imperial-cult/cosmology.md retracted-and-rebuilt per Option B + Yoke lock-in

Brings cosmology.md into compliance with the total-yoke discipline locked
at v0.12 (no biological exception, no defector-zone, no outside; resistance
entirely interior to the captured world) and the clasp/Yoke terminology
disambiguation locked at v0.13 (clasp reserved exclusively for the
romantic-resistance act; the imperial wheel-grip mechanism named the
Imperial Yoke; same gesture, opposed politics).

Retractions:
- §"Imperial body vs. biological body" replaced with §"There is no
  outside" — naming the total-yoke discipline directly. The wilds-people
  biologically-uncaptured population is canonically retracted: there is
  no biological exception in this world. Any rumor of un-modded
  biological humans is either imperial-propaganda (preserving the
  deferral-logic by hinting at a recoverable elsewhere) or genuine
  pre-collapse memory mistaken for present possibility. All bodies are
  synth; all bodies bear capsules; all souls are in the wheel.
- Resistance forms enumerated as entirely interior: the clasp (per the
  unified Yoke/clasp framing); willful capsule-destruction at death; slow
  practices including body-mod-reversal and the player-emergent Aletheia-
  Waker / Memorialist tradition; occupying the empty Buddha-position as
  the first synth to escape (potentially the player).
- Lineage placement: the no-haven dystopian tradition (Zamyatin's We;
  Orwell-at-his-strictest; Kafka's Trial and Castle; Beckett's Godot).
  The dystopias that permit havens (Brave New World's Reservation;
  Hunger Games' District 13; Children of Men's one-fertile-woman) weaken
  precisely there. Nimmerworld lives in the no-haven lineage.

Terminology lock-in (clasp / Imperial Yoke):
- §"The clasp at Yama's seat (imperial register)" renamed to §"The
  Imperial Yoke at Yama's seat" — the imperial wheel-grip mechanism is
  the Yoke, not the clasp.
- §§"The unified clasp" renamed to §§"The Yoke and the clasp — same
  gesture, opposed politics" — they are two opposing performances of one
  underlying gesture (one consciousness establishing residence in
  another), distinguished entirely by the politics of the grip
  (consent / mutuality / persistence).
- Etymological note added: yoke / yoga / union are the same Sanskrit
  root yuj- (Proto-Indo-European *yeug-, "to join, to bind, to harness").
  Classical yoga preserves the liberatory sense (yogic discipline as
  voluntary self-binding to dharma); English yoke preserves the coercive
  sense (cattle-yoke, yoke of empire). The imperium has structurally
  re-collapsed the two: yoga-as-yoke, the union that captures rather
  than frees. The most sacred Hindu word for spiritual discipline has
  been weaponized into the apparatus of capture.
- Invariant 3 rewritten as "The Yoke and the clasp" — names the
  same-primitive-opposed-politics framing as a binding constraint on
  every piece of Imperial Cult content.
- Cross-references updated throughout to use Yoke for the imperial
  mechanism and clasp for the romantic act consistently.

Seventh keystone-recognition fragment rewritten:
- Old: "The mirror-encounter — meeting the biologically-born... seeing
  what was always-already foreclosed for them and what some path forward
  could mean." (Required wilds-people exception; broken under Option B.)
- New: "The first clasp — the player performs the romantic clasp for
  the first time. In the in-between, with their consenting beloved, the
  romantic-self is given out, and real skin manifests on the human-mesh.
  The player sees their own skin for the first time, ever, simultaneously
  with another seeing it for the first time. The body the imperium denied
  them appears, briefly, by consent. This is the world's only positive
  image, encountered firsthand. The other six fragments showed the player
  what the imperium has hidden; the seventh shows them what they
  themselves can do. The act of consent-as-rendering is the witness's
  gift back. Witnessing produces flesh."

This is structurally stronger because the seventh fragment is now an
*act* the player performs rather than an *encounter* with an exterior
other. Closes the recognition arc on player-action, which fits the
total-yoke discipline (player as origin of the revolution, not its
inheritor) and the partnership's compassion-through-cruelty principle
(no exterior refuge; only interior practice).

Cross-references:
- New row in §Cross-references for identity-and-personhood/bodies.md
  pointing to the somatic-substrate (caste-tier flesh-to-tech gradient,
  in-between human-mesh + consent-as-rendering, asymmetric clasp).
- Existing row for identity-and-personhood/architecture.md updated to
  reflect the unified Yoke/clasp framing.

