Ampelos brought the emergency maritime protocol draft at the second hour of the next morning.
Two pages. Dense, specific, the language of someone who had been writing operational documents for decades and understood that the difference between a protocol that worked and one that did not was almost always in the specificity of the trigger conditions.
Lysander read it at his table while the lamp was still doing most of the work.
The trigger was clear: any coastline reaching ninety percent of documented absorption capacity activated an automatic request to the other two parties for maritime transport assistance. The response timeline was forty-eight hours for acknowledgment, seventy-two for first vessel deployment. The cost allocation was proportional to the receiving party's current buffer position — the party with the most remaining capacity contributed more.
