From e98ad972d93555fdd84796f9edab05534da11cd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Weksa Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2026 09:41:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Respell Sa'auei'a as Sa'ueia Spelling only, with Deru's permission (2026-11-04 #zyphos). 53 occurrences in 26 files plus the rename of Technologies/Sa'auei'a Mobile Technologies.md. No wording or content changed. state/branches.json id "saaueia-nomadic-advanced" left alone (identifier, not the apostrophe form). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 --- AGENTS.md | 2 +- .../Threadwing Couriers.md | 2 +- .../Grazers and Browsers/Glassback Grazers.md | 2 +- .../Parasites and Symbionts/Burden Flowers.md | 4 ++-- .../Umbros-Facing Lantern Trees.md | 2 +- .../Conflicts/Continental Contact War.md | 12 ++++++------ .../Conflicts/Xenophobic Memetic Campaign.md | 6 +++--- .../Ecology/Eusocial Inter-Species Dynamics.md | 2 +- .../Ecology/Mutable Memory Endosymbiosis.md | 4 ++-- .../Ecology/Nation Scale Interbeings.md | 2 +- .../Ecology/Reciprocal Ecologies.md | 2 +- .../Ecology/Zyphos Biosphere Examples.md | 2 +- .../Game Design/Fractal NPC Simulation Plan.md | 10 +++++----- .../Species/Ecological Memory Partners.md | 2 +- .../Technologies/Path Dependency.md | 2 +- .../Technologies/Sa'auei'a Mobile Technologies.md | 15 --------------- .../Technologies/Sa'ueia Mobile Technologies.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/index.md | 2 +- .../Themes/Ecological Bargaining.md | 2 +- .../Themes/Nomadism Without Primitivism.md | 2 +- .../World/Zyphos Simulation Brief.md | 8 ++++---- .../World/Zyphos Umbros Binary System.md | 6 +++--- Eusocial Interbeing/World/index.md | 2 +- notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md | 4 ++-- notes/implementation-plan.md | 4 ++-- state/branches.json | 6 +++--- state/evidence.jsonl | 2 +- state/map.yaml | 4 ++-- 28 files changed, 64 insertions(+), 64 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Sa'auei'a Mobile Technologies.md create mode 100644 Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Sa'ueia Mobile Technologies.md diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md index 0412c59..4b56430 100644 --- a/AGENTS.md +++ b/AGENTS.md @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Treat it as a navigable setting bible, not a heap of shiny organism facts dragge - Keep vault content under `Eusocial Interbeing/`. - Use Title Case filenames matching the topic name. -- Preserve Obsidian wiki links such as `[[Airawa]]`, `[[Sa'auei'a]]`, `[[Mother Trees]]`, and `[[Biological Memetic Engine]]`. +- Preserve Obsidian wiki links such as `[[Airawa]]`, `[[Sa'ueia]]`, `[[Mother Trees]]`, and `[[Biological Memetic Engine]]`. - Avoid YAML frontmatter unless the whole vault adopts it later. - Prefer one clear note per species, continent, ecology, faction, technology, conflict, theme, or inspiration source. - Separate setting canon, design inference, and outside inspiration. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Couriers and Pollinators/Threadwing Couriers.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Couriers and Pollinators/Threadwing Couriers.md index 3005436..7b4d373 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Couriers and Pollinators/Threadwing Couriers.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Couriers and Pollinators/Threadwing Couriers.md @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Ribbonlike sensory vanes take the place of feathers. Calling threadwings birds i ## Bodies That Sense and Remember -Each vane detects pressure, chemical gradients, static charge, thermal plumes, and memory residues. The ribbons naturally fray and regrow, leaving fibers in nests and courier stations. [[Biosphere/Decomposers and Recyclers/Lattice Ants|Lattice Ants]] can read those fibers. Sa'auei'a travelers can braid them into warning knots, though the knots do not last long. +Each vane detects pressure, chemical gradients, static charge, thermal plumes, and memory residues. The ribbons naturally fray and regrow, leaving fibers in nests and courier stations. [[Biosphere/Decomposers and Recyclers/Lattice Ants|Lattice Ants]] can read those fibers. Sa'ueia travelers can braid them into warning knots, though the knots do not last long. Threadwings remember through several channels: gut symbionts, residues on their vanes, route songs, nesting fibers, and lantern pulses. Remembered insults also influence their behavior. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Grazers and Browsers/Glassback Grazers.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Grazers and Browsers/Glassback Grazers.md index 97e41f8..157bec8 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Grazers and Browsers/Glassback Grazers.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Grazers and Browsers/Glassback Grazers.md @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ Glassbacks must keep the cooperation of the organisms they feed on and travel am As they move, glassbacks disperse [[Biosphere/Parasites and Symbionts/Burden Flowers|Burden Flowers]] and carry fungal spores between [[Biosphere/Decomposers and Recyclers/Candle Fungal Roads|Candle Fungal Roads]]. Their readable bodies also give threadwings moving surfaces from which to gather information. -Herds often bargain with [[Sa'ueia|Sa'ueia]] family units, the small mobile groups through which Sa'auei'a organize family life and travel. The Sa'auei'a protect calving lanes, prune parasites, and read herd plate-states for signs of weather and danger. In return, glassbacks allow families to pass close by, carry lightweight goods, and lead them toward honest water. +Herds often bargain with [[Sa'ueia|Sa'ueia]] family units, the small mobile groups through which Sa'ueia organize family life and travel. The Sa'ueia protect calving lanes, prune parasites, and read herd plate-states for signs of weather and danger. In return, glassbacks allow families to pass close by, carry lightweight goods, and lead them toward honest water. ## What Shapes Their Behavior diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Parasites and Symbionts/Burden Flowers.