This record asks where edges come from and answers with one rule: an edge is real only when it is kept by the one it belongs to, and could fail through what that one does not control. It is held, not given. The rule is met in three places the corpus already proves: life (FR14), authority (FR01 to FR13) and the person (FR03, FR08, FR13). Its result is the Terminus: wherever a decision binds a person, no governance actor may validate her own edges, which is why the chain of authority in FR13 ends at the subject. Held, not given.
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Stacy B. Gildenston (2026) studied this question.
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