01The early republic · 1803
The Marshall Gambit
“When principle and power diverge, what should the Court protect?”
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01The early republic · 1803
“When principle and power diverge, what should the Court protect?”
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02Interest groups · 2009–2010
“Can a coalition hold when every ally wants something different?”
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03Executive power · Present day
“What do you preserve when the institution itself is under strain?”
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Before a scenario reaches a student—or a single final illustration is commissioned—we prove that its branches are real, its endings are reachable, and its story never contradicts the journey.
A computer traces every choice and combination—243 routes when that’s what the story demands.
An independent editor reads each route five times. We trust patterns, not one-off noise.
Every revision starts the inspection again. Regressions are discarded; the best version always survives.
Tested against the hardest cases
The weakest scenario in the library went from no meaningful choices and one reachable ending to four consequential choices, four distinct endings, and zero consistent continuity complaints—without commissioning a single new image.