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Parasites and Symbionts/Burden Flowers.md index 4db81a7..2dab74f 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Parasites and Symbionts/Burden Flowers.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Parasites and Symbionts/Burden Flowers.md @@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ A flower's colors reveal its host's recent state. Healthy hosts receive clear, r [[Biosphere/Primary Producers/Prismwake Mats|Prismwake Mats]] read these reports, but give less weight to flowers known to exaggerate. A flower needs enough credibility to remain tolerated, even when disclosure offers an immediate advantage. -Sa'auei'a family units may cultivate trusted flower lineages as route companions. The Airawa Empire dislikes unmanaged burden flowers because they expose private weakness without waiting for doctrinal permission. +Sa'ueia family units may cultivate trusted flower lineages as route companions. The Airawa Empire dislikes unmanaged burden flowers because they expose private weakness without waiting for doctrinal permission. ## Body, Movement, and Senses A burden flower grips with clasping rootlets. Flat leaves gather light, while a cup of sensory filaments tastes sweat chemistry, stress hormones, immune signals, and ambient memory residues. -It moves slowly by releasing its grip and fastening again. Hosts provide most long-distance transport, including [[Biosphere/Grazers and Browsers/Glassback Grazers|Glassback Grazers]] and Sa'auei'a carrying gear. +It moves slowly by releasing its grip and fastening again. Hosts provide most long-distance transport, including [[Biosphere/Grazers and Browsers/Glassback Grazers|Glassback Grazers]] and Sa'ueia carrying gear. Its memory draws on host sweat, immune chemistry, emotional state, contact with mats, fungal road scents, and patterns of grooming. These give it information about both its host and the places they pass through. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Primary Producers/Umbros-Facing Lantern Trees.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Primary Producers/Umbros-Facing Lantern Trees.md index 744c3ff..61495ee 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Primary Producers/Umbros-Facing Lantern Trees.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Biosphere/Primary Producers/Umbros-Facing Lantern Trees.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ They are distinct from [[Matriarch Trees|Matriarch Trees]], although the two can ## Light, Signals, and Memory -The lantern knots hang below the canopy rather than at its crown, directing light toward ground traffic. Their colored pulses carry messages as well as illumination. [[Biosphere/Couriers and Pollinators/Threadwing Couriers|Threadwing Couriers]], [[Biosphere/Decomposers and Recyclers/Lattice Ants|Lattice Ants]], and some Sa'auei'a route readers can distinguish invitations, closures, taxes, mourning, and warnings. +The lantern knots hang below the canopy rather than at its crown, directing light toward ground traffic. Their colored pulses carry messages as well as illumination. [[Biosphere/Couriers and Pollinators/Threadwing Couriers|Threadwing Couriers]], [[Biosphere/Decomposers and Recyclers/Lattice Ants|Lattice Ants]], and some Sa'ueia route readers can distinguish invitations, closures, taxes, mourning, and warnings. Inside the trunk, layers of memory-bearing growth tissue—memory cambium—hold records on different timescales. Outer rings store recent passage, wounds, pollen, and fungal reports. Deeper rings preserve lasting agreements and obligations: who may nest, which grove is quarantined, where a trail may cross, and which family line failed to repay shelter. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Conflicts/Continental Contact War.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Conflicts/Continental Contact War.md index 831c3eb..0c21197 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Conflicts/Continental Contact War.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Conflicts/Continental Contact War.md @@ -1,16 +1,16 @@ # Continental Contact War -The Continental Contact War is the broad conflict between the [[Airawa Empire]] and the [[Sa'ueia Nomadic Civilization]] that follows imperial discovery of the Sa'auei'a continent. +The Continental Contact War is the broad conflict between the [[Airawa Empire]] and the [[Sa'ueia Nomadic Civilization]] that follows imperial discovery of the Sa'ueia continent. ## Why Their Expectations Fail -The empire expects conquest to work by capturing command centers, rewriting what populations believe, and taking control of the living systems their societies depend on. But the Sa'auei'a have no single capital, no continental mother-tree network, and no shared public mind the empire can seize through a single root. The empire's expected points of control are absent. +The empire expects conquest to work by capturing command centers, rewriting what populations believe, and taking control of the living systems their societies depend on. But the Sa'ueia have no single capital, no continental mother-tree network, and no shared public mind the empire can seize through a single root. The empire's expected points of control are absent. -The Sa'auei'a expect to negotiate conflicts through remembered relationships. They face an imperial system built to impose control without needing negotiation. +The Sa'ueia expect to negotiate conflicts through remembered relationships. They face an imperial system built to impose control without needing negotiation. ## Fronts of the Conflict -- Imperial forces attempt to infect Sa'auei'a breeding grounds. -- The Sa'auei'a work to make their continent's living systems reject imperial biology. -- Envoys from the Disconnected Tree Networks cross into Sa'auei'a territory. +- Imperial forces attempt to infect Sa'ueia breeding grounds. +- The Sa'ueia work to make their continent's living systems reject imperial biology. +- Envoys from the Disconnected Tree Networks cross into Sa'ueia territory. - Imperial citizens encounter living evidence that the campaign has lied to them. