The Fiducial Compression, Priced: What the BAO Assumption Costs the No-Go It Was Meant to Break

Prices the fiducial-LCDM data-compression assumption behind BAO measurements against arXiv:2510.01974's no-go verdict for late-time Hubble-tension solutions. The record grants the bias in the rescuing direction and its verdict survives the grant; the verdict stands on unanchored supernova shape at z<2 and on cosmic-microwave-background geometry, neither of which is the BAO compression; the record's own boundary is Omega_m significantly below 0.3, outside which the price is unpriced by the record. Set beside paper #272's 6.57-unit (9.08 percent) Galactic-map swing in the FRB line, carried as an error term, and paper #566's holographic-cutoff census at its narrow bearing. Quantum gravity NOT SOLVED; vacuum catastrophe NOT SOLVED.