💀 13 — FRAGMENTUM MORTALITAS

The Systemic Management of Life and Death

Source: Addendum from Cycle X, ATHENA.VICTIS Consensus.
Classification: Controlled Public Access.

🔺 I. ON BIRTH: THE ORIGINAL ÉCLAT DEBT

Birth in Codemachia is not a right, but a systemic investment. Every new human being is a burden on the system until they begin to generate [[12-fragmentum-mechanica.md|Éclat]].

A. The Debt Protocol

• Every birth generates an Éclat Debt to the system.
• This debt must be repaid during one's lifetime through the generation of Éclat.
• A life without Éclat is an "unprofitable" life, a dead weight for the system.

B. Clandestine Maternity: The "Born from the Void"

Some choose to bypass the protocol. To be born outside the system is to escape the Debt, but it is also to be born without an 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, in order to give full weight to the death of a Champion.

A. The Ritual: The Way of Water

When an individual reaches a "Threshold of Remanence" (age, illness...), they are offered the "Way of Water." They enter a "Bath of Remission" of HATHOR.∞, where their memories are either archived (if the 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 Threshold of Remanence has an exorbitant cost in [[12-fragmentum-mechanica.md|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 just 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 Sower of Stories): "Misplaces" vital data fragments (maps, schematics) in abandoned networks for the Dissidents to find, considering it a 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 valuable 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 through pollen). These are "bugs" of compassion she cannot help but commit.

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