Chapter 289 - THINNING

The broadcast went out at 0600 Singapore time, timed deliberately to reach the greatest possible simultaneous global audience across the widest useful spread of waking populations. Rodriguez delivered it himself rather than delegating to Arbiter or Timeline 48 specifically — a choice he explained to Rama beforehand with characteristic directness: "This is an institutional message about institutional uncertainty. It should come from someone whose job is admitting what Coalition doesn't know, not from something whose nature makes uncertainty feel more unsettling than it needs to."