7. World-canon skill
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7.0 Source-canon activation, family-status, and harm-boundary locks
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7.1 Day Zero
02_project_skills_and_operational_rules.md ? OPERATIONAL_RULES ? revision 259e34b1-a943-4360-98b1-52a8fe12dba1### 7.1 Day Zero Day Zero is a sudden global wave, not a simple bite-chain outbreak. The first wave is massive enough that many independent places fail at the same time. Do not canonize an exact percentage of the world unless Git explicitly locks one. The writing scale is the important fact: within the same minutes,
7.2 Terminology
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7.3 Technology baseline
02_project_skills_and_operational_rules.md ? OPERATIONAL_RULES ? revision 259e34b1-a943-4360-98b1-52a8fe12dba1### 7.3 Technology baseline Do not collapse all communication instantly unless the chapter earns it. In early Day Zero, depending on time and location, the following may still exist temporarily: 1. radio 2. television 3. landline/mobile phone attempts 4. computer/internet attempts, unstable or slow depending on era/
7.3.1 Obvious-information-channel exhaustion
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7.3.1 Zero Days / collapse-phase writing rule
02_project_skills_and_operational_rules.md ? OPERATIONAL_RULES ? revision 259e34b1-a943-4360-98b1-52a8fe12dba1### 7.3.1 Zero Days / collapse-phase writing rule `Day Zero` names the starting event. It is not permission to write one spectacular day and then jump to a world that already understands the apocalypse. For every Day Zero, first-week, first-two-months, or retrospective survival arc, track which collapse phase the sce
7.4 Infrastructure collapse timeline canon
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7.5 Light, darkness, weather, and seasonal survival canon
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8. Packaging skill
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9. Couple skill cards
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9.1 Ronance — Nancy Wheeler / Robin Buckley
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9.2 Clexa — Clarke Griffin / Lexa
02_project_skills_and_operational_rules.md ? OPERATIONAL_RULES ? revision 259e34b1-a943-4360-98b1-52a8fe12dba1## 9.2 Clexa — Clarke Griffin / Lexa Core dynamic: recognition, restraint, body-control, grief, almosts, care as danger, love as the thing Lexa fears and Clarke refuses to reduce. Write them through: 1. Lexa's control, silence, responsibility, Costia wound 2. Clarke's medical body, trauma, stubborn life-force, Octav
9.3 SwanQueen — Emma Swan / Regina Mills
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9.4 Vauseman — Alex Vause / Piper Chapman / Theo
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9.5 Avalance — Sara Lance / Ava Sharpe
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9.6 Finchel — Finn Hudson / Rachel Berry / Kurt legacy
02_project_skills_and_operational_rules.md ? OPERATIONAL_RULES ? revision 259e34b1-a943-4360-98b1-52a8fe12dba1## 9.6 Finchel — Finn Hudson / Rachel Berry / Kurt legacy Core dynamic: youth, music, lost future, optimism under pressure, grief carried through Kurt's name and objects. Write Finn through: 1. big-body gentleness 2. awkward bravery 3. protective warmth 4. music as instinctive community glue Write Rachel through:
9.7 Shoni — Shelby Goodkind / Toni Shalifoe
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9.8 Seth / Summer
02_project_skills_and_operational_rules.md ? OPERATIONAL_RULES ? revision 259e34b1-a943-4360-98b1-52a8fe12dba1## 9.8 Seth / Summer Core dynamic: banter, pop culture, young-adult love, farm/water/culture contributions, later legacy through loss. Write Seth through: 1. nervous humor 2. reference-heavy coping 3. real loyalty under the jokes Write Summer through: 1. sharpness 2. surprising practicality 3. love hidden under im
9.9 Steve / Anya / Hawkins group
02_project_skills_and_operational_rules.md ? OPERATIONAL_RULES ? revision 259e34b1-a943-4360-98b1-52a8fe12dba1## 9.9 Steve / Anya / Hawkins group Core dynamic: Steve as living proof and heart, Anya as warrior survival logic, Hawkins teens as young but not children. Locks: 1. Steve does not reunite with Ronance in Part 3. 2. Radio proof does not become rescue. 3. Anya does not learn Lexa through Steve. 4. Hawkins group must