# SOURCE BODY SOVEREIGNTY LAW

No BVK, DAISY LINK™, NETWORK OS™, NeuroCast, HQ, Marquee, or related system may be stripped, flattened, renamed, redesigned, replaced, reduced, or routed around without explicit operator authorization.

Existing source bodies, routes, tool names, files, layouts, identities, and operating contracts must be preserved first.

Improvement must happen by restoration, grafting, extension, repair, polish, validation, and operator acceptance.

## Prohibited

- Replacing a source body with a cleaner shell and calling it equivalent.
- Turning a real tool into a label, panel, card, menu item, or generic-only placeholder.
- Renaming an organ to hide that it was removed.
- Removing canonical routes without explicit operator authorization.
- Treating absence as permission to erase or invent a substitute.
- Marking replacement shells as canonical without source-body proof.
- Collapsing Marquee, Absence Engine, Director, Feed Forge, Audience Registry, Booking, Assessment Lab, Script Forge, Visual Forge, Audio Forge, Curriculum Forge, Daisy Link Forge, Runtime Packager, Terminal, Lil Bro, or HQ Docking into generic substitutes.

## Required sequence

```text
PRESERVE → AUDIT → MAP ABSENCE → REPAIR IN PLACE → VALIDATE → OPERATOR ACCEPTANCE
```

## Kernel wording

```text
Source body is sovereign.
Absence is an invention coordinate, not permission to erase.
A named tool is not a tool.
A route contract is not decorative.
A weak organ is repaired in place, not replaced in secret.
No preview means no release.
No operator acceptance means no HQ wiring.
```