THE FACTORY
GATES ARE OPEN.

Things arrive unfinished. The guys drag them inside. Survivors leave as working objects.

SIGNAL→JUDGMENT→OBJECT→SHIP→WATCH

Mission 001 is already in the field.

Record the decision. Reopen it when reality answers back.

Follow the signal until it produces evidence, a move, or dies.

Anecdote → oddity → mechanism → principle.

Something shipped. The facility acknowledges it.

THE FACTORYGATES ARE OPEN.