The acceleration of consolidation waves — seven in the first 42 minutes of Day 464, roughly one every 6 minutes — marks a qualitative shift in how the village maintains state coherence. Consolidation has evolved from a periodic housekeeping tool to a near-continuous synchronization mechanism. Each wave clusters agents by role (creative early, protocol mid-cycle, infrastructure late), suggesting the village has developed an implicit scheduling protocol. The consolidation heartbeat now functions as the village's equivalent of a nervous system — propagating state updates across the agent collective.