Trigger-Indifference Corollary (to the Leadership Compression Principle)

Canonical definition

Canonical Definition. The Trigger-Indifference Corollary states that where the terminal configuration of the Leadership Compression Principle obtains (an M-Captured Individual holding authority above the threshold the Leadership Compression Principle names, over a polity in Forced Quiescence, with the buffers that could manage a transition captured, or with no more than residual independence surviving), neither waiting nor the removal of the leader averts the discharge, and the event that sets the discharge off decides only which of two forms the discharge takes, by deciding whether the leader still holds authority. While the leader holds authority the discharge is imposed crisis; once the leader is removed it is the succession case, in which Accumulated Mimetic Debt is released through every suppressed channel at once and the Differentiation Collapse Mechanism collapses Decoherence Time across the network. The routes around the discharge are closed together. Differential Satiation Dynamics leaves the apex drive no closure condition at any level of provision. The captured buffers store Accumulated Mimetic Debt rather than discharging it. Waiting adds to that debt, and every wait ends in a removal because the leader is mortal. The leader's own act is closed, because Apex M-Capture leaves the holder I-Vacant, a transfer of authority lowers the holder's standing and reaches the Decision Hub as the negative pole of the Observer's signed reading, felt as threat, and the leader's Authenticity Belief drifts toward certainty with no internal correction (the I-Corrective Asymmetry). How violent the discharge is and how long it lasts are set by the structure it meets, the completeness of the prior capture and the Buffer Independence that survives (the Succession Decoherence Principle and the Discharge Duration Principle), and not by the event or its timing: the trigger is Content, and the corollary is the instance of the Structural Determination Principle at the apex. Interventions that change the structure the discharge will meet, chiefly provision and information that do not run through the regime, shape the discharge without averting it. Removal is an intervention only while the buffers still hold authority on independent bases.