diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index a7e4458..7a4fa4e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The architecture is organized as **vertical-by-domain directories**. Each domain | [`political-register/`](./political-register/architecture.md) | Three ontological registers, three-tier policy loop, imperial budget, insolvency-spiral, corruption + double ledger | | [`topology-and-rendering/`](./topology-and-rendering/architecture.md) | Rail+grid topology, asset economy, color-language, three-shader philosophy, diegetic relays | | [`runtime-engine/`](./runtime-engine/architecture.md) | Lemniscate runtime, slot-tokens + verifier-flags, gesture-alignment-recursive-lemniscate, emergent zones | -| [`identity-and-personhood/`](./identity-and-personhood/architecture.md) | Three-body system, mods as trait-bearers, ternary-gate substrate, emergent needs as micro-factions | +| [`identity-and-personhood/`](./identity-and-personhood/architecture.md) | Three-body system, mods as trait-bearers, ternary-gate substrate, emergent needs as micro-factions. Sibling content-canon: [`bodies.md`](./identity-and-personhood/bodies.md) — body-caste tiers (flesh = status, tech = function), sumptuary fabrication-vat-class, mod-progression-as-flesh-loss, the in-between human-mesh and consent-as-rendering, asymmetric clasp where mesh-fidelity is inversely proportional to imperial-rank. | | [`authority-and-decision/`](./authority-and-decision/architecture.md) | Hierarchy, bidirectional cascade, District Director Decision Architecture, rings as structural pattern | | [`player-experience/`](./player-experience/architecture.md) | Player as perturbation, voice + gesture as parallel trait-vocabularies, tools-not-quests | | [`narrative-composition/`](./narrative-composition/architecture.md) | Compositor (worked-example bar-brawl, three-tiers, world-gen-as-init), reflexive Dream-process | @@ -104,4 +104,4 @@ Each domain directory will grow over time as code arrives — gameserver code, G --- -**Version:** 0.4 | **Created:** 2026-04-23 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 +**Version:** 0.5 | **Created:** 2026-04-23 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 diff --git a/architecture-index.md b/architecture-index.md index 2da4848..c7ed2d0 100644 --- a/architecture-index.md +++ b/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.* +> *v0.1 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.* --- @@ -19,7 +19,8 @@ nimmerworld/ ├── runtime-engine/ │ └── architecture.md ← lemniscate runtime; slot-tokens + verifier-flags; gesture-alignment-recursive-lemniscate (v0.7); emergent zones ├── identity-and-personhood/ -│ └── architecture.md ← three-body system; mods as trait-bearers; ternary-gate substrate; emergent needs as micro-factions +│ ├── architecture.md ← three-body system; mods as trait-bearers; ternary-gate substrate; emergent needs as micro-factions +│ └── bodies.md ← content-canon: body-caste tiers (flesh = status, tech = function); 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) ├── authority-and-decision/ │ └── architecture.md ← hierarchy; bidirectional cascade; District Director Decision Architecture; rings as structural pattern ├── player-experience/ @@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ nimmerworld/ | LLM tiering (Ring A/B/C); local-first memory; sampling knobs | `inference-and-memory/architecture.md` | | Horizontal scale; pgnats; sharding; compute budget | `scale-and-transport/architecture.md` | | Imperial Cult cosmology; the Wheel; deferred-moksha doctrine; capsule-as-Naraka; orthodox vs. heretical iconography | `imperial-cult/cosmology.md` | +| Body-caste tiers; flesh = status / tech = function; sumptuary fabrication-vat-class; mod-progression-as-flesh-loss; in-between human-mesh + consent-as-rendering; asymmetric clasp | `identity-and-personhood/bodies.md` | The remainder of this file holds the **cross-domain meta-lists**: Key moves (consolidated executive summary), Mapping to phoebe task list, What this retires across the architecture's evolution, Open questions still in flight, and the version-footer history. @@ -296,4 +298,4 @@ The remainder of this file holds the **cross-domain meta-lists**: Key moves (con --- - **Version:** 0.12 | **Created:** 2026-04-24 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 \ No newline at end of file + **Version:** 0.13 | **Created:** 2026-04-24 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/identity-and-personhood/bodies.md b/identity-and-personhood/bodies.