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 pushes a single counter upward. It is monotone — no operation lowers 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.