{ "entities": [ { "id": "A2-CHAR-ARUN", "name": "Arun Vey", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 15, 33, 52, 88, 104, 124, 191, 212, 221, 246, 283, 295, 327, 409, 442, 449, 505, 528, 561, 576, 595, 600, 644, 679, 694, 705 ], "fact": "Refuses to turn three overlapping public instructions into one engineering command. He publishes live system state instead, keeps technical responsibility local, and later refuses to shut down the shared state network merely because the custodians call it unauthorised.", "art": "Use the Spine state board, station calls and public operational logs; avoid depicting Arun as a central commander issuing orders to every system.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p015", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p033", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p052", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p088", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p104", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p124", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p191", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p212", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p221", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p246", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p283", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p295", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p327", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p409", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p442", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p449", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p505", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p528", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p561", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p576", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p595", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p600", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p644", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p679", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p694", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p705" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-ROOK", "name": "Commander Rook", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 4, 7, 15, 57, 192, 263, 293, 300, 308, 351, 398, 421, 458, 478, 504, 519 ], "fact": "Retains command of aircraft in flight while relying on ground engineers, receiving depots and local state reports. He accepts a held UNKNOWN request as evidence of risk without treating it as an accepted defence command, and splits the convoy by live capacity and weather.", "art": "Flight map and corridor display rather than combat action; emphasize decision under incomplete ground information.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p004", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p007", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p015", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p057", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p192", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p263", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p293", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p300", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p308", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p351", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p398", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p421", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p458", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p478", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p504", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p519" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-KORR", "name": "Eda Korr", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 2, 9, 17, 60, 72, 308, 350, 354, 395, 428, 462, 477, 501 ], "fact": "Turns political demands into operational questions: number of supported fields, fuel, timing and actual landing capacity. Her pressure for useful numbers keeps the convoy plan tied to what aircraft and ground crews can do.", "art": "Route strips, fuel notes and receiver traffic; no decorative command pose.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p002", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p009", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p017", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p060", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p072", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p308", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p350", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p354", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p395", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p428", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p462", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p477", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p501" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-NARA", "name": "Nara Venn", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 144, 157, 173, 184, 197, 204, 361, 372, 379, 389, 522, 549, 590, 599, 617, 626, 639, 705 ], "fact": "Prevents the Lower City receiving request from becoming a claim of jurisdiction simply because the convoy later uses Lower City depots. She also warns that lateral engineering coordination can itself become unaccountable power if it hardens into command.", "art": "Public state board and depot-capacity notes; avoid victory-rally imagery.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p144", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p157", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p173", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p184", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p197", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p204", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p361", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p372", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p379", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p389", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p522", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p549", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p590", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p599", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p617", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p626", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p639", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p705" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-MARIAN", "name": "Marian Vale", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 35, 58, 172, 184, 195, 202, 376, 510, 554, 571, 615, 707 ], "fact": "Issues a non-recognition notice rather than a technical counter-order: disputed estate, MASTER or succession-derived identity cannot by itself establish lawful authority over weapons or military routing. She does not command the batteries or aircraft.", "art": "Legal notice beside the live system board; no command seal or military imagery.