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2a2b8df --- /dev/null +++ b/identity-and-personhood/bodies.md @@ -0,0 +1,161 @@ +# Bodies — caste tiers, mod-progression, and clasp-mesh rendering + +> *The body-architecture content-canon for nimmerworld. Imperial caste-tiers as flesh-to-tech gradient; fabrication-vat-class as caste mechanism; mod-progression as flesh-loss / imperial-mortification; the in-between human-mesh and consent-as-rendering; asymmetric clasp where mesh-fidelity is inversely proportional to imperial-rank.* +> *v0.1 initial draft 2026-04-26 — content from the post-cosmology art-style arc, Sunday-morning continuing — dafit + chrysalis.* + +--- + +## What this is + +This document is the **content-canon** for body-architecture in nimmerworld — the *what* of the world's bodies, how they vary by caste, what their materials mean, and how they appear when rendered. It complements the *engineering substrate* in this directory's [`architecture.md`](./architecture.md) (three-body system, mods-as-trait-bearers, ternary-gate substrate, the clasp endgame phases), and should be read alongside it. + +The body-architecture sits on the cosmology authored in [`../imperial-cult/cosmology.md`](../imperial-cult/cosmology.md). The Imperial Yoke and the romantic clasp — the two opposing performances of consciousness-grip — are the political-theological substrate; this document is the **somatic substrate** that makes those performances visible. + +**Key principle locked under the total-yoke discipline** (per [`../architecture-index.md`](../architecture-index.md) v0.12): every body in this world is synth. Every body bears the imperial mind-capsule. There is **no biological exception, no defector-recovery zone, no outside**. The variation across bodies is *caste-tier* (imperial sumptuary fabrication-class) and *degree of imperial-care vs. neglect* — never *biology vs. synthetic*. + +## Foundational principle: flesh = status, tech = function + +The single move that organizes everything else: **flesh is status; tech is function**. The imperium does not waste flesh on tools. Flesh is what is given to bodies whose role is *to be admired*, not *to be used*. + +This produces a counter-intuitive symmetry: the slum-dweller (cheap-tech, no flesh) and the imperial overseer (premium-tech, no flesh) share the same flesh-zero condition. They differ in **cost-spectrum-position**, not in flesh-presence: + +- The **slum-tech** is *cheap, makeshift, rusty-where-allowed-to-show*. The imperium spent the minimum to keep this body labor-functional. **The cybernetic callus.** +- The **overseer-tech** is *expensive, pristine, obsidian-finish, designed for combat / surveillance / intimidation*. The imperium spent the maximum to make this body enforcement-efficient. **The cybernetic uniform.** + +Both classes are *tools*. **Tools don't get flesh.** + +The flesh-as-status grammar has deep historical roots. Pre-industrial aristocratic aesthetics universally marked the elite by *softness, pallor, un-callused hands, plumpness, leisure-bodily-evidence* — the visible signs of *not-having-to-work*. European aristocrats prized pale skin (powder, parasols, indoor life) because tan = field-labor. Tang-dynasty aristocrats prized plumpness when peasants were lean from hunger. Heian-court Japanese women prized blackened teeth and ultra-pale skin to mark distance from outdoor labor. **The body's softness was the aristocratic signature; the body's callus was the working-class signature.