# Continuity Report: Chapter 7

## Diagnosis

Chapter 7 validates Earth through Suryan instruments and gives Aravel a public basis for cooperation. It also establishes the first full danger model, mutual dependence, and Kharos naming the emerging conflict as the Shepherd's War.

## Timeline Updates

- The chapter opens at 19 years, 338 days until keyhole crossing.
- Thirty-one days pass between Chapter 6's prediction and the moon-star proof.
- The lunar occultation occurs just before second bell, proving Earth's model over the old Meridian Table.

## Character State Updates

- Aravel publicly states that the old tables were wrong but not worthless.
- Seska supports scientific correction without abandoning reverence.
- Master Jen's certainty breaks, but his role remains useful.
- Kael asks whether Earth can stop the threat and hears that neither world can do it alone.
- Mira frames rescue as mutual dependence if done honestly.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- Suryan palace court uses public witnesses, water clocks, local lenses, and Earth displays together.
- Earth's full danger model shows moon orbit distortion, tides, coast loss, and possible long-term orbital instability.
- Kharos closes its embassy and begins mobilizing under the phrase Shepherd's War.

## Unresolved Promises

- What Suryan learning from Earth will require in law, labor, and culture.
- How Kharos will respond to Aravel's announcement.
- Whether mutual dependence can stay honest under pressure.

## Foreshadowing Introduced

- Aravel refuses to let Kharos name the future first, foreshadowing propaganda and legitimacy battles.
- The water-clock fault shows that local verification can strengthen rather than weaken proof.

## Required Bible Updates

- Track the moon-star proof as the first public scientific validation.
- Track Aravel's announcement: "Suryan will learn."