ARCHITECTURE
Layered flow diagram · governance + value chain + support + preservation
What you're looking at. The Borg's 15 divisions organised as four functional layers. Mind governs everything. Value chain runs Frontier → Build → Run → Distribute → Commerce → Capital. Memory compounds underneath. Vitality + Relations preserve the founder. Click any division to drill in.
Governance
Mind — sets the rules, enforces the laws, holds slow-state sacred
Value Chain
Frontier → Build → Run → Distribute → Commerce → Capital · the forward flow
Compounding
Memory — feeds knowledge back into every division, prevents repeating mistakes
Preservation
Vitality + Relations — keep the host functional and connected
// Layer 1 · Governance · Mind
Identity layer. Six constitutional laws live here. Mind governs every other division. Without Mind, there is no Borg — only an agentic system running without a soul.
↓ governs all ↓
// Layer 2 · Value Chain · Frontier → Arcade
The forward flow. Frontier scouts the world. Build constructs. Run operates. Distribute delivers. Commerce monetises. Capital funds everything. This is the value-creation engine.
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Frontier
Pathfinders, Experimenters, Speculators, Convergence, Renegades
02
Build
Architects → Critics → Executioner → Testers → Auditors → Restorers
03
Run
Performers, Operators, Scouts (LIVE), Concierges, Diplomats
04
Distribute
Heralds, Translators (Lens 3 firewall), Storytellers, Conduits
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Commerce
Merchants, Pricers, Negotiators, Treasurers, Bankers
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Capital
Stewards, Allocators, Forecasters, Risk
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Ventures
Prospectors, Validators, Incubators, Launchers, Portfolio
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Game Studio
Showrunners, Engineers, Choreographers, Adversaries, Art Directors, Curators, Playtesters, Loremasters
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The Reef
Shipwrights, Cartographers, Coastguards, Anglers, Pilots, Quartermasters
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Admiralty
Admiralty Council — shared cross-venture legal organ
↑ feeds every layer ↑
// Layer 3 · Compounding · Memory
The compounding layer. Distillers compress. Historians chronicle. Pattern-Spotters synthesise. Eulogists remember kills. Memory makes the Borg compound across decades rather than restart each year.
↕ preserves the host ↕
// Layer 4 · Preservation · Vitality + Relations + Physicians
Founder preservation. Vitality keeps the body functional. Relations keep the people who matter close. Without these, no host. Without host, no Borg. The architecture explicitly refuses revenue-only thinking — many divisions contribute zero direct revenue and they exist for exactly this reason.
// At the centre of every layer
THE SOVEREIGN
Martin is the final decider. Every verdict from every council across every layer ultimately routes here. Law I — Sovereignty is itself unamendable: amending it would mean amending who the founder fundamentally is.
→ Open Sovereign Surface