Phases
Three phases — SPECIMEN, SURVIVAL, COLONY — spanning roughly fifteen weeks from mint to a working incubator.
Phase 1 — SPECIMEN (~3 weeks)
Contracts, TBA + seed loot table, three-state machine, vault, dual-pool distributor, state-reactive art, terminal, $DSUP launch, mint.
Phase 2 — SURVIVAL (+4 weeks) Extinction events, survivor marks, loans against hydrated specimens, public distribution ledger, analytics.
Phase 3 — COLONY (+8 weeks)
Incubator, specimen governance, $DSUP liquidity pairing for launched projects.
The ordering is load-bearing, not just chronological: SURVIVAL depends on the state machine and distributor from SPECIMEN having run long enough under real stakes to trust the RNG and payout accounting in DsupEvents.sol (§7, §11), and COLONY depends on SURVIVAL and SPECIMEN together having produced a treasury worth voting over (§9). Fifteen weeks total is the plan, not a promise — see §14 for what happens to the schedule if fee volume undershoots.