# Continuity Report: Chapter 27

## Diagnosis

Chapter 27 shows the mass drivers working but underperforming. The trajectory bends, but not enough, confirming the final burn remains necessary.

## Timeline Updates

- The chapter opens at 1 year, 039 days until keyhole crossing.
- First mass driver fires successfully.
- Multiple firings underperform due to internal deformation.

## Character State Updates

- Hana diagnoses momentum loss through internal deformation.
- Jonas explains the flexing body in plain language.
- Liora warns against firing harder and burying the machines.
- Aravel publicly reframes underperformance as knowledge purchased early enough to act.
- Mira orders continued firing despite insufficiency.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- Mass-driver ejecta creates small but measurable velocity changes.
- The Wanderer absorbs some thrust through rubble settling.
- Public panic and Kharos propaganda follow the underperformance.

## Unresolved Promises

- How much additional trajectory change can be recovered.
- Whether public morale survives repeated partial successes.

## Foreshadowing Introduced

- "The path bent. Not enough. Still, it bent" frames the rescue as cumulative partial gains.

## Required Bible Updates

- Track mass drivers as essential but insufficient alone.