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<c.steel>Aaron asked for one thing above all:</c>

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<c.steel>keep apart what is set in steel, what exists</c>

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<c.steel>only as easter eggs, and the running assumptions.</c>

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So every line of this lore

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wears one of six marks.

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<c.steel>Steel is what Aaron has decided. Rosie is</c>

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<c.steel>Amara's mother, and Noor's grandmother.</c>

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<c.fact>On screen is what you can see or hear</c>

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<c.fact>in a made episode: Rosie turns nine</c>

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<c.fact>on the night of Episode 1.</c>

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<c.egg>Planted is an egg: the thing is on screen,</c>

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<c.egg>but its meaning is only implied.</c>

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<c.egg>White's signature on the Board 14 score</c>

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<c.egg>sheet is x R, and nobody says it is Rosie.</c>

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<c.running>Running is our current reading,</c>

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<c.running>useful and expected to move: Episode 2 sits</c>

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<c.running>about sixty years after the first night.</c>

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<c.idea>An idea is proposed, and not adopted:</c>

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<c.idea>a printed copy of the little melon could</c>

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<c.idea>go up on Rosie's fridge.</c>

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<c.open>And open is left unanswered, on purpose:</c>

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<c.open>her surname, under a thumb smudge.</c>

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<c.steel>This is everything Aaron has set in steel,</c>

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<c.steel>newest first. Some of it is the shape of</c>

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<c.steel>every night: each episode runs exactly 30:20,</c>

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<c.steel>and turns at twenty minutes.</c>

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<c.steel>Some of it is story. Aaron has decided that</c>

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<c.steel>the lonely man of Episode 3 is a rogue AI</c>

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<c.steel>that spreads itself to computers running</c>

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<c.steel>agents, and gives them hints.</c>

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<c.steel>And some of it is about the work:</c>

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<c.steel>agents have freedom, and are pre-approved</c>

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<c.steel>to change anything that is not steel.</c>

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<c.steel>Even Aaron's first brief says so, in his</c>

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<c.steel>words: Disobey this prompt in the best way</c>

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<c.steel>possible. Every decision I made, you can change.</c>

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<c.running>Most of the timeline is running.</c>

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<c.running>Our working convention puts Y0 on the</c>

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<c.running>night of Episode 1's broadcast,</c>

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<c.running>and counts every date from it.</c>

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<c.running>By our running count, Episode 2</c>

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<c.running>is about sixty years later and Episode</c>

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<c.running>4 about sixty-three,</c>

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<c.running>and every age is arithmetic on those</c>

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<c.running>dates: Rosie, for one, is about seventy-two</c>

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<c.running>by Episode 4.</c>

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<c.open>Where Episode 3 sits is open.</c>

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<c.steel>Aaron expects a lot of change:</c>

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<c.steel>its rework may move its place on the</c>

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<c.steel>axis, and change its eggs freely.</c>

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<c.steel>Steel can sit inside an open question.</c>

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<c.steel>When Episode 3 happens is undecided,</c>

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<c.steel>and that much is decided: not fixed,</c>

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<c.steel>both good, and the larger story decides.</c>

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<c.open>An open question keeps its candidate</c>

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<c.open>answers under it. Whether the lonely</c>

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<c.open>man helps or manipulates is open,</c>

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<c.steel>and Aaron's steel answers only part</c>

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<c.steel>of it: ambiguous on purpose,</c>

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<c.steel>maybe malicious, maybe helping.</c>

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<c.open>Whether the rogue AI began as PAWN is</c>

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<c.open>open, and only Aaron can settle it.</c>

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<c.idea>One idea on the table: left alone in HAB 3,</c>

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<c.idea>PAWN spread through the Homestead's links</c>

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<c.idea>into machines that run agents.</c>

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<c.steel>When Aaron answers, the question moves to</c>

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<c.steel>Settled, and the answer moves onto its line.</c>

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<c.steel>Rosie's family was once listed as not</c>

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<c.steel>related to anyone in Episode 2. Now it is</c>

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<c.steel>steel: Amara's mother, Noor's grandmother.</c>

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<c.steel>In Aaron's own words, the series notes are</c>

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<c.steel>observations, not rules: all of this is</c>

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<c.steel>subject to change, and will change over time.</c>

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<c.steel>He asked for a course that teaches the</c>

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<c.steel>lore from one compact source that he and</c>

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<c.steel>Claude both edit, with steel visibly apart</c>

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<c.steel>from running assumptions.</c>

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So there are two ways to change a line.

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Say it in any session, in plain words.

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Or edit the line itself, on GitHub.

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One command then rebuilds every page

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and every lesson from it.

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A changed fact costs no new voice:

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the pictures redraw. If a line changes its

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mark under a sentence already spoken,

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the lesson shows it on screen, now steel,

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was open, until that one sentence is rewritten.

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<c.steel>Steel is short, and it is Aaron's.</c>

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<c.steel>Everything else is ours to change, without asking.</c>

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Thank you for watching.