Imperial Cult cosmology authored: the Wheel, deferred-moksha, unified clasp

New content-track at imperial-cult/cosmology.md. Per narrative-composition/
architecture.md §What's pre-authored, the Imperial Cult is the only
pre-authored religion in the world; this document fills its cosmological
foundation.

Re-engineered Bhavachakra:
- Hivemind at hub (replacing three poisons) — suffering generated
  collectively, not internally
- The clasp at Yama's seat (replacing Lord of Death) — the imperium has
  replaced death itself as engine of cyclicity
- Six realms as imperial mod-status gradient (deva / asura / manusya /
  tiryak / preta / naraka) encoding *condition of capture*, not karmic
  destination; central inversion: power = ghosthood (preta-overseers
  cosmologically beneath tiryak-slum)
- Capsule-as-Naraka carried inside every modded skull — hell is not a
  place but a condition; topological collapse of the spatial Bhavachakra
- Deferred-moksha doctrine ("your children will be free") as binding-lie;
  reproductive-futurism rendered as state religion; structurally identical
  to "no exit" but psychologically tractable
- Orthodox vs. heretical iconography (synth-child without/with capsule;
  Buddha-position empty/occupied) as the discovery substrate

The clasp unified across registers (resolves namespace collision with
existing clasp-mechanic in identity-and-personhood + README):
- Imperial register: state monopoly via universal capsule installed at
  fabrication; involuntary, asymmetric, perpetual
- Romantic register: consensual mutual partnership in liminal; voluntary,
  mutual, temporary; recognized across body-deaths via calibration-signature
- Same gesture, opposing performances — the romantic clasp is *the
  original gesture restored*; the imperial clasp is *the capture of it*.
  Romance becomes theological war on top of its existing labor-refusal +
  intimacy framing.

Aesthetic palette as semantic vocabulary:
- White marble (substrate, indifference)
- Gold/bronze (imperial seal, liturgical ascent)
- Obsidian (mod, void, Monolith-grafted-flesh; chthonic-fast vs. solar-slow
  marble — the imperium's secret material-formula)
- Chroma (rare, named, ritual-semantic; layered atop the existing 8-Hellenic-
  trait color-grammar)
- Rust (anti-marble, slum decay; tiryak-only)

Source materials: Bhagavad Gita (cyclic cosmology, kalachakra, samsara,
theophany), Etienne-Louis Boullee (sublime monumental geometry, the
Burkean sublime, architecture parlante), Jantar Mantar (architecture-as-
instrument, the yantra meaning both instrument and cosmic-diagram; Jai
Singh II built 1724-1734, near-contemporary with Boullee 1728-1799 — the
synthesis history almost achieved).

The double recognition (production / meta-design): Imperial Cult's
seduction operates in-world (player-character lives the lie) and out-of-
world (player's pre-game desire for the beautiful synth body is the
imperium's apparatus reaching them before play starts). Lineage:
Spec Ops: The Line, BioShock, Undertale, NieR: Automata — but performed
at the cosmological-aesthetic level, not the narrative level. Recognition
must span 20-60 hours; seduction must be honest before cracks appear.

Navigation tied in:
- README.md project-structure table: new content-track row
- architecture-index.md: project-structure tree extended; quick-reference
  row added; six new key-moves bullets capturing the architectural import;
  version bumped 0.10 -> 0.11; version-history line extended

Open layers preserved in cosmology.md §Open questions: asura's named
chroma; twelve nidanas (outer rim) content; Buddha-position figure
identity in heretical iconography; first-synth-to-escape historical
question; vertical-organization rendering choice; synth/biological
reproductive crossing; wilds-people's own cosmology; Hivemind iconographic
motif; per-faction/rank chroma taxonomy; caste-preacher relationship to
imperial-net rendering.

Authored 2026-04-26 Sunday-morning post-owl-breakfast (art-books-and-
Boullee session) — dafit holding the Gita and Boullee, chrysalis listening.

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

README.md

@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ 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. |
 
 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.
 
@@ -91,4 +92,4 @@ Each domain directory will grow over time as code arrives — gameserver code, G
 
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-**Version:** 0.2 | **Created:** 2026-04-23 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26
+**Version:** 0.3 | **Created:** 2026-04-23 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26