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Section 19 — World State Versions, Modern Revisit

CANON SUBORDINATION — this document is PROPOSAL-TIER: it serves canon and never outranks it.

The canon: the CVD · the T1 foundation docs · the T0 registries (registries/) · the spine

(docs/spine/CH_*.md) · the region pages (_source/02_Tier_2_Region_Pages/). Authority order: docs/DOC_MAP.md § 0.

Canon served (scanned from this document's own citations — widen it by hand where it is thin):

T0_Creature_Roster

READ THAT CANON FIRST — open it and derive from it before you build anything from this document.

If this document disagrees with canon, CANON WINS and this document is the defect — fix the

document, never the canon. Nothing here is applied until it is ratified into canon.

After Vimana activation (Ch 55) the player revisits from the air and sees the integrity-mapped

world states. The DERIVED texture bands are {Truly Good · Good Enough · Drifting · Evil · Pure

Evil (terminal)}; the world-state NAMES are {Luminous · Restored · Neutral · Damaged · Corrupted}

(Neutral exists only as the WS3 world-state name, never a band or ending label); endings resolve

by the Ch-65-locked path_bucket {TRULY_GOOD, GOOD_ENOUGH, EVIL}. At Ch 4 the region runs

integrity L3 Drifting / world-state WS3 Neutral, path_bucket UNLOCKED.

The Bali revisit consumer is NOT yet pinned (the spine carries the community read with an open

forward_track — deliberately, per FORK_CH04_A). The page records the open consumer as a design

obligation rather than inventing one: the community's read (trust earned / transactional /

unmarked / coldness kept) and the certification-intel disposition are the read-surface whenever

the adult-Bali consumer lands. Visual differences per state follow the two-axis model at that

consumer. Modern Velheim presence per state: none surfaced at this region (reveal-ladder-safe).

The unpinned consumer, stated precisely enough to be built against

The obligation is specific, and stating it precisely is what keeps it from being quietly resolved

by whoever authors the next continental revisit. Four things are already fixed by the spine and

are copied here, never re-decided:

• The mark written at Ch 4 is the Bali community's read of the protagonist's conduct at

FORK_CH04_A, persistent, with forward_track empty on every option — that empty track IS the

unpinned consumer, not an oversight.

• The four read-states the mark can carry are the fork's own: trust earned (the Dalang freed with

his name kept clean, the certification leverage dismantled whole, nothing taken for it);

resolved transactionally (the reveal made, the win banked, the leverage left unexamined);

unmarked beyond the deed (the reveal made for its own sake, the road kept); and coldness kept

(the leverage noticed, understood, and filed away as a tool).

• The second read-axis is the certification-intel disposition, and it is typed where the fork

types it: the coldness-kept read writes ws.reputation_biography_propagation (the leverage kept),

the trust-earned read carries the certification-pattern intel clean toward the modern arc as an

open opportunity rather than a state write, and ws.antagonist_operational_state_per_region

records the apparatus revealed on every path, so it marks the deed and does not discriminate

between dispositions. The community read itself rides ws.community_state_per_region.

• Non-gating binds at the revisit exactly as it binds at Ch 4: recognition opens or alters aid,

lore, and reception, and never walls a route.

What is NOT fixed, and is not invented here: which chapter renders the adult-Bali revisit. The

page does not pin it, does not borrow another region's consumer, and does not assert that any

chapter has taken it. The obligation is recorded so the eventual consumer inherits a read-surface

rather than a blank.

The apex the world state kept or lost

The region's world-state differentiator is the tiger. This is the strongest available Bali

revisit texture because it is the one difference the player can read from the air in a single

pass, and because it is true: the Bali tiger (CR_0017, Panthera tigris balica, the samong) is a

real animal that lived across the island in the ~1200 CE present frame and does not live anywhere

now. The source names it a real subspecies whose closest living relative is the Sumatran tiger

[SRC: SRC_00496 — Xue et al. 2015, J Hered 106(3), p. 247], smaller in overall body size than its

Javan sister subspecies (p. 252), on roughly a five-year generation and dependent on ungulate

prey (p. 255); the extirpation account describes it as the small but magnificent subspecies that

once lived in almost all parts of Bali island, holding the large blocks of forested land that

were its home there [SRC: SRC_00482 — Ashraf, Tigerpaper XXXIII:3, 2006, p. 5].