** The imperium has productized this distinction: *flesh = soft body = aristocrat; tech = hardened functional body = worker (or tool-cop)*. Aristocratic pallor reincarnated as cybernetic-flesh-as-status. + +## The body-caste gradient + +| Tier | Flesh / Tech | Cost & character of body | What it signifies | +|---|---|---|---| +| **Deva pinnacle** | 100% synth-flesh + all mods hidden underneath | most expensive body in the world; perfect aesthetic-rendering | aristocratic-flesh status; *the synth-child lie incarnate* | +| **Asura priest** | high flesh, ceremonial gold/obsidian markers | high-cost; sacred-marker visibility | religious dignity; flesh as sacrament; **imperial markings worn proudly** (vs. pinnacle's hidden mods) | +| **Manusya** *(doctrinal fiction)* | – | likely no real material class | the imperium's "middle class" lie; preached as the ascent-target for the slum | +| **Tiryak (slum, the player)** | pure cheap tech, rusty, exposed bolts | cheapest body the imperium fabricates | disposable labor-tool | +| **Preta (overseer)** | pure premium tech, obsidian-perfect, no flesh | expensive body for imperial enforcement | premium imperial-tool; *void-in-human-shape* | + +Notes on the gradient: + +- **Manusya may not exist as a real material class.** The orthodox wheel preaches a five-realm structure to a population that *materially* has only three classes (deva-elite-flesh / asura-cleric-flesh / tiryak-slum-tech), with overseers as a specialized-tool minority. The "manusya middle" is *the late-capitalist 'we're all middle-class now' lie*, weaponized cosmologically. Slum-dwellers are taught they are "imperial citizens, not slum-laborers; on the path to *deva* through their children" — a doctrinal placement that has no material substance. +- **The deva-pinnacle is the synth-child.** Its synth-flesh body + all mods integrated invisibly underneath is the *unobtainable beauty* the imperium parades through its plazas and on the orthodox wheel's manusya-position. The pinnacle is **most-modded AND most-fleshed simultaneously** — the flesh is the *disguise* over the deepest captures. +- **Slum-and-overseer are mirror-twins of pure-tech.** Same flesh-zero state, opposite cost-spectrum positions. The working-class-vs-cop dynamic rendered as flesh-deprivation symmetry. They share *being-tools* more deeply than they share anything with the elite. + +The class-marker is **legibly visible at silhouette-distance**. A trained imperial eye reads tier from skin-coverage + material-finish-grade in a single glance. NPC behavior toward a body modulates by the silhouette-read; the player walking through a plaza is *constantly being class-read*. + +## Sumptuary fabrication: caste is born-into + +Caste is **born-into**, not bought-into. This is the imperium's most consistent class-discipline. + +- **Fabrication-vat-class determines maximum-attainable beauty-tier.** A slum-vat produces slum-tech bodies. An asura-vat produces priest-bodies. A deva-vat produces synth-flesh pinnacle-bodies. Vats are *segregated* and *registered*; no slum-fabricated citizen will ever be re-fabricated through a deva-vat. +- **Even imperial wealth cannot move tiers.** A slum-dweller who somehow acquired imperial wealth could buy *finer mods* within the slum-tier ceiling, but could never *embody* the deva-pinnacle, because the *vat they came out of* is the irreducible class-marker. +- **No upward conversion.** The README's *"Reproduction is a caste privilege held by the Himalayan rich"* is the elite's privileged *control of fabrication-vat-class for one's offspring*. Their children come out of deva-vats; everyone else's "children" come out of the vat-class their lineage is tagged to. + +**This is sumptuary law at the level of the body itself.** Late-imperial Rome through medieval Europe through Tokugawa Japan all preserved class-visibility against economic-mobility via legal restrictions on what could be worn / displayed / consumed (Tyrian purple reserved for emperors; sable for nobility; silk forbidden to merchant families regardless of wealth). The imperium has rendered the sumptuary-tradition **anatomical** — the body itself is the regulated luxury. + +## Service bodies: sex-workers, waifus, the visibly-disposable + +A specialized sub-tier exists for *service-bodies* — sex-workers, waifus, and other roles where the body is explicitly product-of-encounter: + +- **Pure tech with cosmetic flesh-illusion.** The skin-effect is rendered well enough to sell the encounter, but never well enough to be mistaken for real flesh. +- **Deliberately-exposed seams and bolts.