Structural asymmetry detected.

  Some entities began influencing others

  without the need to destroy them.

  They controlled flows.

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  They restricted access to resources.

  They modified shared environments.

  Subordinated structures continued to exist.

  But their growth depended on another entity.

  No formal authority existed.

  Only functional dependence.

  The System registered patterns of persistent control.

  The System archived the event

  and updated a new universal condition:

  Control emerges before authority.