# Continuity Report: Chapter 25

## Diagnosis

Chapter 25 secures the launch geography but confirms the victory did not restore the original schedule. The final fusion-standoff array is now mandatory.

## Timeline Updates

- The chapter opens at 2 years, 301 days until keyhole crossing.
- Suryan secures Mereth, the northern rail spur, western bedrock shelf, and equatorial corridor.
- Updated model confirms mass drivers cannot finish deflection alone under conservative assumptions.

## Character State Updates

- Aravel sees victory through displaced civilians and funeral smoke.
- Hana states the final standoff array is mandatory, not emergency reserve.
- Tavi's mother is now working in the rescue machine at a water station.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- Civilian camps hold Kharos families, Suryan laborers, freed prisoners, and displaced children.
- Heavy boosters, mass-driver assemblies, and reactor shields can now move through secured geography.

## Unresolved Promises

- Whether the standoff array can be completed in time.
- Whether Mereth's civilian wound destabilizes rescue legitimacy.

## Foreshadowing Introduced

- Victory buying a harder ending points to the final sacrifice.

## Required Bible Updates

- Track final standoff array as mandatory after Chapter 25.