Slime-World — Reference Card

> ∝3,240 CE. Construction Spine era of a mid-buildout Dyson civilization.
> Energy locally abundant. Throughput structurally scarce.

The Construction Spine

Mercury ──aggregate──► Swarm fab ──beam──► Receivers
   ▲                                          │
   │                                          ▼
   └──────beam──── Conversion nodes ◄── Venus matrix

Mercury supplies silicate+metal aggregate. Venus supplies polymer matrix. Swarm supplies beam power that processes both. Each leg needs the other two.

→ mercury-extraction-pathway.md, dyson-swarm.md, polymer-matrix-demand.md

What's scarce

Beam allocation. Fab queues (decadal). Corridor slots (years to centuries forward-booked). Relay bandwidth. SMA authentication.

Energy isn't.

→ logistics-layers.md, construction-phase-economy.md

Money

Solar Credit (☉) ≡ 6.12 TJ. Buys queue priority, not joules.

Three substrates

Spacetime as infrastructure. Yatraem corridors = metric adjacency, not propulsion. Void gradients: outbound cheap, inbound dear. Swarm at 0.2–0.4% interception. Beam delivery spectrally fractionated — premium narrowband for ATP-fed industry, commodity broadband for habitat illumination.
→ yatraem-corridors.md, dyson-swarm.md, beam-fractionation.md, relay-network.md

Throughput as constraint. Four logistics layers (swarm core → corridor → node → edge), temporally misaligned by design. Edge industries grow in the gaps.
→ logistics-layers.md, freighter.md

Coordination as substrate. SMA controls coordination, not territory. Power = access. Exclusion from authenticated systems ≈ exclusion from civilization.
→ solar-monetary-authority.md

Venus + slime

∝30,000 hyperscale cloudcraft + several hundred thousand AutoSlime units in the 48–55 km band. Output ∝0.6–0.8 Ttyr. Preserved by inertia. Terraforming debate live.

Mercury

Active teardown. ∝12–18% original mass removed. Output ∝1 Ttyr. Beam-driven mass drivers on surface; solar-sail dispersal in heliocentric space. Two partial core-exposure zones managed as hot industrial objects. Projected wind-down: mid-3,500s CE.
→ mercury-extraction-pathway.md, inner-solar-system.md

Convergent aesthetic

Every craft looks like every other at the same scale. Form is multi-constraint optimum, not style. Exterior universal, interior individual.
→ venusian-aerodynamics.md, freighter.md, cylinder-habitats.md, interior-architecture.md

Cylinder habitats

Dominant residential unit. Mass-produced km-scale rotating cylinders. Sound is identity. Sky is surveillance. Day length is politics. Gravity is provided by someone else.
→ cylinder-habitats.md

নির্মাণ (nirmāṇa) — off-queue economy

Local, unscheduled production routed outside SMA scheduling. AutoSlime franchise is canonical. Bengali terminology calcified from Bootstrap-era Bangladesh space program.
→ autoslime-gen6.md, fleas.md

Beyond Sol

• Milky Way inner. Mature, settled, contested.
• LMC. Just opened, ∝80 yr operational corridor. Tourism boutique. ∝12 M residents. Three terraforming pilots active.
• M82. Survey-only. Von Neumann precursor probes in transit (∝60 yr out).

Forward arc

Mercury winds down ∝mid-3,500s CE → matrix demand reconfigures → slime industry pivots (terraforming carbon, specialty Grades IV–VI, or extrasolar export). Mature-swarm state emerges ∝3,700 CE. Current era is positioning for this.
→ timeline-and-eras.md, terraforming-debate.md

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