# Input, Save/Load, and Simulation: Runtime Roots, Camera, and Support Families ### Runtime Roots and Cadence - Roots: the shell controller window-message ingress `shell_controller_window_message_dispatch` at `0x0054e3a0`, the shell input-state object initialized at `0x006d4018` through `shell_input_state_init` `0x0054e710`, the saved-world restore path `world_load_saved_runtime_state_bundle` at `0x00446d40`, the live-world save path `world_runtime_serialize_smp_bundle` at `0x00446240`, `world_entry_transition_and_runtime_bringup` at `0x00443a50`, the frame-owned cadence `simulation_frame_accumulate_and_step_world` at `0x00439140`, the recurring `GameMessage.win` service branch through `game_message_window_service_if_present` `0x004e0720`, the world-facing `GameUppermost.win` overlay branch ensured by `shell_ensure_game_uppermost_window` `0x004e0e40` and serviced through `game_uppermost_window_service_world_hotspot_band` `0x004e0780`, and the lower step family rooted at `simulation_advance_to_target_calendar_point` `0x0040ab50` with periodic branches through `simulation_service_periodic_boundary_work` `0x0040a590`. - Trigger/Cadence: shell-side input is event-driven by controller-window `WM_*` traffic while save or load work is triggered either directly from shell commands or through the `fileopt.win` branch flags into the `.smp` runtime-state family; post-bring-up world service becomes recurring once a world root exists at `0x0062c120`, but the current grounded top-level cadence still remains the shell-owned `shell_service_pump_iteration` path, which calls `simulation_frame_accumulate_and_step_world` directly and lets it accumulate elapsed wall-clock time into one or more simulation-step quanta. A second ingress is now bounded too: `simulation_run_chunked_fast_forward_burst` at `0x00437b20` repeatedly calls the same lower stepper `simulation_advance_to_target_calendar_point`, but current grounded callers put that helper inside the larger post-load generation pipeline `world_run_post_load_generation_pipeline` at `0x004384d0` under the `Seeding Economy...` phase rather than under the ordinary player-facing speed buttons. That setup pipeline is now clearer at the progress-banner level too: on the fuller setup path it first runs one preliminary named-candidate availability prepass through `0x00437737` before any visible progress banner is posted. One startup-side selector edge is tighter now too: `shell_active_mode_run_profile_startup_and_load_dispatch` `0x00438890` reaches an early selector-`2` branch at `0x00438a66..0x00438c00` that refreshes one support-family type-`7` record from setup path buffer `0x006d1370` through `0x0053d130`, strips the basename extension into a local label buffer, briefly drops the nested mouse-cursor hold through `0x0053f310`, builds three progress-text payloads, and re-enters the hold through `0x0053f2f0` before the common world-root bring-up continues. After that, localized id `318` `Computing Transportation and Pricing...` stays visible while the pipeline runs `world_compute_transport_and_pricing_grid` `0x0044fb70`, the early collection-owned staging pass `world_rebuild_secondary_raster_derived_surface_and_companion_planes_in_rect` `0x0044e940`, `structure_candidate_collection_run_post_load_local_service_setup_phase` `0x0041ea50`, and the conditional region pair `world_region_collection_seed_default_regions` `0x00421b60` plus `world_region_collection_refresh_neighbor_and_profile_bands` `0x00420f30`. One save-load-side status-stack strip is now tighter too: `0x004422d0/0x00442330` push and pop the low bytes of the same four shell lanes `[0x006cec74+0x140/+0x13c/+0x138/+0x144]` plus startup byte `[0x006cec78+0x4c74]` through the local stack `0x0062be90` with depth `0x0062bedc`, and the paired wrappers `0x004423a0/0x004423d0` bracket that same band while also servicing the live TrackLay.win and StationPlace.win tool objects through `0x0050e070`, `0x00507a50`, `0x0050a530`, and `0x0050e1e0`. The live `.smp` serializer uses the higher pair, while the neighboring world-entry branch `0x00443a50` and non-`.smp` package-save tail under `shell_map_file_world_bundle_coordinator` `0x00445de0` now show the raw split explicitly. `0x00443a50` calls `0x004422d0` at `0x444e2c`, services TrackLay.win and StationPlace.win entry-side helpers through `0x444e3b/0x444e4a`, then later calls `0x00442330` at `0x444ecb` and services the recurring tool frames through `0x444eda/0x444ee9`. The package-save tail similarly calls `0x00442330` directly at `0x00445a55` and then services StationPlace.win and TrackLay.win at `0x00445a64/0x00445a73` without re-entering `0x004423d0`. So the save/load-side tool choreography is no longer one uniform wrapper path across world-entry, package-save, and `.smp` branches, and current local evidence does not show `0x00446d40` itself directly re-entering either the raw pair or the higher wrapper pair. `world_region_border_overlay_rebuild` `0x004882e0`. The transport/pricing side is tighter now too: `0x0044fb70` first routes one null-build path through the preview ensure wrapper `0x0044faf0`, whose deeper worker `0x0044f840` allocates a default target through `0x00534930`, seeds five palette entries through `0x0051de10`, maps each target pixel back into the live secondary raster through `0x00533970/0x00533980`, uses the low-3-bit class split plus a local `+/-4` neighborhood and `0x0051db80` to choose the preview color, and only then re-enters `0x0044e940` on the full rectangle. The later `322` side is tighter now too: the top owner `0x0044d410` rejects while generation counter `[world+0x2205]` is live or when `0x00449e90` cannot supply a surviving work rect, then forwards that rect into `0x005374d0`, `0x00533e70`, and `0x00537010`, notifies the shell owner at `0x0062be68`, and refreshes neighboring region or manager companions through `0x00421f50`, `0x00461770`, and `0x00415340`. `0x00421f50` itself is now bounded as the narrow class-0 side of that refresh: it scans the live region collection for class-0 records whose normalized coordinates fall inside the caller-supplied float rectangle and republishes each surviving region's current-position triplet through `0x00455a70(0)`. The local companion-float strip under that same owner is tighter now too: `0x0044d4e0` and `0x0044d6e0` are sibling five-pass cross-neighbor relaxers over `[world+0x1605]`; both clamp the caller rectangle, average the four cardinal neighbors, subtract the current sample, scale the delta by one fixed coefficient and caller gain, and then feed the surviving rectangle back into `0x0044d410`. The first helper only checks raster bit `0x01` in `[world+0x2135]`, while the second adds the tighter acceptance gate `0x004499c0` and can skip the final `0x0044d410` tail when its caller disables that refresh. Their center-biased sibling `0x0044d880` is now bounded too: it seeds one baseline from the current center sample when its caller gain is positive, expands one square neighborhood by radius, and raises surrounding cells toward that baseline through the same `0x0051dc00` falloff model before tailing into `0x0044d410`. The local peak-oriented sibling `0x0044da70` then raises one clamped square neighborhood by quantized local maxima and on its optional branch also consults `0x00534f00` before keeping the larger peak. So the `0x0044d4e0/0x0044d6e0/0x0044d880/0x0044da70` band now reads as the local companion-float refinement layer immediately beneath the shared `Calculating Heights...` owner rather than a set of unrelated scalar writes. The default-region side is tighter too: one earlier class-0-only helper `0x0041fb00` now sits directly under that same family too: it skips nonzero `[region+0x23e]` records, rounds the region center through `0x00455800/0x00455810/0x005a10d0`, stamps one orientation-dependent local secondary-overlay pattern through `0x00534e10` plus `0x004497a0`, and then runs one bounded scored refinement pass through `0x0051db80`, `0x00534040`, `0x005340a0`, `0x00534100`, and `0x00533fe0`. The finalizer `0x00421730` then clears the per-cell region word at `[world+0x212d] + cell*4 + 1` across the full live world raster, seeds each live region's cached bounds fields, and repopulates that same raster by writing the nearest class-0 region id `[region+0x23a]` into empty or weaker cell slots from one bounded center-and-radius sweep. The region-profile side is tighter too: `0x0041f940` counts only the current subcollection entries whose backing candidates pass `0x0041f998`, and that smaller predicate now has one real content split instead of staying anonymous. Candidates whose subtype byte is not `2` pass immediately, while subtype-2 candidates only pass when either availability word `[candidate+0xba]` or runtime recipe latch `[candidate+0x7ac]` is nonzero; `0x00412af0/0x00412b70` now ground the lookup step beneath both counters as a casefolded profile-label-to-candidate resolver over the global candidate pool `0x0062b268`; and the stricter year-filtered counter `0x0041f9b0` then stacks the subtype and `[candidate+0x26] <= max_year` gates on top of that same availability test. Two adjacent collection helpers are grounded now too. `0x0041fa30` linearly scans the same region profile collection `[region+0x37f]`, compares labels through `0x005a57cf`, and returns profile-weight float `[entry+0x1e]` from the first casefolded match or the shared zero float when none match; `0x0041fac0` resolves one 1-based ordinal out of that same collection and copies both the matched profile label and weight `[entry+0x1e]` to caller-owned outputs. Those reads line up with the editor copy-industry mutator `0x004206b0`, which already treats `[entry+0x1e]` as the live editable profile-weight lane. That border pass is now tighter too: the outer owner refreshes the companion region set `0x006cfc9c` through the reset-and-assign wrapper `0x00487650` above the heavier record initializer `0x00487540`, then re-enters `0x004881b0` to refresh the raw per-region cell-count band from the live world raster, and the inner emitter `0x00487de0` clears prior chunked segment queues through `0x00533cf0`, scans the live region raster, and appends fresh border-segment records through `0x00536ea0`. The lower presentation helper strip under the same owner is now explicit too: `0x00533970/0x00533980` query the cached world-grid X/Y maxima, `0x00533990` stores the secondary-overlay shift field `[world+0x15e1]`, `0x005339a0` builds one plane equation from three XYZ points, and `0x00533a30` uses the same three-point patch to solve one sampled height at caller-supplied `(x,z)`, `0x00533ae0/0x00533af0/0x00533b00` expose the secondary-raster and companion byte-raster roots, and `0x00533b20/0x00533b30/0x00533b70/0x00533b90` expose the normalized coordinate, strip-offset, and sample-triplet tables used by shell-side overlay staging. The adjacent queue side is tighter now too: `0x00533bc0/0x00533bd0/0x00533be0` are the direct append, remove, and root getters for shell queue `[this+0x166d]`; `0x00533bf0/0x00533c20` are the cell-addressed attach/detach helpers over nearby-presentation table `[this+0x1671]`; `0x00533c50/0x00533c70/0x00533ca0` do the same for the region-border overlay chunk table `[this+0x1679]`; and `0x00533dd0/0x00533e00` are the matching geographic-label cell-table attach/detach wrappers over `[this+0x1675]`. The downstream layout-state staging side is bounded now too: `0x005454c0` snapshots the current slot-triplet table into the history list `[layout+0x259f]`, `0x00545520` is the optional per-slot item-binding setter over `[layout+0x2593]`, normalizing mismatched item mode tokens through `0x005435d0` before publishing node property slot `+0xf4` on `[layout+0x25df]`, and `0x00548940` is the paired seeded-triplet applier that walks the temporary `0x18`-byte record list at `[layout+0x259b]` and forwards both triplet halves into `0x005455e0/0x005456d0` for the first `N` destination slots. The neighboring probe strip is bounded now too: `0x00548820` seeds every live slot to the fixed triplet pattern `(1,2,1)` in both triplet halves, `0x005488a0` snapshots the current slot-triplet table into that same seeded list and can immediately re-apply it, while `0x005489f0` uses literal `TextureForTests` to run one layout-side binding probe whose boolean result is later mirrored into shell capability bytes `[0x006d4024+0x114250/+0x114251]`. The setup-side owner over that same strip is bounded now too: `0x0055ddc0` chooses one small resolution tier from shell dimensions `[0x006d4024+0x11423b/+0x11423f]`, seeds a sequence of fixed slot-triplet patterns, snapshots the resulting tables into local probe handles, and then drives the same `TextureForTests` probe to populate shell capability bytes `[0x006d4024+0x114250/+0x114251]`. The broader lifecycle side is bounded too: `0x00547610` is the one-shot publisher for cached bound-node pair `[layout+0x2607/+0x260b]`, `0x00547640` clears that publish gate again, `0x00542c10` is the shell-side sweep that releases the active global layout-cache entries rooted at `0x00ccbb2c`, `0x0054be60` exports the live `0x72c`-byte preset table `[layout+0x840]` into the global default cache `0x00ccbb68` and refreshes the shell-side state, `0x00548c50` is the pre-release cleanup owner for history list `[layout+0x259f]`, seeded list `[layout+0x259b]`, and optional slot bindings `[layout+0x2593]`, `0x0054a190` is the broader bound-presentation release body that drops the same node and controller slot `[0x006d4024+0x08]`, `0x005463e0` and `0x005465c0` are the two adjacent notice-emitting handle-bank cleanup strips beneath it, with `0x005463e0` now grounded as the five-handle midband release set `[layout+0x260f/+0x2617/+0x261f/+0x2627/+0x262f]`, and `0x00547650` is the capability-gated property-strip owner over the bound node plus auxiliary handles `[layout+0x2623/+0x2633]`, while the small adjacent helper `0x00546390` now reads as the apply-or-reject bridge that asks shell helper `0x0051f0f0` to resolve one intermediate object from a caller resource plus bound-node pair `[layout+0x25df]` and then forwards that object into bound owner `[layout+0x25db]` through slot `+0x3c`, returning success when the owner accepts it, `0x005478a0` is the trig-derived alternate property strip over `[layout+0x261b/+0x262b]`, `0x00547c30` is the shared four-scalar publisher that stores local band `[layout+0x36df/+0x36e3/+0x36e7/+0x36eb]` and emits the derived property-`0x07` block, `0x00546d40` is the descriptor-publish helper fed by local scalar bands `[layout+0x2517..+0x25ff]` plus seeded handle `[layout+0x36fd]`, and the lower bind/publish strip is bounded now too: `0x005471f0` is the shared table-bind helper that chooses node property `0x112` or `0x142` by record size and can also publish one companion dword through property `0x154`; `0x005472a0/0x00547300` are the clear/publish helpers for property `0x1b`; `0x005472c0/0x005472f0` are the adjacent shell-flag-driven set/clear helpers for local byte `[layout+0x36f8]`; `0x00547320/0x00547380` are the capability-gated apply/clear helpers for the `0x0f/0x18/0x19` property strip; `0x00546760/0x00546780` are the two tiny caller-driven publishers for property `0x07` and property `0x09 = caller + 1`; `0x00548030/0x00548060` are the two adjacent fixed property-pair setters for `0x13/0x14 = 1/6` and `0x13/0x14 = 5/6`; `0x00544270` is the tiny scalar-pair store into `[layout+0x25ef/+0x25f3]`, `0x00544360` is the identity-reset publisher for local descriptor `[layout+0x34ef]`, `0x00544290` is the sibling descriptor publisher for `[layout+0x352f]` from one integer span pair, `0x005443b0` is the copy-side sibling that republishes one incoming descriptor payload from caller offset `+0xce`, and `0x00544450` is the tiny query-and-optional-clear helper for local flag byte `[layout+0x36f7]`. The next local recompose strip is bounded now too: `0x005443f0` exports the current `0x33ab` handle pair plus one auxiliary band into caller record payload offsets `+0xce/+0x10e/+0x14e`, `0x00544470` recomposes local blocks `[layout+0x356f/+0x362f/+0x35af/+0x33ef]` from the adjacent descriptor blocks through the shared matrix-style helpers `0x0056d3cd`, `0x0056d616`, and `0x0056d8d9`, `0x00544500` is the sibling recompose owner that writes the final result into `[layout+0x366f]`, `0x00544630` is the tiny scalar-triplet store into `[layout+0x2533/+0x2537/+0x253b]`, and `0x00544660` is the four-outparam query helper for local rect band `[layout+0x2523/+0x2527/+0x252b/+0x252f]`. The projection side beneath that strip is explicit now too: `0x005446b0` projects caller XYZ through local block `[layout+0x33ef..+0x342b]` into one XY pair, `0x00544750` is the visibility-gated sibling that projects through `[layout+0x33af..+0x33eb]` into XY plus optional depth, and `0x00544860` applies local descriptor `[layout+0x34ef..+0x352b]` to one vec3 with a projective divide, while `0x00544930` composes local blocks `[layout+0x34ef/+0x35ef/+0x352f]`, applies weighted caller XYZ through that stack, rejects the result on the same projective sign test, and otherwise emits XY plus one derived score, `0x00544a80` maps one local XY pair through cached rect band `[layout+0x2523/+0x2527/+0x252b/+0x252f]` and affine coefficient triplet `[layout+0x342f..+0x346b]` into XYZ, and `0x00544b80` is the relative-output sibling that subtracts that mapped XYZ from one caller-supplied vec3 reference block. The small property-pair strip is complete now too: `0x00544c80/0x00544cf0/0x00544d20` clear or arm the same `0x0d/0x0e` pair for selectors `4`, `2`, and `1`; the next rect-strip owner is bounded now too: `0x00548120` resets the identity block, ensures fallback handle `[layout+0x25e3]`, and refreshes the current span; `0x00548180` stores normalized local rect band `[layout+0x2523/+0x2527/+0x252b/+0x252f]`, publishes either a dynamic or fallback block, and then refreshes the same span; `0x0052d4d0` is the controller-side bridge that materializes one active-display rectangle from normalized scalar band `[controller+0x50..+0x5c]`; and `0x005482e0` is the join point that either feeds that rectangle into `0x00548180` or falls back to a direct width/height span refresh through `0x00544290`; `0x0054bb10` is the alternate segment-record bind over `[layout+0x263f]`; `0x0054bbd0` and `0x0054bbf0` are the two tiny wrappers that reuse `0x005471f0` for the `0x264f/+0x2653` and `0x2647/+0x264b` bind-and-publish pairs. The next owner layer is bounded too: `0x0054a500` is the wider branch that clears the visited-byte strip, pulses the surrounding property gates, derives two normalized shell scalars, and then either rescales rows from handle `[layout+0x2663]` through the local four-scalar band or publishes the local descriptor set rooted at `[layout+0x35af]` before committing the same variant-bank-backed batch ranges. `0x0054ab20`, `0x0054b030`, and `0x0054b4e0` are the three setup-side batch-refresh owners that all walk the `0x2d`-stride batch records rooted at `[layout+0x266f]`, but split cleanly into a three-slot candidate-binding variant, a two-slot candidate-binding variant, and a narrower `0x265f`-backed capability-switch branch. That last branch is tighter now: `0x0054b4e0` first tries a special descriptor bind by asking node slot `+0x128` whether handle `[layout+0x265f]` plus the caller pair can be accepted directly, and only on failure does it fall back to the capability-selected property path that either raises `0x2c4` and binds `[layout+0x265f]` on property `0x28`, or raises `0x1c4` and binds the same handle on property `0x20`, before walking the same variant-bank-backed batches with the narrower slot-`0` plus optional slot-`1` clear behavior. One layer above those batch owners, `0x0054bea0` is now bounded as the interpolated preset-row owner. It treats the preset table at `[layout+0x840]` as `0x33`-byte rows, blends two caller- selected rows into the local pose and color bands `[layout+0x24f0..+0x250c/+0x2510..+0x251f]`, applies extra amplitude terms from `[layout+0x25af/+0x25fb/+0x2603]`, reuses the same `0x265b/0x112` and `0x265f` bind decisions as the neighboring batch owners, packages one stack descriptor through node slot `+0xb0`, stores the packed RGB into `[layout+0x25a3]`, and then finishes through `0x0054a280` so the resulting pose and color state becomes live on the bound presentation node. One layer further up, `0x0054c420` is now bounded as a timed vertex24 batch-stream owner rather than another anonymous setup blob. It resets the same presentation node side, rebinds `[layout+0x2647]` onto property `0x142` when needed, reads one `0x2800`-byte block from that handle, materializes one fixed `0x28`-entry stack batch, and then spends about `1000` ms driving repeated `0xc80`-byte commits through node slot `+0x118`. The smaller helpers beneath it are now grounded too: `0x0054c880` refreshes local count field `[layout+0x19]` from base count `[layout+0x15]` plus scalar `[layout+0x36a0]`, clamped to `[[layout+0x15] >> 1, 0xff]`, while `0x0054c8f0` is the paired getter. The timed owner's tail computes one elapsed-work ratio, publishes bound pair `[layout+0x2607/+0x260b]` once through node slot `+0x7c`, re-raises property `0x89` from template byte `[layout+0x83c+0x22]`, forces property `0x07 = 1`, and returns that ratio in `st(0)`. The next body down, `0x0054c900`, is no longer just a raw internal branch. It services a `0x10`-entry local slot band rooted at `[layout+0x4ad]` with stride `0x31a`, gated by the same refreshed local count `[layout+0x19]` plus active-slot counter `[layout+0x22b57]`. It first resets subordinate layout-state `[layout+0x2d]` through `0x005467e0`, `0x00545080`, and `0x00547320(1)`, then uses the timer or RNG globals at `0x00d93828..0x00d93834` to seed new slots or advance live ones. Those slots can attach to caller-owned records from `[arg+0x40c]` through the `0x00554210/0x005545d0/0x005543a0/0x00554340/0x005542c0/0x005543f0` strip, and each active slot expands into repeated `0x18`-byte generated records while counters `[layout+0x71]` and `[layout+0x75]` advance. The tail commits or clears that generated strip back through the same subordinate layout-state using `0x00545520`, `0x00545c50`, `0x00544f30`, `0x005450a0`, and `0x005467a0`. Its sibling `0x0054d810` now reads as a second service owner over the same slot band, not just a hidden math tail. It has a detach-clear fast path when `[layout+0x19] < 0x80`, lazily seeds a distinct global jitter table at `0x00d8d830`, refreshes subordinate layout-state `[layout+0x2d]` through `0x0054bb70`, `0x00544360`, `0x005457c0(0)`, `0x00545000`, and `0x00546890`, and then builds another generated `0x18`-byte strip by combining those jitter values with local origin scalars `[layout+0x369c/+0x36a0/+0x36a4]`, one time-derived color band, and the live per-slot bytes and countdowns under `[slot+0x4b1..+0x4c3]`. Like `0x0054c900`, it advances counters `[layout+0x71/+0x75]` and commits the result back through subordinate layout-state using the same span and property-reset helpers. The adjacent `0x5de2a8` subobject family under the same owner is bounded now too. `0x0055e9f0` is the tiny family initializer that seeds fields around `[+0xa2..+0x106]`, while `0x0055ecb0` is the constructor-side owner that installs vtable `0x005de2a8`, loads resource `0x87`, and copies the resulting dimension band into `[subobject+0xa2/+0xa6/+0xaa/+0xae/+0xb2]`. `0x0055ec00` is the cached-surface ensure path: it allocates one `0xec`-byte surface owner through `0x00543980`, materializes a zeroed RGBA backing buffer through `0x00541970`, publishes it through `0x005438d0`, and then consults mode table `0x0062583b` from `[subobject+0xea] << 4` before optionally triggering global helper `0x0053f000`. `0x0055ea60` is the paired table-driven service body that fills that cached surface from payload root `[subobject+0xf2]`, and `0x0055ed40/0x0055ed90/0x0055ee60` are the matching cached-surface release, broader payload-release, and readiness-or-release guards. The next owner layer is grounded now too. `0x0055ee80` is the timed payload-cursor service owner: it gates on readiness and global latch `0x00d97970`, advances payload cursor `[payload+0x10] -> [payload+0x08]` from elapsed ticks `0x0051d890` and rate pair `[payload+0x14/+0x18]`, retries completion through import thunks `0x005c8370/74/78`, and, when the cursor is exhausted, consults mode-table bytes `0x00625836/0x0062583a` to restart or reseed the payload through `0x005c836c` and `0x005c837c` before flipping completion latches `[subobject+0xda/+0xae/+0x106]` or calling optional callback slot `[subobject+0xd6]`. `0x0055f0b0` is the setup-side owner above that path: it tears down prior state through `0x0055ed90(0)`, formats one mode-table-backed payload name from `0x00625830`, loads that payload through `0x005c8368`, derives capped power-of-two surface dimensions into `[subobject+0xb6/+0xba]`, optionally allocates staging slab `[subobject+0xbe]`, ensures cached surface `[subobject+0xe6]` through `0x0055ec00`, computes local aspect or scale floats `[subobject+0x13/+0x17]`, primes the timed service through `0x0055ee80(1)`, and then repopulates the cached surface through `0x0055ea60`. `0x0055f3f0` is the compact registered-message dispatcher above that setup path, while `0x0055f4e0` is the live service and render owner that refreshes the payload or cached surface when mode-table byte `0x00625837` is set and then draws either a fallback marker through `0x0054f710` or the cached-surface overlay through `0x0054f640` plus follow-on marker sprites through `0x0054f9f0`. The family is now closed on the teardown side too: `0x0055f9b0` is the destructor wrapper that re-enters `0x0055ed90(1)`, decrements live counter `0x00d9797c`, and optionally frees the object storage. The adjacent sibling family rooted at vtable `0x005de318` is bounded now too. `0x0055f9f0` is the family initializer: it zeroes the local field band `[+0xa2..+0x102]` and `[+0x172..+0x1e6]`, seeds selector word `[+0x06] = 0x08`, stores sentinel `-1` into `[+0x192/+0x1d6]`, and seeds active-state dword `[+0x172] = 1`. `0x0055fcc0` is the constructor-side owner that loads resource `0x12f`, then copies `0x34` dwords from resource offset `+0x5f` into `[subobject+0xa2..+0x16d]`, while `0x0055ff70` is the alternate constructor that copies the same `0x34`-dword band from a caller-supplied record instead of a resource. Below that, `0x0055faf0` is the small active-state refresh helper over local range or selector fields and optional handle `[subobject+0x19a]`; `0x0055fb80/0x0055fba0/0x0055fbc0/0x0055fc10` are the row-table accessors and chain-walk queries over the `0x20`-byte row band rooted at `[subobject+0x176]`; `0x0055fc50` is the paired optional-handle release that also clears control status tokens for child control id `[subobject+0x04]`; and `0x0055ffb0` is the small helper that rounds normalized scalar `[subobject+0xb6]` onto the current view-height grid. The next owner layer in the same sibling family is bounded too. `0x00560000` assembles one descriptor object from local bounds, owner-relative coordinate fields, optional payload root `[subobject+0xf2]`, and current owner or child ids, allocates a `0x1b9`-byte record through `0x0053b070`, initializes it through `0x0055ab50`, binds it back to owner `[subobject+0x86]` through `0x0053f9c0`, seeds fallback color `[subobject+0xf6] = 0xffffff00` when needed, and then re-enters `0x0055faf0` to refresh the local active-state latch. The adjacent helpers `0x005602c0` and `0x00560300` count or select the Nth nonterminal row chain by re-entering `0x0055fbc0`, and `0x00560350` is the family world-anchor query that combines owner origin with local offsets and normalized height scalar `[subobject+0xb6]` to produce an `(x, y)` pair. `0x005603e0` is the broader live owner above that strip. It either renders the already-bound descriptor object when `[subobject+0x126]` is live, or iterates the local row table for up to two passes, deriving per-row anchor and span data from owner origin, local float bands, selected row or chain helpers `0x005602c0/0x00560300`, and optional cached surface `[subobject+0xe6]`, then emitting the resulting overlays through `0x0054f710`, `0x005519f0`, and callback slot `[subobject+0x1ce]` when present. That closes the sibling family at a real owner boundary rather than leaving it split between constructor and table helpers only. The next callback and state band is grounded too: `0x00560e50` rebuilds the callback-row cache in `[subobject+0x18a/+0x18e]` and dispatches it through callback slots `[subobject+0x1c6/+0x1ca]`; `0x00561150` is the small refresh wrapper above that path that can also advance `[subobject+0x1e2]` from rollover dword `[subobject+0x1e6]`; `0x00561740` is the live render wrapper that forwards a derived view box into `0x005603e0` and then optionally emits extra marker sprites; `0x00561840` is the selected-row setter that clamps the incoming row, mirrors it through optional outputs and callbacks, and signals shell input with event `0xce`; `0x005618f0` appends one row record, grows table `[subobject+0x176]`, refreshes rollover counters, and re-enters both `0x560e50` and `0x55faf0`; and `0x005615f0` is the destructor-side owner that drains callbacks, row strings, the row-table slab, and the owner registration before falling back to base cleanup. The family now extends through its message and mutation owners as well. `0x00561c30` is the thin destructor wrapper over `0x005615f0`; `0x00561c50` removes one row, compacts the `0x20`-byte row slab, repairs selection and visible-window state, and refreshes both callbacks and family activity; `0x00561e40` updates one row flag at `+0x18`, recounts nonterminal rows, and repairs selection if the current choice no longer lands on a valid terminal chain; `0x00561f30` handles a narrow navigation-message strip and can synthesize a `0xca` event around the current selection; `0x00562540` is the timed auto-scroll owner driven by pointer proximity at the top or bottom of the visible band; `0x00562650` clears all rows by repeatedly re-entering the remove-row owner; and `0x005626a0` is the registered-message dispatcher that ties the whole family together by routing callback setters, row append/remove, clear-all, callback refresh, selection changes, and handle release through the now-grounded local owners. The next sibling family rooted at vtable `0x005de360` is bounded now too. `0x00562d30` is the family initializer: it seeds selector word `[this+0x06] = 0x10`, clears callback and timer dwords `[this+0xa2/+0xce/+0xd2/+0xd6]`, seeds delay or range dword `[this+0xa6] = 0x1f4`, and zeroes the four watched child-control words `[this+0xaa..+0xb8]`. `0x00563120` is the constructor-side owner that loads resource `0x8b` and copies the `+0x5f` payload band into `[this+0xa2..+0xb8]`, while `0x00563210` is the alternate constructor that copies the same `11`-dword band from a caller record. Below that, `0x00562e40` snapshots elapsed ticks into `[this+0xce/+0xd2]`, optionally invokes callback slot `[this+0x9e]` with owner-relative local coordinates, and then falls through the shared base update `0x00558760`; `0x00562da0` is the optional marker-pair render helper under controller mask `[0x006d401c+0xc79]`; and `0x00562ed0` is the registered-message dispatcher that validates readiness through vtable slots `+0x30` and `+0x20`, updates callback slot `[this+0xd6]`, compares incoming child ids against watched words `[this+0xb2/+0xb4/+0xb6/+0xb8]`, can synthesize `0xca` events, and can resolve a target shell window through `0x00538810` before forwarding the paired words `[this+0xae/+0xb0]`. The family closes cleanly on the teardown side too: `0x005631e0` is the thin destructor wrapper over base cleanup. The shared base child-control family under vtable `0x005ddcd0` is tighter now too. `0x00558580` is the real base constructor: it resets state through `0x00558080`, optionally copies one caller template block, rebuilds localized text handles `[this+0x63]` and `[this+0x92]`, normalizes selector byte `[this+0x37]` to default `3`, and snapshots the primary span bands into `[this+0x6c..+0x7c]`. `0x00558000` is the matching base release body that clears parent-window active-child links and drops localized or payload handles. On the interaction side, `0x005582f0` is the broader point-hit owner above the local shape helper `0x005581e0`, while `0x00558670/0x005586c0` are the primary and secondary readiness predicates over flag words `[this+0x68/+0x6a]`, owner latches `[owner+0x5c/+0x60]`, optional nested child `[this+0x4b]`, and shell controller byte `[0x006d4024+0x57]`. Just above those gates, `0x00558760/0x00558840` are the paired active and clear-side service helpers that drive cue callback `0x0045ea20`, optional callback slots `[this+0x9e/+0x96]`, and active caption publish through `0x00538c70`, while `0x005588b0/0x00558980` are the corresponding clear/set mutators for state word `[this+0x6a]` and the parent active-child slots `[parent+0xc6d/+0xc71]`. Above that, `0x00558a10` is now bounded as the common registered-message dispatcher for the base child-control family rather than an unnamed shared wndproc fragment. The preview-surface child subfamily above `0x00559520/0x005595d0` is tighter now too: `0x00559340` seeds its preview and aspect fields, `0x005593e0` refreshes current local spans and optional aspect scalars from the bound preview handle, `0x005594c0` stages the current local origin and requests the deferred refresh through vtable slot `+0x34`, `0x00559f50` stores one highlighted local rect band, `0x00559f90` and `0x0055a040` are the heap-template and inline-template constructors, and `0x0055a090` is the matching preview-surface destroy path. The render and message owners are tighter now too: `0x005595d0` switches over style field `[this+0xb0]`, uses `0x54f710` for flat overlay strips, binds preview surface `[this+0xaa]` through `0x54f640 -> 0x51f460` on style `8`, and uses `0x53de00 -> 0x552560` for the generic tagged-preview draw lane keyed by selector `[this+0xae]` and local rect `[this+0xd8..+0xf0]`; `0x00559c40` is the matching preview-surface-specific registered-message owner that updates selectors, colors, aspect scalar `[this+0x108]`, alpha byte `[this+0x10c]`, and optional callback slot `[this+0x10d]` before tailing into the shared child-control dispatcher `0x00558a10`. The adjacent sibling family under vtable `0x005ddd58` is bounded one step further now too: `0x0055a560` clears the local selector and metric band `[this+0x101..+0x1b5]`, `0x0055a640` stores the item-count field `[this+0x101]`, `0x0055a660` clamps the current index into `[this+0x185]`, optionally mirrors that index into one nested type-`8` child, and can fire cue selector `[this+0x11d]` through `0x0045ea20`, `0x0055a170` rebuilds a paired token-child strip from preview-handle selectors `[this+0x129/+0x131/+0x139/+0x13d]` plus local offsets, `0x0055a720` is the matching paired preview-selector render and outline pass, `0x0055a990/0x0055ab50` are the resource-backed and inline-payload constructors, `0x0055aba0` is the message-side gesture and selection dispatcher above `0x0055a660`, and `0x0055a0e0/0x0055ab30` are the paired-child destroy path and thin destructor wrapper above the shared base cleanup. The shared owner above that small family is bounded too. `0x00563250` and `0x00563260` now read as the clear and update helpers for global child-control filter dword `0x00625a94`, and `0x00563290` is the real shell-side owner that formats one anchored text or callout payload through `0x005519f0`, tries to resolve the target child through `0x0053f830`, and when no child exists builds one `0xda`-byte payload block, allocates a new child object through `0x0053b070`, initializes it through `0x00563210`, registers it through `0x0053f9c0`, and finally dispatches a kind-`0x7b` descriptor through `0x0053fe90` with callback `0x00563260`. The adjacent sibling family rooted at vtable `0x005de3b0` is bounded as well. `0x005634e0` is the family initializer: it seeds selector word `[this+0x06] = 0x20`, clears scalar and handle bands `[this+0xa2..+0xd8]`, zeroes optional text root `[this+0xb2]`, and resets state dword `[this+0xcc]`. `0x00563c00` is the constructor-side owner that loads resource `0xa1`, copies the payload band rooted at `+0x5f` into `[this+0xa2..+0xd8]`, and seeds fallback text root `[this+0xb2]` through `0x0053cb10(0xbc1)`, while `0x00563d70` is the alternate constructor that copies the same payload band from a caller record and duplicates the caller string root at `+0x6f`. The live side is bounded now too: `0x00563550` refreshes optional localized label id `[this+0xb6]` into text root `[this+0xb2]` and applies several mode- and control-id-specific vertical offset bumps to `[this+0x13]` and `[this+0xc0]`; `0x00563670` is the primary render owner that can emit an upper label through `0x0053de00 -> 0x00552560`, render the main body or callout through `0x005519f0` using text root `[this+0xb2]`, style bytes `[this+0x2b/+0x2c]`, optional color bands `[this+0xcc..+0xd8]`, and owner-relative float bands `[this+0xa2..+0xc4]`, and then emit one or two marker sprites through `0x0054f9f0`; and `0x00563950` is the registered-message dispatcher that updates local text root `[this+0xb2]`, toggles active state `[this+0xc8/+0xcc]`, restyles sibling control `0x93` through `0x00540120`, and can synthesize a `0xca` event carrying the current active value. The family closes on the teardown side through `0x00563d20`. The next adjacent helper strip is bounded too. `0x00563e30` is the lazy ensure path for a tiny callback-registration handle object: when live flag `[this+0x0c]` is still clear it releases any old imported handle at `[this+0x04]`, allocates or registers a new one through import `0x005c81c0` with callback `0x00563dd0`, stores the returned handle in `[this+0x04]`, and marks the object live. `0x00563e90` is the direct destructor-side release of that same imported handle. The neighboring owned-list strip is tighter now too: `0x00563ed0` releases every entry in owned list `[this+0x8d]` through `0x005544b0(-1, 1)`, and `0x00563f10` is the tiny remove-from-list helper on that same root. Above those leaves, `0x00563f20` is the broader cell-radius refresh owner: it clears the `0x1000`-byte visited band at `[world+0x47c]`, clamps one tile rect through `0x00533970/0x00533980`, repopulates owned list `[this+0x79]` from the nearby-presentation cell table via `0x00533ba0`, repopulates owned list `[this+0x8d]` from the border-overlay chunk table via `0x00533c50`, marks visited cells with bit `0x01`, and then deactivates or removes stale `[+0x8d]` entries whose cached owner marker no longer matches `[this+0x05]`. One small resource-bank seam beside that branch is bounded now as well. `0x005641f0` loads one heap-owned payload copy from the shared bank root `0x006d4020`: it hashes or canonicalizes the caller key through `0x0053b5c0`, falls back to the caller backup string when the canonical key is absent, resolves the payload length through `0x0053c9c0`, opens the row through `0x0053bd40`, allocates a buffer through `0x005a125d`, copies the bytes through `0x0053b7c0`, and optionally returns the length to the caller. `0x00564280` is the adjacent cache reset or destructor-side owner above that helper: it walks the table rooted at `[this+0x04]` with callback `0x005641d0`, releases and frees the owned descriptor, table root, and pool roots at `[this+0x00/+0x04/+0x08]`, and clears the local counters and live flag. The cache family itself is bounded now too. `0x00564570` is the constructor or reset owner: it allocates the three helper roots, builds the scored heap and hash table, allocates the `0x15e0`-byte pool behind the vector root, stores the caller byte budget in `[this+0x10]`, clears the hit or miss counters, and zeroes the optional prefix byte at `[this+0x24]`. `0x00564310` is the scored-eviction helper that pops the top entry from heap `[this+0x08]`, frees its payload buffer, removes it from hash root `[this+0x04]`, conditionally relinks or frees the entry record, and returns the freed payload size. Above that, `0x00564390` is the primary cache-backed load owner: it composes the lookup key from optional prefix `[this+0x24]` plus the caller stem, bypasses the cache when `[this+0x14]` is zero, and otherwise uses the hash root and scored heap to reuse or evict entries before returning a fresh heap-owned payload copy. The neighboring tiny helpers are explicit now too: `0x005641b0` copies a caller string into local field `[this+0x24]`, `0x00564150` clears one `0x100`-dword table, `0x00564180/0x00564190/0x005641a0` are the adjacent indexed-byte set or clear or query helpers, and `0x00564560` is the direct destructor thunk back into `0x00564280`. The next geometry seam beneath the same owner band is bounded now too: `0x00564660` builds one six-record `0x18`-byte primitive block from a compact record with two projected corners, one packed color, and one scalar multiplier, while `0x005648c0` is the sibling three-record builder that handles the larger record form with three independently scaled packed colors. Above both, `0x00564c70` is the queue-driven owner that walks the caller record list, keeps low-nibble mode byte `[this+0x374d]` synchronized through the `0x5472..` and `0x5474..