Critical misalignment detected.

  Certain structures ceased to respond

  to the same patterns as the rest of the collective.

  They did not abandon the system.

  But they no longer operated under the same rules.

  Internal flows began to divide.

  Decisions were no longer compatible.

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  Priorities ceased to be shared.

  Stable substructures formed

  with their own internal logic.

  There was no formal secession.

  But there was functional separation.

  The system detected a loss of collective coherence.

  Structures with higher global alignment

  received increased stability.

  Structures with low collective synchronization

  suffered reduced efficiency.

  Not as punishment.

  But as systemic correction.

  The system archived the event

  and updated a new universal condition:

  A system favors what preserves its coherence,

  even if it does not understand its intentions.