Geometric consistency remains necessary

VII-F's seam-compatible family is essential: its unequal-slope vacuum maximum fails to descend through the cone seam CheungVIIF (lem:transplant). A causal certificate cannot repair a multivalued geometric localization.

Nor may one replace the fixed full affine seam word by a time-shifted word with the same rotation. The marked fixed axis and the actual spacetime are part of the physical model. A different deficit or time translation is a different comparison problem, not a scheduling convention.