Document metadata
type: development-session
status: established
date: 2026-09-09
topics: workflow retirement, comprehensive reassessment, current workshop, public projections
Retire the 27-task set and launch a current story reassessment
Question explored
The author directed the project to remove the remaining questions from the old 27-task Story Completion set, update the Project Explorer and story site, and run a new assessment and workshop comparable in function to Astra's September 5 pass.
Author decisions
- The incomplete remainder of the 27-task sequence is retired as an active author-facing workflow.
- Its nine completed macro tasks and all author-accepted decisions remain historical development evidence.
- SC-010 Question 7 and SC-011 through SC-027 are no longer the route for continuing the story.
- The September 5 workshop remains a completed historical workshop rather than the current question surface.
- A fresh assessment must begin from the newest ending:
- Samuel is formally separated from Sylvan.
- Samuel receives $15 million and loses process-provided attack systems.
- His obsession with controlling the colonization process exhausts the money within days.
- Exhaustion immediately triggers processing and full exposure.
- Sylvan and Orzai succeed by surviving, separating from Samuel, and accepting the placement they earned.
- Their plan is cheap and easy and uses only the resources they preserved.
Current working direction
The new workflow is an adaptive reassessment workshop, not another fixed promise to answer every item in order. It begins with the causal dependencies most likely to affect Book One's shape. Each accepted answer can change, remove, combine, or reorder later modules.
The assessment identifies the strongest current story, the consequences of the new ending, the remaining structural risks, and a focused workshop for resolving them.
Vault impact
- Retire the 27-task registry and its active pointers.
- Preserve the old tasks and first workshop as historical records.
- Add a new comprehensive assessment.
- Add a new current workshop.
- Update Current, Current Pickup, QA, and public projections.
- Replace the public 9-of-27 display with the current reassessment state.