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p035", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p058", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p172", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p184", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p195", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p202", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p376", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p510", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p554", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p571", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p615", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p707" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-VOSS", "name": "Halden Voss", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 30, 74, 83, 91, 99, 213, 227, 238, 527, 548, 557, 577, 590, 593, 669, 689, 691 ], "fact": "Pushes for central accountability and initially treats the engineering state network as a dangerous parallel command structure. After the convoy succeeds, his office issues a notice against unauthorised inter-station coordination and summons Arun to the Council House.", "art": "Postmortem table and formal notice; avoid caricaturing him as simply anti-engineer.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p030", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p074", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p083", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p091", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p099", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p213", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p227", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p238", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p527", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p548", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p557", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p577", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p590", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p593", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p669", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p689", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p691" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-ELIZA", "name": "Eliza Marr", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 193, 256, 327, 506, 521, 560, 627, 632 ], "fact": "Preserves the three instructions, the actual operational deviations, and the two held UNKNOWN readiness requests as separate evidence. She refuses to reduce the outcome to a winner or a single obeyed command.", "art": "Three public documents beside the actual system timeline and deviation log.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p193", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p256", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p327", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p506", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p521", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p560", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p627", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p632" ] }, { "id": "A2-CHAR-PERA", "name": "Pera Sol", "kind": "Character", "paragraphs": [ 46, 55, 166, 197, 198, 338, 353, 384, 453, 457, 489, 506, 525, 543, 574, 584, 606, 622, 626, 638, 645, 663, 672, 686 ], "fact": "Publishes receiving capacity, system states, timing notes and the final distribution caveat. Her records make coordination observable without turning the public board into a command authority.", "art": "Public board with timestamps, depot capacities and caveats; no central dispatch throne.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p046", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p055", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p166", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p197", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p198", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p338", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p353", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p384", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p453", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p457", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p489", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p506", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p525", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p543", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p574", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p584", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p606", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p622", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p626", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p638", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p645", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p663", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p672", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p686" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-THREE-INSTRUCTIONS", "name": "The Three Public Instructions", "kind": "Authority records", "paragraphs": [ 28, 30, 35, 37, 41, 48, 52, 57, 506, 521 ], "fact": "The custodians seek confirmed battery safe state and central warehousing; Marian's office refuses to recognise disputed identity authority over military systems; receiving courts ask for Lower City landings based on capacity. Their scopes overlap but they are not identical kinds of authority.", "art": "Three visibly different documents with distinct source and scope fields.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p028", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p030", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p035", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p037", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p041", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p048", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p052", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p057", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p506", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p521" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-NONRECOGNITION", "name": "The Non-Recognition Notice", "kind": "Legal position record", "paragraphs": [ 35, 37, 39, 41, 172, 184, 195, 202 ], "fact": "States that registry acceptance of disputed estate, MASTER, preservation-office or succession-derived identity does not establish lawful authority over weapons or military routing. It explicitly does not command any defence system.", "art": "Legal notice with the sentence THIS NOTICE DOES NOT ITSELF COMMAND ANY DEFENCE SYSTEM.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p035", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p037", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p039", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p041", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p172", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p184", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p195", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p202" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-STATE-BOARD", "name": "The Live Corridor State Board", "kind": "Coordination record", "paragraphs": [ 106, 114, 118, 119, 120, 121, 144, 195, 212, 281, 289, 359, 382, 596 ], "fact": "Publishes local technical states, capacity and hazards without issuing commands. Stations use it to coordinate and ask one another for help, while each local crew remains responsible for its own operating decision.", "art": "Multi-station state board with status lines and timestamps; do not style it as a command dashboard.