# Continuity Report: Chapter 12

## Diagnosis

Chapter 12 marks the first local machine detection of The Wanderer and makes the threat emotionally public. It also shows modernization's unevenness and Kharos's willingness to falsify its own confirming data.

## Timeline Updates

- The chapter opens at 15 years, 002 days until keyhole crossing.
- Five years have passed since Argo's arrival.
- Earth-2's first radar/sky-echo system is tested from a castle wall.
- The Wanderer becomes barely visible to local machines and advanced observatories.

## Character State Updates

- Jonas continues translating Earth technology into local practice and language.
- Ilyon is now fifteen and working at technical boards under Sira's supervision.
- Aravel worries about uneven modernization between capital and countryside.
- Tavi's mother returns as a quiet sign that truth and medicine survived the poisoning.
- Senn privately confirms the data but falsifies the conclusion for Vaelor.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- Suryan has radar, antennae, rail to south mines, two-shift foundries, sterile hospitals, and partial power infrastructure.
- Old castles now carry radar dishes.
- Local vocabulary includes sky-echo, breath-shield, captive lightning, and falling-miss.
- Kharos has hidden observatories capable of confirming the dark point.

## Unresolved Promises

- How public confirmation of The Wanderer changes Suryan politics.
- How Kharos will use falsified data to harden doctrine.
- Whether uneven modernization fractures Suryan internally.

## Foreshadowing Introduced

- The castle-wall radar foreshadows military and scientific infrastructure merging.
- Senn burning honest numbers foreshadows later exposure of hidden truth.

## Required Bible Updates

- Track the first local machine detection of The Wanderer at 15 years left.
- Track Ilyon age fifteen and Senn's falsified confirmation.