Juno put the stop controls where each contributor could reach them.
They were ordinary switches on a worktable, not a new power offered to Eli. Three small test sources fed a model through separate couplings. Each contribution had its own gauge. A local engineer had checked the supports, the council observer had approved the inert test scope, and the output ended in an isolated load rather than an occupied barrier.
The model was an attempt to ask a question.
Could the seal’s load be distributed among independently controlled anchors, with rules contributors could inspect and challenge, instead of being drawn by one authority from an opaque reservoir? The idea came from earlier open anchor work, local engineering, and pressure records whose limits remained on the table. It did not yet amount to a complete design.
Juno said that before anyone touched a switch.
A surface delegate had joined by the working channel. Eli sat with Tessa at the permitted viewing distance. Kellan stood behind the local engineer, waiting to carry equipment if asked. No one would use an inherited effect to rescue the model from an ordinary failure. That rule kept the experiment from becoming a test of how quickly Eli would violate his constrained clearance when other people looked disappointed.