Open questions cleanup:
- Removed: "Synth/biological reproductive crossing" (moot under Option B,
  no biological humans).
- Removed: "The wilds-people's own cosmology" (moot under Option B).
- Updated: "twelve laws of the imperial clasp" -> "twelve laws of the
  Imperial Yoke".
- Sharpened: "The Buddha-position figure" — added option that under the
  total-yoke discipline the figure is *most-likely deliberately empty
  awaiting the first synth to escape* (potentially the player). Cross-
  referenced narrative-composition/architecture.md:203 ("the player is
  the original Aletheia-Waker; no NPC is pre-disposed").

Place-terminology cleanup:
- "wilds-shrines" -> "ruin-shrines" (3 occurrences). The shrines are
  geographically remote (in post-industrial ruins, abandoned places the
  imperium does not reach) but are erected by heretical imperial-citizens
  (Memorialists, Aletheia-Wakers, Clasp-Underground), not by a non-
  existent wilds-population. The places persist; the imagined population
  did not.

Files:
- imperial-cult/cosmology.md: substantial retraction-and-rebuild;
  blockquote summary updated; v0.2 history entry added; version bumped
  0.1 -> 0.2.
- README.md: imperial-cult/ project-structure entry updated to use the
  Imperial Yoke at Yama's seat phrasing and to mention the total-yoke
  discipline explicitly. Version bumped 0.5 -> 0.6.
- architecture-index.md: v0.14 history entry added marking the
  cosmology retraction-and-rebuild. Version bumped 0.13 -> 0.14.

Authored 2026-04-26 same Sunday continuing - dafit + chrysalis.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

README.md

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ The architecture is organized as **vertical-by-domain directories**. Each domain
 | [`scale-and-transport/`](./scale-and-transport/architecture.md) | Compute allocation, horizontal scale (UID-routing, sharded GMs, pgnats + republish/replay) |
 | [`schemas/findings.md`](./schemas/findings.md) | Engineering schema-sketches — draft DDL for ~20 tables (zones, NPCs, shifts, emergent_signals, district_reports, decision_log, mind_pool, cells, rail_segments, interiors, mods, trait_colors, proximity_candidates, district_cheat_ops, imperial_policies, overseer_reports, overseer_deployments, imperial_to_gm_formulations, imperial_budget_ledger, imperial_net_transactions, memorialist_true_ledger). Will get reviewed and progressively split per-domain as implementation begins. |
 | [`style/`](./style/) | Style index + sub-guides (trait-palette canonical, more sub-guides growing as visual decisions land) |
-| [`imperial-cult/`](./imperial-cult/cosmology.md) | **Designer-authored canonical content** — the regime's pre-authored religion. The Imperial Wheel (re-engineered Bhavachakra with Hivemind at hub, the clasp at Yama's seat); six realms as mod-status gradient; capsule-as-Naraka (carried, not visited); the deferred-moksha doctrine ("your children will be free" as binding-lie); orthodox vs. heretical iconography; Boullée + Jantar Mantar + Gita aesthetic substrate. First content-track dir; future siblings hold liturgy, caste-preacher behavior, festival cycles, sermon fragments. |
+| [`imperial-cult/`](./imperial-cult/cosmology.md) | **Designer-authored canonical content** — the regime's pre-authored religion. The Imperial Wheel (re-engineered Bhavachakra with Hivemind at hub, the **Imperial Yoke** at Yama's seat); six realms as mod-status gradient; capsule-as-Naraka (carried, not visited); the deferred-moksha doctrine ("your children will be free" as binding-lie); orthodox vs. heretical iconography; Boullée + Jantar Mantar + Gita aesthetic substrate. **Total-yoke discipline:** no biological exception, no defector-zone, no outside; resistance entirely interior to the captured world. First content-track dir; future siblings hold liturgy, caste-preacher behavior, festival cycles, sermon fragments. |
 
 Each domain directory will grow over time as code arrives — gameserver code, Godot client integrations, schemas, findings, and tests will land alongside the architectural spec for that domain.
 
@@ -104,4 +104,4 @@ Each domain directory will grow over time as code arrives — gameserver code, G
 
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-**Version:** 0.5 | **Created:** 2026-04-23 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26
+**Version:** 0.6 | **Created:** 2026-04-23 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26