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# Imperial Cult Cosmology — migrated to closed studio-art

> *The Imperial Cult cosmology has migrated to the closed Nimmerverse Studio repository as proprietary creative-art content. This file is a stub; the canonical home is below.*

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## Canonical home

**Closed repository:** [`git.eachpath.com/nimmerverse/studio.nimmerworld.eachpath.local`](https://git.eachpath.com/nimmerverse/studio.nimmerworld.eachpath.local)
**Path:** `imperial-cult/cosmology.md`
**License:** All Rights Reserved — Nimmerverse Studio (David Martin)

## What lives there

The specific iconographic content of the Imperial Cult cosmology, including:

- The Imperial Wheel as cosmological-religious iconography
- The Bhavachakra-rework with its specific re-engineering of source-tradition elements
- Orthodox and heretical iconographic splits
- Named doctrinal content (the deferred-moksha doctrine; the six-realms-as-mod-status gradient; the unified-clasp framing; the no-haven discipline framing in cosmological register)
- The specific aesthetic vocabulary (Boullée + Jantar Mantar + Gita)
- All cross-references that depend on specific iconographic detail

## What architecture-mechanic remains in the open canon

The cosmology's **structural function** in the world's mechanics remains canonical here in the open architecture-substrate:

- The world has a religious-doctrinal layer (the Imperial Cult) that defines caste-tiers as conditions-of-capture rather than karmic destiny
- The cosmology operates as the Hivemind's ideological apparatus
- The cosmology provides the binding-doctrines that rationalize imperial extraction
- The going-rogue arc structurally refutes the cosmology's central binding-doctrine through accumulated authentic-witnessing
- The post-rogue mod-vocation cascading-liberation is the architectural-mechanic enacting the cosmological claim *"there is no instrument"*
- The Aletheia-waker progression-discipline operates as cosmological-piercing at the player layer

These structural-function descriptions are open under Apache 2.0 and may be referenced by other open papers without restriction. The *specific iconography* of how the cosmology is rendered, named, and visualized is proprietary studio-art.

## For collaborators

If you have authorized access to the closed studio-art repository, navigate to the canonical path above. If you do not have access and your work requires it, contact Nimmerverse Studio at the project URL.

## Migration

Migrated 2026-04-27. Pre-migration authoring history is preserved in this repository's git log; the canonical content lives in the closed repository under a fresh git history.

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**Status:** stub | **Migrated:** 2026-04-27 | **Canonical:** closed studio-art repo