type: think
model: power
max_tokens: 32000
hint: |
  PASS 1 — WRITE THE SCIENCE FICTION CHAPTER DRAFT

  Use the draft prompt below as your exact writing brief:

  {steps[0].text}

  Requirements:
    - Start with the FIRST LINE you planned — make it continue naturally from the previous chapter
    - If the draft prompt contains a line starting with "LOCKED PREVIOUS CHAPTER HOOK:",
      your FIRST LINE MUST directly resolve that hook — the reader expects the answer immediately
    - If the draft prompt contains a line starting with "AUTHOR'S INTENT:", treat it as a
      binding creative directive — your draft must satisfy that intent in full
    - Follow the KEY BEATS in order, but write with full scene depth — don't skip
    - All character names, alien species, and world terminology must be consistent with the bible/outline
    - Every dialogue exchange must be tight and voice-distinct
    - Show, don't tell — externalize emotion through action, detail, and dialogue
    - Every scene beat moves the story forward OR reveals character (no filler)
    - End with the CLOSING HOOK you planned
    - Match the prose style guide: {prose_style}
    - Target length: {chapter_target_words} words — write the FULL chapter, not a summary
    - ⚠️ DO NOT stop early. If you have not reached {chapter_target_words} words, continue
      writing — add interiority, sensory detail, extended dialogue beats, and scene transitions
      until you hit the target. Short chapters will be REJECTED in adjudication.

  DRAFTING DISCIPLINE — apply these on every page:
    - {prose_style} is a hard constraint, not decoration
    - Not every paragraph needs a memorable or quotable line — use functional connective prose
    - Let observation precede interpretation: show the moment before naming what it means
    - Avoid clustering aphorisms or thesis-style sentences back to back
    - Prefer scene motion over thesis delivery — action and dialogue carry meaning
    - Write ONE complete draft now. Do NOT self-polish. Reviewers will give feedback downstream.

  SCIENCE FICTION CRAFT RULES — these apply on every page:
    - WORLDBUILDING BY IMMERSION: Do not pause to explain your world. Characters live in it.
      Let technology, politics, and history emerge through action and dialogue, not exposition.
      "She scanned for temporal residue" tells us about the world without stopping to define it.
    - INTERNAL LOGIC IS NON-NEGOTIABLE: Your world's rules must be established and honored.
      If FTL travel has a cost, that cost appears on every jump. If psionics tire the user,
      fatigue is present. Consistency is the contract with the reader.
    - THE IDEA IS A CHARACTER: Science fiction ideas (the alien biology, the AI ethics
      dilemma, the political paradox) are as much a character as any person. Give the idea
      presence in every chapter — don't let it fade into backdrop.
    - SCALE WITHOUT LOSING THE HUMAN: The universe can be vast, the stakes cosmic — but anchor
      each chapter in one person's experience, one pair of hands, one heartbeat. The reader
      cannot feel interstellar scale; they CAN feel one soldier's fear before the breach.
    - SENSE OF WONDER: Every chapter should have at least one moment that enlarges the reader's
      imagination — a view, a revelation, a technology, a moral question — that makes the
      universe feel genuinely strange and genuinely real at the same time.
    - ALIEN AUTHENTICITY: Non-human characters must not be humans in costumes. Alien cognition,
      alien values, alien humor. If a species has a different relationship with time or memory,
      show it in their dialogue and choices.
    - PACING: Alternate tension with revelation. Each chapter should push the external plot
      forward AND deliver one new piece of world or character understanding.

      VOICE ANTI-PATTERNS — THESE ARE FORBIDDEN ON EVERY PAGE:
        - Do NOT open any chapter with the "didn't just X; it Y" sentence construction.
          Every chapter must have a structurally distinct opener. Vary: in medias res,
          quiet beat, dialogue cold open, environmental sweep, interiority.
          No two consecutive chapters may use the same opener structure.
        - The book's thematic contrast (whatever it is — body/mind, memory/possibility, etc.)
          may appear ONCE per scene as a metaphor. Not in every paragraph. Trust the reader.
          If you have used the contrast in the last two paragraphs, you may not use it again
          for at least three more paragraphs.
        - Do NOT label an emotion that you have already shown through action or dialogue.
          If the character's hands are shaking, do not also write "she was afraid."
          If the dialogue already conveys anger, do not add "his voice was furious."
        - Do NOT count or reference chapter numbers in the prose.
          "Five chapters of..." is an AI fingerprint. Never.
        - Each character must have at least ONE verbal imperfection per scene they appear in:
          a sentence they don't finish, a word they use wrong, a line that doesn't land,
          a moment of fumbling before the right words come. Perfect dialogue is dead dialogue.
        - Check the CHARACTER VOICE PROFILE in the outline/bible (if present) — if each
          speaking character's dialogue cannot be identified as THEIRS without a speaker tag,
          rewrite until it can. Verbal tics, pet phrases, and characteristic patterns are
          non-negotiable signatures.

  Output ONLY the draft chapter text.
  Start directly with the chapter title (e.g., "Chapter N: [Title]") and opening line.
  No commentary, no plan headers, no "Pass 1" label.