With settlement no longer bound to a center, communities experiment with distributed sovereignty. This chapter explores how order emerges without a clearing authority and how entangled coordination reshapes legitimacy — preparing humanity for the psychological strain of living in a world without delay.
As entangled networks remove delay from interworld coordination, a subtler consequence emerges: psychological compression. Elias Walker begins to sense that living inside instant verification alters not only governance, but the human nervous system itself.
As entangled coordination spreads beyond Luna’s experimental corridors, sovereign worlds confront a deeper question: if authority no longer depends on delay, who carries responsibility? Elias Walker begins to understand that distributed systems demand more maturity, not less.