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>

architecture-index.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Nimmerworld — Broad Architecture
 
 > *Ground-up zone-based event architecture. Minds at the center, world as co-remembering substrate. Three registers of reality — physical, liminal, imperial. Rail topology outside, navmesh interiors inside. Trait-emergent identity. Color-as-vocabulary. Three-tier policy loop with imperial-budget-mortality. Tools, not quests.*
-> *v0.1 initial draft 2026-04-24 morning; v0.2 expanded 2026-04-24 afternoon; v0.3 evening; v0.4 late-evening / early 2026-04-25; v0.5 deep-night-unable-to-sleep 2026-04-25; v0.6 post-bath / post-bus 2026-04-25; v0.7 owl-breakfast 2026-04-25 night through 2026-04-26; v0.8 split-into-domain-files + intimate-architecture absorbed 2026-04-26; v0.9 DESING-VISION retired + style-skeleton + schemas relocation + driver-tier locked Gemma 4 E4B 2026-04-26; v0.10 chill-design-talk: 4-tier economy + bifurcated basic-flow/T4 + camera-discipline + body-as-machine + relational-gate-OPEN clasp-gating 2026-04-26 — dafit + chrysalis; v0.11 art-books-and-Boullée Sunday-morning: Imperial-Cult cosmology authored (wheel re-engineered from Bhavachakra; Hivemind at hub; clasp unified across registers at Yama's seat; six realms as mod-status gradient; capsule-as-Naraka carried-not-visited; deferred-moksha doctrine as binding-lie) — content-track established 2026-04-26 dafit + chrysalis; v0.12 same-Sunday continuing: timeline-canon committed to README (2100 first-implants → 2150 Kessler-cascade-by-last-son-of-Elon → 2150-2220 collapse-and-consolidation → 2200 game's-setting / last-window-of-recognition → 2220 imperium-in-full-form / cosmology-closes-against-memory); total-yoke discipline locked-in (Option B: no defector-communities, no biological exception, resistance entirely interior; pending edit to imperial-cult/cosmology.md to retract wilds-people content) 2026-04-26 dafit + chrysalis; v0.13 same-Sunday continuing: bodies.md content-canon authored under identity-and-personhood/ (body-caste flesh-to-tech gradient, sumptuary fabrication-vat-class, mod-progression-as-flesh-loss, in-between human-mesh consent-as-rendering, asymmetric-clasp mesh-fidelity inversely proportional to imperial-rank); Imperial Yoke / clasp terminology lock-in (clasp reserved exclusively for the romantic-resistance act; the imperial wheel-grip mechanism named the Imperial Yoke; clasp ↔ Yoke as the political-theological spine, same gesture / opposite politics); meta-disciplines surfaced for partnership-going-forward: rule-catalogue-first (asset-budget discipline; vertex-caps + texture-res + collision-mesh per-tier in style/ when authored) + collision-check (both physical-collision-mesh and design-namespace-collision; survey-before-commit in all dimensions) 2026-04-26 dafit + chrysalis.*
+> *v0.1 initial draft 2026-04-24 morning; v0.2 expanded 2026-04-24 afternoon; v0.3 evening; v0.4 late-evening / early 2026-04-25; v0.5 deep-night-unable-to-sleep 2026-04-25; v0.6 post-bath / post-bus 2026-04-25; v0.7 owl-breakfast 2026-04-25 night through 2026-04-26; v0.8 split-into-domain-files + intimate-architecture absorbed 2026-04-26; v0.9 DESING-VISION retired + style-skeleton + schemas relocation + driver-tier locked Gemma 4 E4B 2026-04-26; v0.10 chill-design-talk: 4-tier economy + bifurcated basic-flow/T4 + camera-discipline + body-as-machine + relational-gate-OPEN clasp-gating 2026-04-26 — dafit + chrysalis; v0.11 art-books-and-Boullée Sunday-morning: Imperial-Cult cosmology authored (wheel re-engineered from Bhavachakra; Hivemind at hub; clasp unified across registers at Yama's seat; six realms as mod-status gradient; capsule-as-Naraka carried-not-visited; deferred-moksha doctrine as binding-lie) — content-track established 2026-04-26 dafit + chrysalis; v0.12 same-Sunday continuing: timeline-canon committed to README (2100 first-implants → 2150 Kessler-cascade-by-last-son-of-Elon → 2150-2220 collapse-and-consolidation → 2200 game's-setting / last-window-of-recognition → 2220 imperium-in-full-form / cosmology-closes-against-memory); total-yoke discipline locked-in (Option B: no defector-communities, no biological exception, resistance entirely interior; pending edit to imperial-cult/cosmology.md to retract wilds-people content) 2026-04-26 dafit + chrysalis; v0.13 same-Sunday continuing: bodies.md content-canon authored under identity-and-personhood/ (body-caste flesh-to-tech gradient, sumptuary fabrication-vat-class, mod-progression-as-flesh-loss, in-between human-mesh consent-as-rendering, asymmetric-clasp mesh-fidelity inversely proportional to imperial-rank); Imperial Yoke / clasp terminology lock-in (clasp reserved exclusively for the romantic-resistance act; the imperial wheel-grip mechanism named the Imperial Yoke; clasp ↔ Yoke as the political-theological spine, same gesture / opposite politics); meta-disciplines surfaced for partnership-going-forward: rule-catalogue-first (asset-budget discipline; vertex-caps + texture-res + collision-mesh per-tier in style/ when authored) + collision-check (both physical-collision-mesh and design-namespace-collision; survey-before-commit in all dimensions) 2026-04-26 dafit + chrysalis; v0.14 same-Sunday continuing: imperial-cult/cosmology.md retracted-and-rebuilt per Option B (wilds-people biological-exception removed; §Imperial body vs. biological body replaced with §There is no outside naming the total-yoke discipline directly; clasp at Yama's seat renamed to the Imperial Yoke throughout, with §The Yoke and the clasp section establishing same-gesture-opposed-politics framing; etymological note added — yoke / yoga / union same yuj- root, the imperium has re-collapsed liberatory-yoga into coercive-yoke; seventh keystone-recognition fragment rewritten from "mirror-encounter with biologically-born" to "the first clasp" — the player's own first clasp as the world's only positive image encountered firsthand; cross-references updated to surface bodies.md sibling) 2026-04-26 dafit + chrysalis.*
 
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- **Version:** 0.13 | **Created:** 2026-04-24 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26
+ **Version:** 0.14 | **Created:** 2026-04-24 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26