nika.sh v4.9 · the spec ship

The spec machine becomes a vessel. The strata leave the disc and take stations along a spine, read bow to stern: the bridge (the plan), the reactor core (four verbs), one great habitat ring braced by four spokes (the permits boundary every outbound run crosses), the hold (the standard library in five family arcs), the antenna array (nine extract ports off fetch), the engine block (five local nozzles docked on the spine, ten cloud outboard, one mock dim) and the shield skirt (fourteen typed-error plates) — and the keel is the envelope itself, its ten keys the spine segments everything mounts on.

The drum of liberation lends its heartbeat: a 2.4-second breath sails the hull bow to stern while the reading ignites each station in turn, one exact revolution from opening frame to lit close.

The page becomes its engineering plate: the ship rides beside the title from the first paint, labelled by leader lines that carry real counts, over a protocol plate, an honest family microchart and a nine-chip index that tracks the reading.

And it answers the hand: drag to orbit (it springs home), wheel to zoom, one button to explode the drawing apart along the spine — the wires stretch, still connected.

The arc: #114 (the ship + the helm) · #115 (the instrument plate + the release). Follows v4.8.0's #105/#108/#110/#111.