio said. "No forced crawl."
+"Worker judgment in the incident log," Lio said. "No forced Kappa-7 entry."
 
 "Temporary language," Ilya said.
 
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ Nara-7 stayed one worker among many in the first reports. It protected her body
 
 Because Lio named the stoppage early, the later committees inherited a hard word instead of a rumor. Security inherited it too.
 
-The event remained local for now: a story passed through dry-operation harness checks, anchor lockers, and the soft clicks of workers touching a manifold twice, waiting, then touching it again.
+The event remained local for now: a story passed through dry-operation harness checks, far-loop lockers, cross-lane anchor lines, and the soft clicks of workers touching a manifold face twice, waiting, then touching it again.
 
 Ilya settled for disciplinary interviews and a private vow to find whoever taught the yard to speak through maintenance.
 
@@ -198,13 +198,13 @@ But one line entered the incident log and could not be fully removed:
 
 Worker judgment.
 
-Orrin's old mug went back into the break rack with a new hairline crack. Teth patched the harness cuff again. Nara touched the manifold twice, waited, and touched it a third time while everyone pretended not to watch.
+Orrin's old mug went back into the far-loop break rack with a new hairline crack. Teth patched the harness cuff again. Nara touched the Kappa-7 manifold face twice, waited, and touched it a third time while everyone pretended not to watch.
 
 That was not freedom. It was the first tool small enough to smuggle through a shift bell.
 
 ## Receipt Notes
 
-- The scene starts in ordinary yard texture before the refusal: body-specific work, maintenance rituals, break-table resentment, and AU schedule discipline.
+- The scene starts in ordinary yard texture before the refusal: body-specific work, maintenance rituals, far-loop break resentment, and AU schedule discipline.
 - The selected path uses a non-speech object interaction first, then formal speech, then social coalition work, then a mixed action climax.
 - Branch variables visibly matter: cephalopod leverage grounds Teth's harness competence but does not create a bypass without the bypass branch; baseline solidarity changes the climax; formal stoppage changes the return; strike cohesion changes the return; security pressure remains a future consequence; media visibility stays limited because this path did not leak the packet publicly.
 - Character visibility is local: Lio reads what people do and say, not omniscient private state.

notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md

@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ interactive-fiction scaffold:
 It starts in ordinary AU Bloom cavity-shell maintenance texture, introduces the
 major participants before branch-only deepening, then escalates through Nara-7's
 coordinated hazard refusal, baseline rigger solidarity pressure, BioElevate
-liability framing, AU dry-operation cephalopod crawl leverage, and a folded
+liability framing, AU dry-operation cephalopod shell-artery leverage, and a folded
 recognition/safety climax. The Ink now gates Nara's marked path and Teth's
 bypass, gives `evidence_of_sentience`, `nara_centered`, and
 `formal_stoppage` later reads, and gives visual plan states explicit trigger
@@ -165,10 +165,27 @@ climax decision, and aftermath into click-through visual sections with
 Molecule Dreams-style volumetric brushstroke cue, and imagegen-ready prompts
 that explain fictional equipment in visible terms. Its location grounding now
 uses the Bloom process correctly: engineered rotating shell, consolidated
-asteroid rubble/aggregate, TCS substrate, seals, supports, and service systems,
+asteroid aggregate, TCS substrate, seals, supports, and service systems,
 with image prompts written as affirmative visible targets. Treat it as
 coordinator/IF scaffold training data, not raw responder gold.
 
+Kappa geometry correction to preserve across compaction: Service Ring Kappa names a bounded local access loop around a dense seal-air-thermal equipment cluster. The
+loop-inner side exposes manifold faces on the machinery cluster. The loop-outer
+side holds worker staging, the baseline anchor rail, lockers, carts, break
+ledge, and access back toward yard systems. Kappa-3, Kappa-5, and Kappa-7 are
+access ports in the loop-inner manifold face; Kappa-7 False-Seam Artery is the
+specific dangerous passage, with worker slang `Rell's Cut`. A worker enters
+Kappa-7 by moving locally inward into the equipment cluster; the passage then
+routes Bloom-outward into shell arteries, seal-lung pockets, coolant bypass
+cuffs, and pressure-shell inspection spaces. The Kappa operations gallery sees
+the primary manifold/access-port segment, not the whole loop; the far loop
+contains lower-observation break/access areas, hatches, lockers, and informal
+worker coordination space. The baseline anchor rail is a loop-outer hardpoint
+system that supports carts, rescue lines, and cross-lane lockout rigging to
+floor sockets or inner service hardpoints; Orrin's crew can refuse to rig the
+safe Kappa-7 access geometry, but the rail itself does not magically block the
+inner access port.
+
 Next: add the corpus coverage ledger seam or choose the next Aetheria fixture
 from the 100-150 broad coverage target.
 

