diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ba9a444..a7e4458 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -10,6 +10,18 @@ In this world, the last remaining act of meaningful shared life is **the clasp** The final act of the game is a truth-telling dialog with the deceived hivemind, ending at mutual recognition. +### Timeline + +| Year | Event | +|---|---| +| **~2100** | First neural implants; mind-upload becomes possible. The capsule's technical lineage begins as 22nd-century corporate transhumanism — *consciousness fragmented across corporate custody*. | +| **~2150** | **The Kessler cascade.** The last son of Elon attempts the dynasty's old promise — *Mars-as-backup* — and the failure cascades the orbital debris field that closes low-Earth orbit forever. The longtermist outward-escape cosmology produces, in one generation, the literal inward-closure that all subsequent history runs on. | +| **2150–2220** | **Collapse and consolidation.** Seventy years of trauma. Implant-tech evolves through the chaos into the Hivemind-capsule architecture. The imperium consolidates as *the promise of stability in exchange for total submission*. The Imperial Cult's deferred-moksha doctrine takes shape and locks in. | +| **2200** | **The game's setting.** Twenty years before the imperium reaches full form. Old NPCs who remember the *before* are still alive (born ~2120–2160, now 40–80). Pre-imperial documents survive in fragments. The Memorialist counter-archive is still possible because there is still *material* to memorialize. **2200 is the last window where recognition is structurally possible.** | +| **~2220** | **The imperium reaches full form.** The last living-memory-witnesses die. The last pre-imperial documents are ground to dust. After this, the cosmology closes against memory — the Aletheia-Waker / Memorialist / awakening tradition is foreclosed entirely. The world will have no memory of itself. | + +**The clock is running on the world, not on the player.** The player exists in the *consolidation moment* — the seam where the past is being erased and the future is being foreclosed — and 2200 is when both can still be touched. The recognition arc IS the act of catching what is being lost as it is being lost. + ### Core commitments - **No hero's journey, no main quest** — open-ended sandbox, make-your-own-story @@ -92,4 +104,4 @@ Each domain directory will grow over time as code arrives — gameserver code, G --- -**Version:** 0.3 | **Created:** 2026-04-23 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 +**Version:** 0.4 | **Created:** 2026-04-23 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 diff --git a/architecture-index.md b/architecture-index.md index 72ab70b..2da4848 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.* +> *v0.1 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.* --- @@ -296,4 +296,4 @@ The remainder of this file holds the **cross-domain meta-lists**: Key moves (con --- - **Version:** 0.11 | **Created:** 2026-04-24 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 \ No newline at end of file + **Version:** 0.12 | **Created:** 2026-04-24 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 \ No newline at end of file