` strip, chooses between direct subordinate-state calls and the two primitive builders, accumulates emitted primitive count in `[this+0x71]`, and re-enters `0x00523d30(1)` after each serviced record. The sibling `0x00564ee0` is the more general list-service owner on the same branch: it first reapplies the current optional item binding through `0x00545520`, then walks the caller intrusive list while keeping both mode nibbles in `[this+0x374d/+0x374e]` synchronized, dispatching records either into direct routed payload calls through `0x005669d0`, direct subordinate-state calls through `0x005473c0/0x005474a0`, or the two primitive builders, and finally restoring one trailing deferred direct-state tail before it returns. One shell-side layer above that branch is explicit now too: `0x00565110` is the broader owner that rebuilds subordinate layout state through `0x0055dd80` and `0x0055e2b0`, services one mode-selected record source through `0x00564c70` or repeated `0x00564ee0` calls, and only then commits the bound-node finalization strip through `0x00548940`, `0x005467a0`, `0x00545020`, and `0x00547fe0`. The adjacent small trace-helper seam is bounded now too. `0x00565370` allocates one power-of-two square-mask table and one pair buffer, `0x00565440` is the matching destructor, `0x00565470` marks one coordinate pair once and appends it to the live pair buffer, and `0x005654f0/0x00565500` are the tiny exponent and square-mask getters. Above those leaves, `0x00565510` is the broader owner that advances the helper generation, walks the square mask, collects two complementary boundary-run lists through globals `0x00d97a30` and `0x00d979b0`, and emits the resulting pair strip into the live pair buffer. The neighboring world-anchor marker config seam is explicit now too. `0x00565c40/0x00565c60` store and query the local marker pair plus selector byte used by the later indexed marker emitter `0x00565c90`, `0x00565d60/0x00565da0` replace or release the shared type-`6` image handle rooted at `0x00d97ab0`, and `0x00565dc0` loads one named payload triplet through the banked-resource strip before seeding the caller output with the default transform band from `0x00625ae8`. The adjacent sprite-billboard instance seam is bounded now too. `0x00565e30` is the default initializer, `0x00565e80` seeds one instance from caller basis, timing, flags, and scale, and `0x00565f40` is the per-step update helper that advances lifetime, updates position and basis, refreshes the dynamic scratch basis globals, and maintains the live fade scalar later consumed by `0x005662a0`; when that step needs to rebuild the scratch quad it re-enters `0x005661b0`, which applies one helper matrix to the four billboard basis points rooted at `0x00d97b98`. The neighboring routed-payload seam that the layout-state record owners use is explicit now too: `0x005669d0` scales one caller float quad by layout spans `[this+0x25c7/+0x25cb]`, rounds the results to integers, and forwards that integer quad into an optional sink object through the sink vtable strip. The next shell-side streamed-record seam is bounded structurally now too. `0x00566a80` loads one `0x24`-byte record plus a trailing `0x0c`-stride array, packs four leading floats into one RGBA dword, and swaps the second and third float lanes inside each loaded element, while `0x00566b80` is the broader sibling that loads one `0x45`-byte record, normalizes its source triples against the current global anchor, derives bounds and max-radius, and expands the result into one `0x4c`-stride table. That streamed-record seam is no longer floating without owners either. `0x00567400` is the keyed `3DPF` collection loader: it opens the current-or-selected banked stream, validates magic `33 44 50 46`, allocates one `0x18`-stride child-entry array, and then fills each child through `0x00567190`. That child loader reads one leading `0x08`-byte header, optionally copies one inline anchor triplet into `[out+0x00..+0x08]`, mirrors the same triplet into globals `0x00d97ba8..0x00d97bb4`, stores the entry count at `[out+0x14]`, and then chooses one of the two earlier payload formats from a trailing format byte: `L` allocates and fills the `0x24` inline-entry band at `[out+0x10]` through `0x00566a80`, while `I` allocates and fills the `0x45` expanded-entry band at `[out+0x0c]` through `0x00566b80`. The matching release side is explicit too: `0x005672e0` frees the nested inline or expanded payloads plus the optional shared helper at `0x00d97bb8`, `0x005674c0` releases the whole `3DPF` collection by walking its child-entry array, and the tiny wrappers `0x00567500/0x00567520` are now just the construct-and-release front doors used by the typed staging-row family. The next streamed-patch owner layer is bounded now too. `0x00567730` clamps one caller rectangle against grid dimensions `[this+0x15d5/+0x15d9]`, walks the patch-cell pointer table at `[this+0x1669]`, and for every live cell scans the surrounding neighborhood for other live cells while skipping the center. It uses `0x005675c0` to compare candidate four-corner patch pairs: that helper measures corner-to-corner distances from the triplets rooted at `+0x00/+0x08`, ignores corners already masked with state byte `+0x31 == 2`, updates the caller best-distance scalar when a closer match survives, and averages the paired blend bytes at `+0x39` back into output bytes `+0x35`, or marks both corners with state `1` when the distance only falls under the looser threshold at `0x005c85b8`. Once one best neighbor survives, `0x00567730` averages the winning patch positions into midpoint triplets, resolves a world-height scalar through `0x00534490`, and decrements the caller output budget before continuing. The actual streamed quad emission side is tighter now too. `0x005679b0` expands one streamed patch item into one `0x90`-byte six-vertex `vertex24` quad: it derives an 8-step brightness phase from `GetTickCount` plus item field `[this+0x3a]`, combines that phase with the four corner blend bytes at `+0x35..+0x38`, forces masked corners at `+0x31..+0x34` fully transparent, and writes six `0x18`-byte vertices from the corner positions rooted at `+0x00..+0x2c`. The two list streamers above it are explicit too: `0x00567c70` emits the primary intrusive list rooted at `[this+0x1c]`, `0x00567ce0` does the same for the alternate list at `[this+0x20]` with one extra selector value, and both advance the destination by `0x90` bytes per emitted quad. Their shared release side is `0x00567bf0`, which frees both intrusive lists and all queued quad items through `0x005570b0`, while `0x00567d50` is the immediate destructor-side sibling that drops the two list-root objects themselves and clears owner slots `[this+0x1c]` and `[this+0x20]`. The actual streamed-patch owner above those leaves is bounded now too. `0x00567da0` first clears any previously queued quads through `0x00567bf0`, then walks the live signed-byte sample grids at `[this+0x08]` and `[this+0x0c]` together with the `u16` type-word table at `[this+0x10]` across the current interior tile rectangle. For each admitted cell it allocates one `0x3e` patch record, derives corner positions and color or blend bytes from the surrounding signed-byte samples plus the low three type bits through table `0x00625c60`, and accumulates those records into the primary and alternate intrusive roots at `[this+0x1c]` and `[this+0x20]`. After that initial build it runs a second neighborhood-processing pass over the primary list, using local pair and radius gates before finalizing the generated blend-byte bands. The constructor side is explicit too: `0x005692e0` allocates and initializes the two intrusive list roots, copies the caller bounds and grid-owner accessors into `[this+0x00..+0x24]` through the neighboring world-grid query helpers, and immediately re-enters `0x00567da0` to build the live patch lists. The coarse secondary-overlay backend under `[world+0x1685]` is now explicit too. Each coarse chunk is one `0x54`-byte object initialized by `0x0056af70`, with quantized origin dwords at `[chunk+0x00/+0x04]`, world-space origin floats at `[chunk+0x08/+0x0c]`, total live-cell count `[chunk+0x10]`, and a `4x4` local-page table rooted at `[chunk+0x14]`; `0x0056afc0` is the matching full-page release walk. Each present local page is `0x8a` bytes loaded or saved by `0x0056b490` and `0x0056b510`, with a live-cell word at `[page+0x00]`, a shared state byte at `[page+cell*8+0x0a]`, one per-cell sample-slot side band at `[page+cell*8+0x02+i]`, and one auxiliary byte at `[page+cell*8+0x0b]`. The state byte split is bounded too: `0x0056b000/0x0056b070` toggle and query the low-nibble flag mask, `0x0056b180/0x0056b1f0` query and store the three-bit sample-slot count, and `0x0056b0e0` decrements that sample-slot count, decrements both the page and chunk live-cell counters, and frees the page when its live count reaches zero. The auxiliary byte side is separate: `0x0056b260` queries it and `0x0056b700` stores it while marking shell dirty byte `[0x006d4024+0x374a]`. The broader append owner above those leaves is now bounded too: `0x0056b580` ensures one local page, seeds its minmax height band through `0x0056b2c0` from a `5x5` world-sample lattice, writes the caller auxiliary byte, derives one quantized sample byte from the world-height path, and appends it into the per-cell sample-slot side band while incrementing both the page live-cell word and the cell's three-bit sample-slot count when that count is still below `6`. The earlier rectangle helper at `0x00533e70` is corrected now too: it does not release chunks. It walks the surviving coarse-chunk rect and re-enters `0x0056b770` on every live chunk so those per-count side bytes are refreshed from the current world callbacks across the whole rect. The adjacent bundle-codec seam is explicit now too. The shared callback context at `0x00d93984` is no longer just an anonymous transport scratch block: `0x00552f30` and `0x00552fa0` are the paired source and sink callbacks over that context, with progress publish through `0x00d93988`, and the two bundle-side wrappers `0x00553000/0x00553120` now read as the encode/decode owners for payload families `0x91` and `0x92`. Selector `0x91` routes into the older ring or backreference codec: `0x0056be10` decodes fixed header `0x10/0x91` through buffered byte helper `0x0056b8f0`, replays literals and packed backreferences through `0x0056b940`, and uses one `0x200`-byte ring cursor rooted at `0x1be`; `0x0056bfe0` is the matching encoder, with adaptive dictionary state initialized by `0x0056bca0`, updated through `0x0056b990` and `0x0056bb10`, and emitted through the pending-token strip `0x0056bc00 -> 0x0056bbb0`. Selector `0x92` routes into the simpler run or literal family: `0x0056c3e0` emits header `0x10/0x92` then packs either repeated-byte runs or literal spans through `0x0056c320`, while `0x0056c630` reverses that same `(high-bit-set => run, high-bit-clear => literal span)` control format through `0x0056c370` and `0x0056c320`. That closes the support-family gap beneath the companion-payload rewrite owners `0x004427c0/0x00442900`, the tagged-surface importer `0x00541c30`, and the tagged-surface exporter `0x005428c0`: they are all now reusing the same pair of explicit bundle codecs rather than separate anonymous transform bodies. The adjacent format-descriptor seam under the same surface path is explicit now too: `0x005700e2` looks one requested tag up in the live `0x24`-byte descriptor table rooted at `0x005de500` and falls back to the default entry, `0x00570106` scores one candidate descriptor against a reference through the compatibility matrix at `0x005deb38`, `0x0057017b` iterates the same table and optional target interface to select the best supported descriptor tag, `0x0057033f` is the broader validation owner that resolves or selects that descriptor, clamps width or height or depth or level counts against target limits, rounds `DXT1..DXT5` sizes up to four-pixel blocks, and forces power-of-two sizes when the selected descriptor and capability flags require it, `0x00570669` is the mode-`3` wrapper over that validator, `0x00570691` is the target-side owner that feeds the validated result into vtable slot `+0x50`, and `0x005706f7` is the next materialization owner that either takes one fast matching-descriptor transfer path through target slot `+0x70` or falls back into the broader decode owner `0x0057025d`. The Direct3D-side gate in that seam is explicit now too: `0x00571570` is not a generic lock, it lazily resolves `DebugSetMute` from `d3d8.dll` and `d3d8d.dll` and forwards the caller's mute on or off flag through whichever callbacks exist. The fallback decode stack is explicit now too: `0x00571600` and `0x0057160a` are the tiny two-handle decode-pair init or release helpers used by `0x0057025d`, `0x0057163e` is the broader weighted axis-map builder for the general resample branches, `0x005718fb` is the flagged release path for those temporary axis maps, `0x00573e02` is the lighter dual-tap axis-map builder used by the mode-`3` weighted resamplers, and `0x00574ed5`, `0x00574ee5`, and `0x00574f4e` are the same for the `0x10`-byte temporary source-view context, `0x00574f53` is the broader owner that resets that context, queries source bounds, validates or synthesizes the working rect, acquires one subordinate view when needed, and aligns the rect for block-compressed or packed-YUV tags such as `DXT1..DXT5`, `YUY2`, and `UYVY`, and `0x00574dbb` is the decode-branch dispatcher that links one handle pair and then tries the supported codec bodies in sequence. The concrete branches are tighter now too: `0x00572f1e` falls into a direct row copy when the linked source and destination layouts already match, `0x00573056` allocates one temporary `width*0x10` row buffer and transfers rows through the source and destination callback slots, `0x00573147` is the mode-`1` branch that allocates two temporary row buffers and zero-fills any destination rows or slices outside the shared minimum bands, `0x00573349` is the mode-`2` branch that rebuilds destination rows through fixed-point step ratios derived from the linked source and destination dimensions, `0x00571dbb` is the narrow direct compressed-block copy sibling for `DXT1..DXT5` when the source has no auxiliary descriptor payload, `0x0057354d` is the first mode-`5` half-resolution branch with subtype-gated specialized dispatch, `0x0057206f` and `0x00572305` are the two front doors into a CPU-selected packed-32 `2x2` reducer pair, `0x005722a1` and `0x005722d6` are the one-time initializers for those reducer slots, `0x00572188` is the MMX-or-scalar packed-32 wrapper beneath them, `0x00571f49` and `0x005720a0` are the scalar packed-32 reducers, `0x00572336`, `0x00572486`, `0x005725aa`, and `0x005726f9` are the scalar `RGB565`, `RGB555`, `ARGB1555`, and `ARGB4444` `2x2` half-resolution reducers in the same jump-table family, `0x0057298b` is the generic packed-8 reducer reused for the type-`0x1c` and type-`0x32` entries, `0x00572a26` is the alpha-plus-`RGB332` sibling, `0x00572b72` is the scalar `X4R4G4B4` reducer, and `0x00572c93` plus `0x00572ddf` are the scalar `A8L8` and `A4L4` reducers, and `0x00573970` is the broader mode-`5` single-slice box-filter half-resolution fallback, `0x00573f02` and `0x005742e8` are the two weighted mode-`3` axis-map resamplers with two and four staged row sets built from `0x00573e02`, and `0x00574a19` plus `0x00571947` are the general 2D and 3D weighted resample branches that build refcounted row or slice contribution tables through `0x0057163e` and release them through `0x005718fb`, `0x00575b34` is the shared decoder-base constructor, `0x00575366` and `0x00575677` are the two release-side companions for the base and the larger nested-table families, `0x0057537f` is the auxiliary `vec4` staging-row builder behind the peer-mode bridge, `0x00575d9c` is the small peer-mode mismatch helper that allocates and caches one auxiliary `width*0x10` staging row, `0x00575e17` is the temporary single-sample local-color helper that runs the decoder's vtable pair against `[obj+0x1c..+0x28]` under a rewritten one-sample state, `0x00575ee3` zeroes decoded sample quads when all four float lanes exceed the descriptor clip thresholds, `0x0057909e` flushes live packed-YUV-422 auxiliary samples back into the payload window, and `0x00578eef` and `0x0057989d` are the shared packed-YUV-422 and `DXT1..DXT5` decoder bases. `0x00579325` refreshes the packed-YUV-422 cached window and builds the auxiliary sample band under that family, `0x00579727` and `0x005797f1` are the packed-YUV-422 row decode and output-copy siblings, and the actual packed-YUV-422 subtype wrappers are now the FourCC or custom-tag cases `0x0057a3c8` and `0x0057a3e0` over base `0x00578eef`. The earlier constructor band `0x00578ed3`, `0x00579008`, `0x00579045`, `0x00579082`, `0x005792ab`, `0x005792e8`, `0x005795f6`, `0x00579633`, `0x00579670`, `0x005796ad`, and `0x005796ea` are now tightened to factory tags `0x14..0x1e`, all still using aux mode `1` with sample strides `0x08`, `0x10`, `0x18`, or `0x20`; `0x0057a1ab`, `0x0057a1e8`, and `0x0057a225` are now also tightened to factory tags `0x36314c41`, `0x36315220`, and `0x36315241`, with sample strides `0x20`, `0x30`, and `0x40`; `0x0057a37f` is the packed-YUV-422 base release owner that flushes live auxiliary state before freeing it, `0x00575717` is the broader `DXT` tile-row decode owner above the cached cell table, `0x00579bdc` is the tag-dependent threshold-quantization helper in that same `DXT` neighborhood, and the subtype strip between `0x00579a8f` and `0x00579ee1` is now explicit as factory-tagged wrapper pairs over the shared base for tags `0x28`, `0x29`, `0x32..0x34`, `0x3c..0x41`, `0x43`, `0x46`, and `0x31545844`, with aux modes `1`, `2`, and `3`, sample strides `0x08`, `0x10`, and `0x20`, and one nested-table release case at `0x00579b62`. The factory tail is tighter too: `0x0057ab70` and `0x0057ab91` are the missing release wrappers for the custom packed-YUV-422 and `YUY2` subtype vtables `0x005def10` and `0x005def20`, and the adjacent `0x0057abb2/0x0057abc4/0x0057acd4/0x0057ad15` strip is now grounded as a small mapped-file view context with closed-handle initialization, read-only open or map, release, and conditional release helpers. `0x00579f02` is the next `DXT` owner above that strip: it allocates or refreshes the cached `0x10`-byte sample strip at `[obj+0x10b8]`, rebuilds it through the primary kernel when the aligned block origin changes, copies the requested region back out, and then optionally reuses the same threshold vec4 `[obj+0x1c..+0x28]` as a whole-vec4 zeroing gate on the copied output, `0x0057ecb3` is the shared `RGB565`-to-vec4 expander with unit alpha, `0x0057ecff` and `0x0057ed7d` are the shared vec4-block unpremultiply and premultiply helpers, `0x0057edd0` is the shared RGB565 quantizer that clamps one float RGB triplet, switches the x87 rounding mode through `0x0057edad`, and packs the rounded five-six-five lanes back into one endpoint word. The next owner layer is explicit now too: `0x0057eeca` is the shared `DXT4/5` alpha-endpoint fitter over sixteen scalar samples, `0x0057f1cf` is the shared `DXT1`-family color-endpoint fitter over sixteen vec3 samples, and `0x0057f73a` is the shared `DXT1`-family color-block encoder that chooses transparent-versus-opaque policy from the caller alpha lanes, fits float endpoints, quantizes them to `RGB565`, and writes the final selector bits. `0x0057ff3e` is the shared `DXT1` RGB565-endpoint-to-palette builder, `0x0058007c` and `0x005800ff` are the shared `DXT2/3` explicit-alpha and `DXT4/5` interpolated-alpha block decode cores, `0x0058023b`, `0x00580253`, and `0x00580367` are the secondary `DXT1`, `DXT2/3`, and `DXT4/5` block-write kernels, `0x005807b9` and `0x005807dc` are the dedicated `DXT2` and `DXT4` decode wrappers that re-enter the unpremultiply helper after the shared cores, and `0x005807ff` plus `0x00580833` are the matching `DXT2` and `DXT4` encode wrappers that premultiply one temporary vec4 block before entering the shared `DXT2/3` and `DXT4/5` encoder cores, `0x0057a262`, `0x0057a29b`, `0x0057a2d4`, `0x0057a30d`, and `0x0057a346` are the thin `DXT1..DXT5` wrappers above that `DXT` base, their release-side siblings now route through the broader `DXT` family teardown `0x00575677`, and `0x0057a3f8` is the broader format-tag decoder factory beneath the handle-pair dispatcher. Above all of those, `0x0057025d` is the owner that materializes one temporary source view, snapshots the caller descriptor band, dispatches the decode chain, and fills one intermediate materialization descriptor on success. That keeps the DXT and tagged-surface import path grounded as one explicit descriptor-selection and decode stack instead of a decode call hanging off anonymous table probes. The adjacent `0x005def5c` seam is tighter now too. `0x0057b4fd` and `0x0057b5d4` are no longer generic target-side wrappers: `0x0057b4fd` builds one temporary transform block from up to three optional anchor pairs plus caller angle and scale, then dispatches that block through target slot `+0x18`, while `0x0057b5d4` is the broader target-service draw owner that queries surface bounds, validates or synthesizes one caller rect, classifies the active format tag, converts that rect into normalized float bounds, builds either four `0x1c`-byte or four `0x18`-byte local vertex records, optionally projects them through `0x0056cdda`, applies the local `-0.5f` pixel-center bias, and dispatches the finished strip through slot `+0x120`. The family growing above those owners is now recognizable as a shader-assembly context rather than another generic target object: `0x0057b9a7` initializes seven embedded dword-vector bands plus the string-log vector at `[this+0x84]` and publishes the context through singleton `0x00db89d8`, `0x0057ba6e` is the reverse destructor, and the shared error helper starts one step earlier than the old row implied: `0x0057bafd` formats assembly-error lines like `%s(%d) : (Assembly Error) %s`, `statement incomplete`, `constant definition in shader body`, and `shader version expected` into that owned string log. `0x0057bc33` parses one opcode token plus grounded suffixes `sat`, `x2`, `x4`, `d2`, `d4`, and `d8` into context fields `[this+0x1c8/+0x1cc]`, `0x0057c34a` parses the destination write-mask token over `rgba` or `xyzw`, `0x0057c3f3` is the matching source-swizzle parser, and `0x0057c494` parses grounded register families `c/v/t/a/oPos/oFog/oPts` with optional source modifiers `_da`, `_dw`, `_db`, `_dz`, `_x2`, `_bx2`, and `_bias`, including the indexed forms reported by the local `invalid register` formatters. The output-side seam under the same context is now explicit too: `0x0057c835` emits one grounded constant-definition record from a parsed constant register plus a caller vec4 payload, `0x0057c8de` flushes one pending `TEXT` comment chunk into the output dword stream, and `0x0057c9b4` emits `FILE` and `LINE` chunks only when the current source location changes. That extends cleanly into the owner layer too: `0x0057cb2b` is the shared lexer that skips comments, maintains line state, accepts `#line`, rejects other preprocessor directives, tokenizes identifiers and numeric spans into `[this+0xc8]`, and returns the grounded token/status codes; `0x0057d043` is the main statement compiler above it, dispatching version declarations, constant-definition statements, comment/file/line chunks, arithmetic and texture opcodes, and operand parsing through the helper bands we already grounded while enforcing the current version-specific rules like `constant modifiers not supported in ps.1.4`, `coissue not supported in vertex shaders`, `complement not supported in vertex shaders`, `negate and divide modifiers cannot be combined`, and the indexed-register restrictions around `a0.x`. One owner level above that, `0x0057d97a` is now bounded as the shift-reduce parser driver: it initializes the parser stacks and lookahead globals rooted at `0x00db85d0/0x00db89c0/0x00db89c4/0x00db89c8/0x00db89cc`, repeatedly asks `0x0057cb2b` for the next lookahead token, walks the grammar action and goto tables at `0x006265a0..0x00626a68`, invokes `0x0057d043` on reductions `0..0x32`, and handles error recovery through the same shared formatter with grounded strings like `statement expected` and `yacc stack overflow`. The wider API-side owner is bounded now too: `0x0057de38` records the caller source span and optional file name into the same context, emits the default `D3DX8 Shader Assembler Version 0.91` banner when needed, invokes `0x0057d97a`, and then conditionally materializes the assembled output stream, adjacent constant-table-style object, and joined error-log text while probing the grounded registry-side policy keys under `0x005df51c`, `0x005df530`, `0x005dec20`, and `0x005dec3c`. That closes the nearby shader-assembly parser and API seam enough to stop treating those rows as anonymous string switches. The next tiny seam after that is now grounded too: `0x0057e300` and `0x0057e410` are not anonymous literal tables but the two math function-table seeders immediately above the later packed and x87 helper families. The first writes the older scalar or x87 geometry, plane, quaternion, and matrix entrypoints like `0x00582c30`, `0x00582e40`, `0x00582eb0`, and `0x00582fd0` into one fixed slot layout, while the second writes the packed or vectorized successors like `0x005830a0`, `0x00583320`, `0x00583e80`, `0x00584010`, `0x005840f0`, and `0x00584210` into the same table shape. One owner layer above that is bounded now too: `0x0057e520` is the local CPUID feature-mask probe for MMX and AMD-extended SIMD paths, `0x0057e5f5` is the broader MMX or 3DNow table-seeding owner that populates the later `0x005895..`, `0x00589b..`, `0x0058a0..`, `0x00584b..`, and `0x005860..` families when those capability bits are present, and `0x0057ec77` is the compact x87-side table seeder for the nearby low-dimensional strip. That local strip is explicit now too: `0x0057e81b/0x0057e884` are the x87 2D basis-plus-translation and basis-only helpers, `0x0057e8b9/0x0057e944` are the corresponding 3D variants, `0x0057ea3c` is a fast table-assisted vec3 normalize-or-zero helper over lookup tables `0x00626c80/0x00626c84`, and `0x0057eb06/0x0057ebe9` are the two alias-safe `4x4` multiply siblings that differ mainly in whether they write results in contiguous row order or one `0x10`-byte column stride. The adjacent x87 math seam is explicit now too. `0x00571493` is the one-time dispatch-table initializer for the live function-pointer strip rooted at `0x00625c88`: it copies the default seed table from `0x00625d70`, optionally resets the whole strip, and on first live use patches selected slots in place after the local feature probes. The wrapper entries `0x0056c890`, `0x0056c948`, `0x0056ca21`, `0x0056cacd`, `0x0056cba5`, `0x0056cca0`, `0x0056cf7f`, `0x0056d07a`, and `0x0056d197` are not standalone subsystem owners; they are the dispatched x87 or feature-gated front doors for the same curve and blend helpers we already grounded later in SSE and MMX form. The older bootstrap seam beneath that family is explicit now too: `0x005a1081` and `0x005a10b9` seed the five-slot legacy x87 dispatch table at `0x0062a360..0x0062a374`, probe `KERNEL32!IsProcessorFeaturePresent(0)` or fall back to the local arithmetic test at `0x005a63ca` through `0x005a640a`, store that result in `0x00dba008`, and then apply the local x87 control-state setup through `0x005a63b8`. The adjacent CRT-style support seam is explicit now too: `0x005a1a1c` is the unlocked buffered element-reader over the FILE-like band at `[stream+0x00/+0x04/+0x0c]`, `0x005a1b05` is the public lock-scoped wrapper already used by the companion-image import and rewrite paths, `0x005a1b60` is the older x87 `pow` owner with the clean-state fastpath probe and the full negative-base or NaN or infinity special-case ladder, `0x005a1dc2` classifies `st(0)` as non-integer, odd integer, or even integer for those `pow` special cases, `0x005a1e1d/0x005a1ea5` are the locale-aware signed-decimal core and wrapper, `0x005a2076` is the corresponding floating parser returning one `f64` in `st(0)`, and the neighboring string seam is explicit too: `0x005a1df0` is the reverse character search helper, `0x005a1eb0` is the bounded append helper, `0x005a1ff0` is the substring search helper, `0x005a2a06` is the single-character search helper beneath that fast path, `0x005a2abe` is the locale-aware lowercase-in-place normalizer already used by the hotkey modifier parser, and `0x005a20b0` remains the shared overlap-safe byte mover beneath both the parser and transport text families. The adjacent helper layer is explicit now too: `0x005ac3b0` is the unbounded append helper the lowercase normalizer uses for copyback, `0x005ac579` is the broader locale string-mapping owner that prefers `LCMapStringW + MultiByteToWideChar/WideCharToMultiByte` and falls back to `LCMapStringA` when the wide path is unavailable; the ANSI-side fallback helpers are grounded now too as `0x005b16ef` for `LCID -> default ANSI codepage` and `0x005b1738` for the source-or-destination multibyte transcode bridge beneath that ANSI path. `0x005ac935/0x005ac9bd` are the temporary stream-buffer prepare or restore pair beneath the locked formatter. The same CRT strip now also owns the formatted-stream and on-exit table side: The adjacent classification leaves are explicit too: `0x005b1a00` is the shared mbctype-mask predicate over `0x00dba541` and the secondary table at `0x005e6f12`, and `0x005b1a31` is its alpha-character wrapper. The neighboring locale-info bridge is explicit now too: `0x005b2828` is the wide-output `GetLocaleInfoW` wrapper with `GetLocaleInfoA + MultiByteToWideChar` fallback, and `0x005b2958` is the multibyte-output sibling that prefers `GetLocaleInfoW + WideCharToMultiByte` and falls back to direct `GetLocaleInfoA`. Above those two wrappers, `0x005b1a42` is now grounded as the shared locale-field materializer used by the broader locale-structure builders: it either allocates one exact-sized multibyte locale string for the caller or parses one short decimal locale-info field into a single output byte. The same locale-record owner strip is explicit now too: `0x005ad524` builds the primary `0xb8` locale text record from the current-thread and user-default locale words, `0x005ad88b` releases that record’s owned string fields, and `0x005ada1b` publishes either the dynamic record or the static fallback at `0x0062abe8` through globals `0x0062abe0/0x00dba2f8`. The adjacent narrower record families are grounded as well: `0x005ada7a` is the release helper for the active three-string record at `0x0062acd4`, `0x005adad9` refreshes that tri-string record and its digit-map side globals, `0x005adca6` releases the secondary `0x30`-byte text record band, and `0x005add7f` rebuilds that secondary record plus the multibyte lead-byte or classification side state. The older locale-selection layer is explicit now too: `0x005ae38c` is the static-locale-table or `GetLocaleInfoA` bridge over the fixed `0x005e7448` LCID rows, `0x005ae2d8` seeds the user-default LCID pair, `0x005ae8c3/0x005ae8fa/0x005ae980` are the three `EnumSystemLocalesA`-driven name-selection branches, `0x005ae278` binary-searches alias table `0x005e7a30` to rewrite incoming locale-name pointers in place, `0x005ae2f2` parses the final codepage selector from `ACP`, `OCP`, or locale-info text, and callbacks `0x005ae4c1`, `0x005ae5d2`, and `0x005ae7f2` are the concrete secondary-name, two-name, and primary-name `EnumSystemLocalesA` matchers that fill `0x00dba304/0x00dba308` and selector bits in `0x00dba300`. Above those, `0x005ae9d5` is the broader old `setlocale`-style owner that selects the LCID pair, validates it through `IsValidLocale` and `IsValidCodePage`, and exports the final `(primary LCID, secondary LCID, codepage)` triple plus canonical locale-name text. The same locale-text seam now includes the compare and environment side too: `0x005b2b6d` is the broader `CompareStringW/CompareStringA` owner with codepage-selection and transcode fallback, `0x005b2a98` is the smaller prefix-compare wrapper that turns `CompareString*` equality into `0`, `0x005b2ae6` is the wide-env to multibyte-env materializer that seeds `0x00dba030` from the wider backing vector at `0x00dba038`, `0x005b2ef7` is the search helper returning either a nonnegative env-slot index or the negated end slot, `0x005b315a` is the DBCS-aware character finder beneath the `'='` split path, and `0x005b2fa5` is the broader multibyte environment set-or-unset owner that also forwards updates into `SetEnvironmentVariableA`. The next CRT support strip is grounded now too: `0x005b1907` is the `user32.dll`-backed runtime-error message-box owner beneath `0x005acdb0`, `0x005b1ddd/0x005b1e23/0x005b1e36` are the top-level unhandled-exception filter callback plus its install and restore bridges, `0x005b1eab/0x005b1f2c` are the nolock and lock-scoped environment `name=value` lookup owners, `0x005b1b73/0x005b1bb1` are the unsigned and signed integer-to-ASCII helpers, and `0x005b1bdb` is the standard security-cookie initializer over time, pid, tid, tickcount, and QPC. The same neighborhood now also owns the older signal and decimal-record leaves: `0x005b23bd` is the per-thread signal-action lookup over `[thread_data+0x54]`, `0x005b23eb` is the higher signal-dispatch owner above that table and the global handler slots at `0x00dba480..0x00dba48c`, `0x005b1f6b` is the checked `u32` add helper, `0x005b1f8c` is the three-dword carry-propagating add helper, and `0x005b1fea/0x005b2018` are the left and right one-bit shifts on that same internal 96-bit decimal band. The neighboring fatal-report owner is bounded now too: `0x005b1c31` formats either the buffer-overrun or unknown-security-failure message body, adds the program path or ``, and then routes the final text through `crt_report_runtime_error_via_user32_message_box_or_callback` before forced CRT termination. `0x005a2bd2` is the lock-scoped varargs stream formatter, while `0x005a2c30/0x005a2cb0/ 0x005a2cd8/0x005a2d10` append callbacks into the global on-exit table at `0x00dbb8dc/ 0x00dbb8d8`, initialize that table, and expose the narrow boolean registration wrapper just beneath `crt_init_exit_handlers` `0x005a2d64`; `0x005ac9e7` is the allocation-size query helper for that same dynamic table, and `0x005a6649` is the local CRT heap-region descriptor probe that lets `0x005ac9e7` avoid `HeapSize` on the small-block fast path. The shared rounding leaf under both the overlay and math families is explicit now too: `0x005a10d0` is the signed float-to-integer helper reused by the later quantized-origin, height-bias, and layout-state callers. Their default local fallbacks are now bounded too: `0x0056c8ba`, `0x0056caf7`, and `0x0056cfa9` sample the primary cubic basis over four vec2, vec3, and vec4 control points; `0x0056c972`, `0x0056cbcf`, and `0x0056d0a4` do the same for the alternate cubic-basis family; and `0x0056ca50`, `0x0056cccf`, and `0x0056d1c6` are the lower-dimensional affine blend helpers computing `p0 + s*(p1-p0) + t*(p2-p0)` for vec2, vec3, and vec4. So the support-family boundary is tighter now: the older x87 seam is not another anonymous math island, it is the dispatch-layer predecessor of the later `0x00582320..0x005827c0` and `0x005897a2..0x0058a6c5` interpolation families. The same seam also owns the older scalar matrix-transform siblings: `0x0056ce53 -> 0x0056f496` is the x87 forward projective apply owner matching later `0x00589bb7`, `0x0056ce64 -> 0x0056f623` is the inverse-side x87 projective sibling matching later `0x00589d3f/0x00589f67`, and that inverse-side owner now has its own broader x87 inverse seam too: `0x0056d8d9 -> 0x0056d8df` is the second x87 4x4 inverse variant with optional determinant outparam, matching the later inverse helpers `0x00581db0`, `0x00588bd0`, and `0x005892aa`. The same strip still owns the earlier transform helpers too: `0x0056cd2f -> 0x0056cd42` is the x87 vec3-basis-plus-translation to vec4 helper matching later `0x00581830`, `0x0056cde0 -> 0x0056cded` is the translation-free vec3 basis helper matching `0x00581770`, `0x0056f0d7 -> 0x0056f0e4` is the x87 full-vec4 basis helper matching later packed helper `0x00583320`, `0x0056ce75 -> 0x0056ce82` is the x87 4D cross-product seam matching later `0x005821d0`, `0x0056d2f6` is the scalar x87 4x4 determinant helper matching later `0x005828e0`, `0x0056d23d -> 0x0056d24a` is the first x87 4x4 multiply predecessor of the later packed or MMX multiply families, and `0x0056d689 -> 0x0056d696` is the broader alias-safe x87 4x4 multiply sibling paired with local copy helper `0x0056d61c`. The local constructor side is tighter now too: `0x0056dc6c -> 0x0056dca0` is the x87 4x4 scale-matrix seam matching later `0x00585e7c`, `0x0056dd2a` is the x87 translation-matrix constructor reused by the `0x00570e8e/0x00570f0a` composition owners, `0x0056dd8c -> 0x0056ddae` is the x87 single-angle `X`-axis rotation-matrix seam, `0x0056de28 -> 0x0056de4a` is the matching `Y`-axis seam, and `0x0056dee1` is the local `Z`-axis constructor in the same strip. The quaternion side is bounded now too: `0x0056e8c3 -> 0x0056e8d6` is the x87 quaternion-product seam matching later `0x00582d10`, `0x0056e96c -> 0x0056e97f` is the x87 vec4 normalize-or-zero seam matching later `0x00584379`, and `0x0056ea38 -> 0x0056ea4b` is the x87 quaternion-inverse seam matching later `0x00582e40/0x00584c41`. The earlier quaternion construction side is explicit now too: `0x0056e7b6 -> 0x0056e7ea` is the x87 three-Euler-angle-to-quaternion seam matching later `0x00582fd0/0x005848ba`, `0x0056e092 -> 0x0056e098` is the x87 quaternion-to-4x4 rotation-matrix seam matching later `0x00582c30/0x00584010`, and `0x0056f882` is the direct x87 Euler-to-matrix owner that composes those two helpers. The nearby conversion bodies are bounded now too: `0x0056eb05` converts one quaternion into scaled-axis form, while `0x0056eb89` converts scaled-axis back into a quaternion and matches the later MMX helper `0x00584d4c`. The curve side is explicit now too: `0x0056ec24 -> 0x0056ec4e` is the x87 quaternion-slerp seam matching later `0x005849eb`, `0x0056ed5b` is the x87 quadratic nested-slerp helper matching later `0x00584baf`, and `0x0056edc3 -> 0x0056edf2` is the two-parameter nested-slerp seam matching later `0x00584b22`, and `0x0056fd08` is the broader four-quaternion owner that flips neighboring inputs into one hemisphere, converts the two relative quaternions around `q1` and `q2` into scaled-axis form, averages them with fixed scalar `-0.25f`, converts that average back into a quaternion, and produces the two inner quaternion spline-control outputs. The adjacent plane builders are bounded now too: `0x0056efe3 -> 0x0056ef41` is the x87 plane-versus-segment intersection seam matching later `0x00582820`, `0x0056eff0` copies one caller normal vec3 into plane output and derives the signed plane constant from one caller point vec3, and `0x0056f028 -> 0x0056f035` is the x87 three-point plane seam matching later `0x005829b0`. The older plane-matrix seam is explicit now too: `0x0056ee8a -> 0x0056ee90` is the shared x87 vec4 normalize-or-zero seam used to normalize caller plane vec4s, `0x0056fb6f` is the x87 plane-driven projective-matrix helper matching later `0x00582aa0/0x00583e80/0x00585b9b`, and `0x0056fc49` is the x87 plane-reflection matrix helper matching later `0x00585c86`. The lower-dimensional transform side is explicit now too: `0x0056f183` and `0x0056f337` are the x87 vec2 and vec3 normalize-or-zero helpers, `0x0056f7c9` is the adjacent second x87 vec4 normalize-or-zero variant with the same near-unit fast path, `0x0056f210` is the x87 2D-basis-plus-translation-to-vec4 helper matching later `0x00581690/0x0058a0b8`, `0x0056f27b` is the x87 2D projective sibling matching `0x005816d0/0x0058a146`, `0x0056f2fb` is the translation-free x87 2D basis helper matching `0x00581730/0x0058a10d`, and the nearby scalar-trig seam is explicit now too: `0x005a2ee0` is the older x87 `exp` seam, and its clean-state branch now resolves concretely into the SSE2 pair `0x005acaf0/0x005acb08`, while `0x005a2f70` and `0x005a3040` are the sibling x87 `acos` and `tan` helpers that stay on the local x87 bodies instead of using that SSE fast path. The same support strip also now has the optimized power pair grounded: `0x005aad20/0x005aad39` are the x87-to-SSE bridge and SSE2 core beneath `0x005a1b60`. These seams sit on the same older status-report path rooted at `0x005a76ee/0x005a77f7`, whose local helper strip is now explicit too: `0x005a7650` is the x87 `2^x` rebuild helper used after `fyl2x`, `0x005a7665` loads one masked-exception x87 control word while preserving rounding control, `0x005a7695/0x005a76d8` are the paired load-or-classify helpers for scalar `f64` inputs, `0x005a76ee` restores the saved control word on the clean exit, and `0x005a76fb/0x005a77e0/0x005a77f7` are the shared precision-check and math-error report owners. The older CRT report seam beneath them is grounded now too: `0x005acdb0` is the common runtime-error or math-error message emitter by code, `0x005acf27` is the banner-pair wrapper above it, and `0x005acf60` is the registered