Correct Call of the Void continuity drift

docs/aetheria/call-of-the-void-brainstorm.md

@@ -4,6 +4,38 @@ Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YWn5RWsciBxuaQ4l5TN2lAEz4okaQes-aiyx
 
 This is a local plaintext import of the scattered Call of the Void brainstorming doc. Treat it as raw source material, not canon. The current compact design note remains E:\Projects\AetheriaLore\Aetheria\Game Design\Call of the Void.md.
 
+## Current Canon Correction
+
+This brainstorm predates a major Aetheria timeline migration.
+
+The old version assumes a colony fleet or exploratory force was shunted into
+Elysium and slowly discovers that nobody is going home. That is no longer the
+live premise.
+
+Current canon, summarized in
+`E:\Projects\AetheriaLore\Aetheria\Worldbuilding\Pre-Elysium\From Sol to Elysium.md`,
+is that the FTL trigger sequestered the whole Solar system, with its fleets,
+institutions, corporate blocs, uploaded minds, labor systems, histories, and
+unresolved social machinery. Elysium is not a remote elsewhere that a fleet
+cannot leave. It is the sealed domain into which Sol itself was displaced.
+
+So the useful dramatic pressure is not "can the expedition return home?"
+because home came with them. The better pressure is:
+
+- there is no clean outside to return to
+- the systems people hoped to escape are trapped in Elysium too
+- the old order can no longer rely on the old universe remaining stable around
+  it
+- every faction is trying to define what survival, legitimacy, personhood, and
+  ownership mean now that Sol's whole inheritance has been exported into the
+  sealed domain
+- Cat's story should turn on the realization that starting over is not escape
+  when the machinery you fled arrived in the same disaster
+
+The raw notes below remain useful for cases, characters, tones, and comic
+cruelty. Treat their old "return home" twist as obsolete pressure, not active
+continuity.
+
 ---
 
 Potential ideas here, feel free to discuss/deplore/detour in comments. 

docs/architecture/aetheria-content-generation-targets.md

@@ -62,8 +62,20 @@ The local source of truth is:
 
 The slice is a story-first Aetheria scope cut about Catastrophe "Cat" Marrigan:
 an out-of-work private investigator making ends meet with a failure-prone space
-taxi while people trapped inside Elysium slowly realize the old world is not
-coming back intact.
+taxi inside the aftermath of Sol's sequestration into Elysium.
+
+The older brainstorm frames the core twist as a colony fleet or exploratory
+force discovering that nobody is going home. That premise is obsolete. Current
+Aetheria canon says the FTL trigger displaced the whole Solar system into the
+sealed spacetime domain later called Elysium. Home did not stay behind. Home,
+with every corporate bloc, labor regime, upload abuse, political failure, and
+unresolved compromise, came through too.
+
+So the active Call of the Void pressure should be refactored from "there is no
+return ticket" into something meaner and more useful: there is no outside, no
+clean restart, and no frontier innocent of Sol's history. Cat can still try to
+outrun debt, coercion, legal pressure, or institutional rot, but Elysium proves
+that escape exported the machinery instead of dissolving it.
 
 Its useful shape is authored density:
 
@@ -73,7 +85,8 @@ Its useful shape is authored density:
 - recurring characters
 - faction contacts
 - campaign consequence
-- the social aftermath of return becoming fantasy
+- the social aftermath of realizing Sol's old failures are now Elysium's local
+  weather
 
 Ghostlight should help generate and manage:
 
@@ -89,6 +102,8 @@ Ghostlight should help generate and manage:
 - case premises and clue chains
 - passenger encounters that reveal denial, opportunism, homesickness, fear, or reckless celebration
 - continuity pressure from the sealed-domain premise
+- cases that expose how old Sol institutions mutate when there is no larger
+  outside to appeal to
 
 The important thing is that generated content should emerge from structured
 state instead of a prompt asking for "dramatic dialogue" and hoping the machine

state/evidence.jsonl

@@ -4,3 +4,4 @@
 {"ts": "2026-05-01T17:35:16+00:00", "type": "decision", "status": "rejected", "note": "Rejected the prior corridor-crisis game slice as Ghostlight active direction; current Aetheria consumer target is Call of the Void content generation plus narrated timeline dialogue and procedural drama scaffolding."}
 {"ts": "2026-05-01T17:35:57+00:00", "type": "source", "status": "ok", "note": "Imported the scattered Call of the Void Google Doc brainstorm into docs/aetheria/call-of-the-void-brainstorm.md as raw source material; compact canon remains the AetheriaLore Call of the Void design note."}
 {"ts": "2026-05-01T17:40:43+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Clarified Ghostlight authoring rationale: the system should build drama and narrative pressure, then render character-local dialogue context packs constrained to what each character knows, feels, wants, remembers, hides, and perceives."}
+{"ts": "2026-05-01T17:46:36+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Corrected Call of the Void continuity drift: old colony-fleet no-return twist is obsolete; current pressure should come from the whole Solar system being sequestered into Elysium with its institutions, conflicts, and unresolved machinery intact."}

state/map.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ constraints:
   - Keep persistent state small enough to rehydrate without drowning the next session.
   - Reuse proven machinery where it fits before inventing ornate nonsense.
   - Do not treat an older corridor-crisis game slice as the active Ghostlight implementation target.
+  - Do not use the obsolete Call of the Void colony-fleet return-home twist; current Aetheria canon sequesters the whole Solar system into Elysium.
 
 invariants:
   - The map is canonical and slow-changing.
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ accepted_design:
   - Performance, concealment, and mask maintenance are signal, not just obstruction.
   - The near-term Aetheria consumer is authoring support: Call of the Void content generation plus narrated timeline dialogue and procedural drama scaffolding.
   - Ghostlight should build drama and narrative pressure, then project character-local dialogue contexts so characters can breathe and act from their own partial state.
+  - Call of the Void pressure should come from Sol's whole unresolved inheritance being trapped inside Elysium, not from a lone expedition discovering there is no way home.
 
 current_status:
   summary: Ghostlight has the Epiphany-style persistence spine and the first architecture payload for personality structure, signal classification, prompt projection, population scale, and Aetheria authoring support. It still has no runtime organs. The first Aetheria consumer target is Call of the Void content generation plus narrated timeline dialogue and procedural drama scaffolding.