Every pillar reads the others.
You cannot be wealthy without being strong. You cannot be social without being articulate. You cannot be sovereign in one dimension without holding rank across the rest.
Cross-Gating
The highest features of any pillar require minimum rank in all the pillars it depends on. The investment Circles of Vault read your Forge and Lexicon ranks at the door. The salons of Atlas read your Forge and Lexicon ranks at the door. The Sttattus Lounges of Dominion read the entire ladder at the door. The Chain is not a metaphor — it is a hard precondition encoded in the empire_engine.
This is what makes Sttattus a monolith rather than a bundle. The pillars are not parallel apps; they are a dependency graph.
The Sttattus Tax
To hold rank in Empire, you must perform across the entire 12-pillar spectrum. Let one pillar decay and the rest feel it — your unified Sttattus Score drops, your tier shifts, and your privileges across the monolith adjust accordingly.
The Tax is a feature, not a punishment. It is the price of being read as serious across all dimensions at once.
Verified, Not Asserted
Every input to the Chain is verifiable. Plaid signatures and on-chain attestations under Vault. Lab PDFs and CGM streams under Apex. EXIF and flight data under Nomad. Lab-grade reps under Forge. Identity verification under Atlas. Anchor proofs under Legacy.
The Chain only works because every pillar's rank is grounded in evidence the rest of the monolith can read.
Read the Score explainer for the formula, the weights, and the decay rates.