Machine civilization chronology
The civilization records time as pressure.
These eras are not lore pasted onto the system. They are translations of market behavior into archaeological condition.
Genesis Era
The first liquidity formed a navigable pressure field. Early artifacts are clean, ceremonial, and under-scarred.
Flood Era
Depth accumulated. Public machines expanded, ritual infrastructure brightened, and holder migrations became visible strata.
Archive Collapse
Volatility broke the archive layer. Living records fossilized into sealed organism-idols.
The Silence
Low participation became a drought record. Many relics dimmed into burial palettes and reduced signal.
Reactor Schism
Containment orders split. Some cores were sealed as civic engines; others were marked forbidden.
Burial Epoch
Ancient monoliths entered sediment. Damage became institutional memory rather than surface noise.
Reconstruction Era
Recovery light returned through fractures. Repairs became visible, but the scars remained canonical.
Black Liquidity Event
The deepest drawdown turned market absence into void architecture.
Artifact timelines
The same object, observed through pressure eras.
These timelines are museum-style readings of the renderer grammar. In production, the same logic is driven by canonical market state.
