### Resolved by v0.10

- ~~Cross-layer economy balancing — net-revenue-share back to producer-districts at all? Pure-zero is currently sketched~~ → bifurcation: *digital-T4 → imperial-net bypass (pure zero to district)*; *physical-T4 → district imperial-POI (district gets partial quota-credit; player gets scrip-cut; imperium captures most)*; *blackmarket-T4 → district-retained, imperium-zero*. **Pure-zero only applies to digital-T4.** (v0.10; see `political-register/architecture.md` §Imperial-extraction mechanisms (consolidated))
- ~~Inner-body projection function — trait-vector → body-rendering (learned / hand-authored / hybrid)~~ → gameplay-earned, not authored. Trait-vector accumulates from every zone-participation, every gesture, every memory across the playthrough; the eventual human-mesh projection becomes physically visible only at exit-chassis moment in in-between (v0.8 spec; v0.10 marks resolved; see `identity-and-personhood/architecture.md` §The clasp endgame Phase B-C)
- ~~Liminal-access trait thresholds — minimum traits to attempt mini-game~~ → **no trait-vector threshold**; clasp gates on the **relational ternary-gate (player, NPC) reaching OPEN state** (per §Ternary-gate substrate, Relational layer). Both partners must hit the coordinated-firewall-breach hardstop while the gate is OPEN. Trait-vectors don't need to converge — the gate measures what's been BUILT together, not who you ARE separately. Hysteresis is baked into the substrate; single dramas can't swing the gate; sustained alignment-pressure does. NPC personality-parameters set hysteresis-width per-NPC (some forgiving, some touchy). **Avoids the yes-men trap that trait-vector-threshold would create.** (v0.10)
- ~~Ring C (commons) ambient population — what NPCs do in commons when no event fires~~ → bifurcated economy answers it: NPCs work T1-T3 basic-flow vocations continuously at workshops/junkyards/drop-off-points; the simulation has economic-life independent of player-presence; *the world doesn't pause when the player leaves*. (v0.10; see `political-register/architecture.md` §Bifurcated economy — basic-flow (NPC) vs player-driven (T4))

runtime-engine/architecture.md

@@ -149,6 +149,8 @@ The recursive-lemniscate gesture-alignment machinery (above) is **modality-agnos
 
 **This is also why premium-imperial-net intimate-gameplay is *mechanically identical* to in-between clasp.** Same lemniscate. Same gesture-circle. Same trait-alignment. The differences are at the *value-flow* and *persistence* layers (per `../political-register/architecture.md` §Three-tier intimacy structure and `../inference-and-memory/architecture.md` §Three sqlite stores per player), not at the runtime-mechanics layer. The architecture's typed-contract discipline pays off here too: one machinery, multiple political-economic contexts.
 
+**Voice-input flows through the same accumulator as gesture-input.** Player speech → local STT → token-stream → each token has a designer-fixed trait-coordinate (per the universal-translator corpus; same word → same trait → same coordinate for every player and every NPC and every LLM-context, per `../player-experience/architecture.md` §Designer-fixed cosmology, player-curated arrangement) → tokens accumulate into the same `gesture_alignment_accumulator` on the player's slot-token → integrated at axis-crossing → carried forward into next NPC's `driver_context_pull`. **Voice and gesture are co-equal modalities feeding one mechanism**; no player-trait-LoRA needed, no LLM-bypass needed. A player gesturing Philotes while speaking Aletheia-vocabulary contributes both trait-coordinates to the accumulator simultaneously; the sum-strategy reduction handles the multi-modal case naturally. (Resolves the v0.4 player-dialog-handling open question.)
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 ### Driver-context-pull (LLM dialog substrate)
 
 The cursor's position at each crossing makes context-construction for the dialog-driver a pure function of cursor-state: