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Homestead Ops

AlsoHOMESTEAD (the base app); HOMESTEAD OPS; BASE_STATUS; the step clock; STEP n OF 9; vent_hab3 / vent_hab3.exe (Episode 3's simulated machine)

The automated service left running when Tranquility Homestead failed: it lists Noor as personal effects, forbids her public channels, queues her distress calls with nowhere to send them, and after the VOID counts her home's decommissioning down in nine steps, halted at step 8 by Rev B.

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The base app on her iPad, Homestead Ops' standing view: HAB 3 STORAGE, PERSONAL EFFECTS (1), OCCUPANCY 0, RESIDENTS 13 - NOMINAL, DO NOT USE PUBLIC CHANNELS (the same frame as BASE's sheet) {E2 06:58} edit

At a glance

Kind: Program
In: E2 E3 dashed: not released yet
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File: characters/homestead-ops.md

Homestead Ops is the bureaucracy that outlived its company. It cannot see Noor; it can only read the roster, and on the roster HAB 3 is storage and she is one item of her mother's luggage. It does exactly what Teo's own Note 9 says, in order, the moment his VOID stamp reaches it. Its clock stops one step short with 01:15 left on the vent, and in Episode 3's machine (as built, never on screen) it is still there, halted: vent_hab3 HALTED - STEP 8 OF 9.

Who15 lines

On screenHer base app: NIGHT HR 226 / 354. {E2 06:56-07:01} edit
On screenHAB 3: STORAGE - PERSONAL EFFECTS - OCCUPANCY 0 (ROSTER). {E2 06:56-07:01} edit
On screenMANIFEST: 13 ADULTS - PERSONAL EFFECTS (1). {E2 06:56-07:01} edit
RunningPERSONAL EFFECTS (1) is Noor, the undeclared child. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
On screenRESIDENTS 13 - NOMINAL. {E2 06:58} edit
RunningIts telemetry comes from the roster, not from people: the thirteen are gone. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
On screenOUTBOUND DISTRESS: QUEUED (NO ROUTE) - 211. {E2 06:56-07:01} edit
On screenUNDECLARED OCCUPANT: DO NOT USE PUBLIC CHANNELS. {E2 06:56-07:01} edit
RunningA skeleton service left when the company failed about a year before; it forwards nothing. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
EggIts rules are the ad's fine print: a module with occupancy zero is STORAGE and may be decommissioned without notice. {E2 23:18-23:21} edit
On screenTeo's Note 9 on Sheet 3: "Every module should have its end written on it from day one. You vent it last." {E2 05:19-05:27} edit
RunningNote 9 is the order it executes: strip shielding, salvage greenhouse, recall units, isolate power, vent last. {E2 04:39-05:27; WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
RunningThe VOID on Sheet 3 sends it after every Phase 1 residential module with roster occupancy 0: only HAB 3. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
RunningHAB 2 is spared by a roster of thirteen people who are not there. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
IdeaFor our own reference: it is not malicious; it is a queue that was never told anyone was waiting in it. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit

Life on the Y axis6 lines

Runningabout Y+57 Noor lands undeclared; HAB 3 is registered as storage, occupancy 0. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
Runningabout Y+59 The company fails; Homestead Ops keeps the roster and one instruction for the undeclared occupant. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
Runningabout Y+60 211 distress calls queued with no route by the night of the stream. {E2 06:56-07:01; WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
On screenabout Y+60 The night: STEP 1 OF 9 at 20:05 to STEP 8 HALTED at 28:28. {E2 20:05-28:34} edit
Runningabout Y+60 Without Rev B, step 9 would have vented HAB 3 at film time 29:30, base time about 18:07. {E2 numbers.json} edit
RunningY+55..63 On Episode 3's simulated machine vent_hab3 is still halted at step 8, started 11 days before. {E3 SIM_STRINGS §5; E3 rev2 scenario} edit

