Observe it. Cleanse it. Or light a Black Sun.

Summary
Some planets grow kindness. Others grow teeth. When scouts flag a red garden, the Eclipse Codex decides the fate: study from orbit, cut it out at the roots, or—if it can’t be caged—ignite a Black Sun and lace the sky with warning beacons for a hundred cycles.

What Is the Eclipse Codex?

It’s the playbook crews carry when a world pushes back. The Codex turns first‑contact chaos into numbers, tags the threat’s nature, and picks one of three outcomes: Aegis Observe, Cleanse/Terminate, or Black Sun. Simple ladder. Brutal clarity.

The KAMI Matrix (four dials, 0–5)

Every hostile entity is scored on four axes. Read it left to right: K–A–M–I.

• K — Killability (can we end it?)
  0 trivial • 1 standard arms • 2 specialist team • 3 theater assets • 4 colony‑class ordnance only • 5 returns/unkillable

• A — Aggression/Spread (how fast does it take ground?)
  0 inert • 1 territorial • 2 migratory • 3 planetary • 4 off‑world vectors • 5 interstellar replication

• M — Memetic/Psychic Hazard (does thinking about it break you?)
  0 none • 1 suggestive • 2 compulsion • 3 identity drift • 4 cognition collapse • 5 civilization‑scale rewrite

• I — Intelligence/Negotiability (can we reason or bargain?)
  0 animal • 1 patterned • 2 tool‑using • 3 sapient • 4 super‑organism • 5 godlike/opaque

How to read it: K3‑A2‑M1‑I2 / TAGS (spoken as “K‑three, A‑two…”)

Vector Tags (what it is)

Append one or more to the code:
BIO (biologic) • SYN (synthetic) • NANO (nanostorm) • MEME (pure infohazard) • PARA (paracosmic/phase) • VEIL (emotive predation; Crimson Veil signature) • CHOIR (counter‑predator trace; Pale Choir interest)

Examples: K2‑A3‑M1‑I1 / BIO • K5‑A4‑M4‑I3 / PARA+MEME

Disposition Ladder (what we do)

AEGIS OBSERVE — watch & quarantine

Trigger: K ≤ 2 and A ≤ 2 and M ≤ 1
Action: orbital cordon, probes, no colonists. Pale Choir auditors embedded.
Goal: learn without touching.

CLEANSE/TERMINATE — remove the entity

Trigger: (K ≤ 3 and A ≤ 3 and M ≤ 2) or imminent loss of a settlement.
Action: strike teams, localized burn; memory‑scrub counseling for survivors.
Goal: save the world; prune the threat.

BLACK SUN — planetary sterilization

Trigger: A ≥ 4 or M ≥ 3 or K ≥ 4 with replication evidence.
Action: star‑shade ignition or aerosol glassing; beacon lattice deployed; system interdicted 100 cycles.
Goal: keep the rest of the map alive.

Human override: If I ≥ 3 and a treaty holds for 90 cycles, downgrade one step. Break terms once—escalate without a second call.

Field Files (public abstracts)

Antumbra‑4 — “Glass Orchard”
K2‑A2‑M1‑I2 / BIO → AEGIS OBSERVE
Crystal pollinators entrained by EM bands; calm when music is broadcast at 432–444 Hz. Romantic—until the song stops.

Ravel‑β — “The Borrowed Sea”
K3‑A3‑M2‑I1 / NANO → CLEANSE/TERMINATE
Tide‑bound nanofog eats metals nightly. Strikes land at low thermal flux; sunrises taste like ozone and regret.

Hush‑13 — “Library of Mouths”
K5‑A4‑M4‑I3 / PARA+MEME → BLACK SUN
Spoken phrases alter memory parity. Crews returned fluent in languages no one wrote. System sealed; beacons hum like monks.

Kurohana‑7 — “Veilhouse Markets”
K2‑A1‑M3‑I4 / VEIL → AEGIS OBSERVE (Treaty)
Emotion‑siphon dens under Crimson Veil control. Pale Choir audits identities; drift held below 0.7%—barely.

Why the Pale Choir Cares

To the Choir, predation of memory is a war crime, even when it feels like love. They push VEIL cases toward Cleanse unless treaties keep identity‑drift within acceptable bounds. The Veil calls them zealots. The Choir calls it housekeeping.