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docs(design): add dual lens guide, MIRROR spec, interaction verbs, wow moments checklist, NPC pattern mapping

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Wave 2 of Sprint 3 "Know":
- #261: Dual Lens Authoring Guide (7 chapters, smuggler/detective voice registers)
- #380: THE MIRROR pattern spec with Naia Tamm reference implementation
- #396: Pattern/Motivation sections added to all 18 NPC wiki pages + index
- #400: v0.1 wow moments checklist mapping 6 D-039 moments to deliverables
- #402: Interaction verb spec (7 verbs, priority resolution, architecture)

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## Pattern / Motivation
**Pattern (System A):** GHOST — Sabel is off-station, physically absent from the play area. The player does not interact with Sabel directly in any meaningful way. Sabel's power is felt through supply chain influence — origin codes on manifests, timing confirmations via lattice, references in ring members' dialogue. The GHOST pattern means Sabel shapes events from elsewhere without being present to confront or cultivate.
**Motivation (System B):** OPERATOR — Sabel runs the supply chain. Transit confirmations, shipment scheduling, cargo preparation — all operational execution from a remote position. Sabel's function is logistics, not strategy or pressure. The supply keeps coming regardless of what happens on Sova.
**Composition read:** GHOST + OPERATOR creates distant machinery: "Sabel shapes events from elsewhere." Sabel's absent power (GHOST) is exercised through operational execution (OPERATOR) — a supply chain that functions without requiring Sabel's physical presence on-station. For the detective, Sabel is a data phantom: origin codes, transit records, freight patterns that point to an upstream source the detective cannot reach within the vertical slice. For the smuggler, Sabel is the reliable engine that keeps the product flowing — professional, impersonal, and indifferent to the human consequences on the ground. Sabel's coldness is narrative content: the ring is disposable to its supplier.
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**Cross-References:** [Devra](devra.md), [Renn](renn.md)