Publication of the Carina closing account
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Publication of the Carina closing account was the release, in 11364, of the consolidated accounts for the Eta Carinae intervention. The Office of Accounts of the Carina Recovery Authority recorded total expenditure of US$24 septillion in constant 2026 dollars and 82.6 solar masses of primary material in controlled custody, against 62 expected under the fallback plan.
The totals excluded the surviving stellar remnant and the supernova cancellation insurance benefits, which appeared in separate schedules once the Carina cancellation claims were settled in 11361. Viewing stations received their cancellation benefits after the Authority verified the stable remnant; ticket holders were offered reconstructed explosions as substitute performances.
Audit and correction
The charter barred auditors from reviewing campaigns in which they held claims, so one auditor, who held a junior series B certificate, reviewed only the envelope sections. The audit lasted 26 months.
Collectors recovered the outflow of a burn-decretion torus, a circulating ring of hydrogen-burning plasma. The largest correction concerned the 10718 outflow excursion, when the Third Recovery Line lost contact and its stream was diverted to a reserve route. The reserve stations and the line both recorded the diverted lots. By 11330 the duplicates reached 0.37 solar masses, and removing them reduced the 82.97 solar masses implied by the collector registers to 82.6.
Price basis
The expenditure was converted into constant 2026 dollars with a chain-linked price index. The index had no observed price before 10620, so the Office carried forward an Earth consumption basket of food, fuel and clothing, with no cold storage or braking capacity, and linked it to the hydrogen price of 10620.
Tesse Drost, a Valuation Panel member, filed a minority note arguing that the link should have been made in 10480. On that link the total would have been US$20.9 septillion, US$3.1 septillion below the published figure. The Office replied that the index had been applied as published.
Claims register
The Authority financed its campaigns by issuing claims on recovered material. Series A certificates, issued from 10480, were paid from hydrogen-rich deliveries. Series B named particular core campaigns and paid only when their material reached verified custody. Series B-2, issued in 10681 on a lifting rate withdrawn in 10683, left its junior tranche unpaid.
Among the initial subscribers to series A was a Carina branch of Marta van Dalen, which held 1,140 certificates paid in full in 10489. The parent, who had designed a two-giraffe tandem vehicle, had merged in 2029, so the Office asked whether her other branches should share the claim under the divided-endowment rule. No other branch had subscribed or asked for a share, and the Office held that the rule governed only a parent’s inherited claim.
Reinterpretation
The historian A. Neris kept the Authority’s description as mass recovery, but argued that the fallback plan’s 62 solar masses had been calculated for a star that exploded. On that reading the excess of 20.6 solar masses over the expected 62 records the value of prevention.
Neris also classed about 1.8 solar masses held in warm intermediate stores, ahead of the cold gas vaults, as material in transit, noting that their cooling contracts were unsigned when the account closed. On that measure custody was 80.8 solar masses.
See also
- Eta Carinae intervention
- Marta van Dalen
- Supernova cancellation insurance
- Carina cancellation claims
- Third Recovery Line outflow excursion
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