state/evidence.jsonl

@@ -64,3 +64,4 @@
 {"ts": "2026-05-03T12:14:28+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine", "status": "ok", "note": "Generalized visual reviewer guardrails for unnamed drawable groups and stale lore terminology, removed Pallas-specific policing from the reviewer, and revised the Pallas fixture to replace stale dry-side language with anchor-rail/baseline-anchor work-zone language plus concrete group descriptions."}
 {"ts": "2026-05-03T12:34:07+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine", "status": "ok", "note": "Revised Pallas visual prompts to use cephalopod-specific tentacle/mantle/support-harness anatomy instead of human-limb shorthand, replaced supervisor-glass staging with open catwalk and transparent safety-rail geometry, and added generalized reviewer checks for nonhuman anatomy humanization. BFL FLUX.2 Max spot-check with simplified prompt and prompt upsampling disabled still dropped Teth and missed the Dreams-style target, so BFL remains unsuitable for complex ensemble IF frames without further proof."}
 {"ts": "2026-05-03T12:55:07+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine", "status": "ok", "note": "Finished Pallas visual prompt cleanup after imagegen spot check: Teth now uses affirmative cephalopod work-support rig language, padded contact bands, support loops, humidity rings, oxygenation, and tool access instead of containment-shaped harness wording. Added generalized reviewer guardrail for assistive/workplace equipment object-class drift. Did not add scene-geometry continuity guardrails; multi-angle continuity should be handled by future Blender/blockout guide assets, not prompt policing."}
+{"ts": "2026-05-04T08:52:29+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Pallas Kappa fixture corrected from vague crawl/throat imagery to a bounded local service-loop geometry: loop-inner manifold faces and Kappa-7 access ports, loop-outer anchor/staging, far-loop break/access space, and partial operations-gallery sightlines. Future Pallas writing and visuals should treat Kappa-7 False-Seam Artery/Rell's Cut as the dangerous passage, not Kappa itself."}

state/map.yaml

@@ -186,5 +186,5 @@ data_flow:
   - If state grows faster than understanding, cut it back.
 
 current_status:
-  summary: Pallas Species Strikes now has a reviewer-revised accepted-as-draft branch-and-fold IF fixture grounded in AU Bloom cavity-shell labor, Awakened Labor organizing, BioElevate uplift/biodrone systems, baseline displacement fear, and cephalopod maintenance leverage. Its lore digest and visual plan treat Bloom yards as engineered rotating habitat shells built from consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate, TCS, shell plating, supports, seals, manifolds, and service systems. Its training annotation now references a separate visual plan artifact for click-through visual segmentation, stable visual character refs, the global Dreams-style image cue, and affirmative imagegen-ready scene prompts. Cold Wake remains an archived historical fixture and local-model receipt surface, not the active gold-data path.
+  summary: Pallas Species Strikes now has a reviewer-revised accepted-as-draft branch-and-fold IF fixture grounded in AU Bloom cavity-shell labor, Awakened Labor organizing, BioElevate uplift/biodrone systems, baseline displacement fear, and cephalopod maintenance leverage. Its lore digest and visual plan treat Bloom yards as engineered rotating habitat shells built from consolidated asteroid aggregate, TCS, shell plating, supports, seals, manifolds, and service systems. Kappa geometry is now understood as a bounded local loop around a dense seal-air-thermal equipment cluster: loop-inner manifold faces and Kappa access ports, loop-outer worker staging and anchor hardpoints, lower-observation far-loop break/access space, and a partial operations gallery that sees only the primary work segment. Kappa-7 False-Seam Artery, worker slang Rell's Cut, is the specific dangerous passage. Its training annotation now references a separate visual plan artifact for click-through visual segmentation, stable visual character refs, the global Dreams-style image cue, and affirmative imagegen-ready scene prompts. Cold Wake remains an archived historical fixture and local-model receipt surface, not the active gold-data path.
   next_action: Add the corpus coverage ledger seam or select the next Aetheria fixture from the 100-150 broad coverage target.