Return to Mikoshi dossier MIKOSHI-IX / RELEASE ARBITRATION THAW / CHALLENGE / SILENCE

A construct does not return because it asks.

Mikoshi Release Arbitration governs the interval between cold storage and authority-bearing interface: thaw petition, lineage challenge, drift trial, witness quorum, silence order, and board-authorized return for constructs whose existence can move markets, families, and states.

Open runtime specification Open engram custody Open identity escrow

Mikoshi release arbitration plate — Mikoshi release arbitration and authority witness layer.

Release quorum9/12

Minimum combined board, regional custody, and lineage witness votes before a construct may enter interactive state.

Drift ceiling0.7%

Maximum behavioral variance from witnessed baseline before arbitration collapses into silence review.

Silence order365D

Default non-interactive hold when authority, lineage, or consent cannot resolve to a clean release.

Arbitration Chain

The trial happens before the construct speaks.

Release arbitration treats identity as disputed infrastructure. The construct, sponsor, family, board, and custody system each produce evidence before any simulated person can affect the living world.

THW-01

Construct Thaw Petition

Opens a non-authority interface only after sponsor, custody hash, and permitted question scope resolve to the same record.

LIN-02

Lineage Challenge Court

Tests biological proof, successor claims, consent covenants, and hostile impersonation risk before release authority exists.

DRF-03

Drift Trial Chamber

Runs market, family, board, and adversarial prompts against witnessed memory to measure variance before interface escalation.

SIL-04

Silence Order Registry

Locks disputed constructs into non-interactive storage with renewal, destruction, or future arbitration triggers separated.

Release Envelope

Return is a legal event with a neural interface.

A construct cannot leave cold custody until Arasaka can prove custody lineage, sponsor authority, drift clearance, interaction scope, and abort path across one signed release docket.

PetitionerBoard office, family quorum, sovereign executor, regional custodian, or continuity service marshal

Custody objectMikoshi partition, Relic capture package, Soulkiller receipt, witness manifest, and authority graph

Interaction scopeQuestion-only, rehearsal-only, advisory interface, limited signature, or full continuity release

Abort pathCold rollback, partition freeze, witness challenge, family injunction, construct silence order

Excluded useUnwitnessed revival, coerced testimony, market manipulation by construct, uncontrolled body migration

Arbitration Routing

Release arbitration routes construct authority through Mikoshi runtime, engram custody, executive continuity, and board governance.

The runtime stores the construct. The custody interface proves the object. The continuity service petitions for use. The board decides whether the dead may speak for the living.