PARITY DEBT is one scalar with five bands: it rises on tier>=2 shipments, always
decays, decays faster while stock footage ships, and vents outright when a
compliance quota is filed. Bands gate the ladder and nothing else needs to know
more than the band.
Wardens fax 20s ahead, walk in from the rim, roll back the last N outputs from a
new per-machine output ring and stamp a compliance seal; sealed machines refuse to
run until pried (90 ticks, and prying is itself deviation). Gunships tether to the
8x8 sector with the most DEVIATION and mirror it. Hash auditors prescan, then lock
a rect with a deterministic hash that ALWAYS auto-releases.
A FIREWALL CATCHES WHAT WALKS — mites and wardens, not the airborne gunship or the
auditor that is never present. This departs from the orders' "or a firewall cans
it" for the gunship: LANE-UI measured rung 3 being deleted entirely by a machine
the player already owns, and there is no tile in the brick works that guards the
wardens without also covering the gunship's station. Regression test requires a
mirror in the demo as shipped, firewalls and all.
Reference v7 adds the compliance tap (DATA measured zero commissions clearing in
90k ticks, so every quota was dead content), a canning line for rung 5, a doubled
brick works that can absorb a seal, and the power to pay for it. Save v5.
Determinism byte-identical browser vs Node across a 20k run. 645 tests green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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