FRAUDWATCH

Every place and every road drawn here is a node and an edge of the one topology this simulation moves trucks over, and a truck sits where its own journey says it is — standing at a place, or a stated fraction along the road between two of them. Nothing is animated between simulation steps, so a marker moves only when the world does. What the picture cannot tell you is distance: the drawn length of a road is a consequence of the layout, and the real figure is printed on the road. Each truck carries at most one circle, and the circle is the rung it is on: no circle at all is the quiet majority; a dashed amber circle means at least one signal is currently active on it; a solid orange circle means a case that names it is open; and a doubled red circle means that open case carries one of the two highest bands the case module declares. That is an ORDER TO LOOK IN and nothing else — a signal is an observation with a lifetime, a case is a correlation of two signal types, and most cases in a run end dismissed. A truck on the top rung has had more of this simulation’s machinery pointed at it than its neighbours, which is a fact about the machinery. Selecting a truck replaces the world event strip with that movement’s own ladder, oldest first, with the rung named in words on every row; selecting a case in the case panel dims the whole network except that case’s truck, its route, the places on it and the one site the case module attached, and lights nothing else — not the carrier’s other trucks, not the other cases at the same place, because neither of those is a connection this simulation has made. Selecting a truck reads out what it is linked to and what is currently observed about it beside the drawing, and the button there opens the full entity panel over the top when you want the per-case detail. Scroll on the drawing to magnify it and drag to move around inside it, or use the VIEW group in the header — that changes which rectangle of the same drawing reaches the screen and nothing about where a truck is. The CLOCK group beside it is the other thing entirely: it changes how fast the simulation runs, or advances it, and every figure on this panel then describes a world that has moved. The port at the left of the drawing carries a press that opens the Port Meridian mode, which is a game played inside that one facility. It is a link and nothing else: no truck, no selection, no clock and no case crosses between the two, and each mode goes on deriving everything it shows from its own modules. The occupancy panel underneath states where the trucks are right now, and every figure on it names the population it was counted over — one place, one road, the whole network, or only what is inside the current view — because since the view can be magnified those four can be four different numbers that look identical. It grades nothing: no module in this build declares a capacity or a congestion threshold, so there is none to draw. The strip beside it lists the events this simulation has just recorded — when, what type, and against which entity — and nothing about why any of them happened.