# Continuity Report: Chapter 13

## Diagnosis

Chapter 13 deepens Kharos into a believable ideological opponent. Vaelor reframes rejection as cultural survival while quietly endorsing controlled theft of Earth knowledge, and Senn alters honest astronomical conclusions.

## Timeline Updates

- The chapter opens at 14 years, 211 days until keyhole crossing.
- Roughly ten months have passed since the first machine detection of The Wanderer.
- Kharos has enough stolen and internal knowledge to debate controlled modernization privately.

## Character State Updates

- Vaelor is established as strategic, not anti-knowledge; he fears dependence and cultural erasure.
- Senn knowingly falsifies the conclusion that Earth calculations are substantially correct.
- Liora Vask is introduced as a Kharos engineer-priest willing to speak dangerous truth.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- Kharos High Houses organize around mine, army, salt road, and shrine power.
- The Ash Observatory has Dominion observations confirming the danger.
- Kharos intends to learn useful technologies under its own law while publicly rejecting Earth.

## Unresolved Promises

- Whether Liora's truth-telling will make her a bridge or a target.
- How Vaelor's controlled modernization competes with Suryan's open learning.
- Whether Senn's falsified tables will be exposed.

## Foreshadowing Introduced

- "We are already at war over who may count" foreshadows later conflict over knowledge control.
- Vaelor's "live as ourselves" revision complicates the public slogan.

## Required Bible Updates

- Add Liora Vask as Kharos engineer-priest.
- Track Senn's altered conclusion and Vaelor's controlled modernization strategy.