The Governed Distributed Compute Fabric as one unified system-of-systems view. Sovereign GPU mesh + honest TCP reachability + joules MEASURED per node + one governed OpenAI-compatible router + doctrine-locked provenance. Terrestrial governed mesh is the proven core; orbital is a clearly-labeled ROADMAP frame. Doctrine v11 · Λ = Conjecture 1 · 0 runtime CDN.
/api/a11oy/v1/compute-pool-hardened · /api/a11oy/v1/energy/operator/status · /api/a11oy/v1/honest · /api/a11oy/provenanceEvery figure is honestly labeled. Reachability is a real TCP probe THIS sweep — a timeout/refusal is reachable=false with the reason, never fabricated. Joules are MEASURED only via the on-box exporter (nodes with no exporter read SAMPLE / 0). Sovereign is a property of owned hardware, passed through, never inferred from reachability.
Scaling model — honest: nodes scale horizontally (placement + load-balance) under one governed router. VRAM does NOT merge across the network — there is no fused/combined VRAM. The router places each job on a reachable node; it does not pool memory across machines.
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Joules are MEASURED via the on-box exporter (node betterwithage). Nodes without a local exporter contribute SAMPLE jobs (joules unmeasured) — shown honestly, never imputed. Signed receipts fold into the Khipu ledger: /api/a11oy/v1/energy/provenance.
The same governance primitives the terrestrial mesh PROVES on real metal — honest reachability, joules MEASURED per node, Λ-gated placement, signed-receipt provenance — are exactly what distributed / edge / orbital compute system-of-systems will require. This band is the vision frame, clearly labeled ROADMAP. SZL does not operate satellites; nothing in the mesh above is orbital. We prove on terrestrial metal what the orbital-architecture crowd only asserts.
c7c0ba17 (749/14/163). SLSA L1 honest · L2 attested · L3 roadmap. Canonical numbers lean_numbers.json.