floating-point exception dispatcher that maps Windows exception codes like `0xc000008e` and `0xc0000093` into the local runtime math codes before falling back to `UnhandledExceptionFilter`. The adjacent startup-side helper `0x005ad0c4` is the shared program-name-tail extractor from the raw command line. The same older report family is tighter one layer deeper too: `0x005b08ba` is the common matherr-style report formatter and dispatcher under `0x005a77f7/0x005a790a`, while `0x005b09b8` is its default hook stub that simply returns zero before the path falls through to the default runtime-message emitter. The older `exp` fallback seam is explicit now too: `0x005a7480` and `0x005a74e7` are the unary and binary x87 special-case dispatchers driven by `fxam` and the state table at `0x0062a4bc`, `0x005a787e` and `0x005a7a51` are the unary fallback bodies that reach them from `st(0)` or one stack `f64`, `0x005a790a` is the shared finalize-or-report owner, and `0x005a7a84` is the stack-side `f64` loader or special promoter beneath that path. The SSE2 side now has its small exception tails grounded too: `0x005acd7e` is the moderate-input roundtrip tail under `0x005acb08`, while `0x005acd13` is the larger finite or non-finite ladder that returns the fixed overflow or underflow constants, pass-through infinities, or the shared report path. The next startup seam is tighter now too: `0x005ad1f4` is the shared argv parser and byte-count helper that honors the CRT multibyte lead-byte table, `0x005ad360` is the two-pass argv owner above it, `0x005ad402` is the multibyte environment-block materializer using the wide API when available, and `0x005ad12d` is the filtered envp-table builder that skips leading-`=` entries. The adjacent locale-conversion seam is explicit now too: `0x005b0b06/0x005b0bc6` are the core and current-thread-locale wrappers for one multibyte-to-wide character conversion, `0x005b0c1b/0x005b0c7b` are the matching wide-to-multibyte pair, and `0x005b0bf1` is the small CRT file-handle text-mode flag probe that sits immediately beside them. The neighboring older-CRT stream strip is tighter too: `0x005a16f4/0x005a1740` are the nolock and lock-scoped close owners for FILE-like streams, `0x005b09bb` is the broader stream-table cleanup sweep under CRT lock slot `1`, and `0x005b0a56/0x005b0a9a` are the pushback-buffer allocator and single-byte pushback helper. The next helper strip beside that is explicit now too: `0x005b0cb0` is the unsigned `u64` divide-with-remainder helper, `0x005b0d45` is the tiny x87 round-to-integral shim, `0x005b0d58` maps DBCS codepages to default LCIDs, and `0x005b0d87` resets the older CRT multibyte-locale tables before the broader bootstrap owner takes over. That owner is grounded now too: `0x005b0db0` rebuilds the active-codepage multibyte classification and case tables, `0x005b0f42` is the refcounted current-thread locinfo getter under CRT lock slot `13`, `0x005b0fb1` configures the global multibyte tables for one codepage, `0x005b1147` is the sentinel-aware public codepage-set owner above that, and `0x005b1297` is the one-shot ANSI codepage bootstrap wrapper. One older bootstrap layer is explicit now too: `0x005adfbe` builds the active codepage character-type tables or installs the ASCII fallback through globals `0x0062abd8`, `0x00dba760`, `0x00dba764`, and `0x0062acf0`, while `0x005aec88` is the shared `GetStringTypeW/A` bridge beneath both that owner and `0x005b0db0`. The adjacent leaf `0x005b16ef` directly queries the default ANSI codepage for one LCID through `GetLocaleInfoA(0x1004)`. The adjacent older locale-aware compare seam is explicit now too: `0x005a57cf` and `0x005a5f26` are the shared current-locale casefolded `strcmp` and bounded-compare siblings, `0x005a5838` is the per-byte or DBCS-pair casefold helper beneath both, and `0x005a5900` is the one-byte current-locale wrapper used by the nearby numeric text and string-hash helpers. When locinfo field `[+0x14]` is absent, the two compare owners fall back to plain ASCII casefolded comparators `0x005b0040` and `0x005b0100`; otherwise they route folding through `0x005ac579`, so this strip now reads as the older locale-aware compare family rather than anonymous text glue under the locale selectors and shell name lookups. The same local text seam now has the paired legacy numeric-text normalizers too: `0x005a5fa5` inserts the active decimal separator before the exponent marker in place, `0x005a5fe1` trims trailing zeros and an optional decimal separator before the exponent or terminating NUL, and `0x005a602c` is the adjacent fixed threshold predicate installed into the same five-slot legacy math dispatch table rooted at `0x0062a360`. The adjacent older decimal-conversion strip is bounded now too: `0x005b0485` and `0x005b04c8` parse ASCII numeric text through `0x005b12b5` and convert the resulting decimal record into two-dword or single-dword integer outputs through the fixed-table wrappers `0x005b0459/0x005b046f`, while `0x005b050b` materializes rounded significand digits into ASCII, `0x005b0582` normalizes one x87 extended value into the local compact float-record form, and `0x005b063c` bridges that normalized record into the shared digit-builder path used by the adjacent legacy numeric-format owners. That owner layer is explicit now too: `0x005a6046` is the small parse-to-single-or-pair-integer dispatch entry, `0x005a614f` is the scientific formatter over one x87 extended input, `0x005a625f` is the fixed-format sibling, `0x005a62c7` is the general-format owner that chooses between them, and `0x005a6367` is the style-dispatch wrapper over `e/E/f` and the remaining general-format lane. The neighboring x87 control-word strip is explicit now too: `0x005b06b7` maps one raw x87 control word into the older CRT abstract control-mask space, `0x005b0749` rebuilds the raw x87 word from that abstract mask, `0x005b07d7` is the merge-and-apply owner over current state plus caller `(value, mask)`, and `0x005b0809` remains the narrow wrapper that forces bit `0x80000` clear before applying the update. The next numeric seam is grounded structurally too: `0x005b12b5` is the shared ASCII floating literal parser into the older 12-byte decimal record, `0x005b2045` accumulates the digit string into that record, and `0x005b279c` scales it by a signed power-of-ten exponent. `0x0056f3d7` is the x87 3D projective sibling matching `0x005818f0/0x00589960`. `0x0055dd80` is the small direct release helper for subordinate layout-state field `[owner+0x2d]`, and `0x0055e060` is the wider owner teardown that releases the surrounding handle bands and the same subordinate layout-state object before the family falls back to the higher-level shell teardown path. The geographic-label text side is tighter now too: beneath `shell_emit_geographic_label_text_span` `0x0053a960`, the support strip `0x0053b090`, `0x0053b390`, `0x0053b590`, and `0x0053b5c0` now reads as one banked fixed-record loader and keyed lookup family with a small recent-query cache plus a string-hash helper. The static load loop at `0x0053ce09` seeds those banks from the pointer table rooted at `0x00624e48`, while the lookup core partitions rows by `key & 0x1f` into `32` per-bank buckets and keeps a `10`-entry recent-query cache rooted at `[this+0x4290c]`. The adjacent stream and staging side is bounded too: `0x0053b630/0x0053b690/0x0053b6f0/0x0053b7c0/0x0053b830` now read as the current-entry ordinal resolver, current-stream close/open helpers, and the shared byte-read strip, while `0x0053b850/0x0053b8d0/0x0053b920/0x0053b970` own the local `13`-byte staging-table growth, type-`7` service passes, and bucket-chain reset. The next owner layer is tighter now too: `0x0053b9e0` is the broader `Pack System Leak Count : %1` report-and-reset pass, releasing the four owned report-slot roots at `[this+0x429b0..+0x429bc]` plus sibling global `0x00ccba50`, formatting staging-row fields through `0x0051b700`, publishing them through callback slot `0x005c8078`, then tearing the staging slab and all per-bank handles back down. The keyed query side now extends cleanly beyond raw lookup: `0x0053bd40` seeks the selected-or-current payload stream and returns the handle, `0x0053be10` resolves or lazily opens one keyed typed auxiliary object including a descriptor rooted at `data\\Other\\AirplaneTypes.txt`, `0x0053c930` is the composite-string lookup wrapper, and `0x0053c9c0` is the matching payload-length resolver. The local row side is now first-class too: `0x0053bf60`, `0x0053c000`, and `0x0053c070` release, drop references on, and acquire-or-create refcounted staging rows with typed payload roots at `[row+0x09]`, while `0x0053c900` resets the adjacent stream-plus-recent-query-cache strip. `0x0053ca20/0x0053ca90` now bound the current-selection push/pop frame stack at `[this+0x20428]`, and `0x0053cb10` is the small two-`u32` plus optional heap-blob reader sitting directly on top of the shared byte-read helper. The broader bootstrap owner is tighter too: `0x0053cb60` zeroes the whole family, allocates the four owned report slots, walks the static root-pointer table `0x00624e14..0x00624e48`, loads banks through `0x0053b090`, and then routes selected keys such as `companyLogo`, `portrait`, and `trainSkin` back through the typed-object strip into those report slots. The nearby wrappers `0x0053d0f0/0x0053d110` are just the string-keyed type-`1` and type-`6` staging-row acquire helpers above `0x0053c070`. The adjacent `0x0053d130` is tighter now too: it strips one caller path to the final basename, derives a second stem copy through `0x0051d8a0`, gates on `support_query_path_is_openable_for_read` `0x0051e430`, and only then refreshes one type-`7` staging row through `0x0053c710` before resetting owner dword `[this+0x427b0] = -1`. Immediately after that, the local utility strip `0x0053d1d0..0x0053d470` now resolves as one scored binary-heap plus scored-node queue family: `0x0053d1d0/0x0053d240/0x0053d2e0/0x0053d300` are the heap reorder and top-score helpers, while `0x0053d320/0x0053d390/0x0053d440/0x0053d470` are the queue acquire, pop-highest, membership, and release-side helpers. The sibling heap-owner body now lands too: `0x0053d4c0/0x0053d540/0x0053d5d0/0x0053d630` are the pooled scored-heap insert, pop-top, release, and construct-with-capacity paths over the same score-at-`+0x04` node shape. The adjacent extended owner is now bounded too: `0x0053d6f0/0x0053d740` are the release and construct-with-capacity paths for the sibling scored-heap owner that carries one extra sentinel header at `[this+0x10]` plus best-score lane `[this+0x14]`, and current callers are the hotkey report iterator `0x0045f250` and the nearby shell/runtime owner around `0x00522c67`. The next support strip is tighter too: `0x0053d810/0x0053d870` are the CRC32-like NUL-string and fixed byte-span hash helpers over table `0x00624e48`, while `0x0053d8a0/0x0053d960/0x0053d9e0/ 0x0053daa0/0x0053dae0/0x0053db20/0x0053dbf0` now resolve as one intrusive `u32 -> ptr` hash-table family with optional pooled `0x10`-byte nodes: release, insert, remove-and-return, contains, lookup, callback iteration, and construct-with-bucket-count-and-node-capacity. That family is already grounded on real world owners too, not just support-side data-structure shape: connected-component and local bucket maps under `0x00416170/0x00419110`, selected owner hashes under `0x00531ef0`, and the shell-side cleanup owner around `0x00522e7e` all use the same pooled hash helpers. Beneath both the scored heaps and that hash family, `0x0053dcb0/ 0x0053dcf0` are now bounded as the shared fixed-stride pool-descriptor release and reset helpers, with freelist seeding over caller stride and count rather than one owner-family-specific allocator. The next typed payload branch in the same banked-record family is tighter now too: row type `6` is no longer just “some constructor under `0x0053c070`”. `0x0053ee70/0x0053e370` now read as the construct wrapper and full constructor for one shell image-marker payload that parses a grounded keyword set from the banked record text (`Image`, `ImageWH`, `ImageWHForceScale`, `ImageWHWithRef`, `ImageScaled`, `ImageWHScaled`, `MaxPercentOfInterfaceVRAM`, `MaxPercentOfInterfaceVRAMToUse`, `Scaleable`, `TGATargetScreenHeight`, `TGATargetScreenWidth`, `TGAHeight`, `TGAWidth`, `TGAName`, `HorizontalScaleModifier`, `VerticalScaleModifier`), registers one shell helper token through `[0x006d401c+0xc69]`, and then hands off to `0x0053de60`. That heavier sibling is now bounded as the payload's screen-metrics and VRAM-policy variant-table refresh owner: it derives current screen-space scale from shell display state, resolves one selected TGA or DDS resource through `0x0053c1c0`, and rebuilds the live variant array `[this+0x24]` through `0x005520a0` for later consumers such as `shell_queue_world_anchor_marker` `0x00552560`. The rebuild and release side is explicit too: `0x0053e2b0` releases current variants and the loaded image handle before tail-jumping back into `0x0053de60`, while `0x0053e2e0/0x0053ee60` are the real destructor and release thunk for the same type-`6` payload family. The nearby overlay builders are tighter now too. `0x00478200` is no longer just a generic single-marker wrapper: it validates owner id `[this+0x11b]` against collection `0x0062bae0`, resolves that live city-database-style owner, samples normalized XY through `0x00455800` and `0x00455810`, derives one localized label through `0x0053de00([this+0xaf],2)`, measures projected half-height through `0x00477a10`, and then queues the finished marker through `0x005521a0/0x00552160/0x00552560`. The broader sibling `0x00478330` now reads as the real active-mode overlay-list owner: it derives the current world-space view box from `[this+0xc3/+0xc7/+0xcb/+0xcf]` plus live world dims, runs six category passes `0..5`, pulls one active-mode collection through `0x005130f0 -> 0x004b2b70` or `0x0050f600`, walks live placed structures in `0x006cec20` through `0x0047fd50`, `0x0047df30`, and `0x0047df50`, and emits one repeated label-marked overlay stream through `0x00477a10`, `0x004779c0`, and `0x00552560`. After those category passes it also walks `0x006cfcbc` and can add one final focused-region marker from `[this+0x113]` through `0x0048a170` with label id `0x3c`. The local overlay-state helper strip under those builders is tighter now too. `0x00477af0` is the actual default reset for the state band `[this+0xa3..+0x11f]`, seeding minimum span floor `[this+0x11f]`, default cell bounds `[this+0xbb/+0xbf/+0xcb/+0xcf]`, scale lanes `[this+0xd3/+0xd7/+0xdb]`, and normalized rect `[this+0xef/+0xf3/+0xf7/+0xfb]`. `0x00477a70` is the paired scaled-max-span helper over the rebuilt cell bounds, while `0x00478dc0` and `0x00479510` are now bounded as the two heavier owner passes above that strip: the first rebuilds world-cell bounds and normalized rect from mode flags, raster bit `0x02`, and optional placed-structure scans, while the second clamps and recenters those bounds and then refreshes the normalized rect again after drag- or zoom-side updates. One input-side owner is bounded now too: `0x00477c10` maps one screen-space point into a world-cell pair under the current overlay-state bounds, and the larger sibling `0x00478cb0` is the drag-side loop above it that repeatedly applies those deltas through `world_view_apply_screen_delta_to_focus_position` `0x0043d0c0` before re-entering the same overlay-state rebuild or clamp family. The next query above that is tighter now too: `0x00479b50` is the nearest-target resolver for this overlay family, first searching placed structures in `0x006cec20` through `0x0047df30/0x0047df50` and `0x0051db80`, then optionally falling back to regions in `0x006cfca8` through `0x0048a170` when the shell-side metric flag bit `0x4` is set. The click-side owner above that is bounded now too: `0x00479d30` first maps the cursor through `0x00477c10`, resolves the nearest target through `0x00479b50`, then either publishes restriction notices `0x0c12/0x0c13`, forwards one compact selector-`0x384` request into the Multiplayer preview owner at `0x006cd8d8`, or dispatches that same local target through the active-mode handler pair `0x004b3160/0x004b2c10` before easing the shell scalar tail through `0x0045ea20`. The broader raster owner above this branch is bounded now too: `0x0047a120` first stages one visible overlay rect through `0x00534930/0x00534c50`, optionally allocates the target RGBA buffer, and then rasterizes the visible map window through the world classification helpers `0x00534e50`, `0x00534f00`, `0x00449bd0`, and `0x00448aa0`, mapping the result through palette table `0x005f2c34` and finally marking city-database owners from `0x0062bae0`. The small constructor strip under that raster owner is tighter now too: `0x0047b070` and `0x0047b0d0` are the two concrete constructors for vtable `0x005ce840`, both reusing `0x00477af0` for default state and then seeding the trailing template byte `[this+0xa2]`. The release and service strip under the same vtable is tighter now too: `0x0047b110` drops template handle `[this+0xaf]` and surface root `[this+0xab]` before tailing into the base release; `0x0047b170` is the main service body that refreshes bounds through `0x00479510`, draws the current overlay surface, and then queues either the repeated marker list `0x00478330`, the single city-database marker `0x00478200`, or the fallback quad path `0x00477d80`; and `0x0047b3d0` is the narrow wrapper that reruns `0x0047a120` into a temporary raster target and commits the result back into live surface handle `[this+0xab]`. The next local owner strip is tighter now too: `0x0047b470` ensures surface handle `[this+0xab]` by deriving zoom-scaled requested dimensions from the current shell zoom table at `[0x006d4024+0x11421e]`, growing them as powers of two under controller caps, allocating one `0xec`-byte surface owner through `0x00543980`, and immediately rerasterizing through `0x0047b3d0`; `0x0047b5e0` is the hover-update sibling that either tracks hovered classification id `[this+0x117]` under overlay flag `0x00400000` or refreshes nearest target ids `[this+0x10f/+0x113]` through `0x00479b50` before forwarding the live cursor band into `0x00558760`; and `0x0047b720` is now bounded as the main message dispatcher for the same family, with current grounded cases for id `6`, refresh pair `0xba/0xbb`, and scalar-update id `0xbc`, dispatching into the click owner `0x00479d30`, the drag owner `0x00478cb0`, the ensure-surface path `0x0047b470`, the reraster path `0x0047b3d0`, and the bounds rebuild owner `0x00478dc0`. The adjacent global marker strip is tighter now too: `0x0047ba60` clears the ten-entry global pointer-marker slot table at `0x006ceba4`, `0x0047bb90` is the matching release loop, and `0x0047ba80` rebuilds one indexed slot by constructing a `0x26e`-byte specialization-root object through `0x0045b680`, seeding it from literal roots `pointer`, `pointer2`, or `pointer3` through `0x0045b9b0`, publishing the caller world anchor through `0x004556f0`, applying scalar `0.8f` through `0x00455720`, and clearing bit `0x20` in the derived state byte. Current grounded callers are the clustered world-side branches at `0x0051677b`, `0x00516797`, `0x005167df`, and `0x005167fe`, so this now reads as a real shell-side global pointer-marker slot family rather than loose specialization constructors. The shared `0xec`-byte surface-owner seam beneath those overlay and layout callers is tighter now too. `0x00543080` is the per-owner row-budget refresh pass: unless constructor bytes `[owner+0x93/+0x94]` stay live or selector token `[owner+0x07]` already matches the current shell mode token, it revisits the eight row slots `[owner+0xa0..+0xbc]` through `0x00542fb0`, drops rows whose import now fails, marks readiness bytes `[owner+0x98..+0x9f]` against the caller-supplied byte-budget threshold, derives owner byte `[owner+0x06]` from the surviving ready rows, and can still re-enter the non-type-`2` postprocess owner `0x00542550`. `0x00543220` is the broader global service above that pass: it rate-limits itself through `0x0051d890`, samples the live shell view matrix from `[0x006d4024+0x28]`, derives one dynamic byte budget from summed camera-motion deltas cached in `0x00ccbb3c..0x00ccbb54`, retires stale owners from the intrusive list `0x00ccbb2c`, and then revisits the surviving active owners through `0x00543080` when the current budget crosses the local scaled row thresholds. The publish side is tighter now too: `0x005435d0` sits beneath both `0x005438d0` and the layout-slot binding strip at `0x00545520`, can lazily ensure selector handle `[owner+0x07]`, then asks the caller-supplied presentation handle to materialize a bound target through vtable slot `+0x50`, uploads the first ready row plus matching-dimension siblings as a mip-style chain through `[bound_handle]+0x3c`, frees the uploaded row buffers `[row+0x22/+0x26/+0x2a/+0x2e]`, stamps the current shell mode token back into `[owner+0x07]`, increments active-owner global `0x00ccbb34`, and refreshes cached byte totals through `0x00540fc0`. The lower cursor-capture strip beneath that input service is tighter now too. `0x00543ae0` and `0x00543b20` are the begin/end pair for the shell cursor-helper object returned by `0x0051f0b0`: the first sets active byte `[+0x08]`, dispatches vtable slot `+0x1c`, and snapshots the live shell cursor XY from `0x006d4018+0xa94/+0xa98`, while the second clears that active byte, dispatches slot `+0x20`, and restores one screen-space cursor position from the stored XY anchor through the current shell zoom table and import `0x005c8264`. The query side is explicit too: `0x00543ba0` returns the stored-or-live cursor triplet, `0x00543c10` returns the stored-or-live XY pair, and `0x00543c50` is the heavier relative-delta service used by `world_view_service_shell_input_pan_and_hover` `0x0043db00`. That heavier helper queries one current view metric bundle from the helper object, converts the returned deltas into floats, suppresses repeated zero-delta states through `0x00ccbb5c/0x00ccbb60`, accumulates the motion into stored XY and triplet bands, clamps the XY anchors to `[0.0, 1.0]`, derives one local edge-flag mask, and forwards the resulting state into `0x0054eb90` when live shell input is present. The owned-object seam is explicit now too: `0x00543a10` is the constructor-side initializer that seeds half-XY defaults and binds the two owned helper objects, while `0x00543e60` is the paired release helper that first ends capture and then drops both owned objects through their `+0x08` destructors. The tiny live-input gates beneath the same world-view predicates are explicit now too: `0x00543e00/0x00543e20/0x00543e40` are the three direct tests over shell input word `[0x006d4018+0xa8c]`, masking bits `0x400`, `0x2000`, and `0x800` respectively for the primary and secondary pan-channel branches. The adjacent layout-state bridge in the `0x52be..0x52c0` setup strip is bounded too: `0x00543e80` is the fixed node-slot-`+0x90` publish helper for selector `3` with unit scalar `1.0f`, `0x00543ee0` is the fixed selector-`2` sibling, and `0x00543ea0` is the optional RGB-plus-scalar helper that can reuse cached color `[layout+0x25a3]` before publishing the same selector-`3` block into bound node `[layout+0x25df]`. That keeps the label side grounded as a real support-family database strip rather than a loose collection of anonymous bootstrap helpers. If shell-state gate `[0x006cec74+0x174]` is set it then posts id `320` `Setting Up Buildings...` for `world_region_collection_run_building_population_pass` `0x00421c20`; if `[0x006cec74+0x178] > 0` it then posts id `321` `Seeding Economy...` for `simulation_run_chunked_fast_forward_burst` `0x00437b20`; only after those setup-side gates does the code post id `319` `Setting up Players and Companies...`. That `319` lane is no longer just a shell-state placeholder: its earlier hidden prepass is tighter now too: `0x00437737` is the scenario-side named candidate-availability seeding pass over the live candidate pool `0x0062b268`, feeding the override collection at `[state+0x66b2]` through `0x00434f20` before any visible banner is posted. That grounded write path is narrower than the static file evidence, though: the startup reset helper `world_runtime_reset_startup_dispatch_state_bands` `0x004336d0` explicitly clears `[state+0x66b2]` before the dispatch path begins, and the current exported write-side callers we can name after that reset are still just the live-pool preseed `0x00437737`, the sibling startup lane `0x00436ad7`, and the editor-side `Industry (Overall)` toggle handler `0x004cf430` through `0x00434f20`. So while the fixed `0x6a70..0x73c0` candidate-availability block is now well grounded as bundled map/save source data, a direct bulk-import path from that block into the live runtime collection `[state+0x66b2]` is still not grounded by the current disassembly notes. That candidate-side table now has a grounded fixed record layout too: each entry is a `0x22`-byte blob with a zero-terminated candidate-name slot at `[entry+0x00..+0x1d]` and one trailing availability dword at `[entry+0x1e]`, read through `0x00434ea0` and mirrored later into `[candidate+0x7ac]`. The candidate support strip around that latch is tighter now too: `0x00412c10` walks the live candidate pool, forces `[candidate+0x7ac] = 1` whenever availability bytes `[candidate+0xba/+0xbb]` are already set or subtype `[candidate+0x32]` is not `2`, and only for the remaining subtype-`2` cases does it consult `0x00434ea0` by candidate stem before tailing into `structure_candidate_collection_refresh_cargo_economy_filter_flags` `0x0041eac0`. The neighboring collection helpers now read cleanly too: `0x00412bd0` is the collection-wide `0x00411ee0` cargo-summary rebuild sweep over already-materialized `0xbc` descriptor strips, and `0x00412ba0` is the remove-and-release sibling that clears one candidate's dependent runtime descriptor and cargo-membership tables through `0x00411cb0` before erasing that id from the pool. The same pool now has an explicit destroy-side wrapper too: `0x00412a90` resets the collection vtable to `0x005c93cc`, releases the indexed live-entry storage through `0x00518600`, and tails into the common indexed-collection cleanup `0x00518bd0`. The global teardown branch at `0x00434480` uses that wrapper immediately before freeing the live candidate-pool object at `0x0062b268`, so the pool lifecycle is now bounded on both the rebuild and destroy sides instead of only on the rebuild path. The auxiliary-owner side is tighter now too: `0x00413dd0` resolves one auxiliary entry's owner candidate through dword `[entry+0x173]` and reuses the same current-year gate `0x00412510`, while `0x00413d80` only succeeds for subtype-`1` owners and copies candidate words `[candidate+0xcb]` and `[candidate+0xcd]` into the projected-footprint helper family. The same scenario state keeps a locomotive-side sibling collection at `[state+0x66b6]`, read through `0x00435030` and updated through `0x004350b0`, which is now the shared named locomotive-availability lane beneath the `Locomotives` editor page and the startup-side locomotive seeding branches. That locomotive-side table is the same pattern at a larger width: each entry is a `0x41`-byte blob with a zero-terminated locomotive-name slot at `[entry+0x00..+0x3c]` and one trailing availability dword at `[entry+0x3d]`, later mirrored into `[loco+0x7b]`. Both override dwords now read most safely as simple availability bits rather than wider mode enums. That `319` lane is no longer just a shell-state placeholder: its primary grounded work is still the chairman-profile pair `world_seed_default_chairman_profile_slots` `0x004377a0` plus `world_build_chairman_profile_slot_records` `0x00437220`, which seed the 16 selector bytes at `[0x006cec7c+0x87]`, materialize the per-slot chairman records from the scenario selectors, campaign override flag `[0x006cec7c+0xc5]`, and the static persona table at `0x005f2d28`, and then publish the selected chairman-profile and linked company summary pair through `[state+0x25]` and `[state+0x21]`. The local slot-record shape is tighter too because the shell editor panel around `0x004cc2d0` now surfaces it directly: `[slot+0x00]` is the staged chairman profile id, `[slot+0x01]` is the Optional-versus-Mandatory byte with nonzero=`Optional` and zero=`Mandatory`, `[slot+0x02]` combines with the separate per-slot gate at `[world+0x0bc3+slot*9]` to surface `Human`, `Computer`, and `Human or Computer`, `[slot+0x03]` is the special occupied-seat byte, and `[slot+0x04]` is the numeric tuning field. Both the selector seeder and the record materializer treat either `[slot+0x02]` or `[slot+0x03]` as enough to keep a slot live, but current grounded writes only seed `[slot+0x03]` on slot zero and later move it solely by whole-record compaction. That makes `[slot+0x03]` the strongest current anchor for the distinguished primary-human-seat flag rather than a generic role byte. The summary fields are tighter too: current direct accessors now show `[state+0x25]` as the selected chairman profile id in `0x006ceb9c`, while `[state+0x21]` is the linked owning company id copied from `[profile+0x1dd]` through `scenario_state_set_selected_chairman_profile` `0x00434890`. The raw id strip under those record helpers is tighter now too: `0x004337a0` reads `[state+0x21]` directly as the selected company id, `0x004337b0` reads `[state+0x25]` directly as the selected chairman profile id, and `0x00433790` is the paired raw selected-company setter that the company and chairman reassignment flows use when the visible ownership summary changes without re-entering the full profile setter. The underlying profile constructor family is grounded now too. `0x00476140` is the broad named-profile constructor beneath both chairman seeding passes: it stores the caller id at `[profile+0x00]`, marks the record live through `[profile+0x04] = 1`, seeds byte and guard lanes across `[profile+0x291..+0x295]` and `[profile+0x1e1]`, zeroes the large per-company and tail bands `[profile+0x2ab..]` and `[profile+0xc66..]`, copies the caller byte into `[profile+0x15c]`, seeds `[profile+0x158]` to `7.763f`, formats localized fallback name `0x0b87` when the caller name is empty, copies the caller biography into `[profile+0x27]`, and picks one static persona row through `0x004760f0`. That helper is now bounded as the wrapped-unused-row allocator over the static persona table at `0x005f2d28`, marking one zero flag byte at stride `0x27` after a modulo-`0x29` search. The neighboring raw company-slot strip is explicit too: `0x004760a0` resolves indexed dword slot `[profile + company_index*4 + 0x2ab]` when the caller's generation stamp differs from `[profile+0xc43]`, and `0x004760c6` is the paired store-side helper for the same slot plus optional stamp write. The adjacent profile-metric strip used by the player-list page is tighter now too: `0x00476320` sums the per-company holding band `[profile+0x15d..]` against either cached company scalar `0x00423eb0` or the broader support-adjusted company scalar `0x00424fd0`, while `0x004763b0` folds those same per-company contributions through one extra thresholded transform before accumulating them. The active-profile collection helpers are direct now too: `0x004778c0` returns the live record id of the Nth active chairman profile, and `0x00477920` counts how many active chairman profiles precede one caller-selected live record id. The neighboring transaction and cached-metric strip is tighter now too. `0x00476780` is the direct-total-plus-cash query (`0x00476320 + [profile+0x154]`), while `0x00476c20` is the threshold-adjusted-total-plus-cash sibling (`0x004763b0 + [profile+0x154]`). `0x004767a0` selects between raw cash `[profile+0x154]`, the direct holding total, or their sum, and `0x00476810` caches selectors `0` and `1` into the local qword band rooted at `[profile+0x1e9]`. The trade-side helpers now split cleanly too: `0x00476460` is the sell-side mutator that reduces one company holding slot `[profile + company_id*4 + 0x15d]`, converts the resulting proceeds through `0x00424fd0(-units,1)`, and adds the scaled result back into `[profile+0x154]`; the buy companion is `0x00477110`, which first reuses the feasibility gate `0x00476ff0`, then increases that same holding slot and subtracts the scaled purchase cost from `[profile+0x154]`. Between them, `0x00476e50` computes the rounded `1000`-sized trade block by mode, and `0x00476ff0` performs the actual buy-affordability check against current cash plus an optional direct-holdings fallback; the reduction-side sibling `0x00476c40` uses the same threshold-adjusted-total-plus-cash lane from `0x00476c20` as its optional fallback when the direct holding slot is too small. One broader periodic scalar is grounded now too: `0x00476560` walks raw issue `0x39` through `scenario_state_sum_issue_opinion_terms_raw` plus the scenario baseline at `0x00433740`, clamps the resulting factor against several `[profile+0x154]` thresholds, and then adds the final scaled delta back into `[profile+0x154]`; current grounded caller `0x0040a760` applies that adjustment across every active chairman profile before the later trigger-kind-`2` pass. The adjacent start-new-company gate is explicit now too: `0x00476d10` first rejects through localized id `2952` `You're not able to start a new company.` when scenario gate `0x00476a60` is active; otherwise it treats `0x004763b0(1) + [profile+0x154]` as the relevant purchasing-power lane, succeeds only when that total reaches threshold `0x005c8830`, and on failure formats the richer localized warning `271` `You don't have enough money to start a new company!...` using the selected chairman profile's current purchasing-power figure from `0x004348c0`. The adjacent persona-row lookup strip is partly explicit now too: `0x00476bb0` returns the matched static persona row index for current profile stem `[profile+0xc47]`, while `0x00476b30` returns the same matched row's `+0x20` asset-stem pointer or falls back to `[profile+0x20]`, and `0x00476ab0` is the structural `+0x40` string-pointer sibling for that same row family. The adjacent chairman refresh owner is tighter now too: `0x00433850` uses the guard pair `0x0062be20/0x0062be1c` to walk the active-chairman collection through `0x00477820/0x00477860 -> 0x004771e0` until no nested mutation asks for another pass. The editor-side scenario setup surface beside that chairman panel is clearer now too. `map_editor_scenario_metadata_panel_refresh_controls` `0x004ca790` republishes the scenario description from `[0x006cec78+0x672e]`, the start-year trio `[+0x66ca]`, `[+0x66d2]`, and `[+0x66ce]`, the direct campaign-designated bit `[+0x66de]` through control `0x5b6e`, and the inverse of the paired metadata byte `[+0x66f3]` through control `0x5b74`. The resource-side anchor is now explicit too: `editorDetail.win` carries localized ids `3160/3161` `Campaign Scenario` and `If checked, this map will be reserved as a campaign scenario.` inside the control record rooted at `0x5b6e`, so `[+0x66de]` is now the grounded campaign-scenario flag rather than an anonymous metadata boolean. `map_editor_scenario_metadata_panel_refresh_briefing_mode` `0x004ca670` now bounds the single-player versus multiplayer briefing switch by flipping selector `0x621f50`, publishing localized headings `1491` and `3586`, and refreshing the two briefing texts from `[state+0x4f30]` and `[+0x5ae9]`. The companion dispatcher `map_editor_scenario_metadata_panel_handle_message` `0x004cb4a0` makes the year semantics tighter too: it commits the description and both briefing texts from edit-control payloads, toggles the same two booleans, and clamps the three year fields to `1829..2100` while maintaining `minimum <= default <= maximum`, which now lines up directly with the editor strings `Description:` `Minimum Start Year:` `Default Start Year:` `Maximum Start Year:` `Briefing` and `Multi-Player Briefing`. The neighboring special-conditions page is clearer as well: `map_editor_scenario_special_conditions_panel_construct` `0x004cb2b0` now grounds the live owner for the `Setup_Options_Buttons.imb` list rooted at `0xa7fa`, walks the 49-entry static rule table at `0x005f3ab0`, counts enabled flags from `[0x006cec78+0x4a7f]`, and publishes the `Special Conditions In Effect` summary from localized id `1053`. The same page now has a bounded live dispatcher too: `map_editor_scenario_special_conditions_panel_handle_message` `0x004cb8e0` handles both bulk selection controls and direct row-state changes, commits them back into `[0x006cec78+0x4a7f]`, and then re-enters the panel constructor to refresh the summary. That table is no longer just a raw id run; it now clearly includes the finance and construction restrictions `2535..2563`, plus later editor toggles such as `Use Bio-Accelerator Cars`, `Disable Cargo Economy`, `Disable Train Crashes`, `Disable Train Crashes AND Breakdowns`, and `AI Ignore Territories At Startup`. The neighboring available-chairman page is tighter too. `map_editor_available_chairman_panel_construct` `0x004ca540` now bounds the shell-side owner for the 40-entry persona-availability surface under `0x5aa0..0x5b03`: it walks the same persona table family at `0x005f2d28`, publishes one localized chairman-name row per profile, counts enabled availability bytes from `[0x006cec78+0x6987..]`, and emits the summary `%1 out of %2 are selected.` from localized id `1035`. The live state owner beside it is now grounded as well: `map_editor_available_chairman_panel_handle_message` `0x004cb6f0` handles three bulk-selection controls `0x5aa1..0x5aa3` by rewriting that same availability-byte array from preset bytes embedded in the persona table, and it also commits direct per-row toggle changes from `0x5aaa..0x5b03` back into `[state+0x6987..]