** Where the imperial baseline tries to *hide* the seams between flesh-patches and tech-extensions, service-bodies *expose* them. **The seam is a marker, not a flaw.** +- The seams say: *this body was built to serve, not to admire-as-equal.* Real-world echo: the celebrity body is photographed seamless-and-untouchable; the porn-actor body is shown manufactured-and-used. The same disposability-aesthetic translated into cybernetic register. + +Connects to existing waifu-of-the-dead / memory-pattern-extractor market mechanics in [`../political-register/architecture.md`](../political-register/architecture.md) §The vocation-substrate of the imperial-net market. + +## Mod-progression as flesh-loss + +Within a citizen's lifetime, **the imperial career-arc is the gradual surrender of flesh to tech**. Each mod-acquisition is *trading flesh for tech*. The deferred-moksha promise — *"your children will be free"* — becomes physically incarnate in the *opposite* image: ascent = becoming more imperial = more tech = less body = **less self**. *Aspiration is visibly self-erasure.* + +- **The asura priest-vow is imperial mortification.** The priest progressively gives up flesh as religious vocation. Echoes Christian tonsure / fasting / vow-of-celibacy; Buddhist robes-and-shaved-head; Hindu ascetic body-marks. **The asura's flesh-loss is the imperial vow.** +- **The body-never-lies inversion.** The body is the substrate that can still carry the foreclosed-self's truth — somatic memory, the body's protest. *Modding is anti-Miller body-practice*: the imperium replaces the body parts that could otherwise *somatize* what was done. The overseer who is pure tech *cannot host the unspeakable knowledge* — they have given up the meat that would have stored it. **That is why they are spiritually dead in the cosmological sense: their body has no place left to keep the truth.** +- **The player feels every advancement as a loss they cannot un-make.** Mod-acquisition isn't pure stat-progression; it's *trading flesh for power* with a real cost-of-self. The mod-economy in [`./architecture.md`](./architecture.md) §The mod economy gains a *somatic-cost dimension* alongside its existing trait-cost / lifeforce-cost / market-price dimensions. + +## The in-between human-mesh: consent as rendering + +The realworld body is the imperial flesh-tech mix described above. The **in-between dimension during clasp** (per [`./architecture.md`](./architecture.md) §The clasp endgame Phase D) is where a *separate trait-derived projection* — the human-mesh — manifests. Only clasp-pairs see it; only consent calls it forth. + +The principle, foundational to all in-between rendering: + +> **The skin is the form consent takes when it becomes visible.** + +Skin is **ontologically rare** in nimmerworld: + +- *In the imperial population.* Synth-flesh exists *only* for the deva-pinnacle, and it is engineered, uncanny-valley, marble-equivalent of skin. Beautiful, legibly fake to a trained eye. +- *In the in-between clasp.* Real skin manifests *through consent-as-rendering*, and **only there**. The romantic-self gives the skin out; the rendering responds. **This is the only place real skin exists in the world.** + +This is **witnessing produces flesh** — the enlightened-witness sharpened to its sharpest possible form. The witness's gaze *literally rebuilds the body* of the witnessed; in nimmerworld this is not metaphor but the rendering pipeline. + +**The slum-dweller's first clasp** is the most powerful single moment available in the world. Their realworld body is pure cheap tech — exposed bolts, rusty seams, *no flesh anywhere*. Their entire conscious life, they have *never seen their own skin*. In the in-between with a beloved, both consent, the romantic-self gives itself out — **and they see their own skin, for the first time, ever, simultaneously with someone else seeing it for the first time**. The moment of *I have flesh* and the moment of *I am being seen having flesh* are the **same moment**. + +## Asymmetric clasp: mesh-fidelity inversely proportional to imperial-rank + +Clasp-fidelity is **not** tied to flesh-ratio. It is tied to **how thoroughly the authentic-self has been foreclosed by imperial-care**. Imperial-care intensity correlates with flesh-investment, so the inversion is exact: