V129 LONGER PATIENCE TEST — 8500 STEPS

Dynamics: optimized V124 rules unchanged.
N0: 96
Steps: 8500

Final population: 456
Births: 360
Final communities: 18
Maximum generation: 2
Generation counts: {'0': 4, '1': 10, '2': 4}
Generation birth members: [133, 193, 34, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]
G2 -> G3 events: 0

Universal viability: True
Minimum energy: 0.301384047904
Minimum reserve: 0.307184343209
Maximum fatigue: 0.587662073286

Final coherence: 0.882560936081
Environment resource: 0.678252775476
Environment regeneration: 0.619390848373
Environment stress: 0.245660959988
Mean agency experience: 1.345997886046

Last bud event: {'step': 7592, 'parent_community': 2, 'daughter_community': 17, 'parent_generation': 0, 'daughter_generation': 1, 'founders': 5, 'parent_size_after': 32, 'daughter_size_initial': 5, 'population': 446}
Last consolidation event: {'step': 7592, 'community': 10, 'parent': 2, 'size': 21, 'age': 2547, 'autonomy': 0.5295605479256746, 'self': 0.4453027363472839, 'agency': 0.4791970963260479, 'coherence': 0.8778030712434273, 'min_energy': 0.362562278274944, 'min_reserve': 0.4096482461533071, 'max_fatigue': 0.4221785687056604, 'internal_independence': 1.0}

Interpretation:
No new births or deeper-generation events occurred after the previously verified 7850-step state. The population remained 456 through step 8500 while ecology recovered and agency continued to accumulate. This is a plateau, not a collapse.