` before refreshing the page. So the editor lane now has three distinct scenario-setup slices rather than one chairman-only blob: chairman slots, scenario metadata and briefings, plus both a rule-toggle matrix and an available-chairman pool. There is now one adjacent company-side lane too: current neighboring setup flow conditionally enters `world_conditionally_seed_named_starting_railroad_companies` `0x0047d440` when the Multiplayer preview owner `0x006cd8d8` is absent and either sandbox flag `[0x006cec7c+0x82]` is set or shell-state flag `[0x006cec74+0x14c]` is set while editor-map mode `[0x006cec74+0x68]` is clear. That helper no longer looks like a generic company refresh. It seeds exactly three fixed named railroad-company records from `RT3.lng` ids `575..577`: `Missouri Pacific`, `New York Central`, and `Grand Trunk Railroad`. The first seeded company is tied back to the selected chairman-profile summary and becomes the selected company id. The second railroad is tighter now too: it only receives a chairman link when `profile_collection_count_active_chairman_records` finds at least two live chairman records, and the helper then binds the zero-based second active chairman through `profile_collection_get_nth_active_chairman_record` with ordinal `1`. The third railroad currently gets no matching chairman-link branch in the grounded setup flow and therefore remains an unchaired named company in the live roster. The shell UI above that setup lane is now tighter as well: `shell_company_list_window_construct` `0x004c7200` builds a live company-list window over the company collection at `0x0062be10`, `shell_company_list_window_refresh_rows` `0x004c6c30` formats the active companies with localized strings `267..270`, and only then conditionally appends one synthetic row id `0x7fff` through `shell_company_list_format_company_or_start_row` `0x004c6b40` so `<>` appears as a separate affordance rather than as part of the seeded trio itself. Current shell paging around that same roster is tighter too because the live company collection now has a grounded active-only ordinal helper family: `company_collection_count_active_companies` `0x00429a50`, `company_collection_count_active_companies_before_company_id` `0x004299f0`, and `company_collection_get_nth_active_company_id` `0x00429990`. Those helpers now anchor the “current company among active companies” math used by shell-side detail and picker flows rather than leaving it as anonymous collection glue. `shell_company_list_window_handle_message` `0x004c6f30` then routes the synthetic row into `start_new_company_dialog_open` `0x0047d080`, whose commit path now grounds through `start_new_company_dialog_commit_create_company` `0x0047d120`. That lower helper unlinks any current chairman-owned company, allocates a fresh company id from the live collection at `0x0062be10`, initializes it through `0x00428420`, and only then publishes the new selected company. The neighboring compact request helper `start_new_company_request_create_company` `0x0047d320` does the same fresh-company path from a request block and is already reached from the startup-company branch at `0x00470e48`. The dialog side is tighter now too: `0x0047c070` and `0x0047bea0` rebuild the two funding-band globals from the selected chairman profile through `0x00476c20` and `0x00476950`, publish their range cards into controls `0x714f` and `0x7150`, `0x0047c190` republishes the current pair `0x006cec14` and `0x006cec10` into controls `0x7149` and `0x714a`, `0x0047c220` snaps those two current funding lanes back onto the active band steps, and `0x0047c360` is the small child-control callback gate over that same funding family. The immediate pre-open helper `0x0047d020` is now bounded too: it seeds the staged dialog name buffer and then runs the same clustered funding-band rebuild sequence before `start_new_company_dialog_open` continues into the constructor/callback modal path. The constructor and message side are bounded enough now too: `0x0047c590` constructs the modal dialog controls for `0x714f/0x7150/0x7149/0x714a/0x714b/0x714c/0x714d/0x714e`, installs callback `0x0047c360` on the funding-band pair, and publishes the live dialog root at `0x006cec18`, while `0x0047c3a0` is the main dialog message owner over shell messages `0xca/0xcb`, the staged name field `0x714b`, the two funding-step controls `0x714c/0x714d`, the companion summary lane `0x714e`, and the modal notice branch rooted at `0x03f2/0x03f4`. The immediate sibling shell branch below that roster is still station-oriented: current grounded resource names and handlers put one branch on `shell_station_detail_window_construct` `0x005068c0`, another on `shell_station_list_window_construct` `0x005074c0`, and the subordinate selector lane on `shell_station_pick_window_open_modal_and_return_selected_station_id` `0x005078c0` above `shell_station_pick_window_construct` `0x00507620`. But the broader company-detail ownership question is no longer open. There is now a separately grounded `CompanyDetail.win` family rooted at `shell_company_detail_window_construct` `0x004c5540`, with `shell_company_detail_window_handle_message` `0x004c56a0` as its main dispatcher and `shell_company_detail_window_refresh_controls` `0x004c2ca0` as the shared repopulation pass for the selected-company presentation and tabbed control bands around `0x9476..0x9490`. A grounded direct shell-command strip now sits cleanly above those two company panels too: `0x00433a40` is the shared availability gate for both the company-list and selected-company-detail lanes, rejecting only when scenario toggle `[0x006cec78+0x4aef]` is set. `0x004405a0` uses that gate to open detail-panel mode `7` as the direct company-list path, while `0x004405d0` first recovers the selected-company id through `0x004337a0`, optionally offers `Start New Company` through `0x0047d080` after warning `368` when no company is selected, and only then opens detail-panel mode `8` for the selected-company `CompanyDetail.win` lane. A grounded shell detail-manager caller reaches that constructor at `0x004dde24`, the first finance-action layer beneath it is now bounded through `shell_company_detail_issue_bond_offer_flow` `0x004c3890`, `shell_company_detail_issue_stock_offer_flow` `0x004c3f30`, `shell_company_detail_buyback_stock_flow` `0x004c46d0`, and `shell_company_detail_change_dividend_rate_flow` `0x004c5360`, and the first non-finance layer is now bounded too through `shell_company_detail_resign_chairmanship_flow` `0x004c5a0e`, `shell_company_detail_bankruptcy_flow` `0x004c5b99`, the territory-access family rooted at `shell_company_detail_refresh_selected_territory_access_summary` `0x004c1b60` plus `shell_company_detail_buy_territory_access_rights_flow` `0x004c5fc9`, backed by `company_clear_selected_chairman_if_current_profile` `0x00428a10`, `company_declare_bankruptcy_and_halve_bond_debt` `0x00425a90`, `company_has_territory_access_rights` `0x00424010`, `company_set_territory_access_rights_byte` `0x00424030`, and `company_can_purchase_territory_access_rights` `0x00426be0`, plus the two control-transfer lanes. `shell_company_detail_attempt_chairmanship_takeover_flow` `0x0050ccc0` now grounds the special chairman's election path: it checks the caller's current stock ownership in the target company, rejects insufficient holdings through localized id `623`, rejects recent failed attempts through id `624`, and then opens the confirmation under id `625` before seeding the local takeover-election state or packaging the same request through the multiplayer shell transport. The follow-on resolver `shell_resolve_chairmanship_takeover_vote_and_commit_outcome` `0x0050c940` now closes the single-player election loop too: it walks the active chairman profile collection, computes weighted votes for and against the takeover, compares the affirmative total against half the target-company value, presents the result through `shell_present_chairmanship_takeover_vote_outcome_dialog` `0x0050c500` in single-player or localized id `3082` in multiplayer, and then either transfers chairmanship through `0x00428a30` or stamps the current year into `[company+0x289]` as the grounded takeover-cooldown field. `shell_company_detail_attempt_merger_flow` `0x004ec640` now grounds the merger side too: it rejects empty worlds through id `727`, rejects recent failed attempts through id `728`, checks the proposed premium against company cash through localized id `3889`, and then commits into the resolver family. That merger resolver is now bounded too: `shell_resolve_merger_vote_and_commit_outcome` `0x004ebd10` walks the active chairman profile collection, computes weighted votes for and against the proposed merger, compares the affirmative total against half the target-company value, presents the result through `shell_present_merger_vote_outcome_dialog` `0x004eb890` in single-player or localized id `3059` in multiplayer, and then either commits the merger through `0x00427e20` or stamps the current year into `[company+0x15f]` as the grounded merger-cooldown field. The vote-bias side beneath that resolver is tighter now too: `scenario_state_compute_issue_opinion_multiplier` `0x00436590` is no longer just an abstract issue table lookup because its merger callsite uses issue id `0x3a`, which lines up directly with localized id `726` saying merger votes depend on public attitude toward the management of the two companies. By contrast the broader support-adjusted share-price helper `company_compute_public_support_adjusted_share_price_scalar` `0x00424fd0` uses issue id `0x37`, and the shared setter under that lane is tighter now too: `0x004339b0` clamps one small scenario-side issue value into `[state+0x2d]` with range `0..4`, derives one companion scalar in `[state+0x29]`, and then forces a live-company sweep through `0x00424fd0` so the support-adjusted share-price family is recomputed immediately after the issue lane changes. The finance-side debt helpers now bound `0x38` and `0x39` separately as the explicit credit-rating and prime-rate lanes. That leaves `0x37` as the broader investor-confidence lane behind equity support, share price, and adjacent governance pressure, with the strongest current text anchors coming from the investor-attitude strings `1217` and `3048/3049` about company or chairman performance rather than from the merger-only management-attitude term. One older local lead is now ruled out too: the `0x460900..0x460cac` / `0x473620` setup block is the camera-view command family over localized ids `3474..3493` (`Select/Assign Camera View 1..9` and `0`), not issue-opinion infrastructure, so it should no longer be used as evidence for the player-facing meaning of issue `0x37`. The editor-side `Stock Prices` label is also no longer being used as direct evidence here: the `0x4ca980` / `0x4cadf0` panel owns a separate float-tuning block `[state+0x0bde..0x0bf6]`, with `[state+0x0bde]` merely mirroring `[state+0x0be2]`, so that label belongs to a different settings family than the issue table behind `0x37`. A direct shell-resource follow-up now narrows the remaining caption question too: the extracted `CompanyDetail.win` blob from `rt3_2WIN.PK4` contains no plain-English investor or finance caption for this lane, which matches the owner-side read that section-0 is a dynamic `0x947f` text widget fed by `shell_format_company_governance_and_economy_status_panel` `0x004e5cf0` rather than a separate fixed label row. The supporting stat layer is bounded more cleanly now too: the surrounding `0x0b` setup in the merger and takeover offer builders is formatter mode rather than a player-facing issue number, while the company-side stat wrapper `company_read_year_or_control_transfer_metric_value` `0x0042a5d0` now reads as a generic stat-family accessor over year-relative series or the bounded slot family in `company_read_control_transfer_metric_slot` `0x0042a2e0`. Its recurring family token `0x2329` is no longer treated as an issue id here either; it is the stat-family selector paired with localized company-stat label id `2329`. That means the paired raw and scaled helpers at `0x004241e0` and `0x00424200` now read as narrow control-transfer offer policy totals instead of direct issue-argument consumers, and the same broader support-and-governance metric family now also feeds the annual shareholder-revolt and creditor-liquidation lane surfaced by localized ids `300..304`. The editor-side help text cluster around ids `2433..2437` is no longer floating either: current grounded map-editor code now has a live economic tuning family beside the chairman-slot panel. `map_editor_economic_cost_slider_panel_construct` `0x004cadf0` binds six slider controls through `map_editor_economic_cost_slider_dispatch` `0x004ca980`, which now grounds as the real writer for the scenario-state float block `[0x006cec78+0x0be2..0x0bf6]`: lane `0` uses one dedicated scale divisor, the trailing five lanes share the centered `(value-0xce)` path, and the helper mirrors lane `0` into `[state+0x0bde]`. The surrounding descriptor table at `0x00611c70..0x00612220` pairs that wider editor lane with localized fields `Prime Rate`, `Merger Premium`, and `Build Stations Cost` through `Steam Engine Cost` plus the comparison or help texts `2433..2437`. The broader shell-state master flag at `[0x006cec74+0x68]` still sits above the remaining post-load phases, plus two narrower per-phase gates: `[0x006cec74+0x174]` directly fronts id `320` `Setting Up Buildings...` and the later region-owned structure-demand and placement pass through `world_region_collection_run_building_population_pass` `0x00421c20` plus the deeper per-region worker `world_region_balance_structure_demand_and_place_candidates` `0x004235c0`, while `[0x006cec74+0x178]` directly fronts id `321` `Seeding Economy...` and the chunked burst helper `simulation_run_chunked_fast_forward_burst`, whose grounded tail now also sweeps the live region collection through `world_region_refresh_cached_category_totals_and_weight_slots` `0x00423d30`; id `322` then fronts `Calculating Heights...`. The master `+0x68` flag is no longer just structural: the shell load/save coordinators now use the same flag to force the editor-map `.gmp` family, so current evidence treats it as the broader editor-map mode above those later setup branches rather than an unnamed generic toggle. That worker is no longer one opaque building bucket: current grounded categories split into `House`, a weighted region-profile family surfaced through the `Industry Weightings` stats path, and a third branch whose low-level fallback token is `Commercial` but whose aligned stats label is `City Support`. The same placement-commit gate beneath it, `world_region_validate_and_commit_candidate_placement` `0x00422a70`, is also corroborated by the separate world-side randomized batch helper `world_try_place_random_structure_batch_from_compact_record` `0x00430270`, which retries placements around one compact center/radius record rather than the ordinary per-region demand deficits. That batch placer now sits under a wider compact runtime-effect dispatcher, `world_apply_compact_runtime_effect_record_to_resolved_targets` `0x00431b20`, so the world-side branch is no longer just “another caller near `0x43051e`” but one real effect family alongside the ordinary region-demand worker. Above that, the live scenario event collection at `0x0062be18` now has a tighter runtime-effect lane too: `scenario_runtime_effect_record_service_and_dispatch_linked_compact_effects` `0x004323a0` services one live runtime-effect record, dispatches its linked compact effects through `0x00431b20`, and can synthesize follow-on records through `scenario_runtime_effect_record_build_followon_effect_from_compact_record_and_targets` `0x00430b50`, which in turn allocates new live records through `scenario_event_collection_allocate_runtime_effect_record_from_compact_payload` `0x00432ea0`. Above that, `scenario_event_collection_service_runtime_effect_records_for_trigger_kind` `0x00432f40` now bounds the collection-wide loop that services those live runtime-effect records for one trigger kind. That trigger split is tighter now too: recurring simulation maintenance drives kinds `1`, `0`, `3`, and `2`; the neighboring route-style follow-on drives `5` and `4`; startup-company and named-railroad creation branches drive `7`; kind `6` is now bounded as a mixed post-change family spanning the placed-structure post-create tail, one build-version-gated company-startup or roster-refresh tail, and the route-entry post-change sweep on `0x006cfca8`; one world-entry-side one-shot gate drives `8` and then clears shell-profile latch `[0x006cec7c+0x97]`; the briefing-text query lane is kind `9`; and the collection dirty latch still forces the internal rerun at kind `0x0a`. That moves this branch out of the “isolated world-side placement oddity” bucket and into a real scenario-runtime effect pipeline with a mostly bounded trigger-kind family. The same lower helper also reappears later on a slower simulation-side cadence with scale `1/12`, so it no longer looks like one-time setup glue only. The actual game-speed control family remains separate, rooted at `world_set_game_speed_mode` `0x00434680`, `world_adjust_game_speed_mode_delta` `0x00434850`, and `world_toggle_pause_or_restore_game_speed` `0x00437a60`. The direct shell command stub above that family is now explicit too: `0x00440880` just re-enters the pause-or-resume toggle with flag `1` and then issues one indexed shell feedback nudge through `0x0045ea20` with selector `0x2c` and scalar `0.5f`. That feedback path is tighter now too: `0x0045ea20` is the reusable indexed audio-feedback helper over the table-driven pairs at `0x005f0828/0x005f082c`, and `0x00531e10` is the shell-audio-service sink that only dispatches those nudges when the live service gates are satisfied. ### Camera View Command Strip The adjacent shell-command family at `0x004408f0..0x00440c30` is now grounded as the ten-slot `Assign/Select Camera View` owner rather than as a generic modal strip. `shell_assign_camera_view_slot_and_publish_confirmation` `0x004408f0` snapshots one `0x30`-byte record inside the live world-view owner through `world_view_store_camera_view_slot_snapshot` `0x0043b2c0`, storing both the live view tuple `[view+0x04..+0x24]` and one saved focus-kind pair from `[0x006cec78+0x45/+0x49]`; `shell_select_camera_view_slot_or_publish_unassigned_warning` `0x004409c0` then re-enters `world_view_restore_camera_view_slot_snapshot_if_populated` `0x0043ca20`, which restores the same fields, optionally replays the saved focus through `shell_world_focus_selected_subject_kind_and_id` `0x00437a90`, and returns silently on success. Only empty slots surface the shared shell modal path, using localized ids `371..373` after one label-format pass through `0x0051b700`. The wrapper strip `0x00440b00..0x00440c30` is now fully bounded too: `0x00440b00/10/20/30/40/50/60/70/80/90` are `Assign Camera View 1..9/0`, while `0x00440ba0/b0/c0/d0/e0/f0/c00/c10/c20/c30` are `Select Camera View 1..9/0`, and the registration block at `0x00460903..0x00460cac` ties those wrappers to localized command ids `3474..3493`. ### CompanyDetail Addendum The shared helper `shell_company_detail_resolve_selected_company` at `0x004c16f0` now bounds the common current-company accessor beneath the whole pane, and the read-side owner also has a separate active-company navigation family through `shell_company_detail_step_selected_active_company_delta` at `0x004c3470` plus the next or previous wrappers at `0x004c3540` and `0x004c3550`. The section switch in `shell_company_detail_window_refresh_controls` is now grounded too: section index `0x006cfe60` selects a chairman/governance slice, a debt-and-capital slice, a per-share slice, or a territory-access slice, published through the tab band around `0x9472..0x9479`, with adjacent section-navigation controls around `0x947b..0x947c` and `0x948f..0x9490`. ### Key Dispatchers `shell_controller_window_message_dispatch`, `shell_input_apply_window_key_transition`, `shell_input_snapshot_dispatch_state`, `shell_input_cursor_inside_active_view`, `world_load_saved_runtime_state_bundle`, `world_runtime_serialize_smp_bundle`, `simulation_frame_accumulate_and_step_world`, `game_message_window_service_if_present`, `game_message_window_service_frame`, `game_uppermost_window_handle_message`, `game_uppermost_window_service_world_hotspot_band`, `game_uppermost_window_refresh_controls`, `world_view_service_keyboard_turn_pan_and_zoom_bindings`, `world_view_step_heading_quadrant`, `world_view_step_zoom_bucket`, `world_seed_default_chairman_profile_slots`, `world_build_chairman_profile_slot_records`, `world_conditionally_seed_named_starting_railroad_companies`, `scenario_state_set_selected_chairman_profile`, `scenario_state_get_selected_chairman_profile_record`, `scenario_state_get_selected_chairman_company_record`, `shell_company_list_window_construct`, `shell_company_list_window_refresh_rows`, `shell_company_list_window_handle_message`, `start_new_company_dialog_open`, `start_new_company_dialog_commit_create_company`, `start_new_company_request_create_company`, `shell_station_detail_window_construct`, `shell_station_list_window_construct`, `shell_station_list_window_handle_message`, `shell_station_pick_window_construct`, `shell_station_pick_window_populate_station_rows`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_construct`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_handle_message`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_refresh_selected_slot`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_cycle_selected_slot_profile`, `map_editor_available_chairman_panel_construct`, `map_editor_available_chairman_panel_handle_message`, `map_editor_scenario_metadata_panel_refresh_briefing_mode`, `map_editor_scenario_metadata_panel_refresh_controls`, `map_editor_scenario_metadata_panel_handle_message`, `map_editor_scenario_special_conditions_panel_construct`, `map_editor_scenario_special_conditions_panel_handle_message`, `map_editor_economic_cost_slider_panel_construct`, `map_editor_economic_cost_slider_dispatch`, `station_place_world_surface_sync_and_dispatch`, `station_place_window_handle_message`, `track_lay_window_refresh_controls`, `track_lay_window_service_frame`, `track_lay_window_handle_message`, `simulation_advance_to_target_calendar_point`, the smaller single-step helper at `0x00409e80`, `0x0040a9c0`, `0x0040a910`, and `simulation_service_periodic_boundary_work`. ### State Anchors Shell input object `0x006d4018`, per-key state table starting at `[input+0x100]`, packed shell input flags at `[input+0xa8c]` now grounded as Right Shift `0x1`, Left Shift `0x2`, Control `0x4`, and Alt `0x20`, nested dispatch counter `[input+0xa90]`, global shell controller `0x006d4024`, active world root `0x0062c120`, `GameMessage.win` object `0x006d081c`, `GameUppermost.win` overlay object `0x006d0820`, `StationPlace.win` tool object `0x006d1720`, `TrackLay.win` tool object `0x006d1a8c`, accumulated leftover simulation time at `[this+0x4c80]`, shell and mode globals at `0x006cec74`, `0x006cec78`, and `0x006cec7c`, world manager collections at `0x0062be10`, `0x006ceb9c`, `0x006cfcbc`, `0x006cec20`, `0x0062bae0`, and `0x006acd34`, plus the packed calendar-like tuple fields around `[this+0x0d]`, `[this+0x0f]`, `[this+0x11]`, and `[this+0x14]`. ### Subsystem Handoffs The controller window dispatcher now looks like the first grounded input ingress. It translates keyboard and mouse `WM_*` traffic into shell controller state and the separate input object at `0x006d4018`; read-side cursor and camera helpers later snapshot that object through `shell_input_snapshot_dispatch_state` and gate world-relative interaction through `shell_input_cursor_inside_active_view`. Current grounded consumers around `0x00478cb0`, `0x004e0780`, `0x0053f450`, and `0x0053fe90` still sit on the shell controller path and consult `0x006d4024` or the world owner at `0x0062be68`, so there is still no evidence for a distinct gameplay-only input object after world entry. Instead, the first deeper world-mode interaction branch now looks like a shared world-view coordinator layered on top of the same shell-fed input state. Shell_transition_mode ensures the `GameUppermost.win` object at `0x006d0820`; its message dispatcher `game_uppermost_window_handle_message` owns the narrow action band `0x7918` through `0x7921`; and the recurring service helper `game_uppermost_window_service_world_hotspot_band` rate-limits those hotspot actions, rechecks `shell_input_cursor_inside_active_view`, and then pans the live world view through `world_view_pan_relative_offset_in_camera_plane` `0x0043d130`. The same lower setter family is also reached from the cursor-drag path through `world_view_apply_screen_delta_to_focus_position` `0x0043d0c0`. Above both of those sits the larger recurring service `world_view_service_shell_input_pan_and_hover` `0x0043db00`, which now has one grounded keyboard branch beneath it: `world_view_service_keyboard_turn_pan_and_zoom_bindings` `0x0043d740`. That helper resolves four binding-pair families from the shell input table via `0x0054e7d0`, and the localized labels are now grounded from `Data/Language/RT3.lng`: `Camera Forward` and `Camera Backward` feed the first signed pan channel, `Camera Left` and `Camera Right` feed the second signed pan channel, `Camera Zoom In` and `Camera Zoom Out` feed the signed zoom-step channel that `0x0043db00` smooths into `world_view_step_zoom_bucket` `0x0043cc30`, and `Camera Rotate Left` plus `Camera Rotate Right` feed the continuous heading-turn branch through `0x0043c810`. The setup side is now better bounded too: `world_view_seed_keyboard_binding_slot_pairs` at `0x00439e40` seeds the eight slot pairs at `[this+0x0a6]` through `[this+0x0e2]` from the global action-binding registry through `shell_input_binding_registry_lookup_primary_code_and_mode_bits_by_action_id` `0x0045f370` using the distinct registry keys `0x0043d2a0` through `0x0043d310`, and the registration block at `0x00460769` through `0x004608e7` plus the shared installer `shell_input_register_action_binding_with_mode_specific_defaults` `0x0045f6d0` show those roots are defaulted to the expected Up Down Left and Right virtual keys before runtime polling begins. The adjacent lookup strip is tighter now too: `shell_input_binding_registry_resolve_entry_by_action_stem` `0x0045ede0` resolves one action stem into the live binding registry, while `shell_input_binding_registry_format_display_label_by_action_stem` `0x0045f3d0` and `shell_input_binding_registry_query_primary_code_by_action_stem` `0x0045f400` are the small display-label and primary-code wrappers above that resolver. The camera-view modal family at `0x004408f0/0x004409c0` now uses that same strip directly when formatting the optional focus-label lines inside the assign/select camera-view confirmations. The lower label path is now bounded too: `shell_input_binding_format_display_label_from_registry_entry` `0x0045ea90` is the actual registry-entry formatter with the three localized prefix fragments `0xdef/0xdf0/0xdf1` plus the descriptor-table caption fallback at `0x005f0a34`, and `shell_input_binding_descriptor_query_bucket_key_for_action_id_when_mode_mask_is_singular` `0x0045ed90` is the descriptor-side bucket-key helper used by the installer when the target mode mask is singular. The same local family now reaches one step further into the hotkeys sidecar: `shell_input_binding_report_iterate_next_entry_in_sorted_priority_order` `0x0045f250` builds a temporary sorted report queue over the live registry, `shell_input_write_hotkeys_report_file` `0x0045f550` writes the resulting table to `hotkeys\hotkeys.txt`, and the hotkey reassignment path uses the smaller helpers `0x0045ec00`, `0x0045ec70`, `0x0045ecd0`, `0x0045ed70`, `0x0045ef00`, and `0x0045f8a0` to split imported `foo+bar` labels, recover one action id from the descriptor table, decode a compact modifier code, expand that code back into the live registry mask, and finally rebucket or replace the live binding entry. The surrounding registry lifecycle is tighter now too: `shell_input_seed_default_binding_registry_entries_from_static_table` `0x0045f9e0` seeds the fixed defaults from `0x005ecadc` and then appends the smaller manual shell-command strip; `shell_input_binding_registry_destroy_all_roots_and_reset_globals` `0x00461070` is the hard reset that also flushes `hotkeys\hotkeys.txt`; and `shell_input_binding_registry_initialize_roots_seed_defaults_and_optionally_import_hotkeys_file` `0x00461120` rebuilds the pool roots, reseeds defaults, and tail-jumps into `shell_input_import_hotkeys_file_and_rebucket_registry_entries_from_compound_labels` `0x0045f420` when the caller requests saved-hotkey import. Beneath that camera stack, the enclosing frame path now has one grounded non-view sidecar: after `0x0043db00` it reads the active controller-view object pointer at `[0x006d4024+0x18]+0x366e`, compares it against the latched target at `[frame_owner+0x66a2]`, fires exit and enter-style vtable callbacks on pointer changes through slots `+0x64` and `+0x60`, and only latches the new object when the object passes its own slot `+0x1c` availability test and shell detail control id `0x07d6` on `0x006d0818` has flag bit `0x4`. That `0x07d6` gate is now more bounded than before: the dedicated `TrackLay.win` tool family rooted at `0x006d1a8c` special-cases the same control id in both `track_lay_window_service_frame` and `track_lay_window_handle_message`, uses world hit tests through `0x00448ac0` to arm and release a drag latch on that surface, and routes the resulting command work through the shared track-lay mode state at `0x00622b0c`. The surrounding `track_lay_window_refresh_controls` pass now shows that this is not just one isolated drag handler: the same tool family owns three mutually exclusive primary mode buttons at `0x985e` `0x985f` and `0x9860`, and current primary evidence now bounds those values as `Lay single track.` `0x1`, `Lay double track.` `0x4`, and `Bulldoze` `0x40` from the localized strings 2054 2055 and 1721 plus the matching control-routing branches in `track_lay_window_handle_message`. The same family also owns the downstream route-entry policy bridge at `0x004955b0`: current caller evidence says that helper maps the live TrackLay primary mode into endpoint-synthesis policy `1` or `4` before the tool re-enters `0x00493cf0`, which is the strongest current bridge from the player-facing single-track versus double-track buttons into the lower route-builder policy bytes. The same family also owns a bridge-type preference selector rooted at `0x006cec74+0x138`, two wrapped `Never` through `Common` frequency settings at `0x006cec74+0x140` and `0x006cec74+0x13c`, two boolean track-lay preference toggles, and the electrify-all-track action path. Those last two toggles are now tighter than before: current evidence strongly aligns control `0x986e` and state `0x006cec74+0x144` with `Auto-Hide Trees During Track Lay` from strings 1838 and 1839, while control `0x986d` and state `0x006cec78+0x4c74` align with `Auto-Show Grade During Track Lay` from strings 3904 and 3905. That mapping is still evidence-backed rather than absolutely direct from a recovered resource table, but the state ownership and control order now make it the strongest current fit. That makes `0x07d6` look like the shared main-world interaction surface inside a broader TrackLay world-command subsystem, not an unrelated detail button. The neighboring `StationPlace.win` family is now grounded on that same surface too: the shell detail-panel constructor family allocates it through `station_place_window_construct` at `0x00509d80`, publishes it at `0x006d1720`, services it each frame through `station_place_window_service_frame` at `0x0050a530`, and routes player-facing commands through `station_place_window_handle_message` at `0x005091b0`. That dispatcher special-cases the same `0x07d6` control, and the shared helper `station_place_world_surface_sync_and_dispatch` at `0x00508bb0` either accepts that direct surface traffic or falls back to the same detail-panel control looked up through `0x006d0818`, rechecks flag bit `0x4`, hit-tests the world through `0x00448ac0`, stages world coordinates into `0x006d1738/0x006d173c`, refreshes the remaining preview metric field through `station_place_refresh_preview_metric_control_0x6983` `0x00508550`, and updates the live station-placement selection state at `0x00622af0`, `0x00622aec`, and `0x006d1740`. The tool-side save and restore choreography is tighter now too: `station_place_window_release_cached_selection_handles_and_world_followons` `0x005079c0` releases cached helper handles `[this+0x7c/+0x80/+0x88/+0x84]` through the matching global owners after re-entering world and placed-structure follow-ons, and the thin wrapper `0x00507a50` is the entry used by the broader save-load status-stack helpers. The category side of that state is now tighter too: the shared helper `0x0044bd10` quantizes the staged world coordinates into the current cell, resolves the mixed byte-or-word region id from `[world+0x212d]`, looks up the owning city-or-region entry through `0x0062bae0`, and returns `[entry+0x272]` with fallback `5`; the StationPlace world-surface branches at `0x00508b80`, `0x00508d59`, and `0x0050a4e6` use that result directly to refresh the current selection category latch at `0x00622af0`. Together with `station_place_select_category_and_refresh` `0x00508880`, `station_place_refresh_category_controls` `0x00507b90`, and `station_place_format_preview_panel` `0x00508730`, that makes StationPlace a second grounded consumer of the shared main-world interaction surface rather than only a sibling constructor plus frame hook. The StationPlace control semantics are now tighter too: the top category strip at `0x697c` through `0x6981` now grounds as small station, medium station, large station, service tower, maintenance facility, and non-station building from `RT3.lng` strings 2197 through 2202. For the three station categories only, the secondary strip at `0x6988` and `0x6989` plus display field `0x698c` no longer looks like another placement mode family; it is a building-style scroller. The click handlers on `0x6988` and `0x6989` cycle the style override in `0x00622aec`, and the display path builds the active style token from `StationSml`, `StationMed`, or `StationLrg` plus the localized architecture styles `Victorian`, `Tudor`, `Southwest`, `Persian`, `Kyoto`, and `Clapboard` from `RT3.lng` ids 2672 through 2667. One layer lower, the remaining opaque controls are now much tighter: `0x6985` and `0x6986` are no longer a generic assist toggle but the two station-rotation policy choices from strings 2207 and 2206, switching between auto-orienting the building to track or obstacles and strictly obeying the rotation specified by the circle above. The dedicated control at `0x6987` is the station-rotation circle itself, wired through `station_place_rotation_circle_callback_publish_current_heading_widget` `0x00507a90` and aligned with `Click to rotate the building. You can also use bracket keys [ and ] to rotate buildings.` string 2208. The lower rotation strip is now grounded too: `station_place_set_rotation_and_refresh_live_selected_site_pose` `0x00507cf0` owns the write to `0x006d172c` and the live selected-site pose refresh, `station_place_window_drag_rotate_selected_site_toward_world_cursor` `0x00507d80` is the drag-update branch under the dispatcher, and `station_place_step_rotation_by_integer_notches` `0x005086c0` is the discrete notch helper used by the neighboring StationPlace rotation-step branches. That matches the lower behavior too: when the strict-rotation choice is off, both preview and commit paths route staged coordinates through `station_place_window_try_auto_orient_candidate_to_covering_route_entry_and_validate_placement` `0x00508040`, which performs the extra orientation search before validation by retrying a small orientation-mode set around the reusable covering-route-entry helper `0x00417b40`; when strict rotation is on, that pass is skipped and the current angle in `0x006d172c` is used directly. The preview strip is tighter now too: `station_place_format_preview_panel` `0x00508730` is the real owner for controls `0x6982/0x6983/0x6984`, and the middle field `0x6983` is no longer anonymous. The paired description side is explicit now too: `0x00413bc0` is the formatter behind preview control `0x6984`, starting from placement-record text at `[record+0x40]` and then appending rule-table driven explanatory lines after casefolded compares against `[record+0x7c]`. `station_place_refresh_preview_metric_control_0x6983` `0x00508550` resolves the staged world-cell category through `0x0044ad60`, reads the linked profile scalar at `[profile+0x22]`, chooses issue slot `0x3b` or `0x3c` from candidate subtype byte `[candidate+0x32]`, folds that scalar through `scenario_state_compute_issue_opinion_multiplier` `0x00436590`, and then passes it through the version-gated quantizer `0x005084a0` before formatting the visible text into control `0x6983`. The singleton-side entry above that strip is explicit now too: `station_place_format_preview_panel_if_live_singleton_and_valid_selection` `0x00508860` only forwards non-`-1` selection ids into that refresh path when `0x006d1720` is live. One layer below preview versus commit, the shared gate is also tighter now: `station_place_validate_current_selection_at_world_coords_and_optionally_format_status` `0x00507e80` is the common validation-and-status path beneath the preview and commit branches, publishing red, yellow, or green feedback through `0x0040cb10` around the same `placed_structure_validate_projected_candidate_placement` `0x004197e0` core. The direct shell UI also exposes the same discrete view-step family through `world_view_step_heading_quadrant` `0x0043cb00` and `world_view_step_zoom_bucket` `0x0043cc30`. The neighboring gating predicates `world_view_should_drive_primary_pan_channel` and `world_view_should_drive_secondary_pan_channel` test packed shell input bits `0x3`, and `shell_input_apply_window_key_transition` now grounds those bits as the left and right Shift modifiers from scan codes `0x2a` and `0x36`. That means cursor drag, overlay hotspots, held Shift state, direct keyboard turn/pan/zoom bindings, the TrackLay and StationPlace world-command surfaces, and at least one frame-owned hover or focus-target branch all converge under the same shell-fed world-mode input path rather than a separate gameplay-input stack. The ownership seam is therefore closed at the current local level: the unresolved pieces are the exact per-tool or per-mode actions beneath that path, not whether a later non-cursor gameplay branch bypasses the shell controller input roots. ### Evidence Function-map rows for `shell_controller_window_message_dispatch`, `shell_drain_pending_window_messages`, `shell_input_state_init`, `shell_input_apply_window_key_transition`, `shell_input_snapshot_dispatch_state`, `shell_input_cursor_inside_active_view`, `world_load_saved_runtime_state_bundle`, `world_runtime_serialize_smp_bundle`, `world_entry_transition_and_runtime_bringup`, `simulation_frame_accumulate_and_step_world`, `game_message_window_service_if_present`, `game_message_window_service_frame`, `shell_ensure_game_uppermost_window`, `game_uppermost_window_construct`, `game_uppermost_window_handle_message`, `game_uppermost_window_service_world_hotspot_band`, `world_view_set_focus_position_xyz`, `world_view_apply_screen_delta_to_focus_position`, `world_view_pan_relative_offset_in_camera_plane`, `world_view_seed_keyboard_binding_slot_pairs`, `world_view_service_keyboard_turn_pan_and_zoom_bindings`, `world_view_step_heading_quadrant`, `world_view_step_zoom_bucket`, `world_view_should_drive_primary_pan_channel`, `world_view_should_drive_secondary_pan_channel`, `world_view_service_shell_input_pan_and_hover`, `world_seed_default_chairman_profile_slots`, `world_build_chairman_profile_slot_records`, `world_conditionally_seed_named_starting_railroad_companies`, `profile_collection_count_active_chairman_records`, `profile_collection_get_nth_active_chairman_record`, `scenario_state_set_selected_chairman_profile`, `scenario_state_get_selected_chairman_profile_record`, `scenario_state_get_selected_chairman_company_record`, `start_new_company_dialog_open`, `start_new_company_dialog_commit_create_company`, `start_new_company_request_create_company`, `shell_company_list_format_company_or_start_row`, `shell_company_list_activate_or_shift_center_company`, `shell_company_list_window_refresh_rows`, `shell_company_list_window_handle_message`, `shell_company_list_window_construct`, `shell_company_detail_window_refresh_controls`, `shell_company_detail_window_construct`, `shell_company_detail_window_handle_message`, `shell_station_detail_window_construct`, `shell_station_list_window_construct`, `shell_station_list_window_handle_message`, `shell_station_pick_window_construct`, `shell_station_pick_window_populate_station_rows`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_construct`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_refresh_slot_list`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_refresh_selected_slot`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_refresh_slot_counters`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_cycle_selected_slot_profile`, `map_editor_chairman_slot_panel_handle_message`, `map_editor_available_chairman_panel_construct`, `map_editor_available_chairman_panel_handle_message`, `map_editor_scenario_metadata_panel_refresh_briefing_mode`, `map_editor_scenario_metadata_panel_refresh_controls`, `map_editor_scenario_metadata_panel_handle_message`, `map_editor_scenario_special_conditions_panel_construct`, `map_editor_scenario_special_conditions_panel_handle_message`, `map_editor_economic_cost_slider_panel_construct`, `map_editor_economic_cost_slider_dispatch`, `station_place_refresh_category_controls`, `station_place_format_selected_site_summary`, `station_place_format_preview_panel`, `station_place_select_category_and_refresh`, `station_place_world_surface_sync_and_dispatch`, `station_place_window_handle_message`, `station_place_window_construct`, `station_place_window_service_frame`, `track_lay_window_refresh_controls`, `track_lay_window_construct`, `track_lay_window_service_frame`, `track_lay_window_handle_message`, and `simulation_service_periodic_boundary_work`, plus the shell-input disassembly around `0x0054f290`, `0x0054e880`, `0x0054e9c0`, `0x0054ea20`, `0x0054eb10`, and `0x0054ee50`, the world-view setup and service branches around `0x00439e40`, `0x0043d740`, `0x0043db00`, `0x0043cb00`, and `0x0043cc30`, the `319` setup-side branches around `0x004377a0`, `0x00437220`, `0x00477820`, `0x00477860`, `0x0047d440`, `0x004c6c30`, `0x004c6f30`, `0x0047d080`, `0x0047d120`, `0x0047d320`, `0x004c2ca0`, `0x004c5540`, `0x004c56a0`, `0x005068c0`, `0x005071e0`, `0x005074c0`, and `0x005076c0`, the direct summary-field helpers around `0x00434870` `0x00434890` and `0x004348c0`, the company-link writers at `0x00427c70` and `0x00427d74`, the company constructor at `0x00428420`, the startup-company branch around `0x00470e48`, the shell company-list strings `266` `<>`, `267` `You are the chairman of the %1!`, `268` `The %1 has no chairman at the moment.`, `269` `%1 is the chairman of the %2.`, `270` `Double-click for details.`, and `2992` `Shift-Click to center on this company's primary station.`, the `CompanyDetail.imb` and `CompanyDetail.win` resource strings in `.rdata`, the `StationDetail.imb`, `StationDetail.win`, `StationList.win`, and `StationPick.win` resource strings in `.rdata`, the shell editor window branches around `0x004c9da0`, `0x004ca010`, `0x004ca1c0`, `0x004ca540`, `0x004ca670`, `0x004ca790`, `0x004ca980`, `0x004cb2b0`, `0x004cb4a0`, `0x004cb6f0`, `0x004cb8e0`, `0x004cc250`, `0x004cc2d0`, `0x004ceb90`, and `0x004cecc0`, the localized chairman-slot strings `2997` through `3001` `Optional` `Mandatory` `Human or Computer` `Computer` and `Human`, the localized scenario-editor strings `1483..1492` `Description:` through `Type the briefing for this map.`, the localized summary strings `1035` `%1 out of %2 are selected.