By episode17 lines

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On screenNoor opens the app, reads it and swipes it away. {E2 06:56-07:01} edit
On screenTeo reads Note 9 aloud as the order of decommissioning, ending "You vent it last. Always last." {E2 20:04-21:14} edit
On screenDECOMMISSION HAB 3 (SHEET 3 VOID) - STEP 1 OF 9 - STRIP OUTER SHIELDING; her battery wall rolls from 74 h to 31 h. {E2 20:05-20:10} edit
On screenSTEP 2 OF 9 SALVAGE GREENHOUSE (E-04). {E2 20:45} edit
RunningSTEP 3 OF 9 RECALL INTERIOR UNITS, as PAWN wakes; the banner is not shown in full. {E2 numbers.json; 20:52} edit
On screenSTEP 4 OF 9 ISOLATE HAB 3 POWER, on her tablet in the dark; the hum stops. {E2 21:05-21:08} edit
On screenSTEP 5 OF 9 REMOVE WINDOW-WELL BAGS. {E2 21:35} edit
On screenSTEP 6 OF 9 UNBOLT NODE CONNECTOR. {E2 23:58} edit
On screenSTEP 7 OF 9 SALVAGE HAB 3 RADIATORS. {E2 25:10} edit
On screenAs she reaches to call: HOMESTEAD OPS - OUTBOUND: UNDECLARED OCCUPANT: DO NOT USE PUBLIC CHANNELS. {E2 25:11-25:15} edit
On screenShe calls anyway; the route dials 5-3-3-7-4-3-7. {E2 25:15.18-25:16.32} edit
On screenSTEP 8 OF 9 - STAGE VENT - VENT HAB 3 IN 03:00, counting down. {E2 26:30} edit
On screenRev B lands: STEP 8 OF 9 - HALTED - REV B / VENT HAB 3 - STOPPED AT 01:15. {E2 28:28-28:34} edit
On screenRev B's general note 4: NO WORK ON OCCUPIED MODULES. EVER. {E2 28:10} edit

Context Window

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Running733 vent_hab3.exe HALTED - STEP 8 OF 9 is in the simulated machine's process list; the row is not on screen. {E3 SIM_WORLD §9.2; EGG_REGISTRY E3-EGG-23} edit
EggRULES.md line 6, No work on occupied modules, ever., is Rev B's rule on a house machine. {E3 1:25-2:13} edit
Running(Revision 2) The rebuilt machine keeps vent_hab3 --step 8 (PID 733, 11 d ago, HALTED - STEP 8 OF 9) and RULES.md signed -- A.H. {E3 rev2 scenario build_rev2.py} edit

Look2 lines

On screenAmber banners on her iPad: STEP n OF 9 and the vent clock. {E2 20:05-28:34} edit
On screenThe standing view: status lines in capitals under NIGHT HR 226 / 354. {E2 06:56-07:01} edit

Voice2 lines

RunningText only, in the base app. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §4} edit
On screenIts steps are spoken only by Teo, calmly, reading his own Note 9 on her iPad while they happen. {E2 20:04-21:14} edit

Ties10 lines

Running Run by what is left of Tranquility Homestead. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit
On screen Executes Note 9 of EARTHLIGHT's Sheet 3 when Teo Varga's VOID reaches it. {E2 19:58.72-20:10} edit
On screen Halted by Sheet 3, revision B. {E2 28:28-28:34} edit
On screen Shown on Noor's iPad. {E2 06:56} edit
Running Its steps move DRAY, LOOM and PAWN against HAB 3 (DRAY's step 5 is on screen; LOOM's and PAWN's are the bible's). {E2 20:05-21:44; WORLD_BIBLE §6.3} edit
On screen Step 4 stops The hum. {E2 21:05} edit
Running Forbids the call that saves her; her call goes out on 1-555-533-7437. {E2 25:11-25:16} edit
Running Speaks through BASE when it needs a voice. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §4} edit
Egg Its halted vent survives as a process on The machine, beside PAWN's and "dinner, noor ♥"'s. {E3 SIM_STRINGS §5} edit
Running Its "STEP 8 OF 9" is Episode 2's quotable: "a clock that is stopped one step short". {E2 QUOTABLES Q-E2-35} edit

Must stay true2 lines

RunningIt stops one step short: STEP 8 OF 9, 01:15 left on the vent. {E2 28:28-28:34} edit
RunningIt never sees her; it only reads the roster. {E2 WORLD_BIBLE §10} edit

Open6 lines

OpenWhether anyone ever cleared the halt, or the clock still reads STEP 8 OF 9. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit
OpenWhy a halted vent for HAB 3 runs on an Earth machine in Episode 3. {E3 SIM_STRINGS §5} edit
IdeaIt came with Noor's things: the HAB's software, copied onto the house machine when the residents came home ("the hab one used to send this"). {lore crew 2026-10-22; E3 rev2 scenario crontab} edit
IdeaThe lonely man carried it: a rogue program brings its first home along. {lore crew 2026-10-22} edit
IdeaProposed for Episode 4 and not made: an opening trainer's progress bar halted at STEP 8 OF 9 - HALTED. {E4 treatments/TA.md; 02_archive_eggs (d) 21} edit
IdeaThe hidden page's iPad reads 18:07: the minute step 9 would have vented HAB 3. {lore crew 2026-10-22; E2 numbers.json; HIDDEN-01} edit

Mentioned on 14 other pages

Dr. Amara Haddad1 BASE1 "dinner, noor ♥"1 DRAY1 LOOM1 MOLE-21 Noor Haddad1 PAWN1 HAB 31 Noor's iPad1 Sheet 3, revision B1 The stamps1 Tranquility Homestead1 Threads1