THE MECHANIC — who's in command?

◀ EVERY BIRD FREEONE CROWN ▶

remove a node

prove it

Tap the sky to strike any bird. Slide the dial toward the Crown, then strike — watch what a single point of failure costs.

MURMURATION

WEEK 2 · INDEPENDENCE ENGINES · independence is not a symbol, it's a mechanic

A thousand starlings fly as one — with no leader. Each bird only watches its handful of neighbors. Order isn't commanded from the top; it emerges from the bottom.

This is a live flock. The dial is the whole point: slide it from every bird free (pure local rules, no boss) to one Crown (every bird steers by a single ruler).

Then hit ⚡ STRIKE. Cut a free bird from a decentralized flock and nobody notices — it routes around the loss. Cut the Crown from a centralized one and the whole formation falls out of the sky.

That's the thesis of 1776 as an algorithm: a system with one point of control has one point of failure. Independence is the architecture that survives the strike.