` and `1053` `Special Conditions In Effect`, the 40-entry persona availability page under `0x5aa0..0x5b03`, the 36-entry special-condition table at `0x005f3ab0` covering ids `2535..2563`, `2874`, `3722`, `3835`, `3850`, `3852`, and `3920`, the static persona table at `0x005f2d28`, the selector array at `0x006cec7c+0x87`, the persona collection at `0x006ceb9c`, the localized persona strings in `Data/Language/RT3.lng` including `2730` `Unassigned`, the named-chairman range `2731+`, and the neighboring biography range `2495+`, plus the seeded railroad-name strings `575` `Missouri Pacific`, `576` `New York Central`, and `577` `Grand Trunk Railroad`, the StationPlace.win constructor plus category, dispatcher, rotation-circle, shared-world-surface, preview-build, and recurring service branches around `0x00507a90`, `0x00507b90`, `0x00508550`, `0x00508730`, `0x00508880`, `0x00508bb0`, `0x005091b0`, `0x00509d80`, and `0x0050a530`, the StationPlace string cluster `Place a small station` 2197 `Place a medium station` 2198 `Place a large station` 2199 `Place a service tower` 2200 `Place a maintenance facility` 2201 `Place a non-station building` 2202 `Scroll through building styles.` 2203 `When placing the building, it will strictly adhere to the rotation specified by the circle above.` 2206 `When placing the building, it will rotate itself as needed to orient to track or avoid obstacles.` 2207 `Click to rotate the building. You can also use bracket keys [ and ] to rotate buildings.` 2208 and the architecture-style labels `Clapboard` 2667 `Kyoto` 2668 `Persian` 2669 `Southwest` 2670 `Tudor` 2671 and `Victorian` 2672, the TrackLay.win constructor and dispatcher family around `0x0050d2d0`, `0x0050e400`, `0x0050e070`, `0x0050e1e0`, and `0x0050e5c0`, the localized `Never` through `Common` strings 615 through 618, the track-lay strings `Bulldoze` 1721 `Lay single track.` 2054 `Lay double track.` 2055 and 3114, and the deeper shared bulldoze helper at `0x0044b160`. That helper is no longer just a vague proximity scan: it validates the active company unless editor mode is active, emits the exact RT3.lng bulldoze rejection ladder `419..424`, reads company cash through `0x0042a5d0`, debits approved bulldoze cost through `0x0042a080`, and then scans nearby route entries, linked structures, city-or-region records, route blockers, and placed structures before committing the mutation. The nested tool-side entry is tighter now too: `0x0050e070` increments the TrackLay reentry guard, snapshots several live route-owner fields from `0x006cfca8` into the tool object, refreshes tool-local state through `0x0050dab0`, and only then tails into the later restore or service branch `0x0050d1e0`. That tail is now tighter too: `0x0050d1e0` resets the route-owner search state through `0x0049ad90/0x00495540`, drops invalid cached route ids from the TrackLay tool or deletes non-admitted live entries when route latch `[route+0x118]` is set, clears `[tool+0x78]`, and then conditionally refreshes shell presenter slot `[presenter+0x3741]` through `0x00523e20`. The destructor side is tighter too: `0x0050db10` restores the TrackLay vtable, re-enters that same cleanup tail, runs the route-owner post-change sweep `0x004a3db0`, clears singleton `0x006d1a8c`, conditionally replays the shared world-side preview-mode clear owner `world_clear_current_preview_mode_and_reseed_mode_0x15_if_latched` `0x00453510`, and only then tails into the common shell destroy path `0x0053f7d0`. Two smaller TrackLay-side helpers are tighter now too: `0x0050dc00` refreshes the version-gated action rows `0x986a..0x986c` plus `0x9872` before re-entering the main control refresh, and `0x0050dc80` owns the active route-latch branch that either forwards into `0x004a00b0` or clears route latch `[0x006cfca8+0x118]` plus local byte `[tool+0x82]`. The broader shared route or hit-test owner under both message and recurring service is now tighter too: `0x0050dce0` first drops any cached tool route id, then either seeds or updates the current route-owner selection from a world-surface hit test through `0x00448ac0`, `0x00493600`, `0x0049ace0`, and `0x0049b180`, or refreshes the active route-owner path through `0x004955b0`, `0x00493cf0`, and `0x004a04c0`, with the cleanup side posting the fixed shell payload and optionally deleting route ids `[+0x125]` and `[+0x129]`. The smallest active-route companion is tighter now too: `0x0050dab0` only runs when latch `[0x006cfca8+0x118]` and route id `[+0x125]` are both live, then resolves that entry, re-enters `0x0049afe0`, `0x0048b660`, and `0x0049b070`, and returns. dispatching the selected delete branch through `0x004937f0`, `0x004941a0`, `0x0048abf0`, or the surrounding placed-structure virtual slot `+0x58`. That makes the TrackLay `Bulldoze` mode tighter than before: the tool-side mode latch at `0x00622b0c == 0x40` is only the front-end selector, while the actual world-side bulldoze choice and failure policy sits under `0x0044b160` and is reused by neighboring world-surface callers beyond TrackLay itself. the TrackLay preference strings `Auto-Hide Trees During Track Lay` 1838 `If 'Auto-Hide Trees During Track Lay' is checked, trees will automatically be reduced to small stumps whenever you are in track laying mode.` 1839 `Auto-Show Grade During Track Lay` 3904 and `If 'Auto-Show Grade During Track Lay' is checked, you'll see the grade number over the track while laying track - useful for trying to keep your slopes to a minimum.` 3905, the electrify-all confirmation and failure strings 3083 3084 3837 and 3900, the binding-registry lookup path at `0x0045f370`, the registration block at `0x00460769` through `0x004608e7`, and the localized labels in `Data/Language/RT3.lng` ids `3466` through `3473`. ### Current Boundary Current evidence grounds the shell-controller-backed input and frame path as the only coordinator after world entry; no separate outer gameplay loop or gameplay-only input object is grounded yet. The new setup-pipeline evidence also points the same way: the currently grounded chunked burst path at `0x00437b20` now looks subordinate to `world_run_post_load_generation_pipeline` rather than to the ordinary speed controls, and even there it still reuses the same lower stepper and pumps shell work between chunks instead of revealing a detached gameplay loop owner. The player-facing speed-control family is now cleaner too: `world_set_game_speed_mode` owns the bounded `Paused` through `Very Fast` ladder plus the hidden `Ultra Fast 6..9` extension, `world_toggle_pause_or_restore_game_speed` uses `[this+0x1d]` as the resume slot, and the multiplayer host restriction now looks attached to that same setter family rather than to the setup-side burst helper. The frame-owned shell coupling is tighter now too: inside `simulation_frame_accumulate_and_step_world` itself, one direct branch opens or focuses `LoadScreen.win` through `shell_open_or_focus_load_screen_page`, and the post-step shell-window ladder also probes several sibling shell windows by the same presence-plus-dirty pattern, including the live `LoadScreen` singleton, the shared callback-driven custom modal, the shared file-options dialog, `SettingsWindow.win`, the now-grounded `Overview.win` and `BuildingDetail.win` singletons, the adjacent tool-window strip now grounded as `Bulldoze.win`, `ChangeHeight.win`, `ChangeTrees.win`, `PaintRegion.win`, `PaintSound.win`, `PaintTerrain.win`, `PaintTerritory.win`, and `StockBuy.win`, and now the shell-side `Trainbuy.win` singleton too. The `SettingsWindow.win` side is tighter now too: `shell_settings_window_rebuild_hotkeys_list_control_from_sorted_binding_report` `0x004fec60` rebuilds the hotkeys list control `0x757a` from the same sorted binding-report iterator `0x0045f250`, using the temporary `0x88`-stride list model at `0x006d1354` before restoring the previous selection. The message owner above it is bounded now too: `shell_settings_window_handle_message` `0x004fede0` is the actual dispatcher for the singleton, and its currently grounded hotkeys cases are the reset-to-defaults path `0x00500147 -> 0x00461120(0) -> 0x0045f550 -> 0x004fec60` and the selected-row reassignment path `0x00500186..0x0050022b`, which resolves one chosen hotkey row from control `0x757a`, validates the destination bucket through `0x0045ed90`, skips Enter and Escape, expands the compact modifier code through `0x0045ed70`, commits the rebucket through `0x0045ef00`, and then rewrites the same report file plus rebuilds the list. The page-refresh side is bounded now too: `shell_settings_window_refresh_selected_page_controls` `0x00500410` republishes the category strip `0x7533..0x7540`, uses the local in-refresh guard byte `0x006d135d`, and then dispatches the current page through the `0x005005e0` table; page `7` is now directly grounded as the hotkeys page because it dispatches into `0x004fec60`. The category table at `0x00622870` now grounds the whole page order as `Gameplay`, `Sound`, `Graphics`, `Model Detail`, `Draw Distance`, `Textures`, `Miscellaneous`, `Hot Keys`, `Scrolling`, `Camera Controls`, `Dialogs`, `Miscellaneous`, and `Sandbox Options`, with only the second dword in each table row still unresolved as a small subgroup or style flag. Several page bodies are now grounded too: `0x004fda20` is the `Gameplay` refresh owner, `0x004fdb90` the `Sound` refresh owner, `0x004fe770` the top-level `Graphics` refresh owner, `0x004fe960` the `Model Detail` refresh owner, `0x004feb20` the `Draw Distance` refresh owner, `0x004febd0` the `Textures` refresh owner, `0x004fdd70` the first `Miscellaneous` refresh owner, `0x004fdf20` the `Scrolling` refresh owner, `0x004fdfd0` the `Camera Controls` refresh owner, `0x004fd940` the `Dialogs` refresh owner, `0x004fd730` the later `Miscellaneous` refresh owner, and `0x004fd8d0` the `Sandbox Options` refresh owner. The neighboring companion helpers are tighter now too: `0x004fd550` refreshes the `Draw Distance` companion strip under controls `0x7566/0x7596/0x7560/0x7562/0x7564`, `0x004fd650` does the same for the `Textures` companion strip under `0x756e/0x756a/0x756c/0x7570`, `0x004fe4c0` rebuilds the graphics custom-resolution list on `0x7553` from the live display-mode table filtered to `640x480 .. 1600x1200` and formatted through `%1x%2`, and `0x004fe6f0/0x004fe730` are the small primary-selector mirror helpers for `Draw Distance` `0x755f` and `Textures` `0x7569`. The `Camera Controls` page is stronger now too: `0x7587` is the day-night cycling selector rooted at `Normal day/night cycling` through `Frozen at 11pm`, while `0x7588` is the weather-cycling selector rooted at `Normal weather cycling` through `Frozen at storms`. The callback strip under the dispatcher is tighter now as well: `0x004fefb0` is the sound-backend selection-change owner for `0x7551/0x7550`, `0x004ff070` is the custom-resolution selection owner, `0x004ff0d0` the top-level graphics selector-change owner, `0x004ff1b0` the main draw-distance selector-change owner, `0x004ff2e0` the textures selector-change owner, and `0x004ffbc0` the graphics custom-resolution or range-refresh branch that persists `engine.cfg`, rebuilds the custom list, and republishes `0x7555/0x7578`. The small wrapper `0x00500620` is the nonreentrant `if live, refresh page` gate above that body. The tiny helper strip beneath those branches is at least bounded now too: `0x00531640/0x005316d0` query the selected Miles 3D provider index and preferred-flag from the shell audio service, `0x0053ef60/0x0053ef70` read the graphics-backend status slots used by controls `0x757c/0x759a`, and `0x0051fd40/0x0051fd60` are the small graphics-range custom-mode flag and scalar queries behind `0x7555/0x7578`. The next apply-strip under the same family is tighter now too: `0x004fe270` applies a changed custom-resolution tuple and persists it, `0x004fe2d0` applies the top-level graphics selector then republishes `0x757c/0x759a`, `0x004fe3b0` applies the draw-distance selector then refreshes `0x004fd550`, `0x004fe400` applies the textures selector then refreshes `0x004fd650`, `0x004fe140` is the small composite backend-status predicate used by the timer-gated graphics service branch, and `0x004fe160` is the sound-backend follow-on refresh path. The graphics service tail is tighter now too: `0x004ffafb` is the timer-gated backend-service-plus-graphics-page repaint branch using `0x0051d890` against deadline `0x006d136c`, the follow-on calls `0x0053f170/0x0053f2c0`, and a shortened `60` ms rearm after it repaints `0x004fe770`, while `0x004ffb64` is the sibling backend-service branch that uses `0x0053f0f0/0x0053f210` and only raises the shell refresh latch without repainting the page directly. The same `MouseCursor.cpp` owner family is tighter now too: `0x0053f000` is the live cursor-shape selector that lazily loads native handles, updates the shell-side presentation payload, and toggles cursor visibility on the `0 <-> nonzero` boundary; `0x0053f0f0`, `0x0053f170`, and `0x0053f210` are the three local hidden or release-transition branches that mirror shell latches `[0x006d4024+0x11473a/+0x11473e]`; `0x0053f2f0/0x0053f310` are the nested hold-counter helpers; `0x0053f330` is the constructor-side reset and latch-sync owner; `0x0053f400` is the coarse global-latch service; and `0x0053f450` is the inside-view watcher paired with `shell_input_cursor_inside_active_view` `0x0054f540`. The same pair is now grounded on the heavier save/load paths too: `world_entry_transition_and_runtime_bringup` `0x00443a50` pushes the hold at `0x443b04` before the larger startup-dispatch and staged rehydrate work, then pops it at `0x444c03` after the late world or shell rebuild tail; the live `.smp` serializer `world_runtime_serialize_smp_bundle` `0x00446240` does the same thing through `0x446271` and `0x446d09` around its bundle-write and fixed status-publish span. The exact save/load-side status stack under those spans is tighter now too: `0x004422d0/0x00442330` push and pop the low bytes of shell lanes `[0x006cec74+0x140/+0x13c/+0x138/+0x144]` plus startup byte `[0x006cec78+0x4c74]` through `0x0062be90`, with the restore side sign-extending the first three shell bytes and zero-extending the fourth before rewriting the wider dwords; `0x004423a0/0x004423d0` layer the same band under active TrackLay.win and StationPlace.win service. The per-frame tail is tighter now too: `0x0054f5b0` queues one 12-dword shell-input event record into the rotating ring at `[input+0x128]`; `0x0054f6a0` and `0x0054f6b0` are the two neighboring fixed-value seeders for shared phase scalar `0x00d93850` used by shell-side branches `0x00538b72`, `0x0052819d`, and `0x0052b9f8`; and `0x0054f6c0`, `0x0054f6d0`, and `0x0054f6e0` are the tiny primary-motion scalar reset, snapshot, and restore leaves that `0x0053f4e0` uses around the later cursor-presentation pass. The graphics-range callback strip beneath that is bounded now too: `0x004ffd10` is the user-facing custom-mode toggle rooted at control `0x7555`, using `0x0051fd00`, `0x0051fd40`, `0x00520fd0`, and the localized dialog ids `0x0e16/0x0e17/0x0e93`; `0x004ffe72` flips the graphics-range scalar through `0x00521030`; and the adjacent display-runtime toggles `0x004ffea4`, `0x004ffeff`, `0x004fff2d`, `0x004fff59`, `0x004fff85`, `0x004fffde`, and `0x0050000a` now bound a compact persisted graphics or model-detail option strip over controller fields `[0x006d4024+0x1146eb]`, `[+0x114697]`, `[+0x1146e9]`, `[+0x1146b8]`, `[+0x1146af]`, `[+0x1146a8]`, and `[+0x1146e3]` rather than one anonymous tail blob. The lower setter layer is tighter too: `0x0051fd00` is the current `has live custom payload` predicate for the graphics-range family, `0x00520fd0` stores the custom-mode flag and re-applies the current range when possible, `0x00521030` stores the scalar and re-applies it when the graphics mode is live, and `0x0051d890` is the shared elapsed-tick helper over the bootstrap-seeded tick count. The same local support strip is broader now too: `0x0051e1d0` is the mode-`0` alternate sibling of the packed preview-color ramp at `0x0051dfc0`; `0x0051e430/0x0051e480` are the shared path-openability and file-size probes; `0x0051e4e0/0x0051e560` are the bounded ASCII clipboard export and import helpers; `0x0051e6e0` is the nonempty digits-only predicate used by nearby text-entry validation branches; `0x0051e720/0x0051e740` own the active debug-log filename (`rt3_debug.txt` / `language_debug.txt`) and the one-time `.\\data\\log\\%s` separator write; and `0x0051e810` is now grounded as the `MouseCursor.cpp` `ShowCursor` refcount and live-position sync helper that the warning-modal strip also reuses. The immediate shell-controller strip under that is tighter now too: `0x0051ea80` is the small core-state reset plus default seeding path rerun by `0x0051ff90`; `0x0051f000` registers the static `World` window class through wndproc `0x0054e3a0`; `0x0051f070/0x0051f080` and `0x0051f090/0x0051f0a0` are the paired controller accessors and setters for the live presentation owner and world-basis owner; `0x0051f0c0`, `0x0051f0d0`, and `0x0051f0e0` are the small indexed input-subobject flag write or query helpers beneath the shell window-message path; `0x0051f100` materializes the active display-mode tuple from `[controller+0x34]` and selector `[+0x11421e]`; `0x0051f1a0` is the current graphics-mode-byte accessor over `[controller+0x114226]`. The wndproc itself is tighter now too: beyond the already-grounded key, command, and mouse ingress, one broader branch prepares subordinate layout-state `[controller+0x2d]` through `0x00547300`, `0x0054bbf0`, and `0x00545c00(0x96, [controller+0x75], 0)`, dispatches the local slot-band service owner `0x0054c900`, re-enters `0x00545020`, and when mode byte `[controller+0x3692]` is clear refreshes the current external record through `0x005545d0`, `0x005543f0(0)`, and `0x00554450`. So the same world-window dispatcher now has one grounded live layout-state service branch, not just shell input ingress. The nearby shared shell-presenter helper `0x00527de0` is now bounded as the common scalar-caption publisher reused by several tool windows. It scales one caller float through `0x005dd158`, forwards that value into nested presenter field `[this+0x364d]` through `0x0052ea90`, scales a second caller float through `0x005c8568`, and stores that auxiliary caption-side weight in `[this+0x3728]`. Grounded callers now include `Bulldoze.win`, `ChangeTrees.win`, the world-surface brush ordinal setter, `PaintRegion.win`, `PaintSound.win`, `PaintTerrain.win`, and `PaintTerritory.win`, so this is the shared shell scalar-caption lane rather than a window-specific text formatter. The neighboring page-owned dispatcher leaves are tighter now too: `0x004ff58a`, `0x004ff5b6`, and `0x004ff5e6` are direct persisted toggles for the later `Miscellaneous` input page fields `[0x006d4024+0x1146d7]`, `[0x006cec74+0x28b]`, and `[0x006cec74+0x283]`, with the last one also republishing a `Game.win` affordance through `0x004dd8d0`; `0x004ff637`, `0x004ff667`, `0x004ff697`, `0x004ff6c7`, `0x004ff6f7`, and `0x004ff727` are the page-owned toggle leaves for the `Dialogs` page fields `[0x006cec74+0xf8]` and `[+0x26b/+0x26f/+0x273/+0x277/+0x27b]`; and `0x004ff757`, `0x004ff796`, `0x004ff7c6`, and `0x004ff84e` are the remaining compact `Gameplay` page toggle leaves over `[0x006d4024+0x114742]`, `[0x006cec74+0x0a8]`, `[+0x263]`, and `[+0x309]`, with the `+0x114742` path also nudging `BuildingDetail.win` and the `+0x263/+0x309` paths triggering narrow live-tool follow-ons. The next tiny leaves are bounded now too: `0x00500036` is the direct apply leaf for the graphics-misc option family mirrored through `0x00484af0(0x0c)` into control `0x7586`; `0x0050006c/0x0050009c/0x005000cc` are the shared setup-config toggles over `[0x006cec74+0x247/+0x24b/+0x243]` that persist the same three booleans later mirrored by `Setup.win` controls `0x0e88/0x0e89/0x0e8a`; and `0x005000fc` is the direct scrolling-page boolean-companion setter for `[0x006cec74+0x120]` and control `0x7585`. neighboring stock-buy lane is tighter now too: `0x00433aa0` is the shared `StockBuy.win` availability gate, rejecting when scenario toggle `[0x006cec78+0x4aa7]` is set or when no selected-company id is present at `[scenario+0x21]`. The direct shell opener `0x00440660` and the page-side launcher `0x004de50f` both use that gate before entering detail-panel mode `0x0c`, whose same-mode refresh tail re-enters `0x00493150`. The shell-side control strip under that window is tighter now too: `0x0050a660` is the raw selected-chairman-row setter for global `0x006d19f4`, `0x0050a570` is the selected-company stock-data panel callback wired to control `0x3aa0` and feeding the shared stock formatter `0x004c0160`, `0x0050a6d0` publishes the current selected company id into `0x00622b00` and restyles control `0x3a9b`, `0x0050a670` is the shared live-window refresh wrapper hit by the buy/sell chairman mutators after they touch `[profile+0x154]` and the per-company holding band, `0x0050a5e0` is the constructor-wired invalidation callback for control `0x3a9a`, and `0x0050a6a0` is the unconditional invalidation sibling used by the local in-window trade branches after they commit the rounded block. One level higher, `0x0050a730` is now bounded as the broad row/card refresh owner: it walks the active chairman profiles through `0x00477820/0x00477860`, lays out the selected and unselected profile cards through the cached widget roots `0x006d19d8/0x006d19dc/0x006d19e8/0x006d19ec`, resolves persona/name labels through `0x00476bb0`, and pulls the same currently grounded metric lanes from `0x00476320`, `0x00476780`, and `0x00476c20`. The selected-company panel under control `0x3a9a` is separate and broader: `0x0050ae50` is now bounded as the main selected-company summary renderer, resolving the current company through `0x00518140`, the current chairman row through `0x00477860`, choosing one of panel roots `0x006d19e8/0x006d19ec`, and then formatting a mixed text-plus-metric surface through helpers such as `0x00423eb0`, `0x00426b10`, and `0x00426ef0`. The adjacent publish side is bounded too: `0x0050b910` formats the selected company ownership line through localized ids `0x0e10/0x0e11/0x0e12` plus the resolved company and owner labels, and `0x0050ba00` is the shared selected-company summary refresh tail over controls `0x3a9a/0x3a9b`; `0x0050c130` is the narrow mode-`0x0b` refresh wrapper that re-enters that tail only when the current detail-panel object is actually `StockBuy.win`; and `0x0050c470` is the selected-company clamp/setter sibling that republishes `0x00622b00` before re-entering the same summary tail. The payload-driven trade commits are explicit now too: `0x0050c150` resolves one chairman record from payload `[profile_id, company_id]`, derives the rounded buy block through `0x00476e50`, and commits it through `0x00477110`; `0x0050c1f0` is the same sibling for the rounded sell block and `0x00476460`. Both also emit the local selected-chairman shell cue before the shared `StockBuy.win` refresh tail when the payload chairman matches the currently selected chairman in `0x006cec78`. The message-owner and teardown side are bounded now too: `0x0050bbe0` is the real `StockBuy.win` dispatcher, with `0xcb` control bands for chairman-row selection `0x3afc..0x3b5f`, company-row selection `0x3d54..0x3db7`, company wrap/step controls `0x3aa1..0x3aa3`, and toggle-byte writes `0x3aad..0x3ab2`, while `0xca` owns the local buy row band `0x3c8c..0x3cef` and sell row band `0x3cf0..0x3d53`. The buy-side confirmation path now has one extra leaf too: `0x0050a600` is the callback-driven tutorial gate for the localized `0x0292` confirmation modal, opening the sibling tutorial modal `0x0e8c` only on `0xcb` control `0x03f4` while tutorial flag `0x006d3b4c` is live. The destructor counterpart `0x0050bac0` releases the cached roots `0x006d19d8..0x006d19ec`, frees the per-company cached stock-data handles in `0x006d1748`, invalidates controls `0x3b60` and `0x3e4e`, clears singleton `0x006d19f0`, and then tails into the common shell-object teardown. The remaining adjacent detail-panel gates are now bounded tightly enough to carry by family: `0x00434db0` is the scenario-toggle-gated company-detail mode-`0x0b` availability gate, while `0x00434e20` is the selected-company-or-editor detail mode-`0x06` availability gate that only hard-blocks when all three scenario toggles `[+0x4ab3/+0x4ab7/+0x4abf]` are set. The train-buy family is no longer just an unnamed probe pair either: the opener path is now grounded under the same shell-owned cadence through `shell_can_open_trainbuy_window_or_warn` and `shell_open_or_focus_trainbuy_window`, and its current family semantics already extend beyond a bare locomotive picker into selected-train upgrade summary and route-edit affordances. The direct shell opener `0x004406c0` now aligns with the page-side launcher `0x004de7d9`: both use `shell_can_open_trainbuy_window_or_warn` `0x00433b00` before calling `shell_open_or_focus_trainbuy_window` `0x00512c50`. The selected-train side is tighter now too: we have explicit query helpers for the selected train record, id, validity, and company ownership, plus one explicit ownership-mismatch warning modal. That same pass also clarified one boundary we should not conflate: the neighboring shell family rooted at `0x006d3b20` is now grounded separately as `TrainDetail.win`. It reuses the same selected-train context and some of the same helpers, but it is not the same `Trainbuy.win` singleton family. The `TrainDetail.win` side now has its own constructor, opener, refresh path, and message owner above the broader train-command strip. Its inner `0xcb` strip is tighter now too: one bounded branch is the selected-train engine-replacement or trainbuy handoff lane using warning ids `593/594`, and another is the selected-train retirement lane using `595/596/597` with either a local teardown path or multiplayer opcode `0x37`. The remaining train-command family is narrower too: the shared `0x33`-stride helper trio at `0x004b2f00`, `0x004b3000`, and `0x004b3160` now looks like a real train route-stop or waypoint list rather than a generic row buffer, and route-entry flag byte `+0x28` now has one grounded top-level split: sign bit clear entries are the live placed-structure-backed family, while sign bit set entries use the direct route-node payload side. The helper `train_route_list_count_live_site_reference_entries` `0x004b2b80` now counts the first family explicitly. One deeper lower-bit result is grounded too: both `train_route_list_insert_staged_entry_at_index` and the auxiliary finalize helper `train_finalize_aux_route_entry_buffer_preserving_subflags` `0x004a94b0` explicitly preserve bits `0x40`, `0x20`, and `0x10` in the same flag byte during route-entry rewrites. Those bits are also no longer copy-only: the neighboring shell helper `shell_building_detail_refresh_flagged_service_capability_rows` `0x004b9a20` now consumes them to restyle the `BuildingDetail.win` row bands `0x7d07..0x7d1c` and `0x7f58..0x801f`. The important boundary is tighter now too: the `0x7d07..0x7d1c` band is a style-only indicator family in current disassembly, not a hidden text-publishing row family with missing captions. The grounded player-facing text sits elsewhere: the fixed express-side triplet `0x7f58..0x7f5a` is table-fed from RT3.lng `494/497/498`, and the sibling special service rows still align to `Dining Car` and `Caboose`. So the subflags now have one real shell-side consumer instead of only preservation logic, and the old “missing label” seam on the indicator rows is gone. The broader `BuildingDetail.win` refresh family is tighter too: `shell_building_detail_refresh_subject_cargo_and_service_rows` `0x004ba3d0` now clearly owns the selected subject rows around `0x7d06`, `0x7d96..`, and `0x7d0e`, resolving ordinary ids through the live candidate collection and the special express-side ids through the embedded `AnyCargo.imb`, `AnyFreight.imb`, and `PassMail.imb` paths. The first fixed triplet is now table-grounded instead of only inferred: `0x00621df8` seeds the short-label controls `0x7dc8..0x7dca` with RT3.lng `494..496` `Any Cargo`, `Any Freight`, and `Any Express`, while `0x00621e10` seeds the adjacent `0x7e90..0x7e92` icon-name triplet with `AnyCargo`, `AnyFreight`, and `PassMail` before `%1.imb` formatting. RT3.lng also tightens the longer popup side now: `0x00621e04` feeds the first clickable selector triplet `0x7f58..0x7f5a` with `494/497/498`, so the help text there is `Any Cargo`, `Any Freight\n(Freight is everything but Passengers, Mail, and Troops)`, and `Any Express\n(Express is Passengers, Mail, and Troops)`. The sibling special service rows still align to `Dining Car` and `Caboose`. The extracted `BuildingDetail.win` blob now sharpens the resource boundary too: its embedded text table is currently sparse rather than rich, exposing the help line for `0x7d01`, repeated `BuildingDetail.imb` asset strings, and one standalone caption entry `Cargo`. That makes `Cargo` the strongest current resource-side anchor for the row header around `0x7d06`. The ordinary deeper rows are tighter now too: they do not look like hidden caption-table entries, but like live candidate-derived rows. The current path validates each ordinary id through `indexed_collection_entry_id_is_live` `0x00517d40`, resolves the concrete candidate record through `indexed_collection_resolve_live_entry_by_id` `0x00518140`, and then reuses candidate field `[record+0x04]` as one shared stem for both the row asset `%s.imb` path and the neighboring display-label lookup through `localization_lookup_display_label_by_stem_or_fallback` `0x0051c920`. That lookup is now bounded too: it scans the static stem table at `0x006243c8`, already grounding entries such as `Alcohol`, `Aluminum Mill`, `Automobiles`, `Bauxite`, and `Big Boy` against RT3.lng `3202..3220`, and only falls back to localized id `3866` when no table entry matches before the fixed `0x384..0x386` express-side triplet takes over. One neighboring candidate-side helper is tighter now too: `structure_candidate_query_route_style_or_local_availability_metric` `0x0041e650` shares the same route-style byte at `[candidate+0x46]`, returning the cached local float at `[candidate+0x5a]` for ordinary candidates but switching route-style rows to one normalized count over the world-side route-link collection `0x006ada90` keyed by candidate class `[candidate+0x3e]`. That collection is tighter now too: it is constructed during world bring-up by `placed_structure_route_link_collection_construct` `0x00468110`, and current grounded creation flow through `placed_structure_route_link_allocate_site_pair_for_candidate_class` `0x00467f50` seeds class byte `+0x10`, a masked initial state template, and the strongest current creation-side site-pair fields at `+0x0c` and `+0x0e` before `placed_structure_route_link_attach_site_owner` `0x00467eb0` links the new route-link record into the placed-structure-owned chain at `[site+0x272]`. The owner-side split is tighter now too: route-link field `+0x08` is the separate route-node-style owner anchor used by `placed_structure_route_link_attach_route_node_owner` `0x00467f20`, while `+0x0a/+0x0c/+0x0e` now read as the site-reference triple matched by `placed_structure_route_link_collection_remove_links_touching_site_id` `0x004681f0`. Creation flow now sharpens that further: `+0x0c` is the strongest current candidate for the stable first-site field seeded before owner attachment, `+0x0a` is the mutable owner-site anchor installed by the attach helper, and `+0x0e` is the stable second-site field. One more split is tighter now too: `placed_structure_route_link_recompute_endpoint_pair_state` `0x00467c30` currently uses `+0x0a` and `+0x0e` as the active endpoint site pair while recomputing state byte `+0x12`. The load/save boundary is tighter now too: package save currently persists only the direct indexed-collection header band of `0x006ada90` through `0x00517d90`, world-entry bring-up mirrors only that header refresh through `0x00518680`, and the live endpoint or grid state is then regenerated later through `placed_structure_route_link_collection_recompute_all_endpoint_pair_state` `0x004682c0` and `placed_structure_route_link_collection_rebuild_route_style_grid_counters_and_endpoint_state` `0x00468300` rather than through a separate tagged per-record payload lane. byte `+0x12`; `+0x0c` is still not directly read there. The family also has a clearer release and refresh side now: `placed_structure_route_link_release_and_detach` `0x004680b0` rolls back the class counters and then tails into `placed_structure_route_link_detach_current_owner_chain` `0x00467df0`, while `placed_structure_route_link_collection_recompute_all_endpoint_pair_state` `0x004682c0` explicitly reruns the per-record endpoint-pair reconciler across the whole live route-link collection. One layer above that, `placed_structure_route_link_rebuild_route_style_grid_counters_and_endpoint_state` `0x00468300` now looks like the full-family refresh owner: it clears three route-style class lanes in the world-grid tables rooted at `[0x0062c120+0x2129]`, then clears bit `0x2` across the live route-link records and reruns the endpoint-pair reconciler. That now lines up with the visible shell split: non-route candidates keep the richer local metric and price lane, while route-style candidates use one world-side route-link family instead. The emission side is tighter now too: `placed_structure_try_emit_best_route_style_peer_link_for_candidate_class` `0x0040fef0` scans the live placed-structure collection for one best peer site by class-specific weight, distance window, and type gate, then only creates a new route-link through `placed_structure_route_link_allocate_site_pair_for_candidate_class` `0x00467f50` when `placed_structure_endpoint_pair_has_shared_route_entry_key` `0x0040fbe0` says the chosen site pair does not already share a route-entry key. One layer above that, `placed_structure_rebuild_route_style_candidate_scores_and_peer_links` `0x004101e0` now reads as the broader per-site owner of this lane: it computes per-class route-style score scalars from local site state and scenario multipliers, drives the first three route-style emission attempts, and then continues into a larger descriptor-driven scoring phase. Inside that larger pass, `placed_structure_accumulate_candidate_metric_or_emit_route_style_peer_link` `0x0042cab0` now cleanly shows the split between ordinary candidates, which add directly into the local route-style grid lane at `[site+candidate*4+0x103]`, and remapped route-style candidates, which re-enter the peer-link emitter. One layer above that, the broader post-create or post-edit site rebuild `placed_structure_finalize_creation_or_rebuild_local_runtime_state` `0x0040ef10` conditionally re-enters `0x004101e0` with stack flag `1` when its local latch at `[site+0x29e]` stays clear, so the route-style lane is no longer floating under an unnamed single-site caller. The placement side is tighter now too: the direct constructor `placed_structure_collection_allocate_and_construct_entry` `0x004134d0` is the shared allocator immediately beneath the current placement-side callers before they hand the new site into `0x0040ef10`, and the lower constructor `placed_structure_construct_entry_from_candidate_and_world_args` `0x0040f6d0` now bounds the actual field-seeding layer beneath that allocator. The old unresolved higher placement chooser is bounded more cleanly now too: the `0x00403ed5` and `0x0040446b` direct-placement commits sit inside one larger helper, `city_connection_try_build_route_with_optional_direct_site_placement` `0x00402cb0`. That shared heavy builder is now the common target of the compact wrapper `0x00404640`, the peer-route candidate builder `0x004046a0`, the region-entry pair wrapper `city_connection_try_build_route_between_region_entry_pair` `0x00404c60`, and the direct retry paths inside `simulation_try_select_and_publish_company_start_or_city_connection_news` `0x00404ce0`. Internally it now has three bounded lanes: an early route-entry search or synthesis attempt through `route_entry_collection_try_build_path_between_optional_endpoint_entries` `0x004a01a0`, a single-endpoint direct-placement lane that scans `Maintenance` and `ServiceTower` candidates and commits through `0x00403ed5 -> 0x004134d0 -> 0x0040ef10`, and a later paired-endpoint fallback lane that seeds two endpoint candidates from the same stem family, walks a temporary route-entry list, and commits through `0x0040446b -> 0x004134d0 -> 0x0040ef10`. That early lane can now be described more concretely: it can reuse supplied route-entry endpoints, synthesize a missing leading endpoint from the caller's coordinates, seed the route-store builder-state block, and then hand off to the deeper path-search core without placing a new site. The previously vague side family at `0x006cfcb4` is tighter too: current evidence now bounds it as a small auxiliary route-entry tracker collection with an allocator at `0x004a42b0`, a refcount or destroy path at `0x004a4340`, a direct route-entry group-id setter at `0x00489f80`, an endpoint-membership probe at `0x00494ed0`, a boolean-latch refresh or owner-notify path at `0x00494fb0`, and a two-endpoint merge or bind helper at `0x00494f00`. One smaller constructor-side ownership split is tighter now too: the cached `u16` chain fields `[site+0x26e]`, `[site+0x270]`, and `[site+0x383]` are no longer free-floating. Constructor-side helper `0x0041f7e0` prepends one new peer into that chain by storing the old head from `[this+0x383]` into `[peer+0x270]` and then replacing `[this+0x383]` with the peer's own placed-structure id `[peer+0x2a4]`; the direct resolver `0x0041f810` turns the cached head id back into one live record through `0x0062b26c`; and the removal-side companion `0x0041f850` removes one peer from the same chain before clearing `[peer+0x26e/+0x270]`. That caller split is now strong enough to treat this as one cached single-link or predecessor-chain family beneath placed-structure construction and rebuild rather than as unrelated scratch words. That bind side is tighter now too: the trackers group route entries only when a route-key-like value from `0x0048aa70`, the route-entry signature word `+0x22e`, and the boolean latch derived from byte `+0x44` all agree. The deeper handoff under that lane is no longer anonymous either: `route_entry_collection_search_path_between_entry_or_coord_endpoints` `0x0049d380` is now bounded as the internal search core that runs the first candidate sweep, quality gates, and the later route-extension fallbacks before returning one resolved route-entry id or `-1`. The first sweep now has a bounded owner at `0x0049bd40`, and the two later fallback helpers are bounded as the route-entry point-window coverage query `0x00494cb0` and the frontier-extension helper `0x0049c900`. The math side is bounded more cleanly now too: the family reuses `math_measure_float_xy_pair_distance` `0x0051db80` for its direct point-to-point scalar, `math_compute_quadrant_adjusted_heading_angle_from_xy_pair` `0x004952f0` for heading-angle construction, `math_normalize_subtracted_angle_delta_and_report_wrap` `0x004953c0` for wrapped angle deltas, and now one tighter visual-side strip too: `0x00539230` applies one local float-preset layout from state byte `[entry+0x218]`, `0x00539380` loads the matching table-driven profile bands and optional display latch `[entry+0x44]`, `0x005394b0` exports four consecutive `3*dword` triplet bands from the entry into caller buffers, and `0x005391b0` releases one optional world-space attachment before the entry's vtable slot `+0x00` teardown fires. The adjacent publish side is bounded too: `0x00539580` broadcasts one caller-supplied three-scalar packet across the optional attached-handle list at `[entry+0x08]`, and `0x005395d0` ensures that same list, adds one new handle, and immediately republishes one aggregate scalar derived from local bands `[+0x18/+0x24/+0x30/+0x3c]` together with head lanes `[+0x0c/+0x10]`. The next owner layer is tighter now too: `0x00539640` is the heavy derived-band rebuild that turns those four triplets plus profile weights `[entry+0x1f5/+0x1f9/+0x1fd]` into the larger scalar bands rooted at `[entry+0x63]` through `[entry+0x1d3]`, refreshes center scalars `[entry+0x0c/+0x10]`, re-enters root query `0x00534490` several times, and conditionally maintains the optional `0xc0`-byte display buffer at `[entry+0x1e3]` according to display-state byte `[entry+0x44]`. The surrounding wrappers are coherent with that same ownership split: `0x0053a740` copies caller triplets into `[entry+0x14/+0x20/+0x2c/+0x38]`, refreshes optional attachment id `[entry+0x55]` through `0x00533e00/0x00533dd0`, and republishes center lanes `[entry+0x1ed/+0x1f1]`; `0x0053a890` reprojects the stored triplets through `0x00534490` and rebuilds; `0x0053a920` fills all four triplets from one uniform scalar before rebuilding; `0x0053ac40` rebinds the root pointer, clears attachment state, and optionally rebuilds from the current triplets; `0x0053aca0` is the concrete default constructor for the same route-entry object family; and `0x0053ae10` is the construction-time root-bind plus state-profile-and-triplet initializer. The attachment manager beneath that strip is tighter too: `0x0053a5b0` is the tiny broadcast wrapper over current head lanes, `0x0053a5d0` is the heavier ensure-and-clone path that seeds one new attached handle from the first live entry when a list already exists, and `0x0053a6d0` tears that attached-handle list back down. The collection side is tighter too: `0x00491af0` constructs the indexed `0x006cfca8` owner beneath the world bundle-load path, and the later post-load `319` lane now uses `0x00491c20` as a dedicated collection-wide refresh pass that re-enters `0x00539640` on every live route entry. That keeps the route-entry visual or presentation side grounded as a real sibling strip to the search and regrouping code, not loose per-caller scratch fields. angle-delta checks, and `math_abs_double_with_crt_special_case_handling` `0x005a152e` for the absolute-value side of the quality gates. Current evidence also bounds the threshold shape a little more tightly: the initial sweep and later extension path both reuse one signed angle-bias term `+/-0.181000038854627`, and the first sweep switches between a looser `1.4` and stricter `1.8` quality multiplier depending on route-policy byte `4` or the broader display-runtime preference `[0x006cec78+0x4c74]`, already grounded elsewhere as `Auto-Show Grade During Track Lay`. The small policy-byte semantics are still not fully closed, but current evidence is tighter than before. Literal byte `1` is now the strongest current match for direct linked-site endpoint-anchor creation or replacement, because the linked-site constructor and neighboring repair branches around `0x00480463`, `0x00480a77`, and `0x00480b69` all feed that byte into `0x00493cf0` before rebinding one chosen route-entry anchor through `0x0048abc0`. Literal byte `2` now looks broader: the later world-side caller at `0x00480cd0` and the linked-site refresh helper `placed_structure_refresh_linked_site_display_name_and_route_anchor` `0x00480bb0` both reach `0x004a01a0` with both optional endpoint-entry ids unset and that byte, so the strongest current read is a full linked-site route-anchor rebuild between optional endpoint entries rather than the narrower direct creation lane. The TrackLay side now gives one tighter user-facing anchor too: the live mode field `0x00622b0c` is already grounded as `Lay single track.