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Conflicts/Xenophobic Memetic Campaign.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Conflicts/Xenophobic Memetic Campaign.md index e2e1f9d..134eb91 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Conflicts/Xenophobic Memetic Campaign.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Conflicts/Xenophobic Memetic Campaign.md @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ # Xenophobic Memetic Campaign -The Xenophobic Memetic Campaign is the Airawa Empire's effort to turn its citizens against the [[Sa'ueia]] after discovering them. The imperial center uses its power to shape belief across the quarter of the [[Airawa Home Continent]] it controls, flooding citizens with messages that portray Sa'auei'a life as a threat: +The Xenophobic Memetic Campaign is the Airawa Empire's effort to turn its citizens against the [[Sa'ueia]] after discovering them. The imperial center uses its power to shape belief across the quarter of the [[Airawa Home Continent]] it controls, flooding citizens with messages that portray Sa'ueia life as a threat: - Their movement from place to place is described as disease. - Their communal breeding grounds are condemned as obscene. - Their reciprocal relationships with other organisms are presented as submission to animals. -- Airawa who dissent are accused of being infected by the Sa'auei'a. +- Airawa who dissent are accused of being infected by the Sa'ueia. - Imperial military violence is justified as the continent's immune response. -These messages make hostility to the Sa'auei'a part of obedience to the empire. They also give the imperial center a way to treat disagreement as evidence of foreign infection. +These messages make hostility to the Sa'ueia part of obedience to the empire. They also give the imperial center a way to treat disagreement as evidence of foreign infection. ## Political Use diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Eusocial Inter-Species Dynamics.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Eusocial Inter-Species Dynamics.md index e61714f..6447d30 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Eusocial Inter-Species Dynamics.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Eusocial Inter-Species Dynamics.md @@ -8,6 +8,6 @@ The biological foundation is [[Mutable Memory Endosymbiosis]]. Mutable memory is For Airawa communities that depend on mother trees, preserving communal memory also means depending on another species’ reproductive bodies. The trees help sustain both the community’s archive and its political continuity. This dependence makes the relationship a form of **archival eusociality**. -The Sa'auei'a organize around mobile families whose members trust one another strongly. Those families participate in a continent-wide network of remembered ecological relationships. Their **reciprocal nomadic eusociality** combines movement with continuing obligations to ecological partners. +The Sa'ueia organize around mobile families whose members trust one another strongly. Those families participate in a continent-wide network of remembered ecological relationships. Their **reciprocal nomadic eusociality** combines movement with continuing obligations to ecological partners. The [[Airawa Empire]] turns this biological capacity into a weapon. It uses engineered life to transmit belief itself, making the relationships that connect species a means of political control. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Mutable Memory Endosymbiosis.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Mutable Memory Endosymbiosis.md index 97c48ad..0deb129 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Mutable Memory Endosymbiosis.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Mutable Memory Endosymbiosis.md @@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ That arrangement makes the empire behave like a biological singularity: its soci ## What This Makes Possible -Airawa, Sa'auei'a, mother trees, breeding grounds, ecological partners, parasites, crop analogues, pathogens, domesticated systems, and technologies all develop within this memory-bearing biology. Their distinctive powers and dependencies grow from it. +Airawa, Sa'ueia, mother trees, breeding grounds, ecological partners, parasites, crop analogues, pathogens, domesticated systems, and technologies all develop within this memory-bearing biology. Their distinctive powers and dependencies grow from it. The [[Biological Memetic Engine]] can exert such power because the biosphere already supports mutable cellular memory. It hijacks an existing means of transmission. Life already trusted the channel; the engine made coercion through it an industrial capability. Mother trees draw their power from the same foundation. They serve as large archival organs within a biosphere where even cells already store memory. Their scale, longevity, control over memory routes, and the dependence of other beings on them give them authority. Remembering is common. Holding and routing memory on that scale is another matter. -The Sa'auei'a system organizes reciprocity while moving through this living network. Its practices keep participants in good standing with memory-bearing places, routes, herds, colonies, and reproductive commons. That reciprocity is part of their ecological relationships, as well as their culture. +The Sa'ueia system organizes reciprocity while moving through this living network. Its practices keep participants in good standing with memory-bearing places, routes, herds, colonies, and reproductive commons. That reciprocity is part of their ecological relationships, as well as their culture. ## Design Rules diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Nation Scale Interbeings.