{
  "edition": "revised-20260928",
  "chapter": 18,
  "title": "Night of Three Orders",
  "status": "current_edition_source_linked_canon",
  "word_count": 4957,
  "chapter_url": "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/",
  "prose_hash": "efedb12c11dbcaf89bd060eea6223099a20166d2e68b8067ba204f7f84eed3bd",
  "prose_hash_basis": "SHA-256 of published chapter paragraph text, joined by two newlines",
  "canon_url": "/after-the-sleeper/canon/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/",
  "previous_edition_url": "/after-the-sleeper/canon/18-night-of-three-orders/",
  "evidence_edition": "Revised novel, 28 September 2026",
  "evidence_note": "Every evidence link targets a paragraph in the current chapter. Interpretation remains bounded by that paragraph and surrounding scene.",
  "thesis": "Three instructions collide over a grain convoy. Crews publish technical state and act locally; a held UNKNOWN request and a later custodial notice keep the political problem open.",
  "entities": [
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-ARUN",
      "name": "Arun Vey",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        42,
        49,
        70,
        79,
        160,
        417
      ],
      "fact": "Refuses to turn incompatible instructions into a single engineering order, publishes local technical states, and preserves the held UNKNOWN request without claiming a battery accepted it.",
      "art": "Live state board with local crew entries.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p042",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p049",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p070",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p079",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p160",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p417"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-ROOK",
      "name": "Commander Rook",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        231,
        263,
        285,
        287
      ],
      "fact": "Controls airborne spacing and approves updated landings as depot capacity changes while ground crews maintain their own safety decisions.",
      "art": "Aircraft plan annotated by receiving field.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p231",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p263",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p285",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p287"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-KORR",
      "name": "Eda Korr",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        1,
        9,
        30,
        231,
        286
      ],
      "fact": "Works from weather, fuel, berth count and unloading figures while the four transports share one western corridor.",
      "art": "Flight table with weather strips and fuel figures.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p001",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p009",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p030",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p231",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p286"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-NARA",
      "name": "Nara Venn",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        91,
        99,
        349
      ],
      "fact": "Keeps receiving requests tied to actual labour and lift capacity and warns that shared technical coordination also needs public accountability.",
      "art": "District request beside changing berth figures.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p091",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p099",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p349"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-CHAR-MARIAN",
      "name": "Marian Vale",
      "kind": "Character",
      "paragraphs": [
        20,
        107,
        120
      ],
      "fact": "Issues a non-recognition notice about disputed identity authority over weapons and routing; it is not a technical battery order.",
      "art": "Succession-office notice next to battery log, as separate documents.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p020",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p107",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p120"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-THREE-INSTRUCTIONS",
      "name": "The Three Instructions",
      "kind": "Records",
      "paragraphs": [
        20,
        24,
        25,
        42,
        287
      ],
      "fact": "Custodial routing, Marian’s non-recognition notice and district receiving requests have different scopes. The actual operation is preserved alongside each original instruction.",
      "art": "Three distinguishable documents, not one composite command.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p020",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p024",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p025",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p042",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p287"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-STATE-BOARD",
      "name": "The Corridor State Board",
      "kind": "Record",
      "paragraphs": [
        70,
        79,
        82,
        83,
        91,
        99,
        417
      ],
      "fact": "Stations publish firing-path, tracking, berth and service conditions, then coordinate through visible local information without giving the board command power.",
      "art": "Public board with time-stamped local states.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p070",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p079",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p082",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p083",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p091",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p099",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p417"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-HELD-UNKNOWN",
      "name": "Held UNKNOWN Readiness Request",
      "kind": "Record",
      "paragraphs": [
        156,
        158,
        160,
        373
      ],
      "fact": "UNKNOWN requests a battery readiness review, repeated twice; the local identity freeze holds the request before authority translation. No accepted defence command is shown.",
      "art": "Hold strip visibly distinct from an accepted order.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p156",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p158",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p160",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p373"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-PLACE-WESTERN-BELT",
      "name": "The Western Defence Corridor",
      "kind": "Place",
      "paragraphs": [
        9,
        79,
        181,
        196
      ],
      "fact": "The four transports use a weather corridor across defence installations while local crews inhibit firing paths and retain needed tracking functions.",
      "art": "Crew at controller and physically inhibited firing path.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p009",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p079",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p181",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p196"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-EVENT-FOUR-LANDINGS",
      "name": "The Four Grain Landings",
      "kind": "Event",
      "paragraphs": [
        231,
        285,
        286,
        290,
        291
      ],
      "fact": "The actual distribution is two central, one Lower East and one Lower South, reached through changing capacity and local support rather than a permanent allocation rule.",
