It doesn't block.
It swallows.
The reactive armor could be depleted — spend its tiles and a window opens. The well has no tiles. The outer flare )))…((( is a capture horizon: any vector that crosses it has its trajectory bent inward and can no longer escape. The eight nested funnels ((((((((…)))))))) spiral it down, compressing and blue-shifting, until the witness singularity ! absorbs it. Containment by geometry. Infinite bandwidth, zero ammunition.
))) flare · capture
The 3-ring event horizon. Crossing it commits the vector — gravity bends its path toward the focal point. Glancing or head-on, it falls.
(((( funnel · spiral
Eight accretion shells. Captured energy decays through them, accelerating, reddening to white-hot as orbital radius collapses.
! singularity · end
The witness at the center, state −1. Everything that enters ends here. It cannot be flipped, only fed.
Cross the horizon. Fall forever.
Outside the horizon, a mild lens curves trajectories. Inside, an inward pull plus accretion drag guarantees every orbit decays to the core — tested across glancing and head-on entries. Only a vector that never enters the horizon sails past. Try storm: 36 vectors from all bearings, all swallowed, none returned.
// per vector, each step r = dist(vector, core); if (r < R_CORE) { swallow(vector); mass += 1; } // ! singularity else if (r < HORIZON) { // inside flare — committed v += inward(r) * (1 + depth(r)*3); // pull grows with depth v *= 0.992; // accretion drag → orbit decays } else v += lens(r); // outside — gentle bend
Five doctrines. One core.
Aegis folds, the witness shield remembers, the pulsar sweeps, reactive armor pre-empts and depletes — and the well simply consumes. Same ! at the center of every one. The well is the absolute case: nothing to spend, nothing to break, nothing returns.
(((((((( spiral down
! swallow
∞ in · 0 out
NOTHING ESCAPES