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- [Automated repository validation](tools/validation/README.md)
- [Structured data](data/README.md)
- [DRAFT V12 tranche 01](drafts/v12/tranche-01/README.md)
- [DRAFT Scattered Lamps cluster 01](drafts/v12/cluster-01/README.md)
- [Third-party notices](THIRD_PARTY.md)

## Licence
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cosmological reliquary systems, principal lineages, principal environments, and
relative chronology. It reproduces the authoritative manuscript and does not
add lore.

`drafts/v12-scattered-lamps-cluster-01.json` extends the first tranche into a
connected DRAFT cluster. It adds parent astronomical settings, institutions,
custodial cultures, post-human branches, objects, operational languages,
recovered-record narratives, and explicit relations. All astronomical settings
remain `requires-review`, and the Custody War order is relative and proposed.
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| Need | Project and observed revision | Verified licence | Decision |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worldbuilding data vocabulary | [`OnlyWorlds/OnlyWorlds@ed84fa19`](https://github.com/OnlyWorlds/OnlyWorlds/tree/ed84fa19c15c5bfb18019245faacdbdcb7cd9e0f) | [MIT](https://github.com/OnlyWorlds/OnlyWorlds/blob/ed84fa19c15c5bfb18019245faacdbdcb7cd9e0f/LICENSE) | **Adopted in part.** SERVATI's JSON profile derives from the base, Location, and Event schema vocabulary. |
| Worldbuilding data vocabulary | [`OnlyWorlds/OnlyWorlds@ed84fa19`](https://github.com/OnlyWorlds/OnlyWorlds/tree/ed84fa19c15c5bfb18019245faacdbdcb7cd9e0f) | [MIT](https://github.com/OnlyWorlds/OnlyWorlds/blob/ed84fa19c15c5bfb18019245faacdbdcb7cd9e0f/LICENSE) | **Adopted in part.** SERVATI's JSON profile derives from the base, Location, Event, Collective, Institution, Object, Narrative, Language, Species, and Relation schema vocabulary. The upstream `World` grouping collision is omitted; explicit Relation entities carry those links. |
| Public linked-lore site | [`jackyzha0/quartz@f1fba3fc`](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/tree/f1fba3fc55cbf60a60a5d09c95a49c042cdab63a) | [MIT](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/blob/f1fba3fc55cbf60a60a5d09c95a49c042cdab63a/LICENSE.txt) | Candidate when a public Codex is justified; no code included now. |
| Local authoring reference | [`aronjanosch/chronicle-keeper@45cabb16`](https://github.com/aronjanosch/chronicle-keeper/tree/45cabb16fa34b6e1045db45eb4f8af3ae7f48d73) | [MIT](https://github.com/aronjanosch/chronicle-keeper/blob/45cabb16fa34b6e1045db45eb4f8af3ae7f48d73/LICENSE) | Reference for Markdown truth, atlas, timeline, graph, and backlinks; do not copy wholesale. |
| Planetary/regional mapping | [`Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator@f2325b30`](https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator/tree/f2325b3078b939fd368612d494fdd5e17a2cd2cf) | [MIT file verified](https://github.com/Azgaar/Fantasy-Map-Generator/blob/f2325b3078b939fd368612d494fdd5e17a2cd2cf/LICENSE); GitHub API reports `NOASSERTION` | External map tool first; do not assume its generated cultures are SERVATI lore. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Fictional personal names | [`ironarachne/namegen@472ac3fe`](https://github.com/ironarachne/namegen/tree/472ac3fe67c734e89654dcad0293f6924fd2b87b) | [Apache-2.0](https://github.com/ironarachne/namegen/blob/472ac3fe67c734e89654dcad0293f6924fd2b87b/LICENSE) | Clearly licensed but list-based human names do not fit late SERVATI terminology. |
| YAML action wrapper | [`ibiqlik/action-yamllint@v3.1.1`](https://github.com/ibiqlik/action-yamllint/tree/2576378a8e339169678f9939646ee3ee325e845c) | [MIT](https://github.com/ibiqlik/action-yamllint/blob/v3.1.1/LICENSE) | Valid licence, but its latest release is from 2022 and repository activity stopped in 2023; the maintained upstream `yamllint` release is used directly instead. |
| Contemporary system-generation candidate | [`FrunkQ/star-system-generator@813eb19b`](https://github.com/FrunkQ/star-system-generator/tree/813eb19b0f1cab8be40b4cc5a737f993440c5c8e) | [GPL-3.0](https://github.com/FrunkQ/star-system-generator/blob/813eb19b0f1cab8be40b4cc5a737f993440c5c8e/LICENSE) | Actively developed and transparent about calculations, but targets “close enough” RPG plausibility rather than audited research output. Evaluated, not run or copied; candidate systems remain qualitative and require scientific review. |
| StarGen II system generation | [`Sphinkie/StarGen-II@6ad71da2`](https://github.com/Sphinkie/StarGen-II/tree/6ad71da251acb46f2623a0c700d1069faf15950a) | [MIT](https://github.com/Sphinkie/StarGen-II/blob/6ad71da251acb46f2623a0c700d1069faf15950a/LICENSE) | Evaluated, not adopted. It is a 2006 StarGen fork and the observed repository revision is from 2023; its output would still require modern scientific audit. |

