Temporary civic credentials, paper fallback, a dual ratification threshold and a charter that adopts five structural clauses while rejecting a standing emergency office.
Designs the vote so no symbolic site, institution or personality can silently become the source of legitimacy. She accepts a mixed result, including the survival of a limited Civic Council, and keeps her own temporary facilitator role outside the ratified charter.
Challenge desk, public result screen or end-of-night platform; no campaign-rally pose.
A2-CHAR-ELIZA · Character
Eliza Marr
Requires versioned ballot language, separated eligibility evidence, visible corrections and authenticated publication. She makes the charter's provenance part of the constitutional act without giving the archive a policy veto.
Version logs, count reconciliation and distributed charter publication.
A2-CHAR-ARUN · Character
Arun Vey
Protects technical safety from popularity, helps design a role-free voting credential and refuses to use the ratified systems authority immediately while staff are exhausted. The three remaining Master-dependent services stay unresolved.
Ballot credential design and post-vote migration board.
A2-CHAR-MARIAN · Character
Marian Vale
Votes through the same registration process as everyone else, initially receives a provisional district assignment and refuses to turn her succession history into special civic standing. After the vote she declines to pronounce an overall verdict on the charter.
Ordinary polling queue and provisional-voter receipt.
A2-CHAR-VOSS · Character
Halden Voss
Argues for central coordination and a continuing emergency office, accepts the prepublished dual-threshold rule, and sees the Civic Council retained while his preferred standing cross-system emergency office fails the district test.
Result room with approved council clause and failed emergency-office clause side by side.
A2-CHAR-ROOK · Character
Commander Rook
Keeps aircraft outside direct polling intervention and writes a narrow observation order himself. Unified operational air command is ratified subject to civilian mission authority and a thirty-day renewal cycle.
High observation patrol and air-command renewal clause; no ballot intimidation imagery.
A2-CHAR-PERA · Character
Pera Sol
Maintains visible version history, challenge logs and count corrections. She preserves incorrect accusations beside their corrections rather than cleaning the vote into a story of inevitability.
Challenge log, paper ballot seals and version-locked result screen.
A2-OBJ-SIX-QUESTIONS · Ballot structure
The Six Charter Questions
The constitutional vote separates central council, district representation, essential-systems governance, archive provenance duties, unified air command and a continuing central emergency office into distinct questions rather than one all-or-nothing package.
A one-use voting credential contains eligibility and district assignment but no MASTER, TRUSTEE, CUSTODIAN, WORKER or PUBLIC authority class. It expires after the vote and is barred from migration into the permanent identity service.
When a terminal cooling fan fails, the station switches to sealed paper ballots tied to one-use token serials. Live totals explicitly disclose that known paper ballots are not yet included.
Transparent sealed ballot box, witness seals and outage notice.
A2-OBJ-DUAL-THRESHOLD · Ratification rule
The Dual Threshold
Structural clauses require both a citywide majority and approval in a majority of participating districts. The rule is published before voting and later causes the central emergency office to fail despite winning the citywide tally.
The archive receives constitutional duties for source chains, enacted-text custody, revision history, correction, public access and provenance certification. It receives no general policy veto and no identity-creation authority.
Mandate card with duties and explicit NO POLICY VETO line.
A2-OBJ-AIR-RENEWAL · Ratified authority rule
Thirty-Day Air Command Renewal
Unified operational air command survives for active defence and declared missions, but civilian authority creates missions and the standing command arrangement requires renewal every thirty days.
A continuing central office for temporary cross-system emergency orders wins the citywide vote but fails the district-majority threshold. The rejected proposal remains in the published annex rather than being erased.
Result card showing CITYWIDE APPROVED / DISTRICT FAILED / NOT ADOPTED.
A2-OBJ-RATIFIED-CHARTER · Constitutional record
Civic Charter — Ratified Version 1
The authenticated charter assembles only the approved clauses, preserves rejected proposals and correction history, and becomes effective through distributed publication and provenance authentication rather than one master copy.
Ratified charter front sheet with version and distributed publication list.
A2-OBJ-THREE-DEPENDENCIES · Unresolved migration state
Three Master-Dependent Services Remaining
The vote creates legitimate governance sources but does not instantly migrate the remaining public-land and identity-administration dependencies. Arun deliberately leaves the count at three overnight.
Preserves correction history and rejected versions when a Record is ratified, preventing later effects from treating the final text as inevitable or source-free.
Open design question: Use existing history/provenance concepts without adding excessive bookkeeping.
Chapter 24 begins from Chapter 23's corrected state of three Master-dependent services remaining.
The vote does not use the old estate identity hierarchy as a civic franchise.
The temporary voting credential is one-use, role-free and barred from permanent identity migration.
Provisional eligibility does not erase a person's citywide ballot; district assignment can remain under challenge.
Station Forty-Three's hardware failure uses a published paper fallback; live totals disclose incompleteness.
Structural clauses use a prepublished dual threshold: citywide majority plus majority of participating districts.
The Civic Council survives with enumerated functions and seventy-two-hour emergency-order expiry; no permanent general cross-system override is ratified.
District representation is ratified through a chamber of locally selected delegates with published mandates.
Essential-systems governance is ratified with technical safety protection, worker and affected-public representation, audit and emergency expiry.
The Public Provenance Archive receives provenance and access duties but no policy veto or identity-creation authority.
Unified air command survives subject to civilian mission authority and thirty-day renewal.
The continuing central emergency coordination office wins the citywide tally but fails the district threshold and is not adopted.
The rejected emergency-office proposal remains in the public provenance annex.
The charter does not migrate the final three Master-dependent services by itself; they remain unresolved at chapter end.
UNKNOWN remains disabled locally and the continuity selector remains isolated.
Chapter 25 must treat the charter as a living settlement with remaining work rather than a final perfect constitution.
Existing Chapter 9 artwork, Chapter 5 notes, Archive 001 content and live game rules remain unchanged.