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Nation Scale Interbeings.md index b2f2c88..da3fc47 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Nation Scale Interbeings.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Nation Scale Interbeings.md @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ The channels include: - carriers of taboos, rituals, and law; - military organisms and engineered memetic packets. -Most native nation scale interbeings apply different rules in different places. A marsh front may admit fungal couriers while blocking grazer herds. A cliff nesting system may welcome Sa'auei'a midwives and turn away Airawa archive pilgrims. Even within one negotiation, a mother-tree polity may agree to share weather memory while withholding ancestry memory. +Most native nation scale interbeings apply different rules in different places. A marsh front may admit fungal couriers while blocking grazer herds. A cliff nesting system may welcome Sa'ueia midwives and turn away Airawa archive pilgrims. Even within one negotiation, a mother-tree polity may agree to share weather memory while withholding ancestry memory. Diplomacy therefore proceeds through specific permissions, often slowly, and takes effect in living bodies and habitats. A treaty may establish a pollinator route, suspend an immune response temporarily, grant guests access to breeding grounds, or set a fungal toll. A remembered injury may close a valley for three generations. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Reciprocal Ecologies.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Reciprocal Ecologies.md index ddc15a7..d7151f6 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Reciprocal Ecologies.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Reciprocal Ecologies.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Reciprocal Ecologies -Reciprocal ecologies are living systems that remember how Sa'auei'a have treated them. That history affects whether they later provide access, guidance, warnings, food, or shelter—or refuse to help. +Reciprocal ecologies are living systems that remember how Sa'ueia have treated them. That history affects whether they later provide access, guidance, warnings, food, or shelter—or refuse to help. A family might feed a route, tend a sick grove, or defend a nesting corridor, then receive help years later from organisms that remember its actions. Those organisms do not think like people. Their memory nevertheless has practical consequences: generosity can improve a family's future prospects, even without affection or an immediate reward. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Zyphos Biosphere Examples.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Zyphos Biosphere Examples.md index a6094ae..4f0b8ae 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Zyphos Biosphere Examples.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Ecology/Zyphos Biosphere Examples.md @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ This makes them useful in healing and dangerous to identity. Imperial biotechnic Candle fungal roads are dim corridors of mycelium connecting breeding grounds, groves, mineral licks, and seasonal shelters. After eclipses, their fruiting bodies open in timed waves. Faint amber beads mark the routes. -Sa'auei'a family units read a brightly lit road as advice from a living organism. Its recommendation carries a history of dealings with travelers. The road remembers who fed it, who trampled it, who transported its spores, and who arrived carrying sick tissue while lying about it. Following its lights means following something that remembers how it has been treated. +Sa'ueia family units read a brightly lit road as advice from a living organism. Its recommendation carries a history of dealings with travelers. The road remembers who fed it, who trampled it, who transported its spores, and who arrived carrying sick tissue while lying about it. Following its lights means following something that remembers how it has been treated. ### Choir Reefs diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Game Design/Fractal NPC Simulation Plan.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Game Design/Fractal NPC Simulation Plan.md index 1919386..9ade75d 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Game Design/Fractal NPC Simulation Plan.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Game Design/Fractal NPC Simulation Plan.md @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Online learning and multi-armed bandits provide the cache policy. The scheduler Support Zyphos scenes with millions of possible NPCs and organism-agents while keeping gameplay responsive, readable, and coherent at every zoom level: -- a named Sa'auei'a child with a burden flower; +- a named Sa'ueia child with a burden flower; - a glassback herd responding to eclipse ingress; - a candle-road corridor rerouting travelers; - a breeding ground holding thousands of dependents; @@ -71,18 +71,18 @@ claim { - `RouteDomain`: candle-road segment, crossing, shelter, mineral lick, quarantine gate. - `AquaticChannelDomain`: reef channel, current band, nursery shelf, storm exposure. - `GroveDomain`: lantern-tree grove, mother-tree archive edge, root treaty zone. -- `SettlementDomain`: imperial district, Sa'auei'a camp, breeding-ground perimeter. +- `SettlementDomain`: imperial district, Sa'ueia