tremor asks "how many seconds until dark" -- acute, the cliff edge, expressed as
judder. pallor asks "how much cushion do I have at all" -- chronic, sits there in
surplus, expressed as colour draining out. A full tank draining fast is a jolt;
a near-empty tank coasting is a way of life.
No tanks built means no cushion to miss, so no pallor. Without that, an unbuilt
reserve reads as "totally empty" and paints the boot state grey, which would
break the sterile guarantee on day one.
Fixtures now carry commissionQueue and research ahead of the v5 hardening.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Per the v3 units ruling, stored is bandwidth-seconds and draw-gen is bandwidth
per second, so stored/(draw-gen) is literally how long until the lights go out.
Tremor ramps over the last 8 seconds. That reads correct at every factory size
for free: 1000/s with 4000 banked feels exactly as doomed as 10/s with 40.
A factory in surplus is always calm, which is also what keeps the boot state
(gen=draw=stored=0) sterile by construction rather than by special case.
Fever averages only the machines that run hot, so one glowing decoder is not
drowned by a sea of cold belts.
Pure and snapshot-shaped so the sterile guarantee is a test, not a promise.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
