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>

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.*
+> *v0.1 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.*
 
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@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ nimmerworld/
 │   └── architecture.md                 ← Compositor (v0.7 worked-example, three-tiers, world-gen-as-init); reflexive Dream-process
 ├── inference-and-memory/
 │   └── architecture.md                 ← LLM tiering (3 rings + opt-in data tiers); local memory architecture; runtime sampling knobs
-└── scale-and-transport/
-    └── architecture.md                 ← compute allocation; horizontal scale (UID-routing, sharded GMs, pgnats + republish/replay)
+├── scale-and-transport/
+│   └── architecture.md                 ← compute allocation; horizontal scale (UID-routing, sharded GMs, pgnats + republish/replay)
+└── imperial-cult/                       ← designer-authored canonical content (content-track, distinct from engineering domains)
+    └── cosmology.md                    ← Imperial Wheel (Bhavachakra re-engineered); Hivemind at hub; clasp unified at Yama's seat; six realms as mod-status gradient; capsule-as-Naraka; deferred-moksha doctrine; orthodox vs. heretical iconography; Boullée + Jantar Mantar + Gita aesthetic substrate
 ```
 
 ## Quick reference — concept → domain-file
@@ -45,6 +47,7 @@ nimmerworld/
 | Compositor; world-gen-as-init; reflexive Dream-process | `narrative-composition/architecture.md` |
 | 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` |
 
 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.
 
@@ -108,6 +111,11 @@ The remainder of this file holds the **cross-domain meta-lists**: Key moves (con
 - **Gesture-alignment as recursive-lemniscate.** Lemniscate-bound integration of player gestures into a typed trait-vector summary at axis-crossings; one-turn-behind systemic; continuous-visual cosmetic; sum-strategy reduction. Same primitive recursively applied at one tier deeper.
 - **The Compositor at three tiers.** Zone-event / district-event / world-event scopes use the same primitive recursively; UID-rooted event-trees compose at any scope. World-events emerge from cross-district canon-rollups under a parent GM-level event_uid.
 - **World-gen as init-function (Compositor-at-design-time).** World-server and district-server generation emits canon-rows in the same schema as runtime; same primitive at design-time and runtime; no cold-start; data-flywheel runs retroactively.
+- **Imperial Cult cosmology authored.** The Imperial Wheel as re-engineered Bhavachakra: Hivemind at hub (replacing three poisons); imperial-register clasp at Yama's seat (replacing Lord of Death — *the imperium has replaced death itself as the engine of cyclicity*); six realms as mod-status gradient (deva / asura / manusya / tiryak / preta / naraka encoding *condition of capture* not karmic destination); capsule-as-Naraka carried inside every modded skull (hell as condition, not place); the deferred-moksha doctrine (*your children will be free*) as the binding-lie that holds citizens in compliance.
+- **The clasp unified across registers.** Single gesture; **imperial register** = state monopoly via universal capsule (involuntary, asymmetric, perpetual); **romantic register** = consensual mutual partnership in liminal (voluntary, mutual, temporary). Romance becomes theological war — the clasp is *the original gesture* and the imperium is *the capture of it*; the romantic clasp is heretical because it refuses the state monopoly. Deepens the existing clasp endgame's meaning into a cosmological-heresy register on top of its existing labor-refusal + intimacy framing.
+- **Orthodox vs. heretical wheel split.** Same iconography, two versions, taught/carved across the world: *orthodox* (synth-child without capsule slot, Buddha-position empty, capsule shown only at naraka-bottom — the imperium's lie) vs. *heretical* (synth-child with capsule, Buddha-position occupied, capsule embedded in every modded silhouette — the truth). Reading them apart IS the discovery arc; seven keystone-fragments span the recognition.
+- **Aesthetic palette as semantic vocabulary.** Marble (substrate) + gold/bronze (imperial seal) + obsidian (mod, void, Monolith-grafted-flesh) + chroma (rare, named, ritual-semantic) + rust (anti-marble, slum decay). Marble × obsidian crossing = solar architecture / chthonic body, the imperium's secret material-formula. Chroma-as-language layered atop the existing 8-Hellenic-trait color-grammar — same colors, ritual-semantic register added.
+- **The double recognition (meta-design).** Imperial Cult's seduction operates *in-world* (the player-character lives the lie) **and** *out-of-world* (the player's pre-game desire for the beautiful synth body is the imperium's apparatus reaching them before the game starts). Lineage: *Spec Ops: The Line*, *BioShock*, *Undertale*, *NieR: Automata* — but performed at the cosmological-aesthetic level, not the narrative level. Recognition arc must span 20-60 hours; seduction must be *honest* before cracks appear.
 
 
 ## Mapping to phoebe task list
@@ -288,4 +296,4 @@ The remainder of this file holds the **cross-domain meta-lists**: Key moves (con
 
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- **Version:** 0.10 | **Created:** 2026-04-24 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26
+ **Version:** 0.11 | **Created:** 2026-04-24 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26