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>
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