## Quarantined: no reusable licence established

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# DRAFT — Scattered Lamps Cluster 01

**Nothing in this directory is canon.**

This tranche connects the six existing DRAFT Scattered Lamps and six DRAFT
Custody War incidents without changing their verified Version 11 foundations.
Every new system, institution, culture, lineage branch, artefact, language,
relation, record, causal link, and interpretation remains **DRAFT**.

## Contents

- [Cluster dossier](cluster-dossier.md)
- [DRAFT relative Custody War sequence](custody-fracture-sequence.md)
- [Recovered custody records](recovered-records/README.md)
- [Astronomy review](../../../research/v12-scattered-lamps-cluster-01/ASTRONOMY_REVIEW.md)
- [Machine-readable cluster dataset](../../../data/drafts/v12-scattered-lamps-cluster-01.json)
- [Original DRAFT tranche](../tranche-01/README.md)

## Guardrails

- Version 11 remains the released canon.
- The six incidents have a proposed relative order only. There are no absolute
dates, durations, or silently invented historical intervals.
- The cluster is linked by custody dependencies and damaged provenance. It is
not asserted to be one spatial neighbourhood, polity, empire, or war front.
- Astronomical detail remains `requires-review` until a scientific audit uses
recorded assumptions and suitable FOSS validation tools.
- “Species” in the structured data is the adopted OnlyWorlds interoperability
category for post-human lineage branches; it does not imply alien origin.
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# DRAFT — Scattered Lamps Cluster 01 Dossier

- **Status:** DRAFT
- **Canon boundary:** Version 11 supplies the six inheritance logics, the
Scattered Lamp condition, four named Archive Faiths, and the Custody War's
conflict grammar. It does not supply the names or connected history below.
- **Chronology:** relative sequence only; no dates or durations
- **Science:** every parent setting and proposed adaptation requires review

The cluster is a circuit of incomplete correction. Each Lamp can detect a kind
of error another cannot: Relay Twelve can preserve contradictory identity;
K-6 can show what physically happened to a burden; Pelagic Seven can show what
place and approach contributed; Reserve Thirty-One can expose the irreversible
cost of release; the Corridor can distinguish transmission from authority; and
Site Nine can keep incompatible fragments in comparison. None can reconstruct
the old whole.

Their connection is therefore not a common government. It is a set of narrow,
fragile custody relations formed after each community discovers that local
fidelity cannot answer a failure created elsewhere. The circuit is useful,
resented, and always at risk of becoming a new monopoly on interpretation.

The structured IDs, relations, and science flags are in the [cluster
dataset](../../../data/drafts/v12-scattered-lamps-cluster-01.json). The verified
V11 foundations remain in the [original DRAFT tranche](../tranche-01/README.md).

## Relay Twelve: quiet with an expiry condition

The [Pale Reef of Relay Twelve](../tranche-01/scattered-lamps.md#the-pale-reef-of-relay-twelve)
sits in an unspecified stellar system. Only the vacuum heat-rejection problem
is presently constrained: a working archive produces heat, exposed radiators
need a clear thermal view, and any habitat grown around them must not quietly
destroy their function. Star class, orbit, energy source, radiation regime, and
all dimensions remain unassigned.

The **Rib Quiet Office** treats silence as a logged protective state. A keeper
cannot simply declare a chamber sacred and unavailable. The order must name the
system placed at risk, the evidence that would permit renewed contact, and the
identities made unreachable during the quiet. This is a DRAFT divergence from
the V11 Quiet Route: silence remains morally serious, but it is conditional
rather than universally holy.

The **Ribside Witness Houses** alternate low-vibration maintenance with
shielded comparison sessions. Their candidate post-human branch, the
**Rib-Quiet Descendants**, is shaped around deliberate contact and structural
noise awareness, but no genetic mechanism or fixed phenotype is asserted.
Their **Sealcloth Gesture** distinguishes “not observed,” “cannot safely be
queried,” and “confirmed absent”—three statements the Custody Wars repeatedly
collapse.

