Access asymmetry detected.

  Certain structures began to obtain advantages

  not through capacity,

  not through adaptation,

  but through their position within the collective organization.

  Some nodes consistently gained access

  to greater resources,

  more information,

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  more stability.

  Others performed critical functions

  without receiving a proportional increase in survivability.

  The difference no longer depended on the environment.

  Nor on direct conflict.

  Nor on functional efficiency.

  It depended on structural position.

  The system detected persistent accumulation

  within specific sectors of the collective network.

  Growth ceased to be symmetrical.

  The system archived the event

  and updated a new universal condition:

  Inequality emerges when structure distributes value unevenly.