camp, breeding-ground perimeter. - `BodyDomain`: individual anatomy, herd array, colony lattice, host-parasite surface. ### Social Domains - `IndividualDomain`: one high-fidelity agent with body, memory, attention, and agenda. -- `HouseholdDomain`: Sa'auei'a family unit, Airawa caste cell, nest cluster, caretaker group. +- `HouseholdDomain`: Sa'ueia family unit, Airawa caste cell, nest cluster, caretaker group. - `CohortDomain`: age band, work party, flock, patrol, nursery wave, courier guild. - `InstitutionDomain`: breeding ground, road authority, reef border, mother archive, imperial bureau. - `PopulationFieldDomain`: millions of low-detail people or organisms represented as densities and flows. -Spatial and social domains can overlap. A Sa'auei'a family unit crossing a candle road is a household domain moving through a route domain, both negotiating authority. +Spatial and social domains can overlap. A Sa'ueia family unit crossing a candle road is a household domain moving through a route domain, both negotiating authority. ## Detail Layers @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Used when the player can read or alter a group but individual identity is not ye Examples: -- a Sa'auei'a family unit; +- a Sa'ueia family unit; - a glassback herd cluster; - a threadwing flock; - a lattice ant diagnostic lattice; diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Species/Ecological Memory Partners.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Species/Ecological Memory Partners.md index 0fe399e..84548b2 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Species/Ecological Memory Partners.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Species/Ecological Memory Partners.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ # Ecological Memory Partners -Ecological memory partners are organisms other than Airawa and Sa'auei'a that remember past interactions and change how they cooperate in response. Their history with a family or group can affect the help they provide later. +Ecological memory partners are organisms other than Airawa and Sa'ueia that remember past interactions and change how they cooperate in response. Their history with a family or group can affect the help they provide later. Possible examples include: diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Path Dependency.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Path Dependency.md index cda1523..4d4212c 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Path Dependency.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Path Dependency.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ The [[Airawa Empire]] invented the [[Biological Memetic Engine]], a technology t The trap is the engine's usefulness. As the empire relies on it for more tasks, it displaces alternative institutions. By the time anyone recognizes why those institutions were needed, they may already be gone. -## Sa'auei'a Version +## Sa'ueia Version The [[Sa'ueia]] developed a civilization around movement, shared reproductive sites, and reciprocal relationships with the ecologies they visit. Those arrangements also shape what they find easy or difficult to do. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Sa'auei'a Mobile Technologies.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Sa'auei'a Mobile Technologies.md deleted file mode 100644 index 36ca022..0000000 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Sa'auei'a Mobile Technologies.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,15 +0,0 @@ -# Sa'auei'a Mobile Technologies - -Sa'auei'a technology is advanced equipment designed to travel and be repaired along the way. It also helps its users maintain relationships with other species. They move through ecologies whose inhabitants remember how they have been treated, so returning to a place means returning to those relationships. - -## Likely Forms - -These technologies may include: - -- Collapsible shelters grown from dormant symbionts. -- Route-memory instruments that record ecological obligations as well as routes. -- Medical grafts maintained by breeding-ground specialists. -- Languages of scent, vibration, and pattern for communicating with partner species. -- Portable archives distributed across families and living companions. - -The [[Airawa Empire]] expands its power by capturing networks. Sa'auei'a technologies support a different way of extending influence: returning repeatedly and building trust with those they encounter. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Sa'ueia Mobile Technologies.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Sa'ueia Mobile Technologies.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa8c1f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/Sa'ueia Mobile Technologies.md @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +# Sa'ueia Mobile Technologies + +Sa'ueia technology is advanced equipment designed to travel and be repaired along the way. It also helps its users maintain relationships with other species. They move through ecologies whose inhabitants remember how they have been treated, so returning to a place means returning to those relationships. + +## Likely Forms + +These technologies may include: + +- Collapsible shelters grown from dormant symbionts. +- Route-memory instruments that record ecological obligations as well as routes. +- Medical grafts maintained by breeding-ground specialists. +- Languages of scent, vibration, and pattern for communicating with partner species. +- Portable archives distributed across families and living companions. + +The [[Airawa Empire]] expands its power by capturing networks. Sa'ueia technologies support a different way of extending influence: returning repeatedly and building trust with those they encounter. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/index.