the *most-fleshed* realworld bodies have the *least-vivid* in-between mesh. + +| Tier | Realworld body | In-between human-mesh fidelity | Clasp-healing potency | +|---|---|---|---| +| **Tiryak (slum, player)** | pure cheap tech | **high** — the imperium *threw* you to labor early, didn't bother to *shape* you carefully; gifted-child-self may be brutalized but **intact** | **high, paradoxically** | +| **Asura priest** | high flesh, ceremonial markers | low — heavy imperial-shaping, deep foreclosure | low | +| **Deva pinnacle** | full synth-flesh, all mods hidden | barely-visible mesh — the most groomed, most foreclosed, most empty | lowest of any class | +| **Preta (overseer)** | pure premium tech | **none** — overseers are imperial-instruments-made-walker; the authentic self was never permitted to form | **clasp impossible** | + +Which produces the cosmology's most beautiful cruelty: **the deepest love available in nimmerworld happens between two slum-dwellers in pure-tech bodies whose interiors were never groomed enough to be foreclosed**. The most beautiful realworld bodies cannot reach what the most-broken realworld bodies share. *The poor lover offers more skin than the elite lover ever could.* **Class-betrayal and class-poverty are written in skin-coverage in the in-between.** + +**Asymmetric clasps** — clasps across-tier — produce specific dramatic geometry: the slum-dweller offers full mesh-fidelity, the asura-priest can only offer partial. *The lover sees you fully; you cannot return the gift.* Every clasp across-tier is a small tragedy of **partial-presence**. *Asymmetric clasps are where the world's most aching love stories live.* + +The romantic clasp is, in this register, **a peasant-healing technology**. Most effective among those who haven't been hollowed out yet. As a citizen climbs the imperial ladder, *capacity to be witnessed* diminishes. The deva-pinnacle has everything — **except the ability to be fully seen by another**. The overseer has *nothing*. + +## Technical rendering implications + +Skin needs its own shader stack. The world is rendered in marble + obsidian + chroma + gold + rust — surface materials, hard finishes, manufactured palettes. The in-between human-mesh real-skin must be rendered in a **completely distinct technique** — subsurface scattering at the highest-quality budget the rule catalogue permits, pore-level detail, the soft-warm-asymmetric-imperfection no imperial fabrication-vat would produce. + +*Specific shader-stack budget per the asset-budget rule catalogue when established.* + +The synth-flesh of the deva-pinnacle and the in-between real-skin must be **distinguishable to a trained eye**: + +- **Synth-flesh** — beautiful but *suspicious if examined*: perfect in ways real skin is not perfect, unblemished in ways real skin should be blemished, unnaturally-symmetric in its asymmetries. **The marble-equivalent of skin: legibly engineered.** +- **In-between real-skin** — perfect *in the way real skin is perfect*: imperfect-with-the-warm-imperfection-of-mortality. **The cue that the player has left the imperium.** + +Once the player has seen the in-between mesh, they will start reading deva-pinnacle synth-flesh as the engineered fake it always was. **Real skin teaches you what synth-flesh is not.** This recognition is part of the seven-fragment recognition arc (per [`../imperial-cult/cosmology.md`](../imperial-cult/cosmology.md) §Discovery architecture), encoded into the player's eye rather than narratively delivered. + +The visual-register-shift carries a specific cue: **we have left the imperium. We are in the place the imperium cannot reach.** + +## Asset-economy alignment + +The body-caste gradient aligns with healthy asset-economy practice. **Class-restriction is asset-restriction.