Visual continuity needs an approval record
Approved references, still contact and an informational guide solved different production problems.
Published 2026-11-01 · Dated evidence, not a live status feed
Individual identity controls the shared scene
Bishop and the Unknown Engineer received approved visual references on October 30. The Engineer’s backpack patch revision was separately accepted, preserving the approved identity, outfit and poses. Embedded draft wording was a historical creation label; the approval record defined the current scope.
The four-page guide covered seven chinchillas and five droid types. Individual silhouettes, faces or optics, clothing, equipment and limb counts remained the useful checks. An incidental character in another member’s sheet could conflict with that individual’s own reference.
The laptop study was still contact evidence
The accepted October 30 Unknown Engineer–CRD study showed shared support, receipt and release of a closed laptop. It established reviewed still interaction poses within that study. It did not establish absolute shared heights, continuous animation contact or a production-ready rig.
A guide is not a new design authority
The guide’s previews were independently sized, so their placement could not define relative scale. It explicitly kept unseen geometry, pose approval, symbol review and rig certification separate. Full-resolution originals stayed preserved.
The earthquake-story treatment delivered later that day was another distinct artifact: ten illustrated pages in PDF and Word form, prepared for review. No retained acceptance or canon approval of that treatment is asserted here, and no animation completion is implied.