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 node prints. That is a work-around for the node owning what the kernel
 owns, and it goes when the engine takes the VM's place.

+## 1c. The frame: the Stadium
+
+`FABRIC-2.md` section B: "words are stadium patrons, VMs are patrons,
+blocks are patrons, messages are stadium patrons, all should be operated on
+by THE SAME ENGINE."
+
+- A patron is one 64-byte cell of nine wires: identity, heat, TTL, pin,
+  link, behaviour, mass, payload, contains
+  (`kernel/include/starkernel/vm/stadium.h`).
+- Heat is a conserved share of 1.0; K is that conservation.
+- The behaviour is what happens when a patron leaves: words and VMs `COOL`,
+  blocks `MIGRATE`, messages `DELIVER`, ACLs `EXPIRE`.
+- A cell never holds the thing itself, only its identity and heat. A word's
+  code stays in the dictionary; a block's bytes stay in the block
+  subsystem.
+
+Compudynamics is therefore the kernel's Stadium, not something inside the
+VM engine. The engine's part is to report what it executes: in v3,
+`stadium_word_dispatch(vm, word_id, tick)` from the inner loop.
+
+**Reading of the opcode ruling (section 2.7) in this frame, stated to
+Captain Bob 2026-10-05 and not corrected:** on v4 that report carries an
+opcode, and a VM's word patrons become its 32 opcode patrons.
+
+## 1d. Blocks (discussed and ruled 2026-10-05)
+
+**v3, as built:**
+
+- One block address space in kernel C (`v3/src/block_subsystem.c`): fast
+  RAM at 0 to 2047, the ramdrive, Artemis's virtio disk, USB drives,
+  chained.
+- Every block has metadata (`blk_meta_t`): the owner's fingerprint,
+  `acl_allow`, `acl_ttl`, a write count, chain links.
+- Blocks are patrons: `BLOCK`, `BUFFER` and `UPDATE` call
+  `stadium_block_dispatch` with the LBN; heat drives migration and wear
+  levelling (`kernel/src/vm/stadium_blocks.c`).
+- Artemis is the Tripod leg that owns persistent storage.
+- Identity lives there: a keypair Zuse mints onto a thumbdrive; its
+  fingerprint is stamped on every block it claims at first touch, behind
+  the home-blocks fence; the disk's genesis signature is how the kernel
+  knows Artemis's disk.
+
+A v3 VM's block words ask the kernel's block subsystem for a block and get
+a buffer back. Ownership, ACL, physics and devices are the kernel's.
+
+**Ruling (Captain Bob, "yes"):** a v4 node only ever asks for a block by
+number. Everything about who may have it is decided on the kernel's side,
+under the VM's identity. The device chain, metadata, first-touch claim,
+ACL, migration and the Stadium touch stay where they are.
+
+**What this says about the lone-node boot.** It gives the node a bare RAM
+array behind its four block registers (D-19), which skips the address
+space, the metadata, the owner, the ACL and the Stadium.
+
 ## 2. Row 3: physics and per-word heat

 ### 2.1 What v3 does