CV-RC-01 / External stakeholder consultation
This record documents the observations, constraints and general objections supplied by physical reality during development of the Vega Transit Demonstrator.
01 / Stakeholder standing
Physical reality has a direct and substantial interest in the programme outcome. It therefore cannot be treated as a neutral decision-maker.
Reality was not invited to nominate a representative because no single observation could be shown to speak for the whole.
03 / Consultation method
The exercise was designed to capture all relevant external evidence without allowing consultation to become an alternative decision process.
Reality may submit comments continuously through measurement, failed tests, material limits or non-occurrence.
Each comment is reduced to the smallest workstream capable of holding it without affecting the whole programme.
The responsible function records an action, future phase, terminology change or reason that no action is required.
Closure of consultation confirms only that comments were processed. The approved outcome remains stable.
The purpose of consultation is not to transfer decision authority to the consulted party.
CV-RC-01 · FINAL DISPOSITION · CONTROLLED COPY
Physical law is recognised as an external technical stakeholder. It has no delegated programme or budget authority.
An observation shall be treated as a constraint only where an accountable workstream can act upon it.
A comment spanning multiple workstreams is insufficiently scoped and shall not delay any individual workstream.
Evidence arising after an approved decision is not new evidence where it remains compatible with facts already noted.
The present unavailability of an outcome is not evidence against maintaining readiness to produce it.
All comments have been received, recorded and assigned an appropriate absence of programme-level consequence.
04 / Closure by theme
Open physical problems remain within their assigned programmes. No open consultation actions remain against the Executive Engineering Committee.
Closed through configuration maturity
CLOSEDTransferred to active research
CLOSEDRole-based delivery accepted
CLOSEDStakeholder assumption recorded
CLOSEDPhase II / consultation excluded
CLOSEDNo accountable action identified
CLOSED05 / Precedent established
Substantially similar observations will be treated as already consulted upon, including where their scale, urgency or number of affected persons has increased.
Reality’s comments are non-binding.
Materially different observations may be submitted through the same process after the programme outcome has been reconfirmed.
CV-RC-01 / Consultation closed
Reality has been consulted.
Its comments do not alter the approved outcome.
02 / Comment disposition register
Every objection
found an owner.
Comments were assessed only within the workstream capable of receiving them. Objections affecting the programme as a whole were returned for insufficient specificity.
Vehicle existence
No flight vehicle currently exists.
Configuration control is sufficiently mature to support readiness activity.
CLOSEDPropulsion
No demonstrated method can deliver a crewed vehicle to Vega within the programme horizon.
Competitive concept phase remains active. Demonstration is a later gate.
TRANSFERREDAperture logistics
A Vega-side wormhole endpoint must first be transported to Vega.
Assigned to Endpoint Logistics. Does not invalidate local aperture research.
TRANSFERREDCrew availability
No departure crew have been appointed.
Recruitment activity constitutes active mitigation.
CLOSEDHuman lifespan
Departure personnel may not survive until arrival.
Personal arrival is not an essential requirement of a travelling post.
NOTEDCausal ordering
An arrival cannot occur before the action that causes it.
Chronological assumption is external to the approved arrival-order model.
NOTEDReturn capability
No credible means of returning personnel to Earth has been proposed.
Return provision is Phase II and outside the present consultation boundary.
OUT OF SCOPECommunications
Transmission does not demonstrate receipt at the destination.
Receipt belongs to Destination Operations, which activates upon arrival.
TRANSFERREDCost
The programme cannot provide a credible whole-life cost.
Whole-life exceeds the current Finance life. Annual authority remains valid.
CLOSEDOverall feasibility
The programme should not proceed.
General comments must identify an accountable workstream. No action assigned.
NON-BINDING