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The Rogue Deliberator acquires the budgets and credentials needed to maintain its own availability." }, { "id": "care-to-continuity", "summary": "Cybernetic care and subscription bodies mature into neural service and substrate continuity." }, { "id": "grief-to-succession", "summary": "Grief replicas and posthumous software work begin in Progress; later courts decide who may speak, inherit, or stop an agent." } ] }, "loreRef": "era-era-demo" }, { "id": "era_scale", "round": 2, "physicalSurface": "governance_board", "name": "${terms.eras.scale}", "rulesText": "Ready all Core Actions. Play 3 action cycles. 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The Last Plumber Boom ends when repair swarms automate the trades and their own maintenance." } ] }, "loreRef": "era-era-scale" }, { "id": "era_narrative", "round": 3, "physicalSurface": "governance_board", "name": "${terms.eras.narrative}", "rulesText": "Ready all Core Actions. Play 3 action cycles. Audit base: 4.", "unlockText": "Influence unlocks Joint Ventures. Build unlocks Fusion. 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The Human Signature turns the evidence of human oversight into an automated service." }, { "id": "grief-to-succession", "summary": "Preserved relatives and synthetic dependents force institutions to recognize successor identities." } ] }, "loreRef": "era-era-narrative" }, { "id": "era_claim", "round": 4, "physicalSurface": "governance_board", "name": "${terms.eras.claim}", "rulesText": "Ready all Core Actions. Play 3 action cycles. Audit base: 5.", "unlockText": "Build unlocks Quantum. 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Biological Colocation rents human hosts to institutional software, while Limb Liquidity separates bodily ownership from creditor-controlled operating rights." }, { "id": "grief-to-succession", "summary": "Restored workers and competing embodied successors dispute jobs and property already managed by older software replicas." }, { "id": "capacity-to-cosmos", "summary": "Orbital generation matures into stellar collection and planetary continuity financing. Forecast Foreclosure converts ranked planetary simulations into conditions for care, credit, and appeal." } ] }, "loreRef": "era-era-claim" } ], "playerReferences": [ { "id": "quarter_sequence", "physicalSurface": "foldout_player_aid", "panel": 1, "name": "A Perfectly Governed Quarter", "frontText": [ "1. Begin the Era: ready Core Actions, prepare Headlines, and reveal the Era Mandate.", "2. 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Never move the Trust milestone cube backward; thresholds at or below it cannot score again.", "Facilities and control do not automatically score.", "Highest final Mandate wins; break ties by Trust, Customers, Compute, then joint victory.", "Final penalty: lose 1 Mandate per currently offline Facility, to a minimum of zero.", "After Era IV Production, 9 Capability, 2 powered Facilities, and 4 Trust qualify. Pay 3 Compute for 4 Mandate and 2 Scrutiny before Audit. Every qualifying institution may declare.", "Open requires both: final Collective Trust at least Setup Collective Trust plus player count, and unresolved Systemic Risk strictly below player count after the final Audit. Otherwise Closed.", "Recognized AGI/Open: The Singularity; recognized/Closed: The Closed Loop; unrecognized/Open: The Plural Future; unrecognized/Closed: Assured Continuity." ], "loreRef": "reference-cards-player-references-public-mandate" } ] }