Fiction Lab / Collection
Crisis authority and constrained operations
Connect temporary authority with moving bottlenecks, protected buffers and recovery governance.
Collection route
- 1Research desk
Seveneves
Which decision rights may legitimately be centralised during a crisis, and who decides when they return?
Inspect emergency authority.
Open - 2Pattern
The emergency power with no expiry mechanism
The activation trigger is precise, but the return of ordinary governance is left undefined.
Name authority drift.
Open - 3Research desk
The Martian
How should an operation work when almost every resource is scarce but different constraints become critical at different times?
Follow migrating constraints.
Open - 4Case
CONTINUITY 90
Return normal decision rights without pretending that residual technical risk has disappeared.
Return decision rights.
Open - 5Case
HELIOS Outpost
Keep critical service safe as the binding constraint moves between fuel, filters, generation and demand.
Choose the current constraint.
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