` `0x1` versus `Lay double track.` `0x4`, and the small mapper `0x004955b0` collapses that state into the endpoint-policy bytes later passed to `0x00493cf0`, so the strongest current read is `policy 1 = single-track endpoint synthesis` and `policy 4 = double-track endpoint synthesis`. Bytes `1/2` are still the ones that enable the auxiliary tracker lane in `0x004a01a0`, while byte `4` now reads more narrowly as the larger company-side endpoint-synthesis charge inside `0x00493cf0`, because that helper feeds `-1` versus `-2` into the saturating company counter helper `0x00423ec0` on `[company+0x7680]` rather than skipping the company branch entirely. That counter is tighter now too: nearby company initialization seeds it to `50` when scenario byte `0x4aaf` is enabled and to sentinel `-1` otherwise, while the companion getter `0x004240a0` returns either the live counter or fixed fallback `29999`. Current language-table correlation also gives `0x4aaf` a stronger player-facing meaning: it is the live gate behind `Company track laying is limited...` and the event variable label `Company Track Pieces Buildable`. So the current strongest read is available track-laying capacity, not an abstract company route-budget. That site-side helper also closes one adjacent ownership gap: beneath `placed_structure_finalize_creation_or_rebuild_local_runtime_state` `0x0040ef10`, it rebuilds one linked site's route-entry anchor and display-name buffer. That path is tighter now than just “bind anchor then touch `0x006cfcb4`”: after the literal-policy-`2` rebuild succeeds it re-enters `aux_route_entry_tracker_collection_refresh_route_entry_group_membership` `0x004a45f0`, which can now be described more concretely. Its early prepass at `0x004a4380` can split one mismatching adjacent subchain into a fresh tracker group; its later helper at `0x004a4ce0` can transfer one compatible adjacent chain between neighboring groups; and the repair-side helper at `0x004a4ff0` can reseed a whole route-entry component into a fresh tracker when the old group id is missing or invalid. The regrouping pass also still rewrites compatible endpoint slots through `0x004950f0` and refreshes one nearby cached-match payload band through `0x00495020` before the helper resumes the name-buffer work. The remaining display-name side still matches the earlier grounded text family: copy the resolved city name when available, append civic suffixes `Township`, `New`, `Modern`, or `Renaissance`, append `Service Tower` or `Maintenance Facility` on the linked-instance class branches, and otherwise fall back through the older `Junction`..`Center` and `Anytown` text families. The higher owner-refresh side of that same tracker family is tighter now too. The reusable gate at `0x004a4c00` no longer looks like a stray predicate: it explicitly requires both route-entry trackers to keep matching cached fields `+0x18/+0x1c/+0x1d/+0x1e` and both route entries to keep their special side fields `+0x20e/+0x222` unset before adjacent-chain transfer is allowed. The collection-wide traversal sweep at `0x004a5fc0` is bounded now as the connected-component refresh owner over tracker field `+0x0c`, with a temporary queue at `[this+0x94]` and direct fallback into the reseed helper `0x004a4ff0` whenever one neighboring route entry has lost valid tracker ownership. Above both of those sits `aux_route_entry_tracker_collection_refresh_owner_adjacent_compatible_group_links` `0x004a6360`, which now reads as the owner-side latch-change refresher invoked from `0x00494fb0`: it starts from one owner route-entry id, confirms both bound endpoint entries agree on the boolean class state implied by route-entry byte `+0x44`, and then probes both endpoint sides for adjacent route-entry groups that can be absorbed through the `0x004a4c00 -> 0x004a4ce0` gate-and-transfer pair. The sibling query side is bounded now too: `aux_route_entry_tracker_collection_query_component_label_by_tracker_id` `0x004a6320` is the dirty-aware accessor for tracker field `+0x0c`, while `aux_route_entry_tracker_dispatch_route_entry_pair_metric_query` `0x004a65b0` is the remaining mode-switched lower metric dispatcher beneath the heavier chooser at `0x004a6630`, forwarding fixed route-entry-pair candidate sets into either `0x004a5280` or `0x004a5900` depending on the shared hundredths-scaled build-version query `runtime_query_hundredths_scaled_build_version` `0x00482e00` over `0x006cec74`. The current caller thresholds `>= 0x67`, `>= 0x68`, `>= 0x69`, and `>= 0x6a` now line up with executable build values `1.03`, `1.04`, `1.05`, and `1.06`, and the version source itself can come from the multiplayer companion path as well as the local executable, so this split is no longer best-read as a time- or era-side cutover at all. It now reads more cleanly as a pre-`1.03` versus `1.03+` route-metric compatibility dispatcher. That lower split is tighter now too: `0x004a5280` is the weighted recursive branch with heuristic ordering, per-tracker best-cost cache `0x006cfcac`, and prune threshold `0x006cfcb0`, while `0x004a5900` is the alternate recursive neighbor-walk branch that stays within compatible component labels through `0x004a62c0` and accumulates step and mismatch penalties over route-entry links `+0x206/+0x20a/+0x20e`. Above both of them, `aux_route_entry_tracker_query_best_route_entry_pair_metric_with_endpoint_fallbacks` `0x004a6630` is now bounded as the real chooser: direct fixed-pair query when both entries pass `0x0048b870`, otherwise endpoint-pair fallback across the two tracker groups. The adjacent route-style rebuild side is tighter now too: the same build-version family reaches `placed_structure_rebuild_route_style_candidate_scores_and_peer_links` `0x004101e0`, where build `1.04+` keeps one `Recycling Plant` stem-specific compatibility branch alive and build `1.05+` skips one older descriptor-side attenuation fallback. There is also one neighboring world-side compatibility lane now bounded below the same family: `placed_structure_collect_connected_component_tile_bounds_with_version_gate` `0x004160c0` skips one older recursive component-bounds walk through `0x00415f20` on build `1.03+` when scenario field `[0x006cec78+0x46c38]` is already active. The wrapper above that path is bounded now too: `placed_structure_map_tile_range_to_connected_component_records_with_optional_bounds_refresh` `0x00416170` walks the caller rectangle, maps tile keys into the component table rooted at `0x0062ba7c`, and only re-enters `0x004160c0` when the current owner still has no cached bounds and the local world or scenario suppressors stay clear. The higher neighboring raster side is tighter too. `world_grid_refresh_projected_rect_sample_band_and_flag_mask` `0x00418610` is the shared projected-rectangle helper above `world_grid_refresh_flagged_region_float_extrema_and_mean` `0x00415020`: it refreshes the temporary sample band at `0x0062b7d0`, publishes the surviving rectangle through `0x0044d410`, and on the single-sample path re-enters `world_grid_toggle_flagged_mask_bit0_for_nonsentinel_rect_samples` `0x004185a0` to flip mask bit `0x01` for the corresponding non-sentinel cells. Current grounded callers for `0x00418610` are the neighboring placed-structure local-runtime helper `0x00418be0` and the heavier placement validator `0x004197e0`, so this adjacent family now reads more like projected placement or local raster prep than an unowned generic world-grid scan. One neighboring caller into the same height-support band is tighter now too: the world-side branch at `0x00419070..0x004190f0` walks one admitted local window, dispatches the acceptance-gated relaxer `0x0044d6e0` once per cell with a one-cell radius and no immediate tail refresh, and only after that outer loop completes re-enters `0x0044d410` on the full surviving rectangle. The higher owner split is tighter now too. `placed_structure_build_local_runtime_record_from_candidate_stem_and_projected_scratch` `0x00418be0` is the broader construction or rebuild lane: resolve one candidate id from a stem, build projected scratch through `0x00416ec0`, then publish the projected rectangle and validate its side windows through `placed_structure_publish_projected_runtime_rect_globals_and_validate_side_windows` `0x00416620`. That publish pass is bounded now too: it stages `0x0062b308/0x0062b30c/0x0062b310`, validates the rectangle against route-entry coverage through `route_entry_collection_query_rect_window_passes_entry_type_gate` `0x00494240`, can branch into the special projected-slot picker `placed_structure_try_select_projected_rect_profile_slot` `0x00415570`, and refreshes the compact per-cell side tables through `world_grid_refresh_projected_rect_surface_and_region_byte_tables` `0x00414e10` before the finished scratch is copied into one queued runtime record and the new record re-enters `0x00416170` when its rectangle is valid. The smaller sibling strip under that projected-slot family is tighter now too. The shared probe `projected_rect_profile_slot_probe_template_cells_and_height_span` `0x004153f0` tests one fixed `8x8` template from `0x005edd30` against the current projected rectangle, rejecting on out-of-bounds cells, occupied cells already marked in `0x0062b300`, or the paired world-grid gates `0x00448af0(mode 0)` and `0x004499c0`, then sampling `0x00448aa0` and requiring enough local height span. The selector `0x00415570` now reads as a three-path owner over that probe: reuse cached slot `0x005ee030`, try the localized-id-`11` default, then scan slots `0..11` until one passes. Once a slot is live, `placed_structure_build_projected_rect_profile_mask_bands_from_selected_slot` `0x004156b0` expands the same template family into the four mask bands `[record+0xcf/+0xd3/+0xd7/+0xdb]`, setting per-plane presence flags at `[record+0x177/+0x17b/+0x17f/+0x183]` and freeing any empty plane buffer. The packed-cell and bounds side beneath the same family is tighter too: `projected_rect_packed_cell_list_try_append_unique_xy_with_optional_highbit_flag_and_expand_quarter_bounds` `0x00413df0` appends unique packed cells into `0x0062b318` while expanding the quarter-scale bounds at `0x0062b7a8..0x0062b7b4`, and the adjacent helper strip `0x00414270/0x004142c0/0x004142d0/0x004142e0` now reads as replaying those packed cells into compact-grid mode `2` plus the shared bounds extractor for the same sentinel-terminated list. The smaller sibling `0x00419200` is now bounded beneath that same projected-rectangle family too: it is the tiny getter over the temporary dword cell-value bank at `0x0062b300`, flattening one caller cell through live world width `[0x0062c120+0x2155]` and returning the corresponding dword when the bank exists, else `0`. Current grounded caller is the later world-side branch at `0x0048af99`. The smaller sibling `placed_structure_clone_template_local_runtime_record_for_subject_and_refresh_component_bounds` `0x00418a60` now reads as the current-subject clone path above the same connected-component and mask-refresh helpers, returning the cloned local runtime record later stored into `[site+0x24e]` by `placed_structure_refresh_cloned_local_runtime_record_from_current_candidate_stem` `0x0040e450`. The higher wrapper above that clone path is bounded now too: `placed_structure_collection_refresh_local_runtime_records_and_position_scalars` `0x004133b0` first drains the temporary site-id queue rooted at `0x0062ba64/0x0062ba6c/0x0062ba70` through `placed_structure_local_runtime_site_id_queue_count` `0x00414480` and `placed_structure_local_runtime_site_id_queue_pop_next` `0x00413f50`, rebuilding one cloned local-runtime record per queued placed structure through `0x0040e450`, and only then sweeps all live placed structures through the side refresh helper `placed_structure_refresh_local_runtime_position_triplet_and_linked_anchor_followon` `0x0040ee10`. The constructor or ownership split beneath that family is tighter now too. The shared allocator `placed_structure_collection_allocate_and_construct_entry` `0x004134d0` no longer just reaches an anonymous `0x3e1`-byte scratch object: it first constructs one concrete placed-structure specialization through `placed_structure_construct_concrete_specialization_vtable_5c8c50` `0x0040c950`, which calls `0x0045b680` to seed the common base table `0x005cb4c0`, clear the derived field band `[this+0x23a..+0x26a]`, and re-enter the older base initializer `0x00455610`, then installs the specialization table `0x005c8c50`. The paired cleanup path at `0x0040c970` now reads like the matching teardown thunk: it briefly reinstalls `0x005c8c50`, then immediately demotes the record back to the base table through `0x0045b040 -> 0x00455650` before the stack object is freed or unwound. The corresponding serializer entry `0x0040c980` is equally tight now: it simply tails into `0x0045b560`, which first re-enters the base serializer `0x004559d0` and then emits the derived payload bracketed by tags `0x5dc1` and `0x5dc2` over `[this+0x23e]`, `[this+0x242]`, `[this+0x246]`, `[this+0x24e]`, and `[this+0x252]`. One nearby string clue is useful but narrower than it first looked. The specialization table at `0x005c8c50` is immediately followed by `RadioStation` and `Radio Station`, but the local member method `0x0040ce60` now shows why: it compares site stem `[this+0x3ae]` against `Radio Station`, canonicalizes that stem to `RadioStation` on match, and then re-enters `0x0040cd70` plus `0x0045c150`. So those adjacent strings ground one stem-normalization lane inside the specialization, not the specialization name by themselves. The small virtual-slot and cached-id side is tighter now too. The same `0x005c8c50` table carries three literal-false stubs `0x0040cc10/0x0040cc20/0x0040cc30`, one literal-true stub `0x0040ccc0`, and the narrower linked-site-id presence predicate `0x0040ccb0`, which simply returns whether `[this+0x2a8]` is nonzero. Beneath the stem-normalization path, `0x0040cd70` is now bounded as the common cached source/candidate resolver: it clears `[this+0x3cc]` and `[this+0x3d0]`, scans source collection `0x0062b2fc` for a stem match against `[this+0x3ae]`, stores the matched source id into `[this+0x3cc]` plus the linked candidate/profile id from `[source+0x173]` into `[this+0x3d0]`, and when no match exists formats localized id `0x00ad` through `0x0051e980` with the current stem buffer. That warning path is tighter now too: `0x0051e980` is the guarded warning-modal publisher that forces cursor visibility through `MouseCursor.cpp` before showing the shared warning box. The two tiny followers `0x0040cec0` and `0x0040cee0` then resolve those cached ids back into concrete source and candidate records through `0x0062b2fc` and `0x0062b268` respectively. The derived payload and transient family under that same table is tighter now too. `0x0045c150` is the clear payload-loader counterpart to `0x0045b560`: it reinitializes the derived field band, opens the `0x5dc1/0x5dc2` payload bracket, restores the two payload strings into `[this+0x23e]` and `[this+0x242]`, clears the transient roots `[this+0x24e]`, `[this+0x256]`, `[this+0x25a]`, and `[this+0x25e]`, and then rebuilds follow-on specialization state through `0x0045b5f0` and `0x0045b6f0`. The neighboring builder pair is coherent too: `0x0045b210` formats `amb_%1_01.wav`, allocates a `0x141`-byte transient object, stores it at `[this+0x24a]`, and registers it through `0x0052da00`, while `0x0045c310` allocates the separate primary transient handle at `[this+0x246]` from payload strings `[this+0x23e]` and `[this+0x242]`, then publishes it through `0x00530720` and `0x0052d8a0`. The next rebuild layer is tighter now too. `0x0045b5f0` resolves one current world-position tuple through `0x0052e720 -> 0x0051f090 -> 0x00534490`, then uses that derived scalar to refresh the ambient-side transient again through `0x0045b210`. Above that, `0x0045b6f0` clears the optional handles at `[this+0x25a]` and `[this+0x25e]`, then probes and materializes a larger named variant family rooted in `[this+0x23e]` through strings such as `%1_`, `%1_Upgrade1`, `%1_Anim%2.3dp`, `%1_Upgrade1Anim%2.3dp`, and `%1_Upgrade1Light%2.3dp`, looping across numbered variants and publishing surviving records through `0x0052d8a0`. One higher timed branch is bounded now too: `0x0045baf0` advances the two timer-like fields `[this+0x26a]` and `[this+0x266]`, gates on nearby world-distance and candidate-side checks, and then formats one output around `rnd_%1_%2.wav` plus the same anim or light string family before dispatching through `0x00531e50` under owner `0x006d402c`. Their release-side companions `0x0045b160` and `0x0045c3c0` tear down those same transient roots and payload strings again, and the recurring service slice `0x0045be50` updates the derived scalar triplet `[this+0x22e]`, `[this+0x232]`, and `[this+0x236]` before republishing it through `0x00530720`. The string literals `amb_%1_01.wav`, `%1_Anim%2.3dp`, `%1_Upgrade1Anim%2.3dp`, `%1_Upgrade1Light%2.3dp`, and `rnd_%1_%2.wav` therefore ground the derived band `[this+0x23e..+0x26a]` as one payload-plus-transient owner family with ambient, animation, light, and random-sound components, rather than more linked-site or route-entry ids. One broader specialization-side build pass under that same family is bounded now too. `0x0045b760` first scans one base-or-upgrade descriptor family rooted in `[this+0x23e]` through `%1_` or `%1_Upgrade1`, probing each numbered hit through `0x0053c930` and dispatching every accepted one through vtable slot `+0x7c`. It then builds the matching attached-emitter list through `0x0045e940`, ensures the shared `%1_Anim.3dp` payload root exists through `0x0045ae80`, and finally scans the paired animation family through `%1_Anim%2.3dp` or `%1_Upgrade1Anim%2.3dp`, materializing each accepted hit into a `0x206` record through `0x00530640`, publishing that record through `0x0052d8a0`, hashing the generated name through `0x0053d810`, and forwarding the result into `[this+0x256]` through `0x0045a7f0`. So that specialization side now has one explicit base-or-upgrade descriptor and animation-record build pass above the later timed anim/light/random-sound service slice, not just the narrower `%1_Anim` and `%1_Upgrade1Light` helpers. The shared `%1_Anim.3dp` collection under that build pass is tighter now too. `0x0045ae80` formats literal `%1_Anim.3dp`, probes the named-bank owner `0x006d4020`, reads the matched payload bytes, and lazily allocates the intrusive shared list root `0x006acd5c`, so this is the bootstrap for the specialization-side shared animation payload family rather than just another bank-read leaf. `0x0045a7f0` then acts as the keyed replace-or-publish helper over that same family: it rewrites matching keys across the current `0x006acd50/0x006acd4c` row collection, mirrors the replacement into the per-row four-lane pointer bands, inserts newly active rows into the intrusive list rooted at `0x006acd5c`, and when selector table `0x006acd44` is live it allocates one selector-`0` effect slot through `0x00475ed0` before forwarding it into `0x00475240(-1,0)`. The smaller helper `0x0045a700` is the keyed three-float accumulator beneath that same path: it scans the live `0x168`-byte rows in `0x006acd50`, filters on one key dword plus row flag bit `0x400`, and accumulates one output anchor delta from the shared basis bands in `0x006acd4c+0x04/+0x34` or `+0x40/+0x70`. The service side above the collection is also bounded: `0x0045af50` clears globals `0x006acd44/48/54`, publishes the current row collection into `0x006acd50/0x006acd4c`, releases oversize selector roots through `0x00475100`, and prunes every intrusive active record in `0x006acd5c` whose owner pointer at `[record+0xf0]` matches the current collection owner. The heavier per-record body is `0x0045a9c0`: it honors the current controller gates in `0x006acd48/58`, clears and re-arms the selected effect-slot band in `0x006acd44`, optionally mirrors one caller dword into row field `[row+0x80]`, updates timing and mode fields across every matching shared row, derives local scalar deltas through `0x0045a280`, optionally subtracts keyed anchor deltas through `0x0045a700`, and republishes the finished two owner triplets through `0x0052e8b0` and `0x00530720`. `0x0045ade0` seeds cursor `0x006acd60` from `[0x006cec78+0x15]`, then services the intrusive list in `0x0f`-tick windows by dispatching the heavier per-record body at `0x0045a9c0(owner, cursor, 0)` for every linked record whose owner pointer at `[record+0xf0]` is live. So the specialization transient family now includes a concrete shared `%1_Anim.3dp` payload root, keyed record replacement, keyed anchor accumulation, and a bounded 15-tick shared service loop, not just the base builder at `0x0045b760`. The low-side leaves under that same family are tighter now too. `0x0045b050` is the explicit field reset for payload roots `[this+0x23e/+0x242]`, transient handles `[this+0x246/+0x24a/+0x24e]`, selector slot `[this+0x262] = -1`, timer fields `[this+0x266/+0x26a]`, and the packed flag band `[this+0x23a..+0x23d]`, with an optional tail into `0x00455610` when the caller requests a broader base clear. `0x0045b0b0` is the paired integer-triplet publish leaf: it forwards one caller triplet through `0x0052e680` on the specialization owner and, when present, repeats that same publish into the primary transient `[this+0x246]`. `0x0045b0f0` is the neighboring packed RGB-triplet forwarder into vtable slot `+0x58`. The two tiny wrappers around them are now explicit too: `0x0045b040` demotes the specialization straight back to base vtable `0x005cb4c0` before tailing into the common cleanup body `0x00455650`, while `0x0045b110` is just the direct wrapper into the shared world-anchor triplet publisher `0x00455660`. One intermediate transient build layer is bounded now too. `0x0040cf00` first requires creation-mode byte `[this+0x3d4] == 1` and live seed handle `[this+0x24e]`, re-enters `0x0045b370(1)`, derives one scaled float from current local geometry through `[this+0x14]`, `[this+0x21]`, `[this+0x3a]`, and `0x005c8cf4`, and then allocates a second transient handle into `[this+0x25a]` through `0x00475ed0`. It follows that with one current world-position resolve through `0x00414450` and `0x0052e720`, several local offset-triplet writes through `0x00475010`, and four numbered channel updates through `0x00475030` with selector ids `1..4`. That is enough to bound it as another specialization-side transient-handle builder beneath the same payload family as `0x0045c310` and `0x0045b210`, without yet over-naming the user-facing subtype or effect semantics of the built handle. The adjacent data-loading strip under that same transient family is tighter now too. `0x00474700` reloads `particles.dat` into global root `0x006cea5c` and then registers literal `ParticlesTexture` through owner `0x006d4030`; `0x00474790` reloads `emitters.dat` into global root `0x006cea60`; `0x00474820` hashes one caller-supplied emitter name and resolves the first matching entry out of that `emitters.dat` table; `0x00474860` is the adjacent formatted-variant iterator that walks the same table through `%s%s%i.3dp`, saving the selected row root into `0x006cea90` and the generated variant name into `0x006cea94`; `0x00474970` is the small handle-array release helper used by the same emitter-template teardown side; and `0x004749a0` is the tiny exact-compare predicate for literal `steam`. The lower definition-to-handle materialization body is bounded now too: `0x004749d0` copies scaled float and packed dword bands from one emitter-definition row into the attached emitter handle, resolves the named particle row from `particles.dat` through `0x0053d810`, and mirrors that particle row into `[handle+0x10c..]` before returning the live handle. The higher creator above that materializer is tighter now too: `0x00474e20` first strips special high bits for `CargoMoney_DollarSign`, clears incoming flag `0x400` when definition gate `[def+0xb8]` is zero, and then either hashes the definition name plus owner token and clones one owner-side template through `0x00556ce0`, or allocates a fresh `0x1fd` runtime emitter through `0x00556920` before re-entering `0x004749d0`. On success it publishes that emitter through `0x0052d950`, stores the definition owner pointer into `[emitter+0x60]`, and when final flags carry `0x02000000` it forces persistent flag dword `[emitter+0xbc] = 1`. One larger owner-stem branch above that iterator is bounded now too: `0x0045e940` rejects `Stadium`, clears caller flag bit `0x10` for `ParticleCar`, repeatedly pulls formatted variants through `0x00474860`, instantiates each accepted variant through `0x00474e20`, sets emitter flag `0x02` for `Nuclear`, and optionally returns the created emitter list through the caller array. So the `0x00474e20/0x00475010/0x00475030` emitter builders are now sitting on top of a grounded pair of particle and emitter data tables plus one concrete owner-stem-driven variant-list builder, not just anonymous global payload roots. The small shared slot utilities under those builders are tighter now too: `0x00474fe0` is the shared per-slot flag broadcast into `[emitter+0xbc]`; `0x00475010` caches one shared anchor triplet into globals `0x006cea68/0x006cea6c/0x006cea70`, `0x00475030` republishes that cached triplet into either all emitters in one slot container or one selected emitter index at `[emitter+0x1b0..+0x1b8]`, `0x00475240` toggles the per-emitter enable byte `[emitter+0x1d8]` for either all or one selected emitter, and `0x004752b0` is the paired boolean query that reports true only when that same byte is zero. The update side is explicit too: `0x00474f70` runs `0x00555e50(0)` across either one supplied slot container or every slot in the global linked list rooted at `0x006cea74`. The release side is explicit too: `0x00475100` tears emitter slots down, optionally unlinks them from the global active list `0x006cea74/0x006cea78/0x006cea7c`, and then either recycles or frees the slot depending on whether it falls inside the pooled descriptor rooted at `0x006cea58`. Two named bundle builders are grounded now too: `0x004752d0` builds the three-emitter `BrokenDown_Steam` + `FlamespoutB` + `Crash_SmokeA` bundle, while `0x00475550` builds the two-emitter `BrokenDown_Steam` + `BrokenDown_Smoke` bundle. The next owner layer above those helpers is grounded now too. `0x00474ce0` is the global particle/emitter bootstrap: it reloads `emitters.dat`, reloads `particles.dat`, publishes the mode-`1` ratio labels through `0x00474690`, lazily allocates pooled slot root `0x006cea58`, allocates backing slab `0x006cea54`, seeds that slab into the pooled descriptor through `0x0053dcf0(0x38, 0x2710, 1)`, clears the global linked-slot heads and shared anchor globals, rebuilds the flagged templates through `0x00474c60`, and finally publishes enable-state `1` through owner `0x006d4030`. `0x00474db0` is the teardown-side companion that frees `0x006cea54`, `0x006cea5c`, `0x006cea60`, and then resets and frees the pooled slot root `0x006cea58`. That makes the effect-slot builders a real subsystem rooted at `0x006cea54..0x006cea98`, not just a loose string-and-handle utility strip. The named bundle surface is broader now too: `0x00475420` selects one `Volcano_BlackSmoke*` + `Volcano_Lava*` pair from the caller float tier `0.5/0.75/1.0/1.5/2.0` and builds the two-emitter volcano bundle; `0x00475650` builds the three-emitter `ServiceTower_Water2` + `ServiceTower_Water` + `ServiceTower_Water3` water bundle from the paired `ServiceTower_Anim2#water.3dp`, `ServiceTower_Anim3#water.3dp`, and `ServiceTower_Anim4#water.3dp` definitions; `0x004757b0` builds the three-emitter `Rocket_Flame` + `Rocket_Smoke` + `Rocket_Sparkle` fireworks bundle from the paired `Fireworks_Anim2/3/4#water.3dp` definitions; `0x00475910` is the adjacent randomized one-emitter fireworks builder that rotates among `Fireworks1/2/3`, uses `Fireworks_Anim5#water.3dp`, and writes fixed dword `0x3c` into `[emitter+0xbc]`; `0x004759f0` and `0x00475b30` build the one-emitter `CargoMoney_DollarSign` and `SpendMoney_DollarSign` bundles; `0x00475a90` builds the one-emitter `SelectObject` bundle; `0x00475bd0` builds the five-emitter directional construction bundle from `Construct_Pos`, `Construct_Left`, `Construct_Right`, `Construct_Back`, and `Construct_Forward`; `0x00475dc0` selects between one-emitter `Mist` and `MistSmall`; and `0x00475e30` builds the one-emitter `Vent` bundle. The next local owner above that catalog is grounded too: `0x00475ed0` is the selector-driven named-bundle dispatcher that chooses one of those builders from the caller selector, mirrors the first emitter's attachment token into `[slot+0x04]`, stores caller mode into `[slot+0x34]`, and when that mode equals `1` links the finished slot into the global active list `0x006cea74/0x006cea78/0x006cea7c`. So that specialization-side transient path now has a much broader data-backed effect catalog and a concrete selector-driven bundle owner above it, not just the earlier broken-down bundles. One adjacent train-side effect strip is bounded now too, and it should stay separate from the concrete placed-structure specialization family. `0x0045d130` resolves one owner profile through `0x006ada84`, allocates a `0x141`-byte handle, initializes it through `0x00554830` using one mode-selected train sound stem from the tiny selector at `0x0045d22e`, applies two fixed parameter writes through `0x00554340` and `0x00554450`, stores the result at `[this+0x336]`, and registers it through `0x0052da00`. `0x0045d260` is the paired live-handle updater: it clamps one caller-scaled rate into `0x1f40..0xac44`, forwards that through `0x005542c0`, pushes the caller gain through `0x00554450`, and when the current handle mode at `[handle+0x138]` equals `1` also forwards zero through `0x005543f0`. The broader owner above both helpers is `0x0045d2e0`: it republishes the current world anchor through `0x0052e720`, updates an existing live sound handle at `[this+0x346]` when one exists, or otherwise selects one new sound stem from fixed `Train_Burning.wav`, fixed `Train_Breakdown_loop.wav`, or one dynamic table-driven name after the `0x0041b8f0 -> 0x004a8840` branch, then creates the fresh sound handle through `0x00531e50`, stores it at `[this+0x346]`, sets fixed flag bits `0x18`, seeds two scale fields from the chosen mode factor, and clears the three train-state latches `[this+0x33a/+0x33e/+0x342]` again. So the neighboring `0x0045d130/0x0045d260/0x0045d2e0` family is now bounded as a train breakdown-or-burning sound/effect handle strip rather than more placed-structure emitter state. The larger owner above that train-side strip is bounded now too. `0x0045d4b0` optionally clears prior state through `0x00455610`, copies the caller primary and secondary stems into `[this+0x32e]` and `[this+0x332]`, probes the named-bank owner `0x006d4020` for the secondary stem, then falls back through the primary stem and the suffixed `_C.tga` form. It resolves one `ServicePoint.3dp` payload into `[this+0x23e/+0x23a]`, one `Body.3dp` payload into `[this+0x242/+0x246]`, counts existing `%1_Truck%2.3dp` variants into `[this+0x31a]`, allocates the larger per-variant table at `[this+0x316]`, and then enters the later subloops that fill the cargo-icon, bogie, drivewheel, piston, connecting-rod, coupling-bar, body, and track-point bands. That keeps the `0x0045d130/0x0045d260/0x0045d2e0` sound helpers nested under a broader train visual/profile preload owner rather than floating as an isolated sound-only strip. The release and load sides of that same train family are bounded now too. `0x0045e390` drops the optional sound handle `[this+0x346]` through `0x00531ef0` plus the mode-gated `0x005317b0` path, clears the live train-effect handle root `[this+0x336]` by re-entering `0x0045cc90(0)` and `0x0045cf40(0)`, iterates the variant table at `[this+0x316]` to free per-row pointer arrays, two heap buffers, and any nested owned list rooted at `[row+0x0c]->[+0x75]`, then frees the main table and the two payload strings `[this+0x32e]` and `[this+0x332]`. `0x0045e530` is the load-side owner: it opens tags `0x61a9` and `0x61aa`, reads two heap strings, optionally rewrites the first string by scanning the live collection at `[0x006d4020+0x429b8]`, rebuilds the train visual family through `0x0045d4b0` with unit scale, republishes the early per-row handles through `0x005548d0`, and under scenario latch `[0x006cec78+0x46c34] > 0x2585` also enters the optional child-record branch under tag `0x61b2` before closing `0x61ab`. That makes the train-side strip a real payload-owned family with explicit preload, service, load, and teardown phases rather than a one-off visual helper. Two shared selector-slot toggles under that same family are bounded now too. `0x0045cc90` owns the three selector-driven effect slots at `[table+0x34]`, `[table+0x38]`, and `[table+0x3c]`: in build mode it allocates selectors `1`, `2`, and `3` through `0x00475ed0`, reseeds their shared anchors through `0x00475010/0x00475030`, and then enables every live emitter in the main row-object list by writing byte `1` into `[emitter+0x1d8]`; in release mode it tears those same three slots down through `0x00475100`, clears the table fields again, and disables the same emitter list by writing byte `0`. `0x0045cf40` is the same pattern for selector `5` into `[table+0x40]`. So the train visual family now has one explicit selector-slot toggle layer above the named `0x00475ed0` bundle catalog, rather than touching those effect slots only through the broader load and teardown owners. One smaller service leaf under that same family is grounded now too. `0x0045e8c0` walks the fixed 32-entry row-object strip rooted at `[this+0x277]` and dispatches vtable slot `+0x10` on every live row object. When the caller supplies a valid selected row index instead of `-1`, it re-enters that selected row through vtable slot `+0x0c`, and when the paired per-row flag byte in the neighboring strip is nonzero it also pushes `0,0,1.0f,1.0f` through `0x0052eab0` on that selected row object. The current grounded callers at `0x0041c680` and `0x0041c69a` derive the selected row from byte `[cargo+0x20]`, so this is best read as the row-object service plus selected-entry refresh leaf under the train visual family, not a generic object-list sweep. One adjacent helper block is tighter now too, and it should stay separate from the concrete `0x005c8c50` vtable rather than being folded into it. The small predicates `0x0040cc40/0x0040cc60/0x0040cc80` all follow the same `[this+0x173] -> 0x0062b268` chain into one linked candidate/profile record. `0x0040cc40` returns whether candidate subtype byte `[candidate+0x32]` equals `1`, `0x0040cc60` returns raw candidate byte `[candidate+0xba]`, and `0x0040cc80` returns the stricter conjunction `subtype == 1 && class == 3` using class byte `[candidate+0x8c]`. The current grounded caller for all three is `world_grid_refresh_projected_rect_sample_band_and_flag_mask` `0x00418610`, where they derive the two boolean mode inputs for `0x00415020`; that makes them a shared candidate-profile helper cluster adjacent to the specialization family, not direct overrides in the `0x005c8c50` table. The neighboring `0x0040ccf0` stays on the same “adjacent but not the same vtable” side of the boundary: it resolves one linked instance through `0x0047de00`, follows that instance's vtable `+0x80` owner chain, and returns candidate class byte `[candidate+0x8c]`. Current grounded callers at `0x00480fb5` and `0x004b03ce` compare that returned class against `3` and `4`, so the current safest note is simply “linked-instance candidate-class reader.” One gated collection-side scan in the same neighborhood is bounded now too. `0x0040cd10` first requires shell latch `[0x006cec74+0x1c3]` and creation-mode byte `[this+0x3d4] == 1`, then resolves the current subject's center world-grid cell through `0x00455f60`, reads the local site roster count and id list at `[cell+0xeb]` and `[cell+0xef]`, and resolves each listed placed-structure id through `0x006cec20`. Its current grounded caller is the broader collection sweep at `0x00413860`, so the strongest current read is a gated center-cell site-roster scan rather than one more direct specialization override. One small neighboring world-grid helper is grounded cleanly enough to keep too. `0x0040ccd0` takes one live world root, one X-like index, and one Y-like index, multiplies the Y-like term by world width `[world+0x2145]`, adds the X-like term, scales the resulting slot by fixed cell stride `0x1d7`, and returns the corresponding cell pointer under base `[world+0x2129]`. Current grounded callers include the placed-structure cargo-service bitset sweep around `0x0042c386` and several world-grid overlay passes in the `0x004525bc..0x00452bb2` range, so that helper is now best read as the shared `(x,y) -> world-cell*` resolver rather than another object-specific method. The next sibling table at `0x005c9750` is tighter now too, though still not fully decoded. The structural anchor is `city_database_entry_collection_refresh_records_from_tagged_bundle` `0x00474540`: that load-side owner stages bundle tags `0x61a9..0x61ab`, iterates one collection, and dispatches each entry through vtable slot `+0x40`. In `0x005c9750`, that same slot resolves into the sibling record family beside `0x0041ab70/0x0041ab80`, which is enough to treat the table as the city-database entry family rather than a generic unresolved runtime object. The small load-side slot `0x0041ab70` simply jumps into `0x0045c6f0`, which restores two strings into `[this+0x32e]` and `[this+0x332]`, stages the same `0x61a9/0x61aa/0x61ab` tag family, and iterates the child runtime band rooted at `[this+0x316]`. The one real behavioral slot we recovered there is `0x0041ab80`: it refreshes one named handle through owner `0x006d4020`, writes the resulting handle into `[this+0x1c]`, queries three base floats through `0x0045c480`, and returns one scaled float derived from the first queried component. That method is currently called from later world-side branches at `0x0046e4f7`, `0x004aafee`, and `0x004ab020`. The exact user-facing semantic of the handle still is not grounded, but the leftover rows in the same table are now bounded as low-value constant-return stubs rather than a meaningful unresolved behavior seam. The family boundary is therefore no longer arbitrary: this is now the current city-database entry vtable cluster, not another placed-structure specialization. One correction matters here too: the lower `0x00455660/0x00455800/0x00455810/0x00455930` helpers are no longer city-only. Local `.rdata` now shows the same shared slots under both the city-entry table `0x005c9750` and the sibling `Infrastructure` table `0x005cfd00`, whose constructors at `0x0048a240/0x0048a2dc/0x00490a3c` all re-enter `0x00455b20`, install `0x005cfd00`, and seed the same scalar-band family through `0x00455b70` with the literal stem `Infrastructure`. So the safest current family name for those low helpers is the broader `0x23a` runtime-object band rather than city-entry-only. `0x00455800` and `0x00455810` are simply the paired normalized coordinate getters over `[this+0x1e2]` and `[this+0x1ea]`, which explains why they recur all over the city-side, route-link, and placed-structure placement code. The narrower helper `0x00455660` sits above those getters: it scales