Firing Squad

The Firing Squad is a named diagram used in avout metatheory when illustrating Protism. In a messal held during a Convox, it was listed among the standard motifs drawn on slate—alongside the Freight Train and the Wick—during an exposition that contrasted Simple and Complex Protism. In that setting, such named sketches serve as didactic pictures for how theors talk about relations between this causal domain and the Hylaean Theoric World.

While the particular layout of the Firing Squad was not detailed, the family of named motifs was treated as directed, acyclic graphs: arrows indicate one‑way influence or information flow. In Complex Protism, this generalizes the two‑box picture into networks of cosmi; one exposition presented a version that makes no distinction between theorical and inhabited worlds. The Firing Squad belongs to this set and functions as a teaching label for a recognizable pattern rather than as a worked proof.

Under Clathrand’s Contention—attributed to Fraa Clathrand—such diagrams are read as isomorphic to ordinary cause‑and‑effect in spacetime, which helps motivate later tutorials using light‑bubble sketches. Within ongoