Global Indicators
Global indicators are not decorative progress bars. They are the public language Mission Control uses to show how thousands of sector decisions are changing CT-03. Each indicator should imply a tradeoff, a delay, and a possible faction argument.
Core Indicators
- Ecological stability: whether imported systems and native traces can coexist without collapse.
- Atmospheric suitability: whether air processing is moving toward safe exposure windows.
- Water-cycle integrity: whether water is moving through evaporation, condensation, storage, and runoff instead of remaining isolated inventory.
- Soil activity: whether treated soil can support controlled growth without masking unknown chemistry.
- Energy supply: whether sectors can survive storms, night cycles, and infrastructure growth.
- Pollution pressure: whether rapid industry is producing costs that later sectors must absorb.
- Population capacity: whether the First Generation can be supported without turning them into a reward counter.
- Research progress: whether uncertainty is being reduced before irreversible work.
- Civic trust: whether Operators and the First Generation accept the rules that govern allocation.
- AI coordination index: whether CRADLE-0 can safely coordinate without overreaching.
Planet Page Use
The `/planet` surface should use these indicators as a cycle snapshot. It can show current value, recent direction, source summary, and the next consequence, but it should not imply live MMO synchronization or a solved global state.
For the Seedfall Demo, the most important public pair is water-cycle integrity versus pollution pressure. If water improves through dirty emergency work, Mission Control should show the improvement and the debt together.
Display Rule
Every public indicator needs a source, a recent direction, and a consequence. If a value rises, the text should still explain what pressure it creates somewhere else.