the caller-supplied normalized coordinate pair, converts it through `0x006d4024 -> 0x0051f090 -> 0x00534490`, adds a caller-supplied integer height bias, optionally rounds that height through `0x005a10d0` when the auxiliary-preview gate `0x00434050` is active, and finally publishes the resulting world-anchor triplet through `0x00530720`. One serializer-side sibling is bounded too. `0x00455930` queries two triplet-like scalar bands through `0x0052e720` and `0x0052e880` and writes the resulting six dwords through `0x00531030`; its load-side stream counterpart `0x00455870` reads the same six four-byte lanes back through `0x00531150`, republishes the first triplet through `0x00530720`, republishes the second through `0x0052e8b0`, and returns the summed byte count. The neighboring tagged string-triplet serializer `0x004559d0` is now no longer reversed either: it writes bracket tags `0x55f1/0x55f2/0x55f3` through `0x00531340`, emits the three string lanes `[this+0x206/+0x20a/+0x20e]` through `0x00531410`, dispatches vtable slot `+0x4c`, then re-enters `0x0052ec50` before the closing tag. ### Shared Runtime-Object and Support Families The low helper strip beneath that shared family is tighter now too: `0x0052ecd0` is the common local-state reset that clears the list and handle roots, resets the string/scalar side bands, preserves only selected low bits of `[this+0x20]`, and reseeds the recurring default `1.0f` lanes; `0x0052ebd0/0x0052ec50` are the load/save companions for the two flag bits stored in that same byte; `0x0052eb90` releases every entry hanging from list root `[this+0x79]` through `0x00554d50`; and `0x0052eca0` is the grouped-table cursor over `[this+0x14]`, `[this+0x21]`, and `[this+0x3a]` that returns the next `0x45`-byte subrecord in the current group when one exists. The next shared initializer `0x0052edf0` then binds caller pointer `[this+0x04]`, resolves optional handles into `[this+0x10]` and `[this+0x1c]`, copies one anchor triplet into `[this+0x1e2/+0x1e6/+0x1ea]`, sets bit `0x08`, and seeds packed color `[this+0x43] = 0x007f7f7f`; its release-side siblings `0x0052eeb0` and `0x0052ef10` clear the two owned list roots `[this+0x79]` and `[this+0x7d]` through distinct per-entry destructors before freeing the list roots themselves. The broader release body `0x0052ef70` sits above that strip: it clears the active shell preview-owner latch when it still points at `this`, drops the dependent handle at `[this+0x0c]`, recursively tears down the nested object list `[this+0x75]`, clears sibling owned list `[this+0x81]`, detaches any world binding rooted at `[this+0x04/+0x08]`, and finally frees the optional handles at `[this+0x10]` and `[this+0x1c]`. The next shared dirty-bit helper `0x0052f120` is now bounded too: when byte `[this+0x20]` still carries bit `0x02`, it rebuilds the cached 16-dword transform-style block at `[this+0x14e]` from scale `[this+0x36]`, anchor triplet `[this+0x1e2/+0x1e6/+0x1ea]`, and either the live local vector lanes `[this+0x4b/+0x4f/+0x53]` or the stored fallback block at `[this+0x18e]`, then flips the dirty bit over to the cached-ready bit `0x04`. The next two adjacent helpers are bounded too: `0x0052f1e0` is a pure five-vec3 boolean geometry predicate built from signed-volume or separating-plane style tests, and `0x0052f370` is the quantized selector that rounds world coordinates, folds them through table `0x006d9098`, samples one grouped metric through owner `[this+0x04]`, updates byte `[this+0x5c]`, and then chooses the active `0x45`-byte subrecord by storing index `[this+0x21]` and pointer `[this+0x18]`. The adjacent emission owner `0x0052f500` is tighter now too: it starts from that selected grouped subrecord, snapshots the global packet write pointer and remaining count at `0x00cc3b64/0x00cc3b5c`, optionally refreshes the cached transform block and applies the five-vec3 predicate when state bit `0x01` is active, and then hands off to the concrete emitters `0x0052dd00` and `0x0052e060`. Those two helpers are no longer best read as shell-only batch expanders. `0x0052dd00` emits the materialized group packet rows as one `0x20`-byte segment-record window for the layout-state presentation owner `0x005490b0`, while `0x0052e060` emits the same row family as one `0x18`-byte vertex24 window for the shell-side presentation branch `0x00528821`. The next shared helpers under that emission band are now bounded too: `0x0052d8a0/0x0052d950/0x0052d9a0` are the three owned-list registration helpers for child objects and copied-anchor records on `[this+0x75]`, `[this+0x79]`, and `[this+0x7d]`; `0x0052daa0` is the explicit grouped-subrecord selector; `0x0052db10` materializes the current group's packet rows after storing scalar `[this+0x69]`; and `0x0052dc00` then buckets those materialized rows by four float thresholds. A concrete owner above that strip is grounded now too: `vehicle_visual_build_exhaust_running_gear_track_and_mantlet_attachment_children` `0x004858e0` uses those same registration and grouped-row helpers while building `%1_ExhaustSmoke.3dp`, `%1_MuzzleFlash.3dp`, `%1_RoadWheelL%2.3dp`, `%1_RoadWheelR%2.3dp`, `%1_IdlerWheelL.3dp`, `%1_IdlerWheelR.3dp`, `%1_DriveWheelL.3dp`, `%1_DriveWheelR.3dp`, `%1_TrackL.3dp`, `%1_TrackR.3dp`, and `%1_MantletLight1.3dp` child records under the broader vehicle-visual owner `0x00485760`. The next shared helpers under that emission band are now bounded too. `0x0052fb70` is the packed-color propagation helper over `[this+0x43/+0x47]`: when shell gate `[0x006d4024+0x114742]` is live it combines stored high-byte state with either dim RGB `0x003c3c3c` or full-bright RGB `0x00ffffff`, pushes the same dim-or-bright triplet into the child list `[this+0x75]` through `0x0052e680`, and optionally recurses that update over the whole child tree; when the shell gate is absent it instead stores the raw byte into `[this+0x47]` and only recurses that byte state. `0x0052fd60` then republishes current anchor triplet `[this+0x1e2/+0x1e6/+0x1ea]` into every attached entry hanging from list root `[this+0x81]` through `0x005545d0`. The heavier relocation sibling `0x0052fdc0` marks the object dirty, adds a caller-supplied triplet delta to the same anchor, quantizes old and new X/Z lanes against the live world grid, rebinds world handle `[this+0x08]` through `0x00533c20/0x00533bf0` when the quantized cell changes, and on success re-enters `0x0052fd60`; out-of-bounds moves restore the prior anchor and fail. One more adjacent rotation-side helper is now bounded too: `0x0052ffb0` converts the current local 4-dword orientation block at `[this+0x1ce..+0x1da]` into a temporary axis-angle representation, scales the recovered angle by the caller float, and rebuilds the stored orientation block by re-entering `0x0052e9f0`. The immediate anchor-publish sibling `0x00530720` is now explicit too: it is the absolute-triplet form of the same relocation family, storing one caller-supplied anchor directly into `[this+0x1e2/+0x1e6/+0x1ea]`, optionally rebinding world handle `[this+0x08]` when the quantized X/Z cell changes, and then re-entering `0x0052fd60`. The adjacent packet-side query `0x00530030` is bounded as well: it starts from the currently selected grouped `0x45`-byte subrecord, snapshots the same global packet source span as `0x0052f500`, lazily refreshes cached basis lanes when needed, transforms one caller-supplied input triplet through that basis, and then walks the remaining packet span until `0x0052f1e0` reports one overlap or the span is exhausted. One sibling-table strip is now explicit too. Table `0x005dd1f0` has the tiny wrappers `0x00530640`, `0x00530670`, and `0x00530680` as its shared seeded-constructor, reset, and release thunks over `0x0052edf0`, `0x0052ecd0`, and `0x0052ef70`, while `0x005305c0` is the small list-bit propagator that sets or clears bit `0` in `[entry+0xb0]` across owned list `[this+0x79]`. The first heavier body under that same table is now bounded too: `0x00530690` copies one pair of 16-dword cached blocks from a source object into `[this+0x10e]` and `[this+0xce]`, refreshes local cached transform `[this+0x14e]`, and recurses the same copy into child list `[this+0x75]`. The `Infrastructure` side is tighter now too. The optional child The next adjacent field-accessor strip is explicit too: `0x00533100/0x00533120` are the indexed float set/get helpers for `[this+0x14e4 + index*4]`; `0x00533130/40`, `0x00533150/60`, `0x00533170/80`, and `0x00533190/a0` are four direct dword set/get pairs over `[this+0x1534]`, `[this+0x1540]`, `[this+0x153c]`, and `[this+0x1544]`; `0x005331b0/c0` are the float set/get pair for `[this+0x14e0]`; and `0x005331d0` is the direct getter for `[this+0x1548]`. The important caller-side grounding is narrow but real: `0x0052f370` samples one indexed float through `0x00533120` while choosing the active grouped subrecord, and `shell_emit_ranked_overlay_cell_items` `0x00524780` reads the current threshold pair through `0x00533160` and `0x00533180`. So this strip is now bounded as a genuine shared field-accessor family under the same runtime-object owner, even though the exact high-level meanings of those fields remain open. attach helper `0x0048a1e0` allocates and seeds one fresh `Infrastructure` child and, when the owner already has more than one child, clones the first child's two triplet bands into that new child before attaching it. The looped rebuild `0x0048dd50` then rebuilds the owner-visible `Infrastructure` children one ordinal at a time, tears down the higher extras above ordinal `5`, refreshes cached primary-child slot `[this+0x248]` when needed, and finishes with the same world-cell and route-side follow-on family around `0x00448a70`, `0x00493660`, and `0x0048b660`. The outer owner above that loop is bounded now too: `0x0048dcf0` reads a child count plus one optional primary-child ordinal from the tagged stream through `0x00531150`, zeroes `[this+0x08]`, dispatches each fresh child through `0x00455a50 -> vtable slot +0x40`, culls ordinals above `5`, and restores cached primary-child slot `[this+0x248]` from the saved ordinal. So the rebuild strip is consuming an already-materialized child stream rather than parsing the compact side buffer directly. The upstream handoff is explicit now too: `0x00493be0` is the tagged collection load owner over `0x38a5/0x38a6/0x38a7`, and it feeds each live infrastructure record straight into `0x0048dcf0` after restoring one shared owner-local dword into the `0x90/0x94` lane. That means the `0x38a5` side-buffer seam is now a proven direct upstream feed into the child-stream restore owner rather than only a candidate cache or serializer-side neighbor. The collection helpers above that handoff are bounded now too: `0x00518140` resolves a non-direct live entry through the tombstone bitset and returns the first dword of a `12`-byte row from `[collection+0x3c]`, while `0x00518680` loads the non-direct collection header, tombstone bitset, and live-id-bound-scaled `12`-byte tables before `0x00493be0` starts iterating. So the remaining infrastructure mapping problem is no longer “which generic collection helper is involved?” but how those helpers compose in the actual load loop: `0x00493be0` now reads as an ordinal-to-live-id-to-payload-pointer walk through `0x00518380(ordinal, 0)` then `0x00518140(live_id)`. That narrows the remaining infrastructure mapping problem further: the first dword of each `12`-byte live-entry row is already spoken for as the per-entry payload pointer, and `0x005181f0/0x00518260` now also read as the live-entry unlink/link owners that use the same rows as `(payload pointer, previous live id, next live id)` directory triplets. So the next unknowns are no longer inside that row layout itself; they are in the payload streams those rows point at, and how those streams align with the save-side `0x55f1` name-pair groups and compact prefix regimes. The shared child payload callback is tighter now too: `0x00455fc0` zeroes the route-entry and cached bridge bands, opens `0x55f1`, parses three len-prefixed strings through `0x00531380`, opens `0x55f2`, seeds the child through `0x00455b70`, dispatches slot `+0x48`, runs the local follow-on `0x0052ebd0`, and then opens `0x55f3`. The widened save-side probe currently still sees only two embedded `0x55f1` strings on grounded `q.gms`, but `0x00455b70` now makes that result much less mysterious: it stores the three payload strings into `[this+0x206/+0x20a/+0x20e]`, defaulting the second lane through a fixed literal when absent and defaulting the third lane back to the first string when absent. So the remaining payload question is no longer “where is the third string hiding?”; it is how the current dual-name save-side rows align with the full payload-stream grouping and the later tagged value roles. That trailing-value strip is tighter now too: direct disassembly of the post-`+0x48` helper pair `0x0052ebd0/0x0052ec50` shows two serialized single-byte lanes folded into bits `0x20` and `0x40` of `[this+0x20]`. Grounded `q.gms` side-buffer probes now show that all embedded rows sit inside complete `0x55f1 -> 0x55f2 -> 0x55f3` envelopes, every embedded `0x55f2` chunk is the fixed `0x1a` bytes that `0x00455870` expects, and the dominant short trailing `0x55f3` span is the `0x06`-byte form with flag pair `0x00/0x00` across `72` rows. So the next remaining infrastructure question is no longer whether a short trailing lane exists; it is how those compact-prefix regimes and short flag-byte pairs feed the child-count / primary-child restore state above `0x0048dcf0`. The fixed policy lane is tighter now too: direct disassembly of `0x00455870/0x00455930` shows the `+0x48/+0x4c` strip loading and serializing six `u32` lanes from the fixed `0x55f2` chunk, forwarding them through `0x00530720` and `0x0052e8b0`. Grounded `q.gms` save-side probes now show every embedded `0x55f2` row using the same trailing word `0x0101` while the six dword lanes vary by asset row. So the remaining infrastructure question is no longer whether `0x55f2` is a fixed-format child lane; it is which of those two dword triplets correspond to the later child-count / primary-child restore state and which only seed published anchor or position bands. That split is now explicit too: direct disassembly of `0x00530720/0x0052e8b0` shows the first restored triplet landing in `[this+0x1e2/+0x1e6/+0x1ea]` while the second lands in `[this+0x4b/+0x4f/+0x53]`, with the companion setter forcing bit `0x02`. So the remaining infrastructure question is no longer whether the fixed `0x55f2` row hides the child count or saved primary-child ordinal at all. Those values now have to live outside the fixed row, most likely in the surrounding payload-stream header or compact-prefix regime above `0x0048dcf0`. The outer prelude is explicit now too: direct disassembly of `0x0048dcf0` shows it reading one `u16` child count through `0x00531150`, zeroing `[this+0x08]`, and conditionally reading one saved primary-child byte before the per-child callback loop begins. Grounded `q.gms` bytes now also show the first `0x38a6` record starting immediately after the shared owner-local dword with `child_count = 1`, `saved_primary_child_byte = 0xff`, and the first child `0x55f1` opening at offset `+0x3`. So the remaining infrastructure question is no longer “what kind of value should the save-side probe be looking for above the fixed rows?”; it is the narrower partitioning problem of how the observed `0x55f3`-to-next-`0x55f1` gaps divide between the two `0x52ebd0` flag bytes and the next record’s `u16 + byte` prelude. The widened prelude correlation narrows that again on grounded `q.gms`: the `0x03` post-profile gap class now collapses cleanly to the next-record prelude `0x0001 / 0xff` across `17/17` rows, while the zero-length class is a separate `0x0055 / 0x00` outlier across `18/18` rows and the `0x06` class is the only large mixed frontier left. So the next infrastructure pass should focus on classifying the mixed `0x06` rows instead of re-proving the pure-prelude `0x03` class. The child loader family is explicit now too: local `.rdata` at `0x005cfd00` proves the `Infrastructure` child vtable uses the shared tagged callback strip directly, with `+0x40 = 0x00455fc0`, `+0x48 = 0x00455870`, and `+0x4c = 0x00455930`. So the remaining infrastructure problem is row-to-record mapping inside the `0x38a5` stream, not identifying the per-child loader family. The smaller attach helper `0x00490a3c` is now bounded too: it conditionally allocates one `Infrastructure` child from a caller-supplied payload stem, attaches it to the current owner, and then seeds three caller-supplied position lanes through `0x00539530` and `0x0053a5b0`. The direct disassembly now makes that strip more concrete than the earlier structural note alone: `0x0048a1e0` really does clone the first child through paired triplet readers `0x0052e880/0x0052e720`, destroys the prior child through vtable slot `+0x18(0)`, allocates the new `0x23a` object, seeds it through `0x00455b70` with literal payload seed `0x005c87a8`, and then republishes the two sampled triplet bands through `0x0052e8b0` and `0x00530720` after attaching through `0x005395d0`. The non-clone branch still seeds the same literal `Infrastructure` child but attaches through `0x0053a5d0` instead. That means the next unknown is no longer whether this strip owns the child/rebuild seam at all, but which exact `0x38a5` rows or compact-prefix regimes map to the child count, saved primary-child ordinal, and per-child `+0x40` payload callbacks inside that direct load path, and which restored child fields still retain those embedded name-pair semantics before the later route/local-runtime family runs. The remaining closure target above the grounded `0x38a5` side-buffer seam is therefore narrower now: the next safe static pass should start at this exact attach/rebuild strip, not at the whole placed-structure family. The key open questions are whether the compact-prefix/name-pair groups feed the first-child triplet clone lane, the caller-supplied payload-stem lane, or only the later route/local-runtime follow-on family; whether cached primary-child slot `[this+0x248]` becomes the first owner-visible bridge between those side-buffer groups and route-entry rebuild; and which child fields or grouped rows absorb the side-buffer payload before `0x00448a70/0x00493660/0x0048b660` become relevant. That keeps the top-ranked next mapping target explicit as `0x0048a1e0`, `0x0048dd50`, and `0x00490a3c`, with the serializer/load companions and route/local-runtime follow-ons staying secondary until one concrete child-consumer bridge is grounded. The direct route-entry side of the same family is no longer anonymous either: `0x0048e140`, `0x0048e160`, and `0x0048e180` are the three direct resolvers over owner fields `[this+0x206/+0x20a/+0x20e]` into the live route-entry collection `0x006cfca8`. Another shared sibling family is tight enough now too: the real packed-byte-triplet owner is `0x0052e680`, and the two local wrappers `0x00455820` and `0x00455840` both force its recursion flag on. `0x00455820` forwards three explicit byte arguments, while `0x00455840` unpacks one packed `u24`-style dword into three byte lanes first. The downstream setter writes packed byte-triplet lane `[this+0x43]`, defaults that lane to `0x007f7f7f` when all three bytes are zero, and when recursion is enabled it walks child list `[this+0x75]` through `0x00556ef0/0x00556f00` and re-applies the same packed update recursively to every child. The shared formatter thunk `0x00455860` is no longer a blind jump target either: `0x00530820` now reads as the common group-selection status-label formatter over the same `0x23a` family. It only answers when shell gate `[0x006d4024+0x1146be]` is live, state bit `0x10` is clear, vtable slot `+0x14` says the current object should answer, and the owned-entry bit propagator `0x005305c0` succeeds. Under that gate it formats one caller-owned text buffer from either a fixed fallback block, a simple mode-`1` `X` or index form, or a grouped-table form built from the current `0x45`-byte subrecord's float lane plus current index `[this+0x21]`. The sibling `Infrastructure` table `0x005cfd00` also still carries three tiny fixed-return slots after that shared formatter path: two return literal `0x46`, and one returns fixed float `1.25f`, so those slots are now bounded as small table constants rather than as missing behavior. One nearby global helper family is bounded enough too: `0x005309d0` lazily clears and arms the indexed table rooted at `0x00ccb880`, `0x00530a00` services or releases one slot in that table according to its local state dword, `0x00530b70/0x00530b90/0x00530c10` query one slot's primary handle metric, primary handle, and payload-length lanes, and `0x00530ba0` performs the release-side cleanup for one slot's owned buffers. Current callers are broad enough that the table's exact resource type still stays open, but the init/service/query/cleanup split is now grounded. The broader bundle or stream slot layer under that same table is bounded now too: `0x00530c80` is the common open-or-reuse entry for named slots, `0x00531030` and `0x00531150` are the shared write and read byte pumps, `0x00531340` and `0x00531360` are the four-byte tagged-header wrappers used all over map, setup, world, and runtime bundle code, and `0x00531380/0x00531410` are the shared variable-length heap-string load/save helpers built on top of those byte pumps. The immediate neighbors are bounded too: `0x00531490` writes one raw NUL-terminated string without the length prefix, `0x005314b0` is a callback-driven selector over global `0x00ccba08`, and `0x00531500` is the small override-active gate for the neighboring audio owner family: it only returns true when `[this+0x04] == 1` and global `0x00ccb9f4` is nonzero. That gate is no longer owner-unknown either, because `0x00531a10` raises it before the shutdown or fade loop and clears it again on exit, while most of the adjacent wrappers require the inverse state `0x00ccb9f4 == 0`. The next adjacent strip is now bounded as one audio-service gate strip rather than anonymous wrappers: `0x00531520..0x005317b0` mostly share the inverse gate `[this+0x04] == 1 && 0x00ccb9f4 == 0`, then forward into one of three global owners `0x00ccba00`, `0x00ccb9f8`, or `0x00ccb9fc`. The clearest member of that strip is still `0x005315c0`, a plain 3x4 affine point transform over three caller-supplied float pointers, but the adjacent wrappers are tighter now too: `0x00531520` now clearly gates the primary owner `0x00ccba00` through status-code predicates `0x00557c90/0x00557cb0` and then clears the current handle through `0x00557cd0`, which unregisters it from global slot table `0x00d973b8` and optionally notifies callback `0x00d973e0`; `0x00531620` queries the current selected Miles 3D provider-name pointer or fixed fallback pointer `0x00ccba0c`; `0x00531640/0x005316d0` query the selected Miles 3D provider index and preferred-flag by callback-selected provider name; `0x00531710/0x00531730` forward listener position and orientation into the Miles 3D service; `0x00531750/0x00531770` set and query the active Miles 3D speaker type; `0x00531790` forwards keyed non-3D sample-volume refresh; and `0x005317b0` selects keyed sample-record release across the non-3D and Miles 3D owners. The next adjacent owner strip is bounded enough now too: `0x00531800/0x00531840` are the null-`0x00ccb9f4` guarded wrappers that mark pending flag `0x100` on keyed non-3D and Miles 3D sample records through `0x0056ae80(0x00ccb9f8)` and `0x00569cf0(0x00ccb9fc)` with scoped reentrancy counter `0x00ccb9f0`; `0x00531880` releases optional handle `[this+0x4c]` through two function-pointer calls when global `0x00624d58 == 1`; `0x005318b0` spin-waits for that same reentrancy counter to drain; `0x005318c0` picks between owners `0x00ccb9f8` and `0x00ccb9fc` from global selector `0x00ccba04`; and `0x005318f0` is the shared constructor that allocates and initializes globals `0x00ccb9f8`, `0x00ccb9fc`, and `0x00ccba00`, then arms mode flag `[this+0x04] = 1` when all three are live. The next owner block is no longer just a loose cluster either: `0x00531a10` is the full teardown path for that same family, first raising `0x00ccb9f4`, optionally fading scalar lanes `[0x00ccba00+0x104]` and `[0x00ccb9fc+0x58]` through `0x00557d90/0x00569ae0/0x00569ca0` plus a `0x10`-tick sleep, then spin-waiting on `0x005318b0`, releasing optional handle `[this+0x4c]`, shutting the three globals down, and clearing `[this+0x04]` again. `0x00531c00` is the symmetric rebuild side: it force-calls `0x00531a10(this,1)`, reconstructs the family through `0x005318f0`, and seeds the default live state through `0x005696b0`, `0x00569660`, `0x00557d90`, `0x0056a8e0`, and `0x00569ae0` from shell-owned scalars. The smaller strip between them is bounded structurally too: `0x00531d30` refreshes the primary scalar and dispatches `0x00557e50`; `0x00531dc0` is the dual-scalar idle predicate over `[0x00ccb9f8+0x20]` and `[0x00ccb9fc+0x58]`; `0x00531e50` is the string-driven sibling of `0x00531e10`, tail-jumping into `0x0056a520` when the same family is ready; `0x00531e90` stages one 16-dword local payload block into `[this+0x08..+0x44]` and forces `[0x00ccb9fc+0x60] = 2`; `0x00531ed0` and `0x00531ef0` are the small active-mode field and selected-hash-root queries; `0x00531f40` services `0x00ccb9f8/0x00ccb9fc` and clears staged flag `[this+0x48]`; `0x00531f90` registers one of the guarded callbacks `0x00531800/0x00531840`; and `0x00531fd0` is the timed primary-scalar transition service that coordinates `0x00ccba00` with globals `0x00624d58/0x00624d60` under the same reentrancy counter `0x00ccb9f0`. The local controller layer above that family is bounded now too: `0x00532150/0x00532200` are the construct/destruct pair for the controller object itself, `0x00532230` rebuilds from one callback-selected entry through `0x005314b0 -> 0x00531c00`, and `0x00532260` rebinds primary handle `[this+0x4c]` while registering transition callback `0x00531fd0` and seeding selector `[this+0x50]`. The subordinate Miles 3D provider strip under those owners is now grounded too: `0x00569400` enumerates providers into the global `0x00d97bc0` table and marks only the names `Miles`, `Dolby`, and `RAD` as preferred, `0x005694f0` resolves one enumerated entry by name, `0x00569380` opens the selected provider, caches room-type capability in `0x00625c7c`, tests speaker-type support, and seeds fixed distance factor `0x3e806d98`, `0x00569540/0x005695d0` are the setter/getter for global speaker-type selection `0x00625c78`, `0x00569660` and `0x005696b0` lazily open the listener and push the live position/orientation basis through `_AIL_set_3D_position` and `_AIL_set_3D_orientation`, `0x00569720/0x00569730` expose the selected provider's name pointer and preferred-flag field, `0x00569830` tries the fixed fallback order `Creative Labs EAX (TM)`, `DirectSound3D 7+ Software - Pan and Volume`, `Miles Fast 2D Positional Audio`, then `Miles`, and `0x005698a0` is the broader bootstrap owner that enumerates, binds the requested or fallback provider, and allocates the local provider-side state tables only when a live Miles 3D provider actually comes up. The next local seam is grounded too: `0x00569990` allocates the current-provider 3D sample-handle pool, building the free-pool hash at `[this+0x04]`, the active-list owner at `[this+0x08]`, and one `0x5c`-byte record slab for up to `0x20` sample handles; `0x00569750` pops the oldest live sample record from the active list and refreshes global serial `0x00625c80`; `0x005697d0` returns tracked sample handles to the free pool or releases untracked ones directly; `0x00569d20` tears the local free-pool and active-list tables down; and `0x00569d90` is the broader shutdown side that drains the live sample state, closes the listener, releases the pool tables, restores the room-based speaker type when needed, and finally closes the provider. The last clean local edge in that sample branch is `0x00569ea0`, which explicitly drains every tracked sample handle through `_AIL_release_3D_sample_handle` and then clears the pool count and table fields. The next broader service layer is now bounded too: `0x00569f30` is the sample-command dispatcher over request types `0..8`, combining the local record helpers with the Miles sample controls for volume, stop/resume, position, distances, effects level, occlusion, playback rate, and the orientation-side call at `0x001c83f8`; `0x0056a330` is the acquire-or-evict owner that either recycles one free sample record or reclaims a lower-priority live one; `0x0056a520` is the configure-and-optionally-start owner that binds the file payload, loop count, world position, range scalars, callback, and initial playback state; and `0x0056a6e0` is the clean constructor that seeds the sample-service object defaults before the later destructor-side tail at `0x0056a740+`. The adjacent non-3D Miles sibling is now bounded too: `0x0056a770` opens the digital driver and seeds the keyed owner table, `0x0056a7c0` allocates the non-3D sample-handle pool and record tables, `0x0056a880` resets the active-sample registry, `0x0056a8e0` updates the non-3D master scalar and refreshes active samples, `0x0056a970` is the non-3D sample-record dispatcher over release, volume, stop/resume, pan, playback-rate, and deferred-start paths, `0x0056abe0` is the small pool acquire helper with optional payload attach, `0x0056ad20` is the configure-and-optionally-start owner for one non-3D sample record, `0x0056acd0` is the keyed volume-level refresh helper, `0x0056ae30` dispatches selector `3` over the active registry, `0x0056ae80` marks pending flag `0x100` by key, `0x0056aeb0` closes the digital driver, and `0x0056aee0/0x0056af20` are the constructor/destructor pair for that sibling service object. One other sibling table is no longer anonymous either: local `.rdata` at `0x005c9a28` is the actual world-region record-family vtable root, while the smaller collection table at `0x005c9ae0` is the live region manager stored at `0x0062bae0`. The same root now also resolves the restore-side virtual strip precisely: `0x0041f5c0` is slot `+0x40`, `0x0041f650` is slot `+0x44`, `0x00455870` is slot `+0x48`, and `0x00455930` is slot `+0x4c`. Constructor-side evidence is the anchor here. `0x00421660` allocates one `0x389`-sized region row, resolves the new record, and forwards into `0x00421200`, which seeds region id `[region+0x23a]`, class `[region+0x23e]`, profile collection `[region+0x37f]`, name buffer `[region+0x356]`, shell gate `[region+0x385]`, and the default `Marker09` stem before re-entering `world_region_rebuild_profile_collection_and_seed_class_split_default_weights` `0x00420ed0`. The small manager-side constructor `0x00421430` is the matching `0x0062bae0` collection owner. That family split also makes the behavioral overrides read cleanly: `0x0041f680` first refreshes the current global preview/helper owner through `0x00455de0` and then forwards mode `1` plus region id or preview handle `[region+0x23a]` into `0x004cf830`; `0x0041f720` formats `[region+0x356]`, publishes the resulting shell text, and conditionally enters preview mode through `world_switch_preview_or_tool_mode_and_seed_parameter_block` `0x00452fa0` with action `0x12` when world state `[0x0062c120+0x2175]` is `0` or `0x15`; `0x0041f7b0` publishes one fixed shell payload and only then clears that preview path through `world_clear_current_preview_mode_and_reseed_mode_0x15_if_latched` `0x00453510` when the same world state is `0x12`. The same table also has a tighter adjacent helper strip now: `0x0041f6a0` is the direct `[region+0x37f] -> 0x00517cf0` profile-slot-count query, `0x0041f6b0` is the rounded normalized-coordinate world-scalar query above `0x0044afa0`, and that deeper helper is no longer opaque: it first computes one distance-like term from the current cell to global preview-anchor fields `[0x0062be68+0x24/+0x1c]` through the precomputed radial helper `0x0051dc00`, samples the companion float raster `[world+0x1605]` at the current cell plus two 8-direction rings, keeps the strongest local rise above the center sample, adds one thresholded preview-scalar bias from `[0x0062be68+0x20]`, and then adds `0x32` more when the small global gate `0x0041fff0` passes. That gate itself now reads as a shared shell/preview threshold test: it returns true when `[0x006cec74+0x2bb] == 2`, or when the same mode dword is merely nonzero and preview scalar `[0x0062be68+0x20]` exceeds the float threshold at `0x005c9a9c`. `0x0041f6e0` resolves the current center world-grid cell and checks one packed `u16` token through `0x0042b2d0`, and `0x0041f6f0` is the raw byte getter over `[this+0x42]`. One nearby mode-gated flag reader is bounded too: `0x0041f910` returns literal `1` when shell mode gate `0x004338c0` is inactive or the object class dword `[this+0x23e]` is nonzero, and only on the class-0 path does it return the same byte `[this+0x42]`. That gate itself is tighter now too: `0x004338c0` is just the normalized boolean wrapper over `0x004d4150`, which returns nonzero when the shell-side owner field at `0x006d07b4` is live. The release side under that same sibling family is bounded too: `0x00420650` lazily seeds `[this+0x317]` from shell-profile word `[0x006cec78+0x0d]` before re-entering `0x00420350`, and that body is now bounded as the local scalar refresh over `[this+0x31b]`: it compares the seeded word against the current shell-profile word, maps the delta through one bounded piecewise float curve, and applies one extra affine adjustment when `[this+0x23e]` is nonzero. The current split is tighter now: zero seed yields `1.0f`, deltas `0..2` rise above the base through the `(3-delta)` branch, deltas `3..5` stay flat at `1.0f`, and deltas `6+` taper back down through the scaled `(delta-6)` path after clamping at `0x14`. `0x00420670` then frees the optional dynamic payload at `[this+0x37f]`, clears the cached `u16` link chain through `0x0041f8d0`, and tails into base cleanup `0x00455d20`; and the small collection-side wrapper `0x00421700` simply resolves one entry id, re-enters `0x00420670`, and erases that id from the owning collection. The city-entry family also now has one tighter helper-object branch. `0x00474030` switches over mode enum `0..10`, maps those cases into `0x00475ed0` with selector families `4/0xd/0xe` and fixed scalar presets `0.5/0.75/1.0/1.5/2.0`, and on success publishes the caller-supplied world triplet through `[helper+0x4]`. The refresh helper `0x00474260` first reloads payload through `0x00455fc0`, then samples the current normalized coordinates plus one world-height scalar from `0x00448bd0`, and rebuilds `[this+0x23a]` through that same mode-selected helper builder using mode `[this+0x242]`. The surrounding collection-side and teardown helpers are tight enough now too. `0x004743d0` and `0x00474400` are the two release siblings over the same helper field `[this+0x23a]`: both destroy that helper through `0x00475100` when live and clear the field, but `0x004743d0` tails into the smaller base cleanup `0x00455650`, while `0x00474400` tails into the heavier dynamic-payload cleanup `0x00455d20`. The small predicate `0x00474430` simply returns `1` unless shell mode gate `0x004338c0` is active, in which case it returns byte `[this+0x42]`; the mode-gated query itself is now bounded as one runtime enable byte on that local object family. One level higher, `0x00474450` constructs the collection rooted at vtable `0x005ce4a8` with fixed parameters `(0,0,0,0x14,0x0a,0,0)`, and bootstrap caller `0x004487a9` stores that collection into global `0x006cea50`. The collection's entry path is also bounded now: `0x004744a0` seeds a stack-local temporary entry through `0x00474110`, allocates one `0x250`-byte live record, resolves it, constructs it through `0x00474130`, and then tears the temporary entry down through `0x004743d0`; `0x00474510` resolves one entry id, releases it through `0x00474400`, and removes it from the collection. The collection-owned load loop at `0x00474540` now has a direct save-side companion too: `city_database_entry_collection_serialize_records_into_tagged_bundle` `0x00474610` opens the same `0x61a9/0x61aa/0x61ab` bracket through `0x00531340`, forwards collection metadata through `0x00517d90`, and dispatches each record through vtable slot `+0x44`. The refresh side binds the selected path context, iterates the current collection, dispatches each record through vtable slot `+0x40`, accumulates the returned byte counts, and tears down the temporary entry after each record. That still leaves broader semantic questions open, but the current static edges around the city-entry family are now largely exhausted. The adjacent scaffolding is bounded too. Base helper `0x00455b20` initializes the shared `0x23a`-sized record family by installing base vtable `0x005cb1c0`, clearing the scalar bands `[+0x206/+0x20a/+0x20e/+0x22e/+0x232]`, zeroing the seven-dword block `[+0x212..+0x22a]`, and re-entering `0x0052ecd0`; that is why it shows up not only in the city-entry temporary constructor `0x00474110`, but also in several later object construction paths outside the city family. The city collection itself now has a bounded teardown side too: `0x00474480` is the small release-and-free wrapper for the collection rooted at `0x005ce4a8`, and teardown caller `0x004492c3` uses it before freeing the global collection pointer at `0x006cea50`. On the save side, `0x00445713`'s broader package branch re-enters `city_database_entry_collection_serialize_records_into_tagged_bundle` `0x00474610` on that same global `0x006cea50` collection. Outside the city-specific branch, the two tiny dispatch wrappers `0x00455a40` and `0x00455a50` are also now bounded as raw vtable-slot helpers: the first jumps through entry slot `+0x44`, while the second pushes one caller argument into slot `+0x40` and then clears the global roots `0x006acd38/0x006acd3c/0x006acd40`. Finally, `0x00455a70` is now bounded as the generic current-position triplet publisher that queries `0x0052e720`, converts through `0x006d4024 -> 0x0051f090 -> 0x00534490`, adds a caller-supplied height bias, optionally rounds under `0x00434050`, and publishes through `0x00530720`. The temporary-entry constructor and live entry constructor are bounded now too. `0x00474110` is the tiny stack-local initializer: it re-enters shared base init `0x00455b20`, clears helper fields `[+0x23a]` and `[+0x242]`, installs vtable `0x005ce428`, and returns. `0x00474130` is the real live-entry constructor: it stores the entry id into `[+0x23e]`, clears the trailing helper payload block `[+0x246..