Strictly immutable deployment model. No owner authority, no mint capability, no upgrade path. Logic assumption: the deployed artifact will remain the final artifact.
Every acquisition drives a single counter upward — and no code path exists to lower it. From it we derive V, an energy permitted only to fall.
At fixed thresholds the process commits to the next of seven states. The commits are one-way. Nothing on record has ever moved a stage backward.
It arrives at a single fixed point and becomes asymptotically stable — perturb it and the disturbance decays. No exit exists; none was specified in the construction.