PROOF / BLACK SKIES

Black Skies is the proving ground, not the market boundary.

A changing game with demanding simulation goals makes the reconciliation problem concrete without narrowing PlotWarden to games.

One ratified change. Four dispositions. The goal stands.

The shared scenario BS-2026-07-04 drawn as one picture: an authorized source redraws intent inside its governed scope, the impact frontier bounds what changes, the scale goal sits outside the scope untouched, and the epoch advances with revised sealed orders.

The Black Skies operating example as a causal diagram The ratified Crew Combat Rules source revises one rule: morale affects card availability during combat, superseding the after-combat rule. Ratification redraws the crew-combat subgraph of intent and cannot reach the unrelated scale goal of approximately ten thousand simultaneous captains at full simulation speed without time dilation, which stays untouched. The impact frontier contains the combat tutorial script, which is recalled and re-planned; the combat API, which is conditionally repaired; and the doctrine tests, which are retained and retested. Starbase content sits outside the frontier and continues. The ledger records the dispositions and the epoch advances to epoch N plus one with revised sealed orders. CHANGE (RATIFIED) CCR-2026-07-04-MORALE Morale affects card availability during combat, superseding the after-combat rule. OUT OF SCOPE A CREW-RULES SOURCE CANNOT REACH THE SCALE GOAL R RATIFIED INTENT (UNCHANGED) Approximately 10,000 captains, full simulation speed, no time dilation. AUTHORITY: RATIFIED REDRAWS INTENT WITHIN SCOPE CREW COMBAT RULES (INTENT) The governed subgraph is redrawn; the superseded rule stays linked. IMPACT FRONTIER SUPPORT AND CONTRACT EDGES FROM THE CHANGED RULE Combat tutorial script TUT-CMB-012 Core premise superseded. RECALL & RE-PLAN Combat API COMBAT-API-V3 Repair only if its contract moves. CONDITIONAL REPAIR Doctrine tests DOCTRINE-TST-845 Timing expectations changed. RETAIN & RETEST OUTSIDE THE FRONTIER Starbase content ART-PIPE-101 No causal dependency. CONTINUE EPOCH N LEDGER RECORDS THE DISPOSITIONS EPOCH N+1: REVISED SEALED ORDERS ISSUED
Illustrative scenario: identifiers, timestamps, and details are invented for teaching. The scale target shown is ratified intent, not a measured result.
REC-BLACK-SKIES-INTENT-2026-07-12

Black Skies carries a ratified long-term intent of 10,000 simultaneous captains at full simulation speed.

Epistemic
unverified
Authority
ratified
Currency
current
Environment
Black Skies product planning
Claim tested
The 10,000-captain statement is an authorized direction rather than a demonstrated benchmark result.
Method
Ratified-intent record inspection
Result
The target is recorded as current ratified intent; no achievement artifact is attached.
Consumers
/black-skies/, /reconciliation/, /limits/
Supersession
Supersedes no prior record · Current unless its currency says otherwise

Establishes
The target is an authorized direction and a useful pressure test for the development control plane.

Does not establish
That this performance has been achieved or benchmarked.

Source: Black Skies product intent

Scenario BS-2026-07-04: one ratified change, several dependencies.

A ratified crew-rules change is the shared scenario used across Black Skies, Reconciliation, Workers, and Evidence: morale now affects card availability during combat, superseding the after-combat rule. Its dependency record includes gameplay rules, the Unity-facing action menu, backend combat validation, persistence of crew state, doctrine tests, and, where timing interacts with the tick budget, the performance budget. These links are the proposed causal surface to inspect; they are not a claim that every dependency has already been recovered automatically.

The 10,000-captain statement is intent.

The long-term goal of 10,000 simultaneous captains at full simulation speed belongs in the Ratified Intent Graph. It is not a benchmark result and is never presented as one. The proving-ground scenario leaves it untouched: a crew-rules source cannot reach the scale goal.

Authority: ratified · Epistemic support for achievement: not claimed

A representative changed order.

The ratified revision redraws the crew-combat subgraph of Intent and advances the epoch. PlotWarden traces the rule through backend validation, the Unity action menu, doctrine tests, tutorials, and running work; the scale target sits outside the change's scope and is untouched.

  • Recall & re-plan — the combat tutorial script premised on after-combat morale.
  • Conditional repair — Combat API only if the ratified rule reaches its interface contract.
  • Retain & retest — doctrine test suite against the during-combat rule.
  • Continue — starbase content because it has no causal dependency on crew-combat rules.
  • Escalate only genuine ambiguity or a high-risk authority conflict.

Evidence posture.

Intended behavior, demonstrated records, and unproven claims remain separate.

Intended

Approximately 10,000 simultaneous captains at full simulation speed is ratified product intent.

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Unproven

The site does not claim that target has been achieved or that the full dependency frontier is recovered today.

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