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docs: open the wave-scheduler item - the counter is a schedule, not a roster

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Raised by the user: a mission has no fixed enemy count, so what to look for is an
algorithm with parameters rather than a list of objectives - which also explains
why every per-entity flag search came back empty. Records the places searched so
far (MiscBin's REGN/MCOL, DefTables' three unnamed schemas), the false lead
(STAGES = Static.slb is a sound bank), and what is still unsearched.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PMRJjbxLqZtsb5Vb7KunPE
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The investigation that got here follows, kept in full because most of it is
refutations that were worth the cost.
## Where the wave / spawn scheduler lives — the counter is not a roster
**Raised by the user 2026-08-24, and it reframes the whole `REMAINING OB` line of
work.** A mission does **not** have a fixed enemy count: the number rises as
waves arrive and falls as they are destroyed. So the thing to find is not a list
of objectives but an **algorithm with parameters** — what spawns, where, when,
and on what trigger. That also explains every negative so far: a per-entity flag
search cannot find a *schedule*.
**Places searched so far:**
* ✅ **`hidden/MiscBin.pak` — new to the corpus.** 11 `REGN` + 11 `MCOL` objects,
none name-resolved. `REGN`'s header is now decoded: a per-map **uniform spatial
grid** (bbox, cell size, 5³ or 10³ cells), self-checked 11/11. Its four data
sections are unread — the 49 KB object is the cheapest way in.
See [`structures/regn-map-grid.md`](structures/regn-map-grid.md).
* 🟡 **`hidden/DefTables.pak`** — 1 465 entries, 804 name-resolved and mostly
`LOD_Frame_*`/`LOD_Parts_*` model tables. The **661 unresolved** ones fall into
three schemas: `7e66225f` (283), `634a80ae` (183), `a6d68fa1` (138), plus 40
XML. Three unnamed schemas with hundreds of objects each is the most
table-shaped unexplored thing on the disc.
* 🔴 **`STAGES = Static.slb` is a false lead.** It is a field of the *sound*
table; `.slb` is an XACT sound bank ([`structures/sound-slb.md`](structures/sound-slb.md)).
* ❔ **Not yet searched:** the ~800 unnamed objects in `GP_MAIN_GAME_<lang>.pak`,
and the executable itself.
**First step:** dump the smallest `REGN` object's four sections (counts
`8, 6, 18`) and the three unnamed `DefTables` schemas — both are pure static
work, and either could carry per-map trigger or spawn records.
## The dynamic-RE state is not in git, and it was gone
**Found 2026-08-23.** Everything the oracle runs on — the baseline emulator