# Continuity Report: Chapter 40

## Diagnosis

Earth-2 survives, Elian receives the final archive, and the novel closes with the deflection principle and future rescue mission.

## Timeline Updates

- Opens one day after keyhole crossing, with an Earth-side later scene months afterward.

## Character State Updates

- Aravel commits to building a world that deserved saving.
- Ilyon questions whether they deserved it.
- Elian grieves, receives Mira's final private file, and later joins the Rescue Survey Corps.

## Worldbuilding Updates

- Post-crisis education teaches myth, equations, corrections, lies, dead names, and the truth that The Wanderer was deflected rather than destroyed.

## Unresolved Promises

- None required for the core novel arc; future rescue work remains an open-world thread.

## Required Bible Updates

- Track Earth-2 survival, Elian's career choice, and post-crisis curriculum.