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p106", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p114", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p118", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p119", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p120", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p121", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p144", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p195", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p212", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p281", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p289", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p359", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p382", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p596" ] }, { "id": "A2-PLACE-WESTERN-BELT", "name": "The Western Defence Belt", "kind": "Infrastructure zone", "paragraphs": [ 13, 57, 114, 118, 196, 221, 241, 278, 289, 300, 301, 318 ], "fact": "The only usable weather corridor crosses legacy defence systems whose authority pathways are still under the identity freeze. Crews physically isolate firing paths while preserving tracking and weather functions.", "art": "Night corridor map and local battery status lights; avoid weapons glamorisation.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p013", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p057", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p114", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p118", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p196", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p221", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p241", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p278", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p289", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p300", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p301", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p318" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-HELD-UNKNOWN", "name": "UNKNOWN — Readiness Review Held", "kind": "Disputed authority request", "paragraphs": [ 242, 249, 253, 265, 318, 399, 517, 630 ], "fact": "UNKNOWN twice requests a readiness review from Battery Two. The local identity freeze holds both requests before authority translation. This is evidence of attempted access to a defence-related controller, not successful defence control.", "art": "Local acceptance log with REQUEST: READINESS REVIEW and STATUS: HELD.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p242", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p249", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p253", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p265", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p318", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p399", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p517", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p630" ] }, { "id": "A2-EVENT-RESERVE-TRANSFER", "name": "The Six-Minute Reserve Transfer", "kind": "Coordination event", "paragraphs": [ 426, 443, 449, 453, 455, 462, 472, 682 ], "fact": "A pumping-station engineer publishes spare reserve capacity and temporarily supports Lower Depot South's beacon without a central citywide order. The transfer stays within the station's operating minimum and ends before the next pump cycle.", "art": "Three linked local-state entries—water reserve, beacon demand, central capacity—not a heroic switch pull.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p426", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p443", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p449", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p453", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p455", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p462", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p472", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p682" ] }, { "id": "A2-EVENT-FOUR-LANDINGS", "name": "The Four Grain Landings", "kind": "Supply event", "paragraphs": [ 382, 391, 438, 473, 491, 492, 500, 523, 525, 623 ], "fact": "Four grain transports ultimately split two to central warehouses, one to Lower East and one to Lower South. The distribution emerges from live lift, berth, beacon, weather and fuel conditions rather than a pre-agreed political allocation.", "art": "Four transport markers resolving to three receiving sites, with capacity reasons alongside them.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p382", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p391", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p438", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p473", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p491", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p492", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p500", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p523", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p525", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p623" ] }, { "id": "A2-OBJ-UNAUTHORISED-NETWORK", "name": "The Unauthorised Coordination Notice", "kind": "Administrative notice", "paragraphs": [ 638, 644, 658, 669, 679, 689, 694, 705, 713 ], "fact": "The custodians declare inter-station coordination and public operational-state sharing outside recognised central channels pending review. Stations continue publishing because removing the shared state would make operations slower and less visible, even if nothing collapses immediately.", "art": "Official notice beside continuing live status lines; avoid presenting either side as already legally vindicated.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p638", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p644", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p658", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p669", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p679", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p689", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p694", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p705", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p713" ] } ], "continuity_locks": [ "Chapter 18 follows the partial identity freeze of Chapter 17. UNKNOWN remains locally disabled and under review.", "No defence system is established as having accepted UNKNOWN. Battery Two receives readiness-review requests that are held before authority translation.", "Marian's non-recognition notice is not a technical order to batteries and does not make her commander of defence systems.", "The three public instructions are different in scope and authority; the chapter's tension comes from operational overlap, not from pretending they are legally equivalent.", "Rook retains flight command once aircraft are airborne. Ground crews and receiving depots retain their local safety and capacity responsibilities.", "The live state board publishes system conditions and hazards but is not itself a command authority.", "Battery crews isolate firing paths while preserving needed tracking/weather functions. No battery fires during the convoy.", "The Lower City receiving request is based on unloading capacity and does not become permanent jurisdiction simply because two Lower City depots receive grain.", "The six-minute reserve transfer stays within the pumping station's operating margin and is locally documented.", "The four