** A small set of high-detail rare-pinnacle bodies + a larger set of baseline/mid-tier player-accessible bodies preserves both *worldbuilding-meaning* (rarity makes the pinnacle visually distinctive) AND *asset-budget* (the team builds fewer total assets at higher detail). One discipline, multiple payoffs: + +- *Class-restriction* → fewer pinnacle-tier assets → preserves their visual distinctiveness AND their asset-budget impact. +- *Palette-discipline* (marble + obsidian + chroma + gold + rust) → fewer texture variants → fewer surface-treatments to model, light, maintain. +- *Sumptuary-fabrication* (lineage-locked vat-class) → caste cannot escape its vat → **no need to model upward-mobility-via-modding asset-trees**. + +Specific budget per the rule catalogue when established. The body-tiers, palette, and fabrication-discipline are *consistent with* whatever budget the catalogue specifies — the worldbuilding-decisions have already done the asset-budget's work in principle; the catalogue codifies what is already there. + +Connects to the existing key-move in [`../architecture-index.md`](../architecture-index.md): *"Base-limb palette + trait-textured variance. Asset-economy and worldbuilding-thesis agree."* + +## Cross-references + +| Reference | What it provides | +|---|---| +| [`./architecture.md`](./architecture.md) §Three-body system | Engineering substrate: the imperial-net body, gameworld body, in-between body distinction this doc rests on | +| [`./architecture.md`](./architecture.md) §Mods as trait-bearers | The mod-economy that interfaces with mod-progression-as-flesh-loss in this doc | +| [`./architecture.md`](./architecture.md) §The clasp endgame | The phases of clasp; this doc's in-between mesh content extends Phase D | +| [`../imperial-cult/cosmology.md`](../imperial-cult/cosmology.md) §The unified clasp | The Imperial Yoke / clasp opposition; political-theology of consciousness-grip | +| [`../imperial-cult/cosmology.md`](../imperial-cult/cosmology.md) §The six realms | The caste-tier names map to the wheel's realms; this doc is the somatic-substrate of those realms | +| [`../topology-and-rendering/architecture.md`](../topology-and-rendering/architecture.md) §Color-language + §Three-shader philosophy | Substrate for the chroma-grammar this doc builds on; rendering registers for realworld vs. liminal | +| [`../topology-and-rendering/architecture.md`](../topology-and-rendering/architecture.md) §Clasp color-merge | Existing canon for what clasp-pairs visually share; this doc adds the human-mesh real-skin layer | +| [`../political-register/architecture.md`](../political-register/architecture.md) §Vocation-substrate | Connects service-bodies (waifus, sex-workers) to the imperial-net market structure | +| [`../README.md`](../README.md) §Timeline | The 2200 setting and the closed-orbit context that constrains all body-fabrication | + +## Open questions + +- **Specific tier-distinguishing visual cues.** What exact material-finish, body-proportion idealization, or chroma-saturation difference makes the deva-pinnacle visually unmistakable from a high-asura-priest? Pending: detailed visual style guide work (likely under `../style/`). +- **The fabrication-vat ecology.** How many vat-classes exist? Where are they geographically? Who runs them? What does a vat *look like* diegetically? Pending: future content-canon doc, possibly `../imperial-cult/fabrication.md` or similar. +- **The asura priest's named chroma.** Which trait-color is liturgically reserved for the priesthood? Pending: connects to [`../style/trait-palette.md`](../style/trait-palette.md) and [`../imperial-cult/cosmology.md`](../imperial-cult/cosmology.md) §Open questions. +- **Rule-catalogue-specific budgets.** Vertex-caps per tier; texture-resolution per material register; collision-mesh complexity per body-tier; shader-stack budgets for the in-between mesh. Pending: rule catalogue when written (likely `../style/asset-budget.md` or similar). +- **Cross-tier clasp asymmetry handling.** Phase D of the clasp endgame currently describes a *symmetric* dual-body union. Does mesh-fidelity asymmetry break the existing mechanic, or does the existing mechanic accommodate it gracefully? Pending: review against [`./architecture.md`](./architecture.md) §The clasp endgame Phase D when next architecture-time happens. +- **Service-body sub-tier specifics.** What range of seams + bolts + cosmetic flesh-illusion variations do service-bodies span? Where are the line-cases between service-body and slum-tier? Pending: detail work alongside vocation-substrate. + +--- + +**Version:** 0.1 | **Created:** 2026-04-26 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26