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Two more attempts. Recording three things rather than another flat negative. The pilot's gun-fire rate is 1.6% (81 of 4986 frames), but that is not the blocker: the nose gun is Power 15 unguided while the main mount is Power 200 guided, and ~70 missiles went out in ~500s. The log's fire= field tracks only the gun and invites the wrong conclusion. SYLPH_KILL_TURRETS=1 was tried to align DEFEND with the objective and is REFUTED as an improvement: 3387 of 11112 samples (30%) chased targets over 20,000 units away, because turrets are static and spread out, so the pilot commits to distant ones and defends nothing. Escort still fell to 48.5% and no additional objective squadron died. The bounded scan delays freezes but does not remove them -- one run clean to 694s, one frozen at ~682s, against 3-of-3 inside 4 minutes unbounded. So 'the sweeps were the cause' is too strong; they were a cost. Six attempts, no phase advance. Names the cheaper experiment: guest memory is writable, so set the two surviving squadrons' +16 to 4 with gpoke and watch whether finished goes to 1 and the ordinal steps to 2. That tests the condition directly, and a null result is equally informative.