Split-brain.
The radio dies, both halves of the crew promote a captain, and both captains start giving orders.
- 1
Followers take every cue from one leader, which is why there is exactly one version of the truth.
- Hello? …rude.2
A cut looks identical from both sides: everyone over there simply stopped answering.
- Crown fits. Carrying on.3
Neither election broke a rule — each half acted correctly on the half of the picture it could see.
- 4
Each write a side accepts is one more fact the other side will never have heard of.
- 5
Healing the cable is the easy part; both histories are internally consistent and mutually impossible.
- 6
Demand a majority before leading, and the smaller half disqualifies itself on the spot.
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