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Standalone-completeness rule

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Plain English: Each volume must satisfy on its own — a newcomer starting at book 3 should get a complete, comprehensible story — while rewarding the series reader more.

Rule: In this project this is D-locked: RELIC is 100% standalone for a newcomer and openly the finale for a series reader. Series payoffs reward, never require.

Fail: Load-bearing dependence on prior books (a newcomer is lost), or the opposite — amnesiac standalone-ness that ignores the series and gives returning readers nothing.

See: Reverse-payoff / crumb · books/relic/canon/CROSSBOOK_CRUMBS.md

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