Production transforms identified inputs through a facility and practice into owned outputs. Every transformation records recipe or method, consumed and produced lots, operator or automation, facility, time, quality-relevant conditions, and provenance.
Facilities expose bounded capacity. Reservations, maintenance, power, labor, route access, storage, and safety can constrain that capacity without becoming disconnected modifier cards. Each workshop site owns the facilities, installed methods, local storage, staff, orders, and active queues that form its productive body. Logistics moves custody through sites, institutions, contracts, and inter-Hold routes; inventory is not globally available because a number exists somewhere.
Private player gear storage is the deliberate capacity exception. It is unlimited cold inventory addressed to a Hold, with no capacity interface or rent. Gear stored in another Hold remains visible to its owner but is not locally equipable, saleable, loanable, or usable as production input until carried within ordinary limits or moved by a receipted route transfer. Private storage does not expand industrial warehouses, facility buffers, freight capacity, or shared institutional stock.
No site efficiently contains every chain. Players specialize sites, trade, commission, use institutional services, or accept less efficient substitutes. A workshop may process frontier materials at one site, ship components through named routes, and perform advanced manufacture at another. Shared ownership authorizes the transfer; it never supplies freight, capacity, time, safety, or a custody change. Orders express desired future exchange; accepted orders become commitments; fulfilled transfers become realized trade. Only realized effects enter the aggregate external-world boundary.
Portable knowledge, workshop-wide configuration, relationships, and saved loadouts follow the identity. Facilities, installed methods, staff, inventories, active orders, and output remain at their sites. Escrowed, dispatched, institution-held, returned-loan, lost, or otherwise transferred items remain under their recorded custody until another receipt moves them.
Site closure is a settlement process, not deletion. Production stops, unaccepted intents withdraw, accepted commitments reach their admitted outcomes, and each local asset or custody item is sold, transferred, dismantled, abandoned, or otherwise receipted before the site ceases to exist.
The economy must support ordinary civic life as well as expedition gear: heat, food processing, medicine, construction, transport, maintenance, education, ritual goods, and delightful nonsense all compete for material and capacity.