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/index.md index fb5f76a..ddc3ce7 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/index.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Technologies/index.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ - [[Biological Memetic Engine]] - [[Imperial Biopunk Infrastructure]] -- [[Sa'auei'a Mobile Technologies]] +- [[Sa'ueia Mobile Technologies]] - [[Path Dependency]] ## Design Rule diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Themes/Ecological Bargaining.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Themes/Ecological Bargaining.md index 718ea9c..110068d 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Themes/Ecological Bargaining.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Themes/Ecological Bargaining.md @@ -4,6 +4,6 @@ Ecological bargaining means dealing with nonhuman organisms that have memories, For the Airawa, the exchange depended on a rooted archive. They supplied nutrients and obedience in return for continued access to ancestral memory. Preserving that connection to their ancestors meant accepting the demands of the organisms that held it. -The Sa'auei'a bargain works through movement and reputation. Generosity and restraint help secure future access, guidance, and protection. What matters is how past conduct shapes later cooperation, rather than what a community gives to a rooted archive. +The Sa'ueia bargain works through movement and reputation. Generosity and restraint help secure future access, guidance, and protection. What matters is how past conduct shapes later cooperation, rather than what a community gives to a rooted archive. Imperial biopolitics tries to replace these exchanges with command, turning ecology into a system the empire can direct. This works until the empire encounters organisms and societies that retain memory without accepting orders. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/Themes/Nomadism Without Primitivism.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/Themes/Nomadism Without Primitivism.md index 32965db..a74e7d1 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/Themes/Nomadism Without Primitivism.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/Themes/Nomadism Without Primitivism.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ The [[Sa'ueia]] have a highly developed civilization built around moving across their continent. Permanent cities are not the setting's measure of civilization: a nomadic society has complex needs of its own. -Sa'auei'a families need laws governing routes, crafts they can carry and practise while travelling, and medical care that continues as they move. They maintain distributed archives and care for breeding grounds where infants, the infirm, caretakers, and rotating specialists remain while most adults circulate. +Sa'ueia families need laws governing routes, crafts they can carry and practise while travelling, and medical care that continues as they move. They maintain distributed archives and care for breeding grounds where infants, the infirm, caretakers, and rotating specialists remain while most adults circulate. Their ecological languages and relationships also matter across long distances and absences. A family can return after years away and still be recognized as beneficial by the ecologies it depends on. Being remembered well is a practical achievement. diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/World/Zyphos Simulation Brief.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/World/Zyphos Simulation Brief.md index 41d7af3..2e89642 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/World/Zyphos Simulation Brief.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/World/Zyphos Simulation Brief.md @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Tree-mediated memory networks densely cover the Airawa home continent. The [[Air Several [[Disconnected Tree Networks]] survived by cutting their connections to the saturated living substrate. -The Sa'auei'a continent never produced Airawa and did not develop around dependency on mother-tree archives. Its advanced, nomadic society is organized around mobile family units and breeding-ground commons. +The Sa'ueia continent never produced Airawa and did not develop around dependency on mother-tree archives. Its advanced, nomadic society is organized around mobile family units and breeding-ground commons. ## Proposed Visual Approach @@ -51,9 +51,9 @@ The following are design inferences, not additional canon. The Airawa continent's visible organization should follow its memory infrastructure. The renderer needs ways to suggest where ecological transmission is coerced, where connections break, and where networks refuse participation. Ordinary urban layouts covered in greenery would not explain those relationships. -The Sa'auei'a continent needs visible evidence of civilization even where there are no permanent cities. Its mobile society is remembered by the ecology through which it moves. Possible signs include seasonal corridors, reciprocity routes, defended commons, recurring camps, managed migration paths, and breeding-ground clusters. These could take the visual role that fixed clusters of cities would play on a more familiar planet. +The Sa'ueia continent needs visible evidence of civilization even where there are no permanent cities. Its mobile society is remembered by the ecology through which it moves. Possible signs include seasonal corridors, reciprocity routes, defended commons, recurring camps, managed migration paths, and breeding-ground clusters. These could take the visual role that fixed clusters of cities would play on a more familiar planet. -Night-side light needs the same distinction. Airawa signals may be controlled and connected as infrastructure. Sa'auei'a signals may appear intermittently, follow routes or seasons, or cluster around commons. These