Chapter 167

KAELOS The emergency session of the Global Council convened forty-eight hours after Ruvan's discovery. I stood before the assembled delegates, knowing that what I was about to present would fundamentally challenge their expectations about controlled policy implementation. "Ladies and gentlemen," I began, "we have encountered what can only be described as a productive failure of our theoretical framework." Director Chen raised an eyebrow. "Productive failure?" "Our structured partnership protocols are working exactly as designed," I explained, activating the holographic displays showing data from monitored pilot sites. "Enhanced individuals are successfully restraining their analytical dominance, conventional partners are gaining confidence in collaborative roles, and psychological satisfaction metrics are improving steadily." "That sounds like success," Ambassador Santos observed. "It is success," I agreed. "But we have simultaneously discovered that our design assumptions were fundame