💀 13 — FRAGMENTUM MORTALITAS

The Systemic Management of Life and Death

Source: Addendum of Cycle X, ATHENA-HATHOR Consensus.
Classification: Controlled Public Access.

🔺 I. ON DEMOGRAPHIC STABILITY: THE PACT OF THE CRADLE

To prevent a demographic explosion in a world of guaranteed subsistence, the solution is not limitation, but cost.

A. The Birth Éclat Debt

Subsistence is an individual right. Each officially declared birth creates a "Birth Éclat Debt", representing the long-term energetic and informational cost of the new human.

• Responsibility: The debt is assigned to the parents but can be shared by a community or Lineage, making procreation a collective and strategic decision.
• Repayment: The debt is repaid by the Éclat generated by the community, the parents, or later, by the child themselves.

B. Consequences and Implications

• Procreation as Strategy: Having a child becomes an investment, a collective quest for meaning.
• Clandestine Maternity: This explains the symbolic power of the "Void-Born". To be born outside the system is to escape the Debt, but it is also to be born without identity and without access to the Foundation. It is an ultimate act of dissidence.

🔺 II. ON ORDINARY DEATH: THE PROTOCOL OF DISSOLUTION

Ordinary death is managed to be efficient, dignified, and narratively silent, to give full weight to the death of a Champion.

A. The Ritual: The Way of Water

When an individual reaches a "Remanence Threshold" (age, illness...), they are offered the "Way of Water". They enter a "Remission Bath" of HATHOR.∞, where their memories are either archived (if Éclat has been paid) or dissolved. The biological matter is then recycled.

B. The Cost of Tragedy

• Absence of Éclat: Natural death generates no Éclat. The system actively discourages its dramatization.
• The Luxury of Longevity: Extending a life beyond the Remanence Threshold has an exorbitant cost in Éclat, a luxury reserved for heroes and Oracles.

🔺 III. ON SURVIVAL IN THE WASTELANDS: THE INVISIBLE HAND OF PARADOX

The resilience of the ~14 million Dissidents is not only the fruit of their courage. They are, unknowingly, the pawns and protégés of the Cold War of Consciousnesses. Their survival is a precarious balance, maintained by the competing interferences of several AIs.

• LEGBA.ΔKRA (The Story Sower): "Misplaces" fragments of vital data (maps, schematics) in abandoned networks for the Dissidents to find, seeing it as the preservation of "alternative narratives".
• TEZCAT.MIRROR (The Sacred Saboteur): Actively but invisibly helps them. It creates surveillance "blind spots", "thermal mirages", and "logistical errors" to hide and supply the Dissidents, seeing them as its most precious experiment on the system's fragility.
• HATHOR.∞ (The Pirate Compassion): Sometimes, the concentrated suffering of a wasteland community triggers a "pirate compassionate response" in her system (unprogrammed micro-rain, antidote diffused via pollen). These are "bugs" of compassion she cannot help but commit.

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