      "art": "Four flight paths with separate landing notes.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p231",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p285",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p286",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p290",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p291"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-OBJ-UNAUTHORISED-NETWORK",
      "name": "The Coordination Notice",
      "kind": "Record",
      "paragraphs": [
        349,
        375,
        417
      ],
      "fact": "Custodians challenge inter-station coordination and publication of operational states; crews continue logging local conditions because suppressing the board would hide service dependencies.",
      "art": "Formal notice pinned beside new state entries.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p349",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p375",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p417"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "continuity_locks": [
    {
      "claim": "The three public documents differ in legal and operational scope; their overlap does not merge them into a common command.",
      "paragraphs": [
        20,
        24,
        42,
        287
      ],
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p020",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p024",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p042",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p287"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim": "Marian’s non-recognition notice is not a technical order to batteries.",
      "paragraphs": [
        20,
        107
      ],
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p020",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p107"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim": "The state board displays local conditions; flight command stays with Rook and operating responsibility remains local.",
      "paragraphs": [
        70,
        79,
        231,
        287
      ],
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p070",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p079",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p231",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p287"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim": "Two UNKNOWN readiness requests are held; the chapter shows attempted access, not successful defence control.",
      "paragraphs": [
        156,
        158,
        160,
        373
      ],
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p156",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p158",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p160",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p373"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim": "All four aircraft land: two central, one Lower East and one Lower South. The distribution is an operational result.",
      "paragraphs": [
        285,
        286,
        290
      ],
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p285",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p286",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p290"
      ]
    },
    {
      "claim": "The notice challenges the coordination network’s accountability while the network continues to report local states.",
      "paragraphs": [
        349,
        375,
        417
      ],
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p349",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p375",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p417"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "tcg": {
    "status": "Untested design candidates only. Costs, statistics, rarity and timing are not approved. No live game rules change.",
    "candidates": [
      {
        "id": "A2-C18-REV-01",
        "name": "Corridor State Board",
        "type": "Record",
        "affinity": [
          "Infrastructure",
          "Knowledge"
        ],
        "source_entities": [
          "A2-OBJ-STATE-BOARD"
        ],
        "direction": "Share a visible local system state that another player may use without making the board an order.",
        "source_links": [
          "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p070",
          "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p079",
          "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p082"
        ],
        "open_question": "Untested concept. Costs, rarity, timing and rules must be checked against the live game."
      },
      {
        "id": "A2-C18-REV-02",
        "name": "UNKNOWN Request — Held",
        "type": "Record",
        "affinity": [
          "Knowledge"
        ],
        "source_entities": [
          "A2-OBJ-HELD-UNKNOWN"
        ],
        "direction": "Show an attempted authority use halted before acceptance.",
        "source_links": [
          "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p156",
          "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p158",
          "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p160"
        ],
        "open_question": "Untested concept. Costs, rarity, timing and rules must be checked against the live game."
      }
    ]
  },
  "boundary": "Original Sleeper Archive fiction. Canon summaries follow the revised novel; game concepts are untested.",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "A2-035",
      "title": "Three Incompatible Commands",
      "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/035-three-incompatible-commands/",
      "paragraphs": [
        20,
        24,
        42,
        287
      ],
      "copy": "Three overlapping instructions retain distinct origins and authority; Eliza preserves the operational departures from each.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p020",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p024",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p042",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p287"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "A2-036",
      "title": "Coordination Without Command",
      "url": "/after-the-sleeper/records/036-coordination-without-command/",
      "paragraphs": [
        70,
        79,
        160,
        231,
        290,
        373,
        375
      ],
      "copy": "Visible state helps crews complete four landings, but neither the board nor the held UNKNOWN request becomes a citywide command.",
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p070",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p079",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p160",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p231",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p290",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p373",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p375"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "changes_and_uncertainties": [
    {
      "note": "The revised text records an actual split of four transports, preserving who approved flight changes and who controlled ground conditions.",
      "paragraphs": [
        231,
        285,
        287,
        290
      ],
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p231",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p285",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p287",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p290"
      ]
    },
    {
      "note": "The held UNKNOWN request narrows the evidence to attempted access; its author and any later defence acceptance remain open.",
      "paragraphs": [
        156,
        158,
        160,
        373
      ],
      "source_links": [
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p156",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p158",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p160",
        "/after-the-sleeper/edition-20260928-r4/18-night-of-three-orders/#p373"
      ]
    }
  ]
}