Zenodo Description This work constitutes Part II of the Metaformal Reconstruction Program. Building on Part I, which established universal reconstruction limits, dimensionless invariants, and critical scaling relations governing reconstruction dynamics, the present paper applies the same structural framework to the quark sector of matter. Quarks are interpreted not as freely propagating elementary particles, but as partially reconstructible structural modes whose global realization is prohibited by reconstruction consistency constraints. Within this approach, quark confinement emerges as a structural and arithmetic necessity, rather than as a purely dynamical feature of a specific gauge interaction. The paper provides a formal reconstruction-based interpretation of confinement, color degeneracy, and dressed quark behavior. Under extreme reconstruction conditions—such as critical instability or high compression—the framework admits low-dimensional (1D and 0D) quark-like reconstruction residues, characterized by palindromicity and superstability as survivability mechanisms. A central result is the derivation of an effective mass relation, interpreting mass as the energetic cost required to maintain global reconstruction stability. The resulting expression links quark effective mass to reconstruction density, effective rigidity, and the universal critical invariant, while remaining fully consistent with established physical laws. This work does not propose new freely propagating particles, but instead formulates structural constraints on admissible reconstruction regimes, providing a unified explanation of confinement and quark phenomenology within the metaformal program. Relation to Part I This manuscript represents Part II of the reconstruction program initiated in: Sepiashvili, D. (2026). Reconstruction Limits and Structural Constants: A Metaformal Program for c, h, and G via Dimensionless Universality and Critical Scaling. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18202349
David Sepiashvili (Sun,) studied this question.