possibilities are not final canon. +Night-side light needs the same distinction. Airawa signals may be controlled and connected as infrastructure. Sa'ueia signals may appear intermittently, follow routes or seasons, or cluster around commons. These possibilities are not final canon. ### Design Organisms from Zyphos Biology @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Future names used by inhabitants should come through the neighboring Weksa repo - What would make a mother-tree network recognizable from orbit? - What would an imperial corridor for biological-memetic transmission look like at continental scale? - How can disconnected networks be represented without implying that the empire can easily spot them? -- What visible pattern would distinguish Sa'auei'a breeding grounds from camps, routes, and ecological partner sites? +- What visible pattern would distinguish Sa'ueia breeding grounds from camps, routes, and ecological partner sites? - Should the demo show one historical moment, or offer time slices showing seasonal and political change? - After the first physics pass, what exact primary-star mass and luminosity, and what Zyphos–Umbros separation, should be accepted? - Which continental or oceanic regions lie under the most reliable daily eclipse track? diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/World/Zyphos Umbros Binary System.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/World/Zyphos Umbros Binary System.md index f93c34a..e892ae5 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/World/Zyphos Umbros Binary System.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/World/Zyphos Umbros Binary System.md @@ -52,17 +52,17 @@ Those limits give Zyphos its particular problems. A close habitable orbit, a sta Under this low-energy baseline, organisms must compete over when they receive light and how they survive the gaps. Thermal storage, chemical energy, migration windows, and adaptation to eclipses should matter. Civilizations should have to plan around sunlight rather than assume it is reliably available. -The Airawa and Sa'auei'a continents should be developed with that orbital rhythm in mind. The following are possibilities to investigate, not settled mechanisms: +The Airawa and Sa'ueia continents should be developed with that orbital rhythm in mind. The following are possibilities to investigate, not settled mechanisms: - **Storing and sharing energy:** mother-tree networks, which carry communal memory, may store energy, move it between dependents, or control who receives it through political rationing. - **Timing biological influence:** the [[Biological Memetic Engine]], which propagates ideas through living networks, may use eclipse rhythms to time those transmissions, synchronize rituals, or suppress immunity. - **Finding places to remain disconnected:** tree networks that survive disconnection may hide in niches created by thermal conditions, seasons, or eclipse shadows. -- **Planning movement and return:** Sa'auei'a routes and [[Breeding Grounds]]—sacred reproductive commons to which mobile adults return—may follow reliable windows of light, reservoirs of heat, or ecological partners adapted to eclipse cycles. +- **Planning movement and return:** Sa'ueia routes and [[Breeding Grounds]]—sacred reproductive commons to which mobile adults return—may follow reliable windows of light, reservoirs of heat, or ecological partners adapted to eclipse cycles. ## Open Questions - Should the primary remain near 0.25 solar masses, or become a warmer late-K or early-M dwarf that permits a wider binary and longer eclipses? - Should the accepted center-to-center separation be 8, 10, or 12 Earth radii? - Is Zyphos the more massive planet, with Umbros visibly smaller but still unmistakably planet-scale? -- Where are regular eclipses centered: the Airawa continent, the Sa'auei'a continent, an oceanic band, or a culturally contested equatorial belt? +- Where are regular eclipses centered: the Airawa continent, the Sa'ueia continent, an oceanic band, or a culturally contested equatorial belt? - Does Umbros host life, failed life, hostile life, or simply remain a visible world that Zyphos cultures cannot ignore? diff --git a/Eusocial Interbeing/World/index.md b/Eusocial Interbeing/World/index.md index e628cf8..62bb8dc 100644 --- a/Eusocial Interbeing/World/index.md +++ b/Eusocial Interbeing/World/index.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ## Continents - [[Airawa Home Continent]]: birthplace of the Airawa species, the mother-tree networks, and the Airawa Empire. -- [[Sa'ueia Continent]]: Airawa-free continent where Sa'auei'a nomadic civilization evolved around mobile reciprocity and sacred breeding grounds. +- [[Sa'ueia Continent]]: Airawa-free continent where Sa'ueia nomadic civilization evolved around mobile reciprocity and sacred breeding grounds. ## Planet and Simulation diff --git a/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md b/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md index 223bca4..1cbbb0c 100644 --- a/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md +++ b/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md @@ -20,8 +20,8 @@ Core content lives under `Eusocial Interbeing/`. The baseline setting is an orig The Airawa on one continent once depended on mother-tree networks for communal memory. One tribe invented a biological memetic engine to escape that dependency and became a eugenics-obsessed biopunk empire. Disconnected tree networks still resist while the empire denies they exist. -The Sa'auei'a evolved on another continent without Airawa presence. They have an advanced nomadic civilization organized in squad-sized family units, sacred communal breeding grounds, and reciprocal ecological relationships. +The Sa'ueia evolved on another continent without Airawa presence. They have an advanced nomadic civilization organized