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ARCHIVE 002 · CHAPTER 23 · REVISED CANON · 28 SEPTEMBER 2026
Public services keep working as their old owner fields are replaced. Corrections, narrow authority and deferred identity changes leave three Master-dependent services.
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Each entry links to evidence in the revised chapter. Claims do not inherit authority from the first edition.
Character · A2-CHAR-NARA
Works as mediator, router and temporary meeting facilitator while resisting the idea that being useful should silently become permanent office. She helps separate service priorities from technical limits and makes her own temporary function explicit, recallable and nonexclusive.
Chapter evidence: ¶002 ¶012 ¶031 ¶053 ¶061 ¶093 ¶096 ¶097 ¶153
Character · A2-CHAR-ARUN
Rewrites Master-dependent services while they remain live, decomposes owner-shaped systems into narrower functions and keeps his seven-day convenor role bounded. He refuses to treat adjacency or technical success as automatic jurisdiction.
Chapter evidence: ¶037 ¶044 ¶045 ¶048 ¶053 ¶057 ¶119 ¶125 ¶131 ¶132
Character · A2-CHAR-MARIAN
Discovers that people continue seeking her approval despite the loss of estate-based public authority. She publishes incoming questions beside her answers and repeatedly refuses to let private standing settle public decisions.
Character · A2-CHAR-ELIZA
Keeps governance proposals marked as proposed, preserves the distinction between source, authority and function, and rebuilds archive access across multiple locations under the principle that location does not confer authority.
Chapter evidence: ¶061 ¶066 ¶067 ¶080 ¶082 ¶087 ¶126 ¶141 ¶143
Character · A2-CHAR-PERA
Maintains the public state boards, publishes scope changes even when headline counts do not improve, and forces Nara to confront the fact that recurring routing work is itself becoming a civic function.
Chapter evidence: ¶006 ¶012 ¶053 ¶064 ¶088 ¶090 ¶093 ¶095 ¶097 ¶133 ¶134
Character · A2-CHAR-VOSS
Continues to press the accountability problem created by distributed governance and uses existing public-safety authority narrowly where needed, as in emergency retaining-wall expenditure, without recovering estate-derived command.
Character · A2-CHAR-ROOK
Needs new service-specific access after estate-derived field authority disappears. He accepts a narrow seven-day operational credential tied to flight and field rules while the permanent defence-governance question remains unresolved.
Character · A2-CHAR-LEDA
Keeps Marian's life at household scale and treats temporary civic roles with practical skepticism. Her insistence that temporary people still need dinner continues the chapter's refusal of grand constitutional theatre.
Transitional system workaround · A2-OBJ-PUBLIC-HOLDER
An old flour-delivery form still requires an owner field after public-use title has been separated from private succession. Staff temporarily enter PUBLIC HOLDER while the software is redesigned, making the inadequacy of inherited forms visible.
Temporary governance status · A2-OBJ-DAY-TWO-BOARD
Arun's First Convenor term is publicly displayed as Day 2 of 7. The visible expiry is meant to prevent a temporary coordinating role from silently becoming permanent.
Governance proposal · A2-OBJ-ADJACENT-FUNCTIONS
After a lift-rescue board successfully replaces one Master-dependent path, the chapter explicitly rejects the idea that control of one function creates authority over adjacent functions. The rule remains proposed, not enacted.
Governance event · A2-EVENT-RETAINING-WALL
A dangerous retaining wall cannot wait for a title and budget dispute. Voss issues a narrow emergency expenditure authorisation so work can begin without settling ownership or permanent budget responsibility.
Archive principle · A2-OBJ-LOCATION-NOT-AUTHORITY
Three distributed reading rooms reopen under a banner stating that storage or access location does not make that site authoritative over the records it holds.
Temporary civic role · A2-OBJ-FACILITATOR-TERM
Nara decomposes her informal organiser function into routing, mediation, agenda, witness and facilitation tasks, retaining only a three-day nonexclusive, recallable facilitator role.
Migration event · A2-EVENT-LIVE-REGISTRY-REWRITE
The estate notices registry is decomposed into separate public, private, civic-land and archive functions while old and new paths run in parallel. Divergent results stop for review, and the historical Master translation becomes read-only rather than being erased.
Unresolved migration state · A2-OBJ-THREE-DEPENDENCIES
After the notices-registry rewrite, three services remain dependent on old authority: public-land scheduling and two identity-administration functions. Identity migration is deferred when it could reduce access for people with incomplete historical records.
A2-045
Distributed reading rooms reopen at a school, tram office and former estate accounting room under a shared warning: where a record can be read or stored does not make that location authoritative over the record.
A2-046
The estate notices registry is decomposed into separate public, private, civic-land and archive functions while old and new routes run in parallel. Matching results migrate; conflicts stop for review.
Card game effects remain separate design material and require playtesting.