# Successor diagnostic readout

Completed calculations; independent verification and main release disposition remain pending.

| Comparison | Events | Retained factors | Eighth margin | Ninth margin | Tenth margin |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| baseline | 675 | 9 | 0.110957 | 0.064879 | -0.056565 |
| retirement_only | 662 | 9 | 0.107304 | 0.041196 | -0.073376 |
| retained_corrections_only | 675 | 9 | 0.170327 | 0.080112 | -0.045563 |
| qualified_successors_without_retained_corrections | 676 | 9 | 0.119309 | 0.065955 | -0.070868 |
| successor | 676 | 9 | 0.153875 | 0.084077 | -0.058456 |

565 labeled scenario records; 536 unique preprocessed matrix cases, including any terminal inestimable cases. No release-count inference follows.

All scenario-level outcomes are in SCENARIO_SUMMARY.csv. The JSON retains the full indicator-omission readout, explicit limits, status counts and largest changes. No unfavorable scenario is filtered from the CSV.

## Limits

- editorial_family_comparisons: Only editorial mechanism/outcome-label comparisons; retain holds. No score selection, weight, family-derived pseudo-profile or new factor solution.
- egypt_642_only_raw_profile: No separately independently coded60-dimensional639/640–642-only alternative exists in the bound accepted Egypt producer; the actual successor includes645–646. Baseline broad parent is supplied separately, not a642-only profile. Metadata phase/start bounds remain available in the main join.
- kitakami_internal_phase_raw_profiles: The accepted774–811 profile is not independently coded774–779,780–805,806–811 profiles. No phase scores may be derived from dates or copied from that aggregate. The real older parent swap and three distinct Japanese successor omissions are available.

Scenario records and cache units are not counts of independent experiments or newly fitted historical events.
The retained factor count, eight descriptive traits and six editorial families are distinct products.
Angles and retention changes cannot validate a historical boundary or select the desired result.
Era/source/missingness contrasts are within-corpus diagnostics, not evidence of worldwide completeness or universal human nature.
Nominal date sensitivity does not measure historical pace; unknown duration is not zero.
Illustrative weights and old-parent counterfactuals never change the historical roster.