The Player
Everything in the system is a Player — a person, a person with their agents, a Cell, a Cell of Cells, a community, a world — and every Player holds one card of the same shape.
The word does two jobs. In the Game it names a person who has chosen to play, and an artificial agent is never one. In the Operating System it names the unit that holds a card: whatever thing plans, commits, records and reports. A person is a Player; a person and their agents together are a Player+; a Cell is a Player; so is a supercell, a community, a world. Each keeps one record, plays the same moves, and differs only in scale.
This is what lets one pattern run from a kitchen table to a planet without a second system for the upper floors. Because the card shape is the same, The plan of the whole can be broadcast down as the upper half of every card and a season can be read back up; because the moves are the same, learning to run one Cell well is learning to help run a world. Remove it and the system needs one grammar for people, another for teams, another for institutions — which is the fragmentation it exists to end.
In practice a Player is named on the first card: name, players and roles this season, our home, the Cells beneath us if any. Every object it keeps — an activity, a milestone, a Quest, a commitment — carries An address, its place in the whole, held apart from who it is. A Player commits to another Player, never to a task, and the weight of a chain never rests on one person alone.
Also called: Person+ · Cell · Cell of Cells · community · world Stands on: Cell · Player+ · Sovereignty Opens onto: An address · The same card shape · The plan of the whole · Commitment In play: door · table · Home · beyond Sources: The LIØNSBERG Operating System (book, draft v0) §1 · Player and Person+ (wiki term pages, drafts, unreviewed) · the Player+ Modules Lexicon · The DNA of Heaven, Part X (seed text, second draft) — lionsberg.wiki page name: Player Open: The OS says Person+ where the Modules say Player+; the two are the same unit under two names.