# Continuity Report: Chapter 11

## Diagnosis

Chapter 11 shows scientific language becoming local, not merely imported. Taren's informal lesson and Ilyon's sandbox solution establish that Earth-2 minds can advance the rescue logic, not just receive it.

## Timeline Updates

- The chapter opens at 16 years, 041 days until keyhole crossing.
- More than one year has passed since Chapter 10.
- Orbital mechanics education is expanding from selected scholars toward broader civic teaching.

## Character State Updates

- Taren teaches orbital mechanics through Suryan metaphors and accepts that fear with arithmetic is better than hidden fear.
- Ilyon steals chalk balls, teaches children, and independently invents a crude mass-driver-like solution.
- Sira protects Ilyon but carries his insight to Aravel.
- Hana recognizes the technical value in Ilyon's instinct despite criticizing its assumptions.
- Aravel commits to wider teaching.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- Suryan develops terms like falling-miss and not late yet.
- Public science education occurs outside formal channels before being absorbed into policy.
- Earth training simulations include impactor timing and can be extended into surface-operation concepts.

## Unresolved Promises

- How broad public teaching affects fear and propaganda.
- Whether Ilyon's unconventional learning earns him formal training.
- How mass-driver concepts will be adapted to Suryan culture and industry.

## Foreshadowing Introduced

- Ilyon's line about what The Wanderer is trying to miss foreshadows his future role in trajectory thinking.
- "Not late yet" becomes a morale slogan that can inspire or mislead.

## Required Bible Updates

- Track "not late yet" as a Suryan modernization slogan.
- Track Ilyon's early mass-driver insight.