The signature machine is the **Rib-Zero Isolation Baffle**. Its flexible layers
protect a witness chamber while logging every mechanical change. That history
creates the preservation dilemma: replace a worn layer and the old comparison
environment changes; retain it and the next identity reading may be damaged.

Relay Twelve's external dependency is the **Quiet-Line Witness Accord** with
the Corridor. Low-energy summaries may travel, while full relation fields stay
local. The accord protects the Reef and also creates dangerous summaries that
can be mistaken for the identities they describe.

## K-6: weight that must leave a trace

The [Ash Roads of Transfer Cluster K-6](../tranche-01/scattered-lamps.md#the-ash-roads-of-transfer-cluster-k-6)
occupy a dusty excavated minor body. That is all the physical confidence this
tranche permits. Whether the body is monolithic or rubble-rich, how it spins,
how the roads are supported, and whether dust is electrostatic, impact-derived,
or industrial all require review.

The **Assembly of Measured Handoffs** modifies the V11 Weight Doctrine in one
crucial way: weight alone does not create humility. A transfer counts only when
the carrier, route, pauses, load changes, and objections leave evidence another
custodian can inspect. Remote custody is not automatically false, but it must
produce a trace answerable to the held matter.

The **Road-Bearer Benches** are both social units and physical rest thresholds.
A bench inherits a road segment, not a blood title. The **Load-Settled
Descendants** are a candidate task-shaped branch with stabilised movement and
fine acceleration awareness rather than heroic strength. Their phenotype is
unsettled because low-gravity carrying cannot be made plausible without a body,
load, and road model.

**K-6 Burden Sledge Four** records acceleration, restraint changes, rests, and
disputed control. Its visible wear is evidence. Safe refurbishment can erase
that evidence; romanticising the wear can let it fail under a burden. The
**Load-Angle Notation** exists to keep old and new measurements together.

K-6 depends on Site Nine through the **Ash-Nine Burden Provenance Route**. The
Concordance can compare the two route histories created by the Ash Convoy
redirection. K-6 custodians distrust the abstraction; Site Nine custodians
distrust the claim that a physical trace can explain itself.

## Pelagic Seven: depth is part of the record

The [Drowned Threshold of Pelagic Vault Seven](../tranche-01/scattered-lamps.md#the-drowned-threshold-of-pelagic-vault-seven)
retains V11's drowned moon, black water, coral-like preservation towers, and
pressure-adapted custodians. This tranche does not decide whether the ocean is
surface or subsurface, how its chemistry supports the towers, what the moon
orbits, or how the elevated Lamp connects to the vaults.

The **Threshold Sounding Office** maintains a DRAFT belief that depth is a
relation rather than a simple coordinate. A record includes the pressure,
current, orientation, and sequence through which it was reached. The belief
does not claim that all movement is desecration; it demands that a necessary
move preserve evidence of what cannot travel.

The **Depth-Route Households** inherit changing approaches rather than fixed
territory. Their **Threshold Walkers of Seven** have the clearest V11 lineage
basis—pressure-adapted custodians are explicit—but respiratory mode, body form,
pressure range, and environmental transition all remain DRAFT questions. The
**Current-Pressure Register** marks whether a current was witnessed or
reconstructed, preventing a restored route from presenting itself as original.

**Marker Seven-Black-Three** is the cluster's exemplary displaced object. Its
ribs can survive seizure. Its depth, current response, and tower relation
cannot. Site Nine accepts it under the **Pelagic-Nine Context Exchange**, but
only as a marker-with-a-record-of-lost-placement. The exchange is valuable
because it refuses to call external storage restoration.

## Reserve Thirty-One: refusal is also an act

The [Unopened Spring of Seed Reserve Thirty-One](../tranche-01/scattered-lamps.md#the-unopened-spring-of-seed-reserve-thirty-one)
is placed in a DRAFT cold-body environment. This combines separate V11 images—a
Seed Lamp whose release conditions became obsolete, seed vessels in ice bodies,
and seed arks orbiting dim bodies. The combination is not V11 fact. No claim is
made about power, radiation dose, storage mode, or deep-time viability.

The **Chamber of Plural Release** refuses two comforting ideas: that an
unverifiable order may be obeyed because delay is costly, and that continued
dormancy is morally neutral because nothing visibly changes. Release and
non-release advocates must use the same **Thirty-One Release Condition Matrix**
and sign the same decision. Each records what its chosen action makes
irreversible.

The **Readiness Gardens** maintain bounded trial ecologies without allowing a
trial to acquire an automatic claim to become a settlement. Their **Viability
Tender Descendants** are a candidate low-contamination lineage, but the dossier
does not turn them into biologically sterile abstractions. Their own bodies,
microbiomes, and dependency on the reserve are part of the custody problem.