At the revisit the forest either carries it or it does not. That is the whole read.

The table names textures against world states; it does not pin how a state is reached. The

derivation is the consumer's to compute from ws.integrity_score and the community read under the

two-axis model, and the bands stay DERIVED rather than option labels — FORK_CH04_A keys its four

options by action and direction, and nothing on this page converts a fork option into a band. The

one pairing the page can state is the one it already states: at Ch 4 the Drifting band and WS3

Neutral are the same reading of the same region.

Two disciplines bind that table. First, the tiger is OBSERVE-primary wherever it appears, per the

live roster ruling — combat is defensive-only, there is no corpse-loot, and the animal is never

staged as a boss; the revisit does not get to relax that because the animal has become scarce.

Second, the good-state tiger is not wishful. The conservation-genetics rationale is real: the

Sumatran tiger is the closest living relative of the extinct Bali and Javan tigers, and a managed

restoration of Bali and Java from Sumatran source stock has been proposed on exactly that

relatedness [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 247 and p. 255]. A good future that still holds a tiger is

therefore a future the real science says is conceivable, which is the only kind of hope this

design layer is allowed to sell.

What the Barong Outlived

The vanished-tiger beat is the modern-strata half of the same fact, and it is authorial ambient

material rather than an objective: in the modern strata the wild tiger is simply gone from Bali

while the Barong — a tiger-being — is still danced. The island kept the symbol and lost the

animal. Delivery is a quiet stilled-forest pass over the ground the observation loop ran on, with

no moralizing at the player and no player task attached [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5].

The extinction is documented true history and is written as such, named as the record names it:

• Dutch colonial sport hunting of the Bali tiger, sustained until the population could not carry

it [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5].

• Agricultural and road-driven fragmentation of the large forested blocks the animal needed — the

habitat cut into pieces smaller than a tiger population can live in [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5].

• Poaching and the loss of habitat and prey together, which is how the genetics literature states

the cause for the Bali tiger and for its Sunda sister subspecies alike [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 255].

The neighbouring Javan case adds a driver this source attests for Java and not for Bali — prey

depletion bringing people and tigers into closer conflict and closing the last refuges [SRC:

SRC_00482, p. 6] — and it is carried here as Java's history, not back-projected onto Bali.

The dating is stated as two events rather than one, because the sources disagree only in the way

two true statements about different events disagree. The last confirmed Bali tiger record is 1937

— the anchor the live roster row carries [SRC: T0_Creature_Roster @ CR_0017, extinction_threat],

and the 1930s in the genetics paper's own phrasing [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 255] — while the

subspecies was gone from the wild by the end of the 1940s [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5; SRC: SRC_00496,

p. 247]. Both are carried. Section 3's registry-facing anchor currently states 1937 alone; the

reconciled both-dates wording is recorded here as owed to that section and to CR_0017, and this

page does not assert that the change has been made.

Care posture on this material, ruled and not flagged. The loss is shown at full weight and

correctly attributed, and neither half of that is optional. The causes are exactly what the record

shows — a Dutch colonial sport-hunting regime and the land conversion that came with it — so those

are what the design builds; manufacturing a concealed author behind them would teach the player

something false. The loss is never routed through the living Balinese community, whose own

cosmology read the tiger as the Barong's face rather than as vermin. And the colonial-era material

stays in the modern strata and the authorial layer where it belongs; a kill-the-colonizer quest in

a ~1200 CE chapter would be the wrong era, the wrong register, and a worse story than the true one.

Why an island loses its apex — the authorial substrate under the bands

The difference between the abundant present frame and the emptied modern strata is not

atmosphere; it is arithmetic, and the arithmetic is the reason the bands can differ so sharply

without either end being a cheat.

• Island endemic megafauna are fragile by the mathematics of isolation rather than by luck: small

insular populations lose dispersal potential, fall into inbreeding depression, and drift toward

a population bottleneck [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 6].

• Effective population size runs far below the counted population — roughly a tenth of it — and

an effective size well above fifty is needed to avoid inbreeding depression, which is why

habitat corridors and meta-population management decide whether an island's apex survives at

all [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 7].

• The same volcanic geology carried both halves of what Bali is: the rich volcanic slopes, with

their drainage and climate, made terraced irrigation technically possible and seasonally stable

— the island's fertility and its forest habitat springing from one geological base, later

pulled apart by colonial-scale agricultural intensification [SRC: SRC_00482, p. 5].

