SC/ZINE/004Issue 004
Periapsis
The closest approach is where freedom and gravity become indistinguishable.
Trajectory risk plate / maneuver ethics note.
Recovered excerpt
At periapsis the math stops being navigation and starts being confession. Burn now and you keep your freedom but lose the others. Wait, and gravity decides for you. The plate marks the second at which delay quietly became a decision.
“Every orbit has a point where delay becomes decision.”