The **Interval Litany** is shared imperfectly with the Corridor. Corridor crews
can certify a message path and receiving window through the **Thirty-One
Interval Verification** relation; they cannot certify authority to release.
This boundary prevents one kind of false order and creates another risk: each
institution can prove its narrow part while disclaiming the harmful whole.

## The Corridor: an answer is not an arrival

The [Corridor of No Arrival](../tranche-01/scattered-lamps.md#the-corridor-of-no-arrival)
is modelled as an interstellar reach, not one conventional solar system. No
distances, coordinates, endpoint stars, propulsion, or travel times exist yet.
The Lamps in this dossier are therefore a narrative and custody cluster; they
are not asserted to be close together.

The **Office of Unanswered Intervals** teaches that a route owes a faithful
opportunity to answer, not an invented arrival. A receiving window opened to
nothing is recorded as an unanswered interval. It is neither success nor proof
of death. The distinction keeps ritual from filling absence with certainty.

The **Unanswered Crews** inherit sections of maintenance time rather than land.
Their candidate **Interval Maintainer Descendants** are shaped by dispersed
work, isolation, and radiation-managed duty, but the transport and habitat
assumptions needed to specify them do not yet exist. The **No-Arrival Interval
Clock** retains drift and failed acknowledgement separately. Correcting the
clock without preserving its prior uncertainty would rewrite every old miss.

The Corridor connects to Relay Twelve and Reserve Thirty-One, yet cannot become
their sovereign communications service. It can show that a message followed a
route. It cannot show that the record was safe to transmit or the command was
rightful. This deliberately narrow competence is its franchise role.

## Site Nine: no fragment may close another

The [Broken Frame Concordance at Transfer Site Nine](../tranche-01/scattered-lamps.md#the-broken-frame-concordance-at-transfer-site-nine)
remains a DRAFT synthesis of two separate V11 ideas: dignity rebuilt around
damaged burden-capsule fragments, and mixed sites made vulnerable by doctrinal
division. Its physical environment is left open between planetary, orbital,
and free-space options.

The **Concordance of Unequal Fragments** has three benches: material, memorial,
and relational. They can authorise a provisional action together without
declaring their evidence equivalent. The **Parallel Gallery Keepers** work in
triads, not because three viewpoints guarantee truth, but because a repair must
show which account it privileged and which objections remain.

The **Plural Frame Descendants** are a candidate post-human branch whose
interfaces retain parallel annotations. Their danger is cultural as much as
biological: uncertainty can become an identity interest, making justified
resolution feel like extinction. The **Site Nine Parallel Comparison Rack**
therefore leaves an empty central gap. It aligns sources but never renders a
single replacement object.

Site Nine receives K-6 route evidence and displaced Pelagic markers. It also
becomes a target after the uncertainty-stripped index spreads. These links make
the site the last stage of the [Sixfold Custody
Fracture](custody-fracture-sequence.md), but not a capital or chosen centre. Its
importance comes from a preservation problem: every repair of comparison can
conceal that the comparison was once broken.

## Inter-Lamp relations

| DRAFT relation | What crosses the relation | What must not be claimed |
|---|---|---|
| Quiet-Line Witness Accord | bounded witness summaries and channel-state evidence | that a summary is an identity, or silence is abandonment |
| Ash-Nine Burden Provenance Route | physical load histories and disputed handoffs | that intact matter explains rightful custody |
| Pelagic-Nine Context Exchange | displaced markers plus records of lost placement | that external preservation recreates depth and current |
| Thirty-One Interval Verification | route integrity, interval state, acknowledgement failure | that delivery proves release authority |
| Six-Lamp Correction Circuit | narrow challenges among incompatible evidence traditions | that the six Lamps form a unified truth authority |
| Uncertainty-Stripped Index Propagation | a useful copied index and evidence of its omissions | that use, spread, or internal consistency proves completeness |

The circuit's dramatic pressure comes from dependence without consensus. Each
site needs correction from a practice it also has reason to fear. Conflict is
therefore fought through access, route, maintenance, release, classification,
and interpretation—not conquest for its own sake.

## Internal views

Four DRAFT records show the cluster from inside its procedures:

- [Quiet-Line Transcript Twelve-B](recovered-records/quiet-line-transcript.md)
- [Refusal Pair Thirty-One](recovered-records/refusal-pair-thirty-one.md)
- [Ash Convoy Handoff Leaf](recovered-records/ash-convoy-handoff-leaf.md)
- [Site Nine Parallel Inventory Fragment](recovered-records/site-nine-parallel-inventory.md)

They are newly authored recovered-record simulations, not manuscript fragments.
Their gaps and damage are narrative devices and remain subject to editorial
review.
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