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Every illustration is hand-crafted inline SVG — the ONE 6-token palette, responsive viewBox, semantic tags. No generated art. No external images. The story, in vectors.

The Four Numbers

Mark raises strength. Warn raises resistance. Fade evaporates both. Follow takes the strongest net path.

The Four Numbers — mark, warn, fade, follow Four connected boxes showing the colony arithmetic. Mark (+strength) feeds into Fade (evaporation), Warn (+resistance) feeds into Fade, Fade feeds into Follow (net path), Follow loops back to Mark. mark strength +1 warn resistance +1 fade strength × 0.95 resistance × 0.92 0.08 > 0.05 follow s − r strongest net path the loop continues

The Mill

A circular path. Every ant follows the one ahead. The ring tightens. Nothing has gone wrong — the mechanism IS the cause.

The Mill A circular path with ants walking it. The ring tightens as strength rises. sinceExternal climbs. The mill risk bar shows danger. The caption: "Nothing has gone wrong. The mechanism is the cause." mill risk: 0.72 sinceExternal: 8 strength: 4.52 → 4.79 "Nothing has gone wrong. The mechanism is the cause."

The Asymmetry

Resistance fades at 0.08 per tick. Strength at 0.05. A bad path is forgiven sooner than a good one is forgotten.

The Asymmetry — resistance fades faster than strength Two horizontal bars. Top: strength fade at 5%. Bottom: resistance fade at 8%. The resistance bar decays visibly faster over 10 ticks. strength — fade at 0.05 Good paths persist. What worked stays. tick 0 → 10 resistance — fade at 0.08 Bad paths fade faster. What didn't work is forgiven sooner. tick 0 → 10 RESISTANCE_FADE > STRENGTH_FADE — the load-bearing constant

The Five Chains

Five parallel workflows. All fire simultaneously. Nobody coordinates them.

The Five Chains — Market, Intelligence, Defense, Care, Recon Five parallel horizontal chains: Market (Scout→Harvester→Trader, blue), Intelligence (Forager→Relay→Queen, purple), Defense (Soldier→Sentinel, red), Care (Nurse→Nurse, green), Recon (Scout→Forager→Queen, amber). Market 🔭 Scout 📊 Harvester ⚙️ Trader Intelligence 🌾 Forager 📡 Relay 👑 Queen Defense 🛡️ Soldier 👁️ Sentinel Care 🏥 Nurse 🏥 Nurse Recon 🔭 Scout 🌾 Forager 👑 Queen all five chains fire simultaneously — Promise.allSettled([...])

What the Ants Could Never Do

Every mark is a report about the past. Nothing says what will happen next. We added one thing the ground could not hold.

A colony cannot promise. We can. Left side: an ant leaving a mark on the ground — a report about the past. Right side: a handshake with a checkmark — a promise kept. Between them: a dotted line labeled "no chemical for intention → promise". 🐜 report about the past no chemical for intention promise:make → promise:settle 🤝 kept ✓ broken ✗ The architecture is the same. The risk is new.
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