The Seam
Hard drift
An uncontrolled traversal with unpredicted displacement — typically fatal or close to it.
In full
The failure mode the drift lab exists to prevent. Not a rough landing: an emergence nobody predicted, at a place nobody chose.
Key facts
- Uncontrolled, unpredicted displacement.
- Typically fatal or near-fatal.
- The outcome the entire calculation chain guards against.
- Used as ordinary vocabulary; never explained on the page.