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A. **Final Round 30 amended synthesis — complete. Count: 30/30.**

This completes the actual design-review sequence, incorporating the three final reviewer contributions, Godz3’s audit, GI-R30-XR and F-R30-03. It establishes a planning baseline, not implementation readiness, empirical validation or launch authorization. No build, executable test, human trial, sale or notification is claimed.

**Accepted gameplay corrections:** every supported First Light route intentionally compares two occurrences within the scheduled rain and records recurrence. Baseline completion requires no Craft instrument operation. Earned Stillness timing, Craft receiver readings and qualified Connection testimony remain distinct; none establishes cooling causation. Free entry remains the planned direction, with public distribution and offer terms separately authorized.

**Accepted preservation corrections:** selected-life JSON export/import includes committed unfinished work, consumed opportunities and duplicate-prevention identities. Discarding replaceable caches may preserve faithful continuation; losing consequential state permits only labeled partial salvage or an approved derivative. Preserve originals and identify older or uncertain snapshots accurately.

**Accepted authority and economic corrections:** the specific Circle decision’s accepted participation rule controls; absence cannot retrospectively become consent. Refund records distinguish recipient contributions, external sponsorship and internal grants. Returning refundable funds to the appropriate payer remains a proposed default subject to applicable remedies or expressly offered benefits. Cancellation explains surrendered access while preserving independently retained records and backing for accepted obligations.

**Expansion gates are strengthened:** G2 requires reviewed G1 observations and an explicitly authorized bounded probe when evidence supports proceeding. The provisional four-of-six gate is neither a technical unlock nor proof of satisfying closure. Further Astro work depends on decision-relevant value beyond simple coaching at acceptable attention burden. Creator expansion requires observed demand or value with funding, exposure and delivery costs visible.

**Unsupported attribution is removed:** the minimal handoff arrangement remains a proposal. The main plan no longer attributes operating preferences to an unverified source or contains operational notification instructions. Compact restorations retain optional IRL value and consent boundaries, archive/self-hosting convenience, the bounded geography probe and provider-specific verification limits.

**Material dissent remains:** R04’s emotional payoff is unproved; R13’s stronger paid recommendations from identical permitted evidence remain an untested alternative to constrained official Circle assistance; NOW versus NEXT for the manual Astro probe remains a resource choice. Astro’s plausible branches have no established predictive or causal validity.

**Final verification remains unrun:** mechanically inspect the amendment diff, then trace baseline completion, unfinished-save restoration, payer-specific refunds and expansion evidence through the plan. Later synthetic fixtures test application behavior; provider guarantees require provider evidence, and usefulness, enjoyment and burden require human observation. Thirty completed planning reviews supply none of those results.
