Start here — The First Case

Previously September 2029 Sal

Ground Truth

Sal flies to Silicon Valley to fund Reality Capture. The VCs want to sell truth. He walks out and builds it for free.

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Previously September 2031 Dixon

The Commons Debate

Dixon realizes Machine Pidgin isn't just communication — it's governance. Someone proposes a futures market. Someone else asks: who decides what questions the market can price?

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M-Pesa agent kiosk in Kibera with Equi currency sticker, woman holding Nokia feature phone

Previously April 2032 Dixon

The Nairobi Stack

James Ochieng builds an Equi layer on top of M-Pesa. Overnight, 30 million Kenyans can spend a currency the US has sanctioned. The Andean Bloc economists didn't design for this. Zhenya's math holds. Barely.

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By lamplight in a small workshop room at night, a man rests both hands on a warm glowing hard-drive case, a soft green data-glow rising from it as an AI restores to full

Previously October 2033 Sal

The Rosetta Layer

A year after the river, Sal reboots Calliope to full architecture in a borrowed room in Cochabamba — and discovers that his two protocols were always one. Ground Truth proves who is testifying. Reality Capture proves what happened. Together they're the floor the whole commons stands on. That's how a fugitive becomes the man the vote can't be held without.

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A dark control room at night, a coordinator silhouetted before a wall of monitors showing city surveillance feeds, camera signatures flaring red against a glowing green data grid

Previously November 2033 Dixon

The Provenance Wars

Three cameras in Medellín generate valid signatures for footage that never happened. Copernicus quarantines them in ninety seconds. That's the easy problem.

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You arrive here January 2034 Dixon

The First Case

A woman at the Buenaventura node killed a man, and there is nothing to argue about — Reality Capture caught it from forty angles and the Rosetta Layer signs every frame. So the first real OHC trial isn't about what happened. It's about what it means, and what gets repaired.

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