transports land successfully: two central, one Lower East and one Lower South. No air battle occurs.", "The final distribution is explicitly labelled as a result of live capacity and flight conditions, not a permanent allocation rule.", "The two UNKNOWN readiness requests are preserved as evidence of attempted access, not successful control.", "Arun does not issue a citywide order replacing the three authorities. Local stations act within published technical limits and coordinate laterally.", "The custodians' morning notice challenges the legitimacy/accountability of the engineering coordination network and sets up Chapter 19; it does not physically shut the network down.", "Chapter 19 must inherit the accountability problem: coordination worked, but distributed technical power still needs a defensible governance structure.", "Existing Chapter 9 artwork, Chapter 5 notes, Archive 001 content and live game rules remain unchanged." ], "edition": "A2-CH18-20260926-R1", "chapter": 18, "title": "Night of Three Orders", "status": "published_novel_chapter", "word_count": 4764, "chapter_url": "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/", "prose_hash": "eb1117fe2258768bc4f1a692ef4d542e3ad3761819eeee56ca1deb8ba7f16e51", "tcg": { "status": "Untested design candidates only. Costs, statistics, rarity and timing are not approved. No live game rules change in this release.", "candidates": [ { "id": "A2-C18-F01", "name": "Arun Vey, Publish the State", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Infrastructure", "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-ARUN", "A2-OBJ-STATE-BOARD" ], "direction": "Replaces one broad command effect with visible local-state information, allowing eligible local Figures to resolve bounded actions independently.", "open_question": "Use existing local action and visibility rules; do not create a parallel real-time simulation." }, { "id": "A2-C18-F02", "name": "Nara Venn, Useful Is Not Sovereign", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Influence", "Knowledge" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-NARA", "A2-EVENT-FOUR-LANDINGS" ], "direction": "Prevents a successful local outcome from automatically becoming a permanent control claim over the Place that benefited.", "open_question": "Target only one persistence/control effect so this remains concise." }, { "id": "A2-C18-F03", "name": "Rook, Good Enough to Fly", "type": "Figure", "affinity": [ "Authority", "Infrastructure" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-CHAR-ROOK", "A2-PLACE-WESTERN-BELT" ], "direction": "May commit to a mission when all required local hazards are bounded even if no citywide authority certifies the entire route.", "open_question": "Keep this tied to declared missions and not a universal permission to ignore restrictions." }, { "id": "A2-C18-R01", "name": "Three Incompatible Commands", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Authority", "Influence" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-THREE-INSTRUCTIONS", "A2-OBJ-NONRECOGNITION" ], "direction": "Places three overlapping authority claims face up; none automatically overrides the others, and effects resolve only within each source's actual scope.", "open_question": "Avoid requiring legal interpretation mid-game; use clear printed scopes." }, { "id": "A2-C18-R02", "name": "UNKNOWN — Held", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Knowledge", "Authority" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-HELD-UNKNOWN" ], "direction": "Records an attempted high-level request that is stopped before permission translation. It may support later investigation but grants no active authority.", "open_question": "Ensure held requests cannot be exploited as free activation triggers." }, { "id": "A2-C18-E01", "name": "Six-Minute Reserve", "type": "Event", "affinity": [ "Infrastructure" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-EVENT-RESERVE-TRANSFER", "A2-OBJ-STATE-BOARD" ], "direction": "Temporarily lends spare local capacity to another Place while preserving the source Place's minimum operating state and an explicit expiry.", "open_question": "Model reserve transfer with existing resources and one-turn timing." }, { "id": "A2-C18-R03", "name": "Coordination Without Command", "type": "Record", "affinity": [ "Infrastructure", "Influence" ], "source_entities": [ "A2-OBJ-STATE-BOARD", "A2-OBJ-UNAUTHORISED-NETWORK" ], "direction": "Lets several Places share visible state and make bounded local choices without creating a central controller; later authority effects may challenge its legitimacy.", "open_question": "The card should enable coordination without becoming a stronger central command by another name." } ] }, "boundary": "Original Sleeper Archive fiction. Game concepts are untested; no live rules change.", "records": [ { "id": "A2-035", "title": "Three Incompatible Commands", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/035-three-incompatible-commands/", "paragraphs": [ 28, 30, 35, 37, 41, 48, 52, 57, 506, 521 ], "copy": "Three public instructions overlap over the same convoy: custodial safe-state and central warehousing, Marian's non-recognition of disputed identity authority, and receiving-court requests based on Lower City capacity. Their operational collision does not make them legally identical.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p028", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p030", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p035", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p037", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p041", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p048", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p052", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p057", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p506", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p521" ] }, { "id": "A2-036", "title": "Coordination Without Command", "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/036-coordination-without-command/", "paragraphs": [ 106, 114, 144, 195, 212, 281, 289, 359, 426, 453, 491, 523, 576, 596, 638, 679, 705, 713 ], "copy": "Engineers, fields, depots and a pumping station coordinate through visible local state rather than one new citywide command. The convoy succeeds, but the custodians immediately challenge the accountability and legality of the network that made the coordination possible.", "source_links": [ "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p106", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p114", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p144", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p195", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p212", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p281", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p289", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p359", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p426", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p453", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p491", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p523", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p576", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p596", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p638", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p679", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p705", "/after-the-sleeper/18-night-of-three-orders/#p713" ] } ] }