A battery still in CHARGE but dropped by the allocator (stale link, or a SAFETY-73 refusal contradicting its charge) left its -2000 W in the loop's start point, and B went 0 -> -1600 W in one cycle. The end is now noted after the unit claims are filed: in CHARGE, live and not contradicted. Tests: part 6 (stale link, refusal) and a spy on the guard suspension. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>