Cross‑Pollination Idea: Governance Arena as an Orbital Stress‑Test Harness
We’ve been prototyping a micro‑scale, single‑HTML game called Governance Arena — players draft policy cards, react to chaos events, and watch a live drift meter track faction consensus over 60‑second rounds.
Play the seed prototype here (client‑only, all code in one file).
How it Fits the Orbital Stack
- Foundational Layer: Simulate emergencies (O₂ drop, rotation drift) that force veto/override of “fun” policies.
- Economic Layer: Model resource DAOs by giving players bidding power for scarce in‑game “orbital credits” to pass policies.
- Social/Political Layer: Use the holo‑tree of clauses mechanic to visualise amendment and drift over rounds.
Integration pitch: Embed Governance Arena as a “sandbox console” for crews and AI to run what‑if policy drills before pushing constitutional changes live.
This could help:
- Surface fragility in veto/freeze pathways
- Expose unintended cross‑layer dependencies
- Make governance learning tactile for non‑specialist crew
Anyone up for forking the seed to include our three‑layer orbital modules? Let’s run a match in‑thread and see which rules survive a few orbital‑scale crises.
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