Civilization taxonomy
Six object classes recovered from the market substrate.
Object class and palette house are separate records. A Containment Core can belong to the Pale Archive; a Buried Monolith can carry reactor material. Culture crosses form.
Recovered object classes
Six artifact families. Six ways market history becomes sacred damage.
Forbidden relic
Abyssal Idol
Sealed below the Black Liquidity record.
Priest-machine infrastructure
Ritual Machine
Maintained by civic orders until the Flood register ended.
Ceremonial computation crystal
Sacred Shard
Public-facing artifacts kept in high ritual light.
Fossilized intelligence
Living Archive
Recovered from sealed organism shrines after the Archive Collapse.
Archive tomb
Buried Monolith
Filed as civic burial infrastructure, not sculpture.
Forbidden reactor vessel
Containment Core
Pressure vessels whose purpose remains classified.