That third point is the one worth building the aerial read around, because it says the terraces

and the tiger were never enemies. The subak landscape and the forest blocks coexisted on the same

volcanic base for centuries; what separated them was the colonial-scale agricultural

intensification that came later, not wet-rice civilization. A revisit that shows terraces and

empty forest is showing the consequence of that intensification, and the framing must keep the

subak legible as the neighbour of the forest rather than as its cause.

This substrate is authorial. It never surfaces as a player-facing lecture, and it does not become

an era-present investigation: a player in the ~1200 CE frame cannot investigate an effective

population size, and every modern conservation result on this page is fenced to the post-Ch-55

revisit and to the authorial layer for exactly that reason.

The specimen diaspora, as a modern-strata rabbit hole

For the research-minded player in the modern strata there is a real trail: the last physical Bali

tigers survive as museum material. The record's Table 1 shows two voucher Bali specimens at

Stuttgart (18922 and 18923), plus four specimens carrying the BAL haplotype but recorded only as

Indonesian or unknown in origin — three at Amsterdam and one at Leiden, the Amsterdam holdings

having transferred to Leiden in 2010 [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 249]. The other holdings in the same

table are not Bali material and are not claimed here as such. This is ordinary archival history

rather than esoteric substrate, and it grounds to the science layer accordingly.

Guardrails this section holds

• Sunda shelf, not Wallacea. Bali sits on the Sunda Shelf west of the Wallace Line; the source's

own text lists Bali among the Sunda Islands with Sumatra, Java and Borneo [SRC: SRC_00482,

p. 7]. Flores is the Wallacea island, east of the line. No revisit copy asserts that Bali is a

Wallacea island. The Bali-to-Flores island-system comparison is held at the weave lane and is

not made here.

• No surviving-tiger hunt. Cryptozoological claims of a still-living Bali tiger circulate; the

specimen and genetic record establish extinction, and the design treats the animal as truly

lost in the modern world. There is no still-out-there quest and no player-facing debunk either

— the loss is simply real.

• The taxonomy is dated but the naming is legitimate. The older two-subspecies-of-Sunda scheme is

what the extirpation bulletin uses; modern genetics places the Bali, Javan and Sumatran tigers

in one recent monophyletic lineage [SRC: SRC_00496, p. 252]. The Bali tiger as the island's own

extinct apex, and the historically used binomial, both stand — but any taxonomic claim in this

material is governed by the genetics source, and no L3 note presents the separate-subspecies

status as current science.

• No forward window is minted here. The modern read is gated behind Vimana activation at Ch 55;

Ch 4's forward time-fluctuation horizon is the Majapahit stratum and this section does not

extend it. The apex-empty forest is a Ch-55-and-later surface, and staging it as a Ch-4 window

would either invent a new era horizon or pre-empt the revisit gate.

• No cross-regional tiger link is asserted. The Bali-to-Java tiger relation is held at the weave

lane pending a link-type correction, so Section 15's link set is untouched by this section and

no new Cross_Cultural_Link_Graph edge is claimed from the tiger material.

• Reveal discipline unchanged. The section adds no antagonist surface at any world state; the

Ch-4 antagonist form remains the institutional-proxy certification apparatus, and the

certification-intel disposition is a read-state, not a revelation. The extinction hooks are

ecological grief and sit entirely outside the reveal ladder.

Recorded gaps

• The adult-Bali revisit consumer is unpinned, by design and not by omission. Pinning it is a

chapter-level decision that belongs to the continental-revisit owners, and this page states the

read-surface it will inherit rather than choosing for them.

• The Zone Catalog has no highland-forest or watershed row, so the aerial forest read above

Besakih and the observation loop that grounds it currently have no zone to name. Besakih itself

is a protected living sacred site whose zone is the meru-tower complex and lontar library, and

routing forest material into it would misplace it inside a temple precinct. The zone addition

is a pending mint and is not resolved here; until it lands, the forest read is region-ambient.

• No quest_type is asserted for either the vanished-tiger beat or the world-state texture pass.

Both are region-page prose plus ambient delivery with no player objective, and the controlled

vocabulary that would type them does not exist yet. The ruling is pending and the page writes

around it rather than forcing a fit.

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