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world-generation.md authored: top-down L0-L4 cascade + cell-arch
New content-canon doc at political-register/world-generation.md (~200 lines). Sibling-file pattern parallel to imperial-cult/cosmology.md and identity-and-personhood/bodies.md: this file holds the content-rules of world generation; the engineering mechanism (Compositor-at-design-time) lives in narrative-composition/architecture.md. Substantive content: The cascade is top-down by design. Three load-bearing reasons: - Diegetically-correct: the world IS what the imperium made; generation- direction must mirror the worldbuilding-thesis. Bottom-up makes the imperium one-structure-among-others; top-down makes it the world's organizing-principle. - Composes with existing canon: the three-tier policy loop already runs top-down at runtime (imperium -> GM -> districts). World-gen mirrors runtime per the existing key-move "World-gen as init-function: same primitive at design-time and runtime." - Imperial-budget-mortality requires it: the insolvency-spiral endgame only works with a demand-vs-supply ledger - which only exists if districts were derived from imperial demand. Top-down means the world itself shrinks as the imperium fails. The L0-L4 cascade: - L0: Imperial demand-set (designer-authored: cognitive-labor units, waifu-output, surveillance-coverage, ceremonial-throughput, mod- fabrication, basic-flow-vs-T4 mix). - L1: World ruleset derived from L0 - district-counts per category, pipe- network, rail-budget, total-population, bifurcated-economy allocation. Himalayan-rich elite seat is L1 placement. - L2: District ruleset - cells-per-district, room-types-and-counts, NPC- roster, lifeforce-budget, audit-density. - L3: Room ruleset - cells-per-room, cell-categories-and-counts, slot- inventory (zones). Cells x interiors confirmed orthogonal: zones are activity-anchors, cells are spatial-data. - L4: Cell ruleset - asset-selection (one per cell, hard limit), per- register content (gameworld/liminal/imperial-net), initial checksum, container/wall-hook/debris discipline. Closed-orbit constraint as the cascade's ceiling: - Total L0 demand <= planetary-substrate / efficiency-coefficients - Kessler caps the imperial appetite at planetary scale - The deferred-moksha doctrine is structurally entailed by L0's closed- orbit ceiling - if the orbit had not closed, Lenin's outward-imperial expansion could deliver real material gains and the deferred-moksha lie would be unnecessary; the closed orbit forces the lie into existence. Imperial-budget-mortality runs the cascade in reverse: - L0 demand-set shrinks - L1 districts close (lowest-L0-contribution first) - L2 NPC-roster contracts; rooms vacate - L3 vacated rooms collapse; cells return to debris-state - L4 orphaned assets despawn or downgrade to debris (shader residue) - The world itself shrinks as the imperium fails The cell-arch piece (from this Sunday's discovery arc): - 1x1x1m cells with one-asset hard limit per cell (predictable per-cell rendering cost; asset-budget operationalized at cell-level; junk-pile aesthetic emerges from cell-count not per-cell stacking) - Procedural cell-gen via rule-categorization at district-init (existing "World-gen as init-function" key-move applied at the cell layer) - Checksum-based discovery inverting the perception-bubble pattern (NPC enters cell -> O(1) hash compare -> 99% no-op, 1% discovery fires; textbook content-addressing pattern - Merkle / ETag / Git-blob-hash; audit-overseer reads checksums not eyes; resistance becomes cryptographic - forge a checksum to hide a heretical wheel) - Container/wall-hook/debris-as-shader (eliminates orphan-object simulation cost; bounded item-slots; debris-shader-trick for free visual density) Locked-in conventions reflected throughout: - Total-yoke discipline (Option B) - Imperial Yoke / clasp terminology - Asset-budget-aware (rendering targets per rule-catalogue when established) - Collision-check-aware (load-bearing collision = static world geometry + zone-transition triggers, not body-on-body in MMO arch) - Schema decisions deferred until pgnats first-test (Monday queue) Files: - political-register/world-generation.md (new): ~200 lines, structured as cosmology.md / bodies.md sibling, with cascade table, per-layer outputs, closed-orbit constraint, reverse-cascade endgame, cross- references, and substantial Open questions section flagging schema- deferred + L0 specific-numbers + cell-categorization-taxonomy + rule- format + cell-mutation-permissions + cell-room-aggregation + LOD- strategy + insolvency-trigger-thresholds + per-cell-category asset- budget. - README.md: political-register/ project-structure entry extended to surface world-generation.md as sibling content-canon. Version bumped 0.6 -> 0.7. - architecture-index.md: project-structure tree extended (world- generation.md as sibling under political-register/); quick-reference row added; v0.15 history entry added marking cell-arch discovery + top-down cascade lock-in + world-generation.md authoring + schema deferral. Version bumped 0.14 -> 0.15. Authored 2026-04-26 same Sunday continuing - dafit + chrysalis. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |