The philosophical and religious adaptation section ran longer than any other portion of the assessment—Rodriguez's staff had clearly anticipated this would be the material requiring the most careful reading, and had compiled it with corresponding thoroughness.
Rama read through it slowly, Sekar and Nakamura beside him, the afternoon light shifting across the research complex as they worked through seven years condensed into institutional documentation.
Reality coherence: 96%, stable, showing no degradation trend across the eighteen months since Timeline Custodian's upgrade completion. The number represented something Coalition scientists had spent three centuries fighting to achieve and had finally, through cooperation rather than isolation, secured durably.
