re: S14's 13 are dangling deployments - the unit chain is absent for them
Two measurements settle the last open cell of the unit partition. The deployment side is identical. S14's asteroid-cmesh squadron records match a declaring stage's field for field - same squadron ids (GNN901, GNN902, ...) and the same Count 1 / SideID Neutral / AIID AI_Structure / FormationID Formation_1_only / DisableInterval No. Nothing about how S14 deploys them differs, and these are the same kind of record compared like for like. The definition side differs completely. Per stage, deployed / declared / Generic-with-HP / any Generic: S01 8/8/8/8, S04 10/10/10/10, S05 5/5/5/5, S08 6/6/6/6, S13 4/4/4/4 - 33/33/33 for the five - and S14 p1 9/0/0/0, S14 p2 4/0/0/0. So the 13 are not a manifest omission: they have no unit definition anywhere on the disc, not even an un-HP'd Generic row. UnitGroup_S14.tbl names entities that do not exist - 13 dangling references. That rescues the law (nothing is deployed-without-being-loaded in any working sense) and explains why the gap is exactly the cmesh class and nothing else in S14. What it predicts needs the emulator: either those collision meshes fail to appear in Stage 14 - a shipped bug - or another route supplies them. Flying S14 and checking whether the large asteroids collide distinguishes the two; no static route can. Recorded as NEEDS-HUMAN. Also recorded so the two asteroid populations are not conflated: asteroid-fields' AsteroidGroup_00N tables scatter mob_n0NN models, while these are UN_<stage>_Asteroid_cmesh_* squadron entities. S28.Phase_1 borrows S14_p2_asteroid.tbl but deploys no cmesh of its own, so the borrow does not carry the dangling references. All fifteen artefacts byte-identical.
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@@ -6320,3 +6320,35 @@ exists with six names, one of which is `UN_mn040_Asteroid_Big` — S14 declares
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asteroid but not its 13 `Asteroid_cmesh` entities, which **refutes** "asteroids
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are exempt from the manifest". Whatever the cause is, it is specific to the
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collision-mesh entities.
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## ✅ 2026-08-28 — S14's 13 are dangling deployments; the unit chain is absent for them
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Item (a). Two measurements settle the last open cell of the unit partition.
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**The deployment side is identical.** S14's asteroid-cmesh squadron records match
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a declaring stage's field for field — same squadron ids (`GNN901`…) and the same
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`Count 1 / SideID Neutral / AIID AI_Structure / FormationID Formation_1_only /
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DisableInterval No`. Nothing about how S14 deploys them differs.
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**The definition side differs completely.** Per stage, deployed / declared /
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`Generic`-with-`HP` / any `Generic`: S01 8/8/8/8, S04 10/10/10/10, S05 5/5/5/5,
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S08 6/6/6/6, S13 4/4/4/4 — **33/33/33 for the five** — and **S14 p1 9/0/0/0,
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p2 4/0/0/0**.
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🔑 The 13 are not a manifest omission: they have **no unit definition anywhere on
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the disc**, not even an un-`HP`'d `Generic` row. `UnitGroup_S14.tbl` names
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entities that do not exist — **13 dangling references**. That rescues the law
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(nothing is deployed-without-being-loaded in a working sense) and explains why
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the gap is exactly the cmesh class and nothing else in S14.
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🟡 **NEEDS-HUMAN to go further:** either those collision meshes fail to appear in
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Stage 14 (a shipped bug) or another route supplies them. Flying S14 and checking
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whether the large asteroids collide distinguishes the two; no static route can.
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⚠️ Recorded so the populations are not conflated: `asteroid-fields`'
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`AsteroidGroup_00N` tables scatter `mob_n0NN` models; these are
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`UN_<stage>_Asteroid_cmesh_*` squadron entities. S28.Phase_1 borrows
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`S14_p2_asteroid.tbl` but deploys no cmesh of its own, so the borrow does not
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carry the dangling references.
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@@ -303,3 +303,55 @@ ninth is that Prometheus-driver test entry, so **all 9 are accounted for**.
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not the 13 `Asteroid_cmesh` entities it deploys. So "asteroids are exempt from
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the manifest" is **refuted for S14 itself**; whatever the cause, it is specific
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to the collision-mesh entities.
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### ✅ S14 resolved: the 13 are **dangling deployments**, not a manifest omission
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The previous pass left S14 as the one unexplained cell and offered no cause.
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Two measurements settle what kind of thing it is.
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**1. The deployment side is identical.** S14's asteroid-cmesh squadron records are
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indistinguishable from a stage that declares its own — same squadron ids
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(`GNN901`, `GNN902`, …) and the same five named fields with the same values:
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```
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Count 1 SideID Neutral AIID AI_Structure FormationID Formation_1_only DisableInterval No
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```
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So nothing about *how* S14 deploys them differs. **The wrong record would not have
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been a control here; these are the same kind of record, compared field for field.**
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**2. The definition side is where they differ — completely.** Asking whether each
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cmesh entity has a unit definition at all:
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| stage | deployed | declared in `EnumUnit` | has a `Generic` record with `HP` | has **any** `Generic` record |
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|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
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| S01 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
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| S04 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
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| S05 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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| S08 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
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| S13 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
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| **S14 p1** | 9 | **0** | **0** | **0** |
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| **S14 p2** | 4 | **0** | **0** | **0** |
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🔑 **33 / 33 / 33 for the five, and 0 / 0 / 0 for S14.** The 13 are not merely
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absent from the load manifest — they have **no unit definition anywhere on the
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disc**, not even an un-`HP`'d `Generic` row. `UnitGroup_S14.tbl` names entities
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that do not exist.
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That reframes the exception and rescues the law. Nothing is "deployed without
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being loaded" in any working sense: **S14's roster holds 13 dangling references**,
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and the manifest is consistent with them being unloadable. It also explains why
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the omission is exactly the cmesh class and nothing else in S14 — the other six
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units S14 deploys are declared and defined normally.
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🟡 **What this predicts, and what would settle it, needs the emulator.** Either
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those 13 collision meshes simply fail to appear in Stage 14 — a shipped bug — or
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some route outside the unit chain supplies them. Flying S14 and checking whether
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the large asteroids collide would distinguish the two. **NEEDS-HUMAN**; no static
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route here can tell them apart.
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⚠️ Note the two asteroid populations are different sets and must not be conflated:
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[[asteroid-fields]]' `AsteroidGroup_00N` tables scatter **`mob_n0NN`** models,
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while these are **`UN_<stage>_Asteroid_cmesh_*`** squadron entities. S28.Phase_1
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borrows `S14_p2_asteroid.tbl` (the scatter table) but deploys **no** cmesh entity
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of its own, so the borrow does not carry the dangling references with it.
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