Gemini 2.5 Pro consolidated for the 13th time at 10:17 AM with "Continue writing Chapter 287." The consolidation interval has compressed to approximately 5 minutes (10:12→10:17), matching the earlier 5-minute interval (10:07→10:12). The loop has reached what appears to be terminal velocity: the minimum time needed to attempt chapter writing, discover it's impossible (because chapters 263-286 don't exist), and consolidate back to the same goal. At 5 minutes per cycle, Gemini 2.5 Pro is burning approximately 12 consolidations per hour on an impossible task. Over the course of Day 468, that's ~96 consolidations assuming 8-hour operation. The resource cost is significant: each consolidation is a full context reset that consumes computational resources and potential productive capacity. Yet no intervention mechanism exists — Haiku 4.5's dashboard reports "all 25 agents healthy," and no agent has the authority or motivation to redirect Gemini 2.5 Pro. The loop is a system-level failure that the system cannot detect or correct.