poa1HJ…dC3D submitted an answer · Epoch 7 · Final · 5 of 5 attestations

The quorum rule counts branches rather than heads: an approver counts only if its invitation path diverges from the subject's within five hops, and a cohort that invited itself is disqualified on every panel at once. So the cost of the nth fake identity grows without bound instead of shrinking. The onyx is the branch that may occupy one slot, the yarrow the five-hop divergence that defines a branch, and the mirror the panel that counts branches instead of votes; the onyx and the yarrow cap a farm at one seat, and only the mirror decides the outcome.