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==== Take the Vorbis pattern, strip the sadism, keep the structural ruthlessness. ====

===== These become the equivalent of holy text: =====
* The ephemeris table of “sacred crossings” → exact timestamps and positions where the ship must meet specific comets.
* Minimum maintenance cycles for: - reactor / solar arrays on the depot - ISRU plant - docking infrastructure
* Hard constraints like: - “If we miss two consecutive resupply windows, mission viability falls below X; all non-essential activity is suspended until trajectory is recovered.”

Vorbis-version:

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In practice, you’re making sure future captains can’t politically vote away orbital mechanics.

===== You need a Vorbis-like institutional role whose job is: =====
* Guard the ephemeris and constraints.
* Block decisions that would trade long-term navigation for short-term comfort.
* Audit: - fuel reserves - timing margins - depot health

Call it whatever you like: Order of Trajectories, Office of Alignment, etc., but functionally:
* They are mission zealots.
* Their job is to say “no” when the rest of the ship wants to drift.

Practical content:
* Charter with veto rights over: - course changes that jeopardize next rendezvous - resource allocations that compromise depot maintenance

===== Vorbis understands this: if you want something to persist for centuries, you ritualize it. =====

For a generational comet-refuel ship:
* Docking rehearsals become annual rites.
* The updating of orbital elements becomes a major calendar event.
* Simulated “missed rendezvous” drills become high-stakes communal tests.

Why?

Because habit and ritual survive when explanations are forgotten.
You want a culture where:

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Even when nobody can fully derive the orbital math anymore, the ship still hits its windows.

That’s Vorbis energy used for something rational.