# Continuity Report: Chapter 6

## Diagnosis

Chapter 6 stages first formal contact as a political and theological shock. Mira admits passive listening, Senn's faction frames Earth as blasphemy, and Earth offers testable prediction rather than demanding trust.

## Timeline Updates

- The chapter opens at 20 years, 004 days until keyhole crossing.
- Formal public contact occurs two days after Chapter 5.
- Earth predicts a lunar occultation thirty-one days in the future as a proof test.

## Character State Updates

- Mira speaks through the acoustic horns and admits Earth listened without consent.
- Aravel defends decorum while refusing both Earth arrogance and Kharos provocation.
- Seska names the consent breach and remains a moral counterweight.
- Ambassador Rhun attempts to frame Earth as demonic.
- High Augur Senn's messenger publicly names Earth blasphemous.
- Hana speaks directly and irritably through the horn, introducing the moon-star prediction.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- First-contact translation uses bronze acoustic horns assembled locally with Earth instruction.
- Kharos doctrine treats The Black Shepherd as a guide of souls and judge of kingdoms.
- Suryan court includes river dukes, guild masters, priests, soldiers, scribes, and foreign embassies.

## Unresolved Promises

- Whether the moon-star prediction succeeds.
- Whether Aravel can keep public order.
- How Senn and Kharos will escalate after the blasphemy framing.

## Foreshadowing Introduced

- "You call our god a rock" becomes the simple phrase likely to outrun all technical proof.
- Aravel's warning to Earth about earned rudeness foreshadows tension even on the accepting side.

## Required Bible Updates

- Track the thirty-one-day moon-star prediction as the first independent proof test.
- Track passive listening as an admitted breach, not a hidden fact.