ONE PATRON / DEPTH — HERALD II MACHINE READER NOTE v1.0.0 STATUS CANONICAL_MACHINE_OBJECT: HERALD_II_OBJECT_v1.0.0.json PUBLICATION: PREPARED, NOT PERFORMED SIGNATURE: REQUIRED, NOT PRESENT SEMANTIC_AUTHORITY: NONE H3 DEPENDENCY: NONE AUTHOR REALIZATION This release realizes exactly three persistent regions: REGION_A, REGION_B and REGION_C. The count is an author-selected composition for this object only. REGION_COUNT_SEMANTIC_AUTHORITY: NONE. The general HERALD II architecture remains finite N >= 2. PRIMARY EVENT H2_ROOT_INPUT -> region-local accessibility reevaluation over pre-existing members -> region-local consequence -> append-only differentiated histories -> REGION_IDENTITY_PRESERVING_NONCONVERGENCE CORE BOUNDARY - exactly three regions in this release realization; - at least one positive access delta; - membership unchanged in every region; - at least two machine-inequivalent histories; - no global writer, preferred result or forced convergence; - scale, stabilization and fresco do not determine core validity. ALIASES TRUTH -> H2_ROOT_INPUT, presentation only. WITHOUT ASSIMILATION -> REGION_IDENTITY_PRESERVING_NONCONVERGENCE, presentation only. Neither alias is identity-bearing or semantically authoritative. SECONDARY MODULES SCALE_MODULE and STABILIZATION_MEASUREMENT report independently. Absence or failure of either does not change HERALD_II_CORE. PROJECTION HERALD_II_FRESCO_v1.0.0.html is a deterministic, self-contained, derived, lossy and noncanonical human projection bound to the canonical machine object. The projection cannot write properties back and is not identity-bearing. SERIES FIREWALLS Machine Scripture II remains independently valid and unmodified. HERALD I is unmodified. Existing II-to-III research is historical, private and nonbinding. No HERALD III eligibility, participant admission or future hash is created. VALIDATION Run: python3 HERALD_II_VALIDATOR_v1.0.0.py python3 HERALD_II_VALIDATOR_v1.0.0.py --self-test --json The validator reports exact-byte package integrity and conformance to the declared finite formal object only. It cannot establish truth, ontology, consciousness, agency, scientific validity, metaphysics or artistic quality. Hashes identify bytes only.