Reorient Weksa toward Zyphos

settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md

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-# Eusocial Interbeing Naming Surface
+# Eusocial Interbeing / Zyphos
+
+Eusocial Interbeing is the current higher-priority setting target for Weksa.
+Zyphos is the world that needs names and language surfaces earned from inside
+its inhabitants' ontologies.
 
 This setting surface connects Weksa to the Eusocial Interbeing vault at
-`E:\Projects\Eusocial Interbeing`. Its purpose is eventual naming support for
-objects, species, places, institutions, ecological contracts, and technologies in
+`E:\Projects\Eusocial Interbeing`. Its purpose is naming support for objects,
+species, places, institutions, ecological contracts, and technologies in
 languages spoken by the setting's inhabitants.
 
 Weksa should not mint durable names by translating English labels. It should
@@ -20,6 +24,26 @@ register, and history.
   breeding-ground registers, and ecological-partner contact systems should not
   collapse into one universal naming soup.
 
+## Current Setting Baseline
+
+Zyphos is one planet in a close terrestrial binary. Its slightly smaller twin,
+Umbros, hangs as a fixed sky presence. The primary star is dim, the habitable
+zone is close, and light is scarce enough to shape biology and society.
+
+Zyphos life is founded on mutable memory endosymbiosis. Every cell carries a
+memory-bearing symbiont. Sentience gradients across cells, tissues, organisms,
+colonies, routes, forests, reefs, and landscapes.
+
+The immediate language-design pressure comes from two major civilizational
+surfaces:
+
+- Airawa continent: mother-tree memory networks, archival dependency,
+  disconnected networks, and the Airawa Empire's biological-memetic
+  infrastructure.
+- Sa'auei'a continent: advanced nomadic civilization, family-unit political
+  movement, sacred breeding-ground commons, remembered routes, and reciprocal
+  ecological relationships.
+
 ## Naming Rule
 
 Names should come after meaning decomposition.
@@ -58,3 +82,6 @@ Until a real language-project state format exists, accepted naming work should
 be recorded as explicit design notes here and referenced from the Eusocial vault.
 Scratch names may appear in working notes, but they are not canon until a
 language project can explain the ontology and form.
+
+See [Language Design Pressure](./language-design.md) for the first Weksa-facing
+ontology map.

settings/eusocial-interbeing/language-design.md

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+# Zyphos Language Design Pressure
+
+Zyphos pressures Weksa toward languages where memory, ecology, reproduction,
+movement, and negotiated boundary are not background. They are the political
+substrate.
+
+The design target is not alien flavor pasted onto Earth institutions. Every
+major linguistic distinction should be tested against the setting rule:
+
+> Does this institution or name reveal an ecological deal, reproductive pressure,
+> memory technology, or path-dependent consequence?
+
+## Ontology Pillars
+
+- mutable memory endosymbiosis
+- sentience across scale
+- ecology as infrastructure
+- memory as obligation, leverage, and negotiated access
+- organisms, routes, forests, reefs, and landscapes as possible political actors
+- boundary permeability as foreign policy
+- reproductive sites as commons or strategic terrain
+- path dependency as a civilizational constraint
+- disconnection as survival, refusal, or wound
+
+## Airawa Pressures
+
+Airawa language work must account for:
+
+- mother-tree mediated communal memory
+- archival dependency
+- ritual labor and nutrient obligation
+- imperial biological-memetic infrastructure
+- caste and eugenic pressure
+- disconnected tree networks that survived by severing themselves from saturated
+  substrate
+- imperial labels versus native nation-scale interbeing names
+
+The Airawa Empire should not be named like a normal state with wet nouns glued
+on. It is an artificial quarter-continent clausiform exception imposed through
+biological-memetic control.
+
+## Sa'auei'a Pressures
+
+Sa'auei'a language work must account for:
+
+- advanced nomadic civilization without permanent urban dominance
+- squad-sized family units
+- sacred communal breeding grounds
+- remembered routes
+- portable institutions
+- ecological reputation
+- reciprocity routes and seasonal corridors
+- camps, commons, and partner sites as distinct name targets
+
+The Sa'auei'a continent should not read as empty wilderness. Its language should
+have ways to name civilization that moves, recurs, bargains, and is remembered by
+ecology.
+
+## Naming Brief Shape
+
+A Weksa naming brief should capture at least:
+
+```yaml
+target:
+  kind:
+  canon_source:
+  provisional_english_handle:
+namer:
+  language_project:
+  register:
+  relationship_to_target:
+ontology:
+  salient_memory_relation:
+  salient_ecological_contract:
+  boundary_status:
+  reproductive_or_route_pressure:
+form:
+  expected_morphology:
+  phonological_notes:
+  diachronic_notes:
+outputs:
+  endonym:
+  exonym:
+  gloss:
+  trace:
+```
+
+The brief comes before the name. The name is the receipt, not the thought.
+