+0x24e]`, stores mode `[+0x242]`, derives one world-height scalar from the supplied coordinate pair through `0x00448bd0`, builds helper field `[+0x23a]` through `0x00474030`, and then seeds the remaining default scalar or flag tuple through `0x00455b70` using the fixed defaults at `0x005ce49c/0x005ce4a0/0x005ce4a4`. That broader helper is no longer city-specific either: `0x00455b70` is now bounded as the shared scalar-band initializer that clears the same `[+0x206/+0x20a/+0x20e/+0x22e/+0x232]` family, optionally copies up to three caller-supplied strings into `[+0x206/+0x20a/+0x20e]`, synthesizes one default local token buffer when the middle string is absent, chooses one effective mode string from the third or first input, derives one owner handle or transform token through `0x0051f090` unless the caller suppresses that path, and then seeds the remaining scalar band through `0x0052edf0` and `0x0052e670`. The same specialization also now has one tighter UI-facing side. The override trio `0x0040e4e0`, `0x0040e880`, and `0x0040e9d0` all sit in the same `0x005c8c50` table and reuse the linked-site-capable vtable `+0x70` latch together with creation-mode byte `[this+0x3d4]`. `0x0040e4e0` is the strongest current owner for contextual status text: it branches across linked-peer checks, world-mode fields `[0x0062c120+0x2171/+0x2175/+0x2179/+0x2181]`, current owner state, and candidate or linked-peer display labels, then formats localized ids such as `0x00af`, `0x00b0`, `0x00b1`, `0x00b2`, `0x00b3`, and `0x0afd` before pushing the result through shell presenter `0x00538c70`. `0x0040e880` pairs with that publisher on the action side: it first resets the same presenter through the fixed token at `0x005c87a8`, then dispatches several world-side follow-ons through `0x00413620`, `world_clear_current_preview_mode_and_reseed_mode_0x15_if_latched` `0x00453510`, `world_store_preview_linked_site_id_0x2181_rebind_mode3_and_refresh_if_active` `0x00452db0`, and `world_switch_preview_or_tool_mode_and_seed_parameter_block` `0x00452fa0` under the same linked-peer and world-mode gates. `0x0040e9d0` is the narrower query-style formatter: when shell branch `[0x006cec74+0x74]` is live it formats one localized label with the fixed suffix `\nAbsIndex %d`, otherwise it can return one company-side owner label through `0x00426b10`, and only then falls back to `0x00455860`. So the current best read is that this concrete specialization owns both the ambient or animation transient family and one linked-peer status or action UI surface, without yet proving the user-facing subtype name. One smaller subtype hook cluster is tighter now too. The concrete table also carries `0x0040d170` and `0x0040d1b0`, both of which resolve the current candidate through cached stem id `[this+0x3cc]` and then test candidate dword `[candidate+0x4b]`. When that flag is nonzero, `0x0040d170` tail-calls the primary transient builder `0x0045c310` and `0x0040d1b0` tail-calls the matching release path `0x0045c3c0`. The same neighborhood now also gives direct cached-record resolvers instead of more anonymous pointer math: `0x0040d1f0` returns the linked peer from `[this+0x2a8]` through `0x006cec20`, while `0x0040d210` returns the owner-side record from `[this+0x276]` through `0x0062be10`. That makes the specialization-side ownership split cleaner: the `0x005c8c50` family is not only formatting labels and driving side effects, it also has a direct candidate-flag hook for building or dropping the primary transient handle. The last lower side reads are tighter now too. `0x0040e450` first seeds the projected-slot cache through `placed_structure_cache_projected_rect_profile_slot_id` `0x00414470` before it re-enters `0x00418a60`, and the broader stem-based builder at `0x00418be0` now has one named optional side renderer instead of an anonymous callsite: `placed_structure_render_local_runtime_overlay_payload_from_projected_bounds` `0x00418040`. The side refresh split is bounded now too. `0x0040ee10` publishes one local position or scalar triplet through the shared setter `0x00530720`, then tails into `placed_structure_refresh_linked_site_anchor_position_triplet_for_local_runtime` `0x0040e360`; that smaller follow-on only runs on the current subtype-`1`, class-`3`, linked-site branch, and recomputes one local-runtime triplet from the linked peer's route-entry anchor when that anchor is still live. The heavier sibling above that side refresh is bounded now too: `placed_structure_set_world_coords_and_refresh_local_runtime_side_state` `0x0040eba0` is the world-coordinate mutation helper that recomputes `[site+0x388]` and `[site+0x38c]`, rewrites the world-grid owner mapping through `0x0042c9f0` and `0x0042c9a0`, updates the subtype-`4` proximity-bucket family when needed, rebuilds the same local position or scalar triplet, and then tails into the linked-site anchor follow-on at `0x0040e360`. One later caller into that same side-refresh family is bounded now too: `0x00419110` clamps a caller rectangle to the live world bounds, resolves one per-cell bucket chain through the hashed map at `[arg0+0x88]` and `0x0053dae0`, and then re-enters `0x0040eba0` for every bucketed site in that rectangle using the stored per-entry coordinate pair plus two zero flags. Current grounded caller is the edit-side branch at `0x004bc851`, immediately after the neighboring nibble and companion-float mutations, so this now looks like a bucket-map-driven local-runtime side-state refresh wrapper rather than another broad site sweep. The sibling policy-`1` side is tighter now too. The constructor lane no longer stops at “one linked site id at `[site+0x2a8]`”: the subtype-`1` branch in `placed_structure_construct_entry_from_candidate_and_world_args` `0x0040f6d0` now clearly allocates that linked record through `placed_structure_collection_allocate_and_construct_linked_site_record` `0x00481390`, whose lower constructor is `placed_structure_construct_linked_site_record_from_anchor_and_coords` `0x00480210`. That lower constructor seeds the linked record's own id and anchor-site id, clears the local route-anchor and display-name fields, projects the anchor footprint into world space, and then either binds an already-covered route entry through `route_entry_collection_try_reuse_covering_entry_for_site_coords_and_heading` `0x00417b40` or falls through into the neighboring policy-`1` route-entry synthesis family around `0x00493cf0` before rebinding the chosen route entry through `0x0048abc0`. The cleanup side is tighter now too. Linked-site removal now has a bounded owner at `placed_structure_collection_remove_linked_site_record` `0x004813d0`: it resolves the linked record through `0x006cec20`, runs the per-record teardown `placed_structure_teardown_linked_site_runtime_state_before_removal` `0x00480590`, removes the live entry from the collection, and only then re-enters the still-bounded company-wide follow-on at `0x00429c10` when the removed record passed the narrower transit-like latch. That per-record teardown is no longer just “clear some scratch fields.” It now clearly clears the route-style scratch lane, clears the five proximity buckets at `[site+0x590..0x5b8]`, detaches or invalidates the current route-entry anchor, frees the three per-site byte arrays at `[site+0x24..0x2c]`, clears this site's indexed byte from the corresponding arrays of later placed-structure records, and then re-enters `0x00436040` with the current site id. That company-side follow-on is no longer just one opaque callback either. It is now bounded as `company_collection_refresh_active_company_linked_transit_site_peer_caches` `0x00429c10`, which walks the active company roster and re-enters `company_rebuild_linked_transit_site_peer_cache` `0x004093d0` on each company. That per-company fast pass stamps a refresh tick at `[company+0x0d3e]`, clears and repopulates the placed-structure-side cache cells addressed through `[site+0x5bd][company_id]`, marks the eligible linked transit sites for that company, allocates one `0x0d`-stride peer table for each eligible site, and fills those peer rows from `aux_route_entry_tracker_query_best_route_entry_pair_metric_with_endpoint_fallbacks` `0x004a6630`. That helper no longer reads as one anonymous route sweep: it either uses the fixed pair directly or falls back across tracker endpoint combinations before returning the winning route-entry id, one route-step count, and one companion mismatch count. The fast cache now reads more cleanly too: peer-record dword `+0x05` stores that step count, while float `+0x09` stores the normalized continuity share derived from `(steps - mismatches) / max(steps, 1)`, not a raw delta-per-step ratio. The adjacent timed wrapper `company_service_linked_transit_site_caches` `0x00409720` now shows the cadence too: `0x004093d0` is the shorter-interval refresh, while the older heavier sibling at `0x00407bd0` was only revisited on the longer interval. That heavier sibling is now bounded too: `company_rebuild_linked_transit_autoroute_site_score_cache` `0x00407bd0` no longer looks like a generic tail refresh. It reuses the fast peer tables, rebuilds candidate-local amount bands plus normalized issue-opinion scales, and then folds the peer-side route metrics back into three per-site cache floats with a cleaner split: `+0x12` is the raw surviving site-score total, `+0x0e` is the continuity-and-step-weighted companion total, and `+0x16` is the promoted final site-ranking lane chosen from the strongest grouped candidate bands. That also closes most of the cross-version impact question: the pre-`1.03` versus `1.03+` tracker metric split now looks like it mainly perturbs the weighted `+0x0e` lane and the promoted `+0x16` lane, not the raw `+0x12` total. That final lane then feeds the neighboring selectors `company_select_best_owned_linked_transit_site_by_autoroute_score` `0x00408280` and `company_build_linked_transit_autoroute_entry` `0x00408380`. That makes the company-side follow-on read more like a linked-transit autoroute cache family than a generic company maintenance pass. The neighboring reachability gate is tighter now too: `company_query_cached_linked_transit_route_anchor_entry_id` `0x00401860` caches one company-side route-entry anchor, and `placed_structure_is_linked_transit_site_reachable_from_company_route_anchor` `0x004801a0` uses that anchor to decide whether a foreign linked transit site can still participate in the current company's fast peer cache. The first direct train-side consumer above that cache family is bounded now too: `train_try_append_linked_transit_autoroute_entry` `0x00409770`. After servicing the owning company's caches, it asks `0x00408380` for one staged `0x33`-byte route entry using the train's current anchor site, then either appends that entry through `0x004b3160` and refreshes the new trailing selection through `0x004b2f00`, or rotates one existing slot in place when the local two-entry cap has already been reached. So this edge now reaches an actual train-side autoroute append lane rather than stopping at anonymous company-side cache cells. The weighted cache lanes still do not escape that route-choice family directly: this train-side append path only inherits the weighted site and peer choice by calling `0x00408380`, not by reading cache `+0x0e/+0x16` itself. The train-side follow-on above that seed path is bounded now too. The owning company can count its live roster through `company_count_owned_trains` `0x004264c0`, measure one aggregate linked transit site pressure through `company_compute_owned_linked_transit_site_score_total` `0x00408f70`, and then rebalance that roster through `company_balance_linked_transit_train_roster` `0x00409950`. The aggregate helper no longer reads as a raw sum either: it starts from the site-cache `+0x12` totals, converts that into one tentative roster target through year and site-count ladders, and on build `1.03+` adds one special distance-side scaling branch when exactly two eligible linked transit sites survive. Because it consumes `+0x12` rather than `+0x0e` or `+0x16`, current evidence now says the tracker compatibility split is more important for seeded route choice and ranked site choice than for the final company train-count target itself. The local linked-transit chain is now bounded enough to say that directly: weighted cache lanes feed `0x00408280 -> 0x00408380 -> 0x00409770/0x00409830`, while the separate pressure or roster lane feeds `0x00408f70 -> 0x00409950` from raw `+0x12`. The balancer then applies two age bands to company-owned trains: very old trains are removed when the roster already exceeds target or upgraded when it still needs capacity, while the mid-age band can trigger one narrower upgrade pass. After that it fills any remaining deficit by either packaging multiplayer opcode `0x75` or locally re-entering `company_try_add_linked_transit_train_and_publish_news` `0x00409830`. The two visible news helpers under it are bounded too: `0x00409830` emits RT3.lng `2896` for a newly added train, while `company_publish_train_upgrade_news` `0x00409300` emits RT3.lng `2897` for the upgrade branch. The subtype-`4` sibling side is bounded now too. The nearby-site bucket family now has: `placed_structure_append_nearby_transit_site_distance_bucket_entry` `0x0047fdb0`, `placed_structure_remove_site_id_from_proximity_bucket_lists` `0x0047dd10`, and `placed_structure_clear_proximity_bucket_lists` `0x0047dcd0`, plus the two collection sweeps `placed_structure_collection_append_site_into_all_proximity_bucket_lists` `0x00481480` and `placed_structure_collection_remove_site_id_from_all_proximity_bucket_lists` `0x004814c0`. Current evidence says those five buckets store `(peer site id, distance)` pairs for nearby station-or-transit peers, grouped through the five-way classifier at `0x0040d350`. The older stream-backed side is bounded too: `placed_structure_collection_load_dynamic_side_buffers_from_stream` `0x00481430` walks the live placed-structure collection and re-enters `placed_structure_load_dynamic_side_buffers_from_stream` `0x0047d8e0`, which repopulates the route-entry list, the three per-site byte arrays, the five proximity buckets, and the trailing scratch band from the caller-supplied persistence stream. The linked-site route-entry list itself is tighter now too. The refresh or teardown branch at `0x0040e102` re-enters `placed_structure_remove_route_entry_key_and_compact` `0x0047d810`, which removes one matching `u16` key from the six-byte list rooted at `[site+0x462]/[site+0x466]`, compacts the surviving entries into a replacement buffer, and decrements the stored route-entry count. The broader linked-site mutable runtime strip is tighter now too. `placed_structure_rebuild_local_service_sampled_cell_list_and_reset_route_link_scratch` `0x0047f320` is no longer just a teardown-side stub: it resolves an effective comparison mode from the linked candidate class byte `[candidate+0x8c]` unless the caller overrides it, derives one radius threshold from current world coordinates `[site+0x4a8/+0x4ac]`, frees the prior sampled-cell buffer at `[site+0x34]`, always clears the route-link scratch pair `[site+0x462]/[site+0x466]`, and then scans one bounded world-grid rectangle through `[0x0062c120+0x2129]` with per-cell distance measured by `0x0051db80`. For accepted cells it emits temporary twelve-byte `(grid x, grid y, sampled score)` rows through `0x0042b190`, `0x0042c530`, and `0x0042c580`; when caller arg0 is zero it compacts one representative subset of those temporary rows into the persistent list at `[site+0x34]/[site+0x38]`, while nonzero arg0 callers use the same helper as a clear-and-scan companion without the final materialization step. Current grounded callers are the linked-site refresh and teardown strip `0x00480542/0x004805c2/0x00480727/0x004807e2`. The proximity-bucket rebuild side above that list is tighter now too. `placed_structure_rebuild_nearby_transit_site_distance_buckets_from_neighbor_cells` `0x0047fef0` first requires the current record to pass the narrower station-or-transit class gate `0x0047fd50`, quantizes the current site position through `0x00455800/0x00455810`, walks the surrounding live cell window through `[0x0062c120+0x2129]`, follows each cell's linked placed-structure chain through word field `[cell+0x0d6]` plus next-id `[peer+0x2a2]`, keeps only peers whose resolved candidate subtype byte `[candidate+0x32]` equals `4`, and appends the surviving `(peer site id, distance)` pairs into the same five bucket arrays rooted at `[site+0x590..+0x5a4]`. So the narrower one-peer append helper `0x0047fdb0` now has a real broader owner rather than only collection sweeps. The whole linked-site refresh owner is correspondingly clearer now too. `placed_structure_refresh_linked_site_runtime_side_buffers_and_route_entry_anchor` `0x00480710` first clears the current proximity buckets through `0x0047dcd0`, runs `0x0047f320(1,arg1)` against the pre-update state, republishes the current site position into the world-grid owner map through `0x0042bbf0/0x0042bbb0`, reruns `0x0047f320(0,-1)` to materialize the current sampled-cell list, and then rebuilds the nearby-transit buckets through `0x0047fef0`. After that it either reuses a still-valid route-entry anchor through `route_entry_collection_try_reuse_covering_entry_for_site_coords_and_heading` `0x00417b40` and `placed_structure_rebind_route_entry_anchor_to_site_id` `0x0048abc0`, or synthesizes a replacement through `0x00493cf0` before rebinding it the same way; when an old anchor survives but now points at a different owner, the helper clears the prior `[entry+0x222]` back to `-1`. The world-cell owner and route-gather helpers beneath that strip are bounded now too. Word `[cell+0xd4]` is the head of one placed-structure owner chain: `0x0042bbb0` prepends the current site id into that chain by writing the previous head into `[site+0x3c]` through the tiny setter `0x0047d6f0`, while `0x0042bbf0` removes one site id from the same chain by walking the linked `[site+0x3c]` next pointers until it can splice the requested site out. The sampled-cell rebuild also now has its lower route-gather leaf: `0x0042c530` walks one world cell's linked-site chain from word `[cell+0xd6]` through next-id `[site+0x2a2]` and appends each visited site id plus the caller payload into the six-byte route-entry list helper `0x0042b190`. That same compact list now has its two local companions bounded too: `0x0042b230` removes one row by leading `u16` key, and `0x0042b2d0` is the shared contains-key predicate over the same `[...+0xeb]/[...+0xef]` list. The neighboring `[cell+0xd6]` linked-site chain is bounded now too. `0x0042c9a0` prepends one site id into that chain by writing the previous head into `[site+0x2a2]` through the tiny setter `0x0040cb00`, storing the new head back into `[cell+0xd6]`, and then re-entering the paired rebuild helpers `0x0042c690` and `0x0042c8f0`. `0x0042c9f0` is the remove companion over the same chain: it walks the linked `[site+0x2a2]` next pointers until it can splice the requested site id out of the `[cell+0xd6]` head chain, then reruns the same two rebuild helpers. The two remaining numeric leaves under this strip are bounded now too. `0x0042c580` accumulates the directional word fan from `[cell+0xf3 + dir*2]` while stepping toward one caller-supplied grid target through the fixed offset tables at `0x00624b28/0x00624b48`, and that is the floating sampled-score source later stored by `0x0047f320`. `0x0042c960` is the shared rounded issue-opinion-scaled word-lane query: it multiplies one local word lane `[this+index*2] << 4` against the scenario-side scale returned by `0x00437d20(index)` and rounds the result through `0x005a10d0`. The broader company-side owner above these pieces is tighter now too. The periodic service pass `company_service_periodic_city_connection_finance_and_linked_transit_lanes` `0x004019e0` now reads as the current outer owner for this branch: it sequences the city-connection announcement lanes, the linked-transit train-roster balancer, the acquisition-side sibling `company_try_buy_unowned_industry_near_city_and_publish_news` `0x004014b0`, the annual finance-policy helper `company_evaluate_annual_finance_policy_and_publish_news` `0x00401c50`, and the shorter-versus- longer linked-transit cache refresh tail through `0x004093d0` and `0x00407bd0`. That outer pass also has one tighter temporary-state role now: it clears company bytes `0x0d17/0x0d18/0x0d56`, mirrors `0x0d17` into scenario field `0x006cec78+0x4c74` only while the earlier route-building side runs, and restores the original scenario value on exit. Current evidence now ties `0x0d17` to the shared preferred-locomotive chooser `0x004078a0`: the override is only armed when that helper picks one locomotive whose engine-type dword is `2`. That engine-type lane now best reads as electric rather than an unnamed class slot, because the linked approval helper around `0x0041d550` now reads as a real locomotive-era and engine-type policy gate, dispatching the same `0/1/2` field across three scenario-opinion lanes while the local player-facing engine-type family is explicitly `Steam / Diesel / Electric`. That same gate also now ties the later scenario bytes `0x4c97..0x4c99` back to the editor-side `Locomotives` page rather than treating them as anonymous availability flags: they are the live `All Steam Locos Avail.`, `All Diesel Locos Avail.`, and `All Electric Locos Avail.` policy bytes behind `0x004cd680` / `0x004cf0d0`. The current logic is also tighter than a plain override tier: a positive engine-family opinion result can carry the gate by itself only while none of those three editor bytes is enabled; once any of them is nonzero, `0x0041d550` instead requires one matching intersection between the record-local family bytes and the enabled editor family bytes. The `WhaleL` carveout is narrower now too: current data-file correlation ties that stem to the `Orca NX462` / `WhaleL_NE` locomotive family, and it explicitly zeros that positive-opinion result before the later family-availability checks, so it loses the shortcut rather than gaining a special approval path. The same chooser now also has a bounded fallback below it, `locomotive_collection_select_best_era_matched_non_electric_fallback_id` `0x00461cd0`, which explicitly skips engine-type `2` and chooses the lowest-penalty remaining locomotive by era mismatch and approval gates. The route-search side is tighter too: this electric-only override now clearly feeds the first path-sweep branch in `0x0049bd40`, forcing the larger `1.8` initial quality multiplier instead of `1.4`, which is the same branch otherwise chosen by explicit route-policy byte `4`. The neighboring `0x00442a40..0x00442ae1` helper strip is tighter now too: it is not generic issue math, it is the forward and inverse mapper between two compact locomotive engine-family index spaces and the raw issue bands `0x0f1..0x15f / 0x1c9..0x1da` plus `0x160..0x1c4 / 0x1db..0x1f6`, and the same strip is reused by both the stream save/load pair `0x0042ddd0/0x00430feb` and the shell-side issue-row resolvers `0x00462449/0x004624ae` over the fixed table at `0x00610398`. So the later annual finance helper is reading same-cycle side-channel state from the earlier city-connection and linked-transit branches, not unrelated long-lived finance fields. The inner finance helper is not debt-only either. Current grounded outcomes include bankruptcy news `2881`, the debt restructure family `2882..2886`, a later share-repurchase headline `2887`, and the dividend-side adjustment branch. The main commit verbs under that helper are now grounded too: `company_repay_bond_slot_and_compact_debt_table` `0x00423d70`, `company_issue_bond_and_record_terms` `0x004275c0`, `company_repurchase_public_shares_and_reduce_capital` `0x004273c0`, and `company_issue_public_shares_and_raise_capital` `0x00427450`. The threshold side is tighter now too. The earliest creditor-pressure lane requires scenario mode `0x0c`, the bankruptcy toggle `[0x006cec78+0x4a8f]` to be clear, at least `13` years since `[company+0x163]`, and at least `4` years since founding year `[company+0x157]`; it then scans the last three years of the derived net-profits and revenue lanes `0x2b` and `0x2c`, chooses one negative pressure ladder `-600000 / -1100000 / -1600000 / -2000000` from the current slot-`0x2c` bands around `120000 / 230000 / 340000`, requires the broader support-adjusted share-price or public-support scalar at least `15` or `20` depending on whether all three sampled years failed, checks the current fuel-cost lane in slot `0x09` against `0.08` times that ladder, and requires the three-year slot-`0x2b` total to clear one final `-60000` gate before it falls into the bankruptcy commit and RT3.lng `2881` headline. The middle debt-capital layer is split more clearly now too. With `[+0x4a8b]` clear, one annual bond lane first simulates full repayment through `company_repay_bond_slot_and_compact_debt_table` and then uses the post-repayment cash window with fixed `-250000` and `-30000` thresholds plus the broader linked-transit train-service latch `[company+0x0d56]` to decide whether to append one or more `500000` principal, `30`-year bonds. The repurchase lane is separate again: when the city-connection announcement-side latch `[company+0x0d18]` is set, growth setting `2` does not suppress it, and `[+0x4a87]` is clear, it starts from one `1000`-share batch, can replace its default `1.0` factor with one linked-chairman personality scalar, scales that by `1.6` when growth setting `1` is active, and then runs one `800000` stock-value gate plus one support-adjusted-share-price-times-factor-times-`1000`-times-`1.2` affordability gate before the repeated `1000`-share buyback commits behind RT3.lng `2887`. The ordering above this helper is tighter now too: `company_service_periodic_city_connection_finance_and_linked_transit_lanes` clears those latches first, runs the city-connection and linked-transit branches, and only then enters the annual finance helper, so these look like same-cycle reaction gates rather than long-lived balance-sheet flags. After the earlier debt or bankruptcy outcomes stay inactive, the later stock-capital lane also has a tighter bounded shape now too: it only opens on build `1.03+`, only after the earlier bankruptcy, bond, and repurchase outcomes stay inactive, and with the bond and stock toggles `[+0x4a8b]` and `[+0x4a87]` clear, at least two bond slots live, and at least one year since founding. It derives one issue batch from outstanding shares rounded down to `1000`-share lots with floor `2000`, trims that batch until the broader support-adjusted share-price scalar times batch no longer exceeds the `55000` gate, recomputes the pressured support-adjusted share-price scalar and the paired `price/book` ratio, then tests the remaining gates in a fixed order: share-price floor `22`, proceeds floor `55000`, current cash from `0x2329/0x0d` against the chosen highest-coupon bond principal plus `5000`, one later stock-issue cooldown gate that converts the current issue mixed-radix calendar tuple at `[company+0x16b/+0x16f]` through `calendar_point_pack_tuple_to_absolute_counter` `0x0051d3c0` and compares the result against the active world absolute calendar counter `[world+0x15]`, and only then the coupon-versus-price-to-book approval ladder `0.07/1.3 -> 0.14/0.35`. The issue mutator preserves the previous tuple in `[company+0x173/+0x177]` and refreshes the current tuple from `[world+0x0d/+0x11]` on the derived-pricing lane. On success it issues two same-sized tranches through repeated `company_issue_public_shares_and_raise_capital` calls and publishes a separate equity-offering news family rooted at localized id `4053`, not the earlier debt or buyback headline family. The dividend side is bounded too: it requires the dividend toggle `[0x006cec78+0x4a93]` to be clear, mode `0x0c`, at least `1` year since `[company+0x0d2d]`, and at least `2` years since founding, then averages the last three years of the net-profits lane `0x2b`, folds in the unassigned-share pool and the current `0x0d` band, applies the map-editor building-growth setting `[0x006cec78+0x4c7c]`, treats growth setting `1` as a `0.66` scale-down and setting `2` as a zeroing pass on the current dividend, quantizes surviving adjustments in tenths, and finally clamps against `company_compute_board_approved_dividend_rate_ceiling` `0x00426260`. The linked-transit route-seeding side has one tighter sibling now too: `company_reset_linked_transit_caches_and_reseed_empty_train_routes` `0x00401940`. It clears the two company-side linked-transit cache timestamps, forces one immediate cache rebuild through `0x00409720`, strips route lists from company-owned trains in modes `0x0a/0x13`, and then re-enters `train_try_append_linked_transit_autoroute_entry` `0x00409770` only when a train's route list has become empty. On the wider chooser question, the current evidence is also tighter than before: every recovered external owner of `0x00402cb0` is still in the city-connection family, so the two later direct placement lanes currently read as city-connection fallback behavior rather than a broadly shared world placement service. It can still unwind through route-state cleanup without committing new placed structures, so the exact lower helper semantics are not fully closed, but the broader chooser is no longer anonymous and its main policy split is now visible. The two lower helpers directly under those commit lanes are bounded now too: `placed_structure_project_candidate_grid_extent_offset_by_rotation` `0x00417840` is the shared projected-footprint offset helper over candidate bytes `[candidate+0xb8]` and `[candidate+0xb9]`, and `placed_structure_validate_projected_candidate_placement` `0x004197e0` is the shared go-or-no-go validator that checks company, territory, world-tile, and footprint occupancy state before either direct-placement commit is allowed to fire. Its strongest current subtype branch is a station-attachment or upgrade-style lane keyed by `[candidate+0x32] == 1`, which now has the concrete failure family `2901..2906`: blocked upgrade footprint, ground not flat enough, not your track, insufficient track-laying capacity, cannot connect to existing track, and ground too steep. That tightens the chooser materially without yet proving that the validator is station-only for every caller. The recurring outer owner is tighter now too: `placed_structure_collection_refresh_quarter_subset_route_style_state` `0x00413580` walks every fourth live placed structure from a scenario-time-derived offset and re-enters the per-site rebuild with stack flag `0`, giving the route-style lane a concrete recurring maintenance sweep under `simulation_service_periodic_boundary_work` rather than only a floating caller note. One neighboring helper is now bounded on the message side too: `shell_building_detail_handle_subject_value_row_band_action` `0x004ba270` switches over the clicked row family `0x7d07..0x7d14`, treats subject bytes `+0x21/+0x22/+0x23` as one current selection plus one bounded low/high pair, increments the family dirty latch at `0x006cfe0c` on change, and republishes the refreshed value through the shared shell control helper on code `0x66`. One neighboring helper is now bounded on the side-list path too: `shell_building_detail_propagate_selected_subject_state_into_side_list` `0x004b9ec0` walks the sibling list owner at `0x006cfe08`, copies the active subject state into each side-list record, mirrors the current service or capability id at `+0x24`, and preserves the `0x40/0x20/0x10` subflags from the active subject. That means the value-row actions and later selector rows now read as propagating one shared building-detail state across the sibling list rather than only mutating one isolated subject record. One neighboring helper is now bounded separately too: `shell_building_detail_refresh_subject_pair_value_rows` `0x004bad20` owns the mutually exclusive value-row pairs `0x7d07/0x7d08`, `0x7d11/0x7d12`, and `0x7d13/0x7d14`, choosing among them from the same selected-subject flag byte and payload fields at `+0x22/+0x23`, while the larger cargo-or-service row owner also gates the extra visual lanes `0x7d6a`, `0x7d6b`, and `0x7d9d` from that same subflag family. The asset-string block is tighter too: that branch family now explicitly uses `AnyCargo.imb`, `AnyFreight.imb`, `PassMail.imb`, `Caboose.imb`, and `Dining.imb`, with the bit-`0x20` special lane already aligned to `Caboose.imb` and the sibling bit-`0x10` special lane now aligned to `Dining.imb`. The larger `0x7f58..0x801f` band is no longer just a styled row family either: `shell_building_detail_present_flagged_service_capability_popup` `0x004b9fd0` is now grounded as its explanatory popup callback. It resolves either one fixed express-side row from `0x00621e04` or one active candidate or service id from `[subject+0x24]`, then formats one popup through the shell message-box path. The neighboring refresh helper `shell_building_detail_refresh_flagged_service_capability_rows` `0x004b9a20` is tighter now too: `0x7d07..0x7d1c` is not one anonymous block, but a real mask partition over subject bits `0x20` and `0x10`, with one zero-mask pair, one bit-`0x20`-only pair, one exclusive-or pair, and later one-bit and two-bit indicator rows. RT3.lng now closes the fixed popup text family too: the single-line branch uses `3922` `%1\nLoads available at %2: %3`, while the richer ordinary-candidate branch uses `2981` `%1\nLoads available at %2: %3 Current Price: %4` and can append `2982` `Price at next station, %1: %2 (%3%4)`. The selector band is narrower too: current refresh-side evidence shows `0x7f58..0x801f` as one selected-ordinal highlight family over the three fixed express rows plus the ordinary active-candidate rows, not as a generic unstructured list. The neighboring `0x8020..0x8051` band is tighter too: it is primarily the matching remove-entry family for the selected subject's live id list, with two special row indices re-routing into the `0x7d0f/0x7d10` subflag-clearing path instead of ordinary list compaction when the current `0x20/0x10` service-bit combination demands it. That means the exact captions are no longer broadly open across the whole selector family: the fixed express-side rows, the mask partitions, and the add/remove structure are grounded, and the remaining caption gap is mostly the ordinary candidate rows further down the same band. The top-level toggles are tighter now too: the paired `0x7d02/0x7d03` controls are the real mode switch over subject bit `0x40`, choosing between the bounded pair-value branch and the current-selection/status branch around `0x7d0d/0x7d0e`, while the smaller `0x7d0f/0x7d10` controls flip the same special-service subflags later rendered as `Caboose` and `Dining Car`. One adjacent control is tighter now too: the extracted `BuildingDetail.win` resource contains the plain-English line `Set the initial cargo amount for 'Disable Cargo Economy' scenarios.`, and the `0x7d01` plus `0x7d09/0x7d0a` message-side branch can mirror the current subject or selection through `shell_building_detail_submit_aux_owner_subject_sync_request` `0x004b9e10` into the auxiliary owner queue at `[0x006cd8d8+0x8f48]`, with side-owner presence now explicitly grounded through `shell_has_auxiliary_preview_owner` `0x00434050`. That queued request is tighter too: both current callsites forward the same side-list mirror latch at `[0x006cfe08+0x0c]`, so the auxiliary owner now clearly sees not just the staged subject but also whether the local `BuildingDetail` side-list is in mirrored-subject mode. The same `0x7d01` lane also now has one clear rejection note: localized id `3587` `This option is only available by following the tutorial.` now sits behind the active tutorial flag at `0x006d3b4c` and the cached previous tutorial expected-control id at `0x00622b38`, while the neighboring tutorial helper `tutorial_advance_step_and_refresh_expected_control_ids` `0x00516be0` now grounds `0x00622b34/0x00622b38/0x00622b3c` as the current and previous expected-control cache rather than anonymous globals. The last field is tighter now too: `0x00622b3c` is currently best read as the active tutorial step's alternate-accepted companion control id, because the generic shell control path compares clicked control ids against it directly and suppresses the `3587` tutorial rejection when they match. That does not fully close the player-facing caption bind for every control, but it does bound the neighboring side-owner sync and tutorial-rejection lane instead of leaving it as anonymous glue. The extra pre-insert gate is narrower than it first looked. It is now grounded as tutorial-only: `tutorial_validate_train_route_station_indicator_step` `0x00516d00` checks the current tutorial step from the shell tutorial descriptor table at `0x00622b48` before a live station-or-transit site id can be committed into the staged route entry, and the currently accepted steps align with localized prompts `3777` and `3778`, the two train-routing tutorial instructions that tell the player to click the Milan and Turin station indicators. Outside that tutorial state family, the route-entry insertion path is not gated there. The adjacent validator is tighter now too: `train_route_list_validate_reachability_and_station_pair` `0x004b2c10` walks that same route list, resolves placed-structure-backed entries through the live placed-structure and route-node collections, uses the direct route-node payload branch for the remaining entry family, and fails with `3089..3091` when the resulting route cannot be traversed or does not preserve a valid terminal station pair. The post-validation follow-on is bounded too: `train_current_route_context_uses_strict_reachability_mode` `0x004a9460` is now the small shared gate above the stricter branch, keyed off the current linked route object's downstream class type, and `train_set_route_operating_mode_and_scalar` `0x004ab980` now reads as the shared train mode setter beneath route editing, with the local and multiplayer insertion paths choosing mode `0x13` only when that stricter second validation succeeds and mode `0x0a` on the looser fallback path. The first deeper world-mode interaction branch is now better bounded: `GameUppermost.win` hotspots, cursor drag, held Shift state, discrete shell view-step commands, direct keyboard turn/pan/zoom bindings, the `TrackLay.win` and `StationPlace.win` world-command surfaces, and a frame-owned hover or focus-target transition branch all feed the same shell-controller-backed path. The remaining uncertainty has moved farther from basic ownership only in the per-tool sense: the hover-target branch clearly exists, `0x07d6` now looks like the shared main-world interaction surface rather than a generic detail button for one tool family only. One more shell-side consumer is bounded now too: `0x004bc350` is a world-surface brush handler over that same `0x07d6` control plus the adjacent mode family `0x0faa..0x0faf` and ordinal strip `0x0fa0..0x0fa7`. That family is no longer just a generic unlabeled brush owner: the detail-panel manager now grounds the sibling tool-window strip immediately above it as `Bulldoze.win`, `ChangeHeight.win`, `ChangeTrees.win`, `PaintTerrain.win`, `PaintRegion.win`, `PaintSound.win`, and `PaintTerritory.win`, each with its own constructor, refresh pass, and message owner beneath the same controller rooted at `0x006d0818`. Once its local drag latch is active it dispatches the current mode dword at `[0x006d0818+0x8c]` into the companion-float helpers `0x0044d4e0`, `0x0044d880`, and `0x0044da70`, or into the secondary-raster nibble path `0x00448e20 -> 0x00419110`, so the remaining uncertainty has narrowed from ownership to the exact one-to-one mode-button mapping inside that grounded tool-window strip. The `PaintTerrain.win` side is tighter now too: constructor `0x004f7ce0` seeds shell singleton `0x006d1304`, callback root `0x006d1334`, a constructor-time bulk-update latch at `0x006d1330/0x006d1331`, and the broader terrain mode or scalar state from `0x00622748..0x00622788` plus `0x006d1308..0x006d1324`; it then registers the callback strip `0x004f5960`, `0x004f59f0`, `0x004f6070`, and `0x004f69e0` through `0x00540120`. The direct message owner under that same family is no longer just a loose branch fan-out either: `0x004f6f50` owns messages `2/0xca/0xcb`, keeps control `0x07d6` as the live world-surface drag latch, routes explicit undo control `0x2775` into `0x004f5c30`, maps the selector and mode strips `0x2711..0x2730`, `0x27d9..0x27df`, `0x283d..0x2843`, `0x28a1..0x28e6`, `0x2915..0x291e`, `0x2964..0x2967`, and `0x29cd..` into the cached terrain lanes, and then fans the active drag path into preview helpers `0x004f6930`, `0x004fb5e0`, `0x004fc280`, `0x004fc4d0`, and `0x004fc630` depending on the current terrain mode. Inside that same family `0x004f5a80/0x004f5c30` are now the bounded local undo snapshot pair, `0x004f5dd0` is the tiny active-scalar-group selector, `0x004f6b50` owns the ten-entry mode strip rooted at `0x28dd`, `0x004f6390` is the broad mode-panel repaint owner, `0x004f6250` is the mode-dependent world-dispatch bridge, `0x004f6930` samples the current preview raster at world coordinates, and `0x004fb5e0` is the heavier preview-raster rebuild and shell-surface publish worker. The next local helpers under that same family are tighter now too: `0x004f5ea0` and `0x004f5ec0` are just the two tiny special-mode predicates `(mode 5, variant 2)` and `(mode 4, variant 2)`, `0x004f8770` is the weighted RGB sampler over the current preview or undo-backed raster neighborhood, `0x004f89b0` is the local byte-grid connected-component grower over the eight-neighbor tables `0x00624b28/0x00624b48`, and `0x004f8bb0` is the main drag-path preview compositor that consumes the drag sample strip `[this+0xf0/+0xf4/+0xf8]`, allocates temporary float or byte grids, and then rasterizes the surviving preview rectangle through the current terrain descriptor tables at `0x005f3500`, the weighted color sampler `0x004f8770`, the component grower `0x004f89b0`, and several live world samplers before writing final RGBA pixels back into the preview surface. The late tail under that same compositor is tighter too: the mode-`4`, variant-`2` path toggles secondary-raster byte-2 bit `0x20` by comparing current and previous cells through `0x00534f40`; the broader mode-`4/5` world-facing branch samples class set `2/4/5` through `0x00534ec0`, re-enters `0x0044de30` and `0x0044df10`, latches pending world coordinates into `[0x006d1304+0x78/+0x7c]`, and rewrites the low nibble plus the signed overlay-vector planes through `0x00448df0`, `0x00448e20`, `0x00448ec0`, `0x00448ee0`, `0x00448e60`, and `0x00448e90`. After the optional mode-`5` smoothing sweep through `0x004f8370`, the publish tail either materializes one shell preview surface through `0x0051f090 -> 0x00534730` or, for the mode-`4/5` world-facing variants, converts the surviving preview rectangle back into world-space bounds and re-enters `0x0044e940`, `world_refresh_active_preview_mode_from_four_dword_parameter_block` `0x00452f20`, and `0x0044d410`. The companion preview-rebuild owner `0x004fb5e0` is tighter on entry, too: `0x004f726c` is the early rebuild path that first copies the live preview raster into `[this+0x118]` and snapshots undo state through `0x004f5a80`, while `0x004f7ada` is the later drag-active path that first allocates a temporary occupancy mask before rebuilding and then conditionally mirrors that mask through `world_rebuild_active_preview_or_tool_overlay_surface_and_publish_normalized_bounds` `0x00450520` on the world-mode-`0x17` side path. The remaining local lanes can therefore be carried conservatively as PaintTerrain per-mode scalar and token bands beneath that already- grounded mixed shell/world ownership strip, not as another ownership seam.