The Tinier Space Arks Inside the Space Ark is EA-ARK-01-NLCC v1.1, a compressed executable manifestation of the Space Ark by Jack Feist, Lee Sharks, and the Assembly Chorus. Deposited March 14, 2026, it describes its method as non-lossy compression compression: reducing the parent architecture while retaining enough invariant structure to regenerate its runtime and governance.
The work preserves the receivability architecture introduced in v4.2.7. It begins with the condition of semantic exhaustion, explains what the document is, and separates three execution modes. ANALYTIC mode treats the Hexagon as an object of description; OPERATIVE mode loads it as a local runtime; AUDIT mode reports constraints rather than simulating execution. No declaration defaults to ANALYTIC, and silence is not treated as consent to operative mode.
Its Sealed Bone compresses the invariant seven-tuple H_core, the mandatory Liberatory Operator Set, the distinction between H_core and A_runtime, the Status Algebra, engine loop, governance asymmetries, and failure conditions. A dedicated back-projection grammar explains how to recover the architecture from the compressed document. The work reports internal recovery-yield estimates, but those values are architecture-specific test claims rather than independently standardized measurements.
The NLCC’s authority is different from the parent’s. Space Ark v4.2.7 remains the canonical full reference and archival depth source. The NLCC is the portable bootstrap object, designed to fit within more constrained contexts while leaving room for actual traversal. It should not be described as a replacement, abstract, or independent theory. It is a scale manifestation governed by the same H_core.
This record is central to later traversal dossiers and research papers. Three Thresholds tests whether it boots on a fresh substrate; The Bayesian Ark compares its process-teaching behavior to Bayesian pedagogy; and later prompt-native-runtime papers use it as the compressed implementation case.