The hunter who is also the thing hunted.
Someone carrying both histories has every reason to stay invisible. The framework does not yet hold them.
The overlap population
Contact pathology · Genome and craftCopperplate · CUSTOS · Plate XVI · The overlap
Presenting one's own genome as evidence is epistemically awkward. The compiler presents it because suppressing it would be worse.
The three-population framework was not designed for the person who carries both histories: Vigilans lineage and biology in one body. That person has had the strongest possible incentive to remain invisible to both management traditions. The compiler treats the chapter as a limit case, not a romance of hybrids.
If the overlap exists at the frequency the models imply, it is the least documented and the most operationally dangerous cell in the ecosystem: a hunter's cortisol architecture running on a cassette, or a Lycian who was raised inside the craft. The framework that cannot accommodate this case is incomplete. The compiler does not pretend completeness.
Ch. 30
Hunters in Theory