The Branch Beyond λ = 20: The Far-V0 Branch Runs to λ = 28, and Its Release Line Is Still Steepening — Slowly

The far-V0 branch of the exponential rolling field is followed beyond paper #548's stated scan: gated digit-for-digit on #548's full gate chain (Gates A-E and the parents they rest on) and on #548's own extended rows at lambda = 12.5, 16.0 and 20.0, the branch is present at every lambda from 20.5 to the stated scan's end at 28.0 (search ceiling log V0 = 700, stated in advance from the trend), its log V0 rising from 422.624 to 593.048, w0 to +0.888 and H0 to 73.93. It does not terminate inside the scan, and a census of every upward crossing finds exactly one at every lambda. The three release-line fits stand side by side (21.30 lambda - 25.57; 22.48 lambda - 38.46; 22.72 lambda - 43.32): the steepening is continuing but slowing, and not bending. Quantum gravity NOT SOLVED; vacuum catastrophe NOT SOLVED.