# Continuity Report: Chapter 28

## Diagnosis

Chapter 28 reveals sabotage hidden inside the mass-driver underperformance and injures Ilyon while preserving enough site knowledge for the final array.

## Timeline Updates

- The chapter opens at 240 days until keyhole crossing.
- Sabotage is discovered in the mass-driver site plan.
- Driver Three is damaged and Ilyon suffers a broken leg but survives.

## Character State Updates

- Liora recognizes Kharos collapse-lattice doctrine and blames herself for not anticipating it.
- Kael challenges Liora over withheld or missed knowledge.
- Ilyon tackles a saboteur and remains publicly defiant despite injury.
- Hana concludes the recovered plan gives the final standoff array a target it can still save.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- Kharos sacred-mining doctrine includes prepared collapse lattices.
- Saboteurs include Kharos loyalists, a radicalized Suryan convert, and a Mereth prisoner.
- Driver Three drops and twists but is not fully destroyed.

## Unresolved Promises

- Whether Driver Three can be repaired fast enough.
- Whether more hidden sabotage remains.
- Whether Liora regains Kael's trust.

## Foreshadowing Introduced

- "Enough damage prevented to leave room for a lethal miracle" points to the final standoff sacrifice.

## Required Bible Updates

- Track Ilyon's broken leg and Driver Three damage.
- Track collapse-lattice sabotage.