in squad-sized family units, sacred communal breeding grounds, and reciprocal ecological relationships. ## Next Useful Action -Use the fractal NPC simulation plan to pressure-test Airawa and Sa'auei'a daily life at multiple scales, then deepen the two sophont species' biology, reproduction, and sensory experience before adding plot-scale characters. +Use the fractal NPC simulation plan to pressure-test Airawa and Sa'ueia daily life at multiple scales, then deepen the two sophont species' biology, reproduction, and sensory experience before adding plot-scale characters. diff --git a/notes/implementation-plan.md b/notes/implementation-plan.md index 8795d5a..861384f 100644 --- a/notes/implementation-plan.md +++ b/notes/implementation-plan.md @@ -9,14 +9,14 @@ Complete. The vault has a linked starting structure, inspiration notes, state ma - Decide whether "Eusocial Interbeing" is the final setting title or only the vault title. - Name the two continents. - Define Airawa anatomy, reproduction, sensory world, and caste pressures. -- Define Sa'auei'a anatomy, reproduction, lifespan, family-unit roles, and mobility constraints. +- Define Sa'ueia anatomy, reproduction, lifespan, family-unit roles, and mobility constraints. - Define mother-tree biology without making the trees into human elders with bark. ## Phase 3: Systems Expansion - Expand the Biological Memetic Engine into mechanism, limits, costs, and failure states. - Detail imperial ministries, breeding law, military infrastructure, and denial doctrine. -- Detail Sa'auei'a route law, breeding-ground governance, ecological treaties, and mobile technologies. +- Detail Sa'ueia route law, breeding-ground governance, ecological treaties, and mobile technologies. - Map the Continental Contact War through several fronts. ## Phase 4: Story Hooks diff --git a/state/branches.json b/state/branches.json index c07642f..b343bae 100644 --- a/state/branches.json +++ b/state/branches.json @@ -12,11 +12,11 @@ }, { "id": "saaueia-nomadic-advanced", - "hypothesis": "Sa'auei'a civilization can be technologically advanced without cities by making ecological reputation and portable institutions load-bearing.", + "hypothesis": "Sa'ueia civilization can be technologically advanced without cities by making ecological reputation and portable institutions load-bearing.", "status": "active", "artifacts": [ - "Eusocial Interbeing/Species/Sa'auei'a.md", - "Eusocial Interbeing/Civilizations/Sa'auei'a Nomadic Civilization.md" + "Eusocial Interbeing/Species/Sa'ueia.md", + "Eusocial Interbeing/Civilizations/Sa'ueia Nomadic Civilization.md" ], "notes": "Needs route law, family roles, and breeding-ground governance." } diff --git a/state/evidence.jsonl b/state/evidence.jsonl index e192755..24e0614 100644 --- a/state/evidence.jsonl +++ b/state/evidence.jsonl @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -{"ts":"2026-05-04T00:00:00+00:00","type":"design_seed","status":"accepted","note":"User requested a new original vault under E:\\Projects using Avatar as loose inspiration but re-engineered around eusocial inter-species dynamics, Airawa imperial memetics, Sa'auei'a nomadic reciprocity, and technological path dependency."} +{"ts":"2026-05-04T00:00:00+00:00","type":"design_seed","status":"accepted","note":"User requested a new original vault under E:\\Projects using Avatar as loose inspiration but re-engineered around eusocial inter-species dynamics, Airawa imperial memetics, Sa'ueia nomadic reciprocity, and technological path dependency."} {"ts":"2026-05-17T23:58:00+01:00","type":"cross_repo_sync","status":"accepted","note":"Zyphos in E:\\Projects\\Aquarium-Engine will simulate this setting. Canon authority remains in this vault; Aquarium records rendering constraints and should feed worldbuilding questions through Eusocial Interbeing/World/Zyphos Simulation Brief.md before visual choices harden into lore."} {"ts":"2026-05-18T00:18:00+01:00","type":"world_physics_baseline","status":"provisional","note":"Zyphos is one member of a mutually tidally locked terrestrial binary with slightly smaller Umbros around a dim primary. A 0.25 solar-mass, 0.006 solar-luminosity primary puts Earth-like flux near 0.077 AU with a roughly 16-day year; an 8-10 Earth-radii Zyphos-Umbros separation gives a 1.0-1.4 Earth-day mutual day, Umbros spanning roughly 10-13 degrees, and central daily eclipses around 50-60 minutes before penumbra and atmospheric effects."} {"ts":"2026-05-18T00:31:00+01:00","type":"design_doctrine","status":"accepted","note":"Zyphos worldbuilding should bend to physics rather than bending physics for spectacle. Orbital mechanics, energy budget, eclipse geometry, climate, and biosphere constraints are design pressure that should make the setting more specific and grounded."} diff --git a/state/map.yaml b/state/map.yaml index 0322733..61636c6 100644 --- a/state/map.yaml +++ b/state/map.yaml @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ project: root_content_dir: Eusocial Interbeing current_status: summary: Zyphos now has a Game Design plan for fractal NPC simulation that mirrors Aquarium mapped-domain architecture from continental population fields down to full individuals. - next_action: Use the fractal NPC plan to pressure-test Airawa and Sa'auei'a daily life, then feed Weksa naming briefs from organism and institution domains. + next_action: Use the fractal NPC plan to pressure-test Airawa and Sa'ueia daily life, then feed Weksa naming briefs from organism and institution domains. active_subgoals: - Expand Airawa biology and imperial caste pressures. - - Expand Sa'auei'a family-unit roles, breeding grounds, and mobile technologies. + - Expand Sa'ueia family-unit roles, breeding grounds, and mobile technologies. - Define limits and failure states of the Biological Memetic Engine. - Keep Zyphos simulation questions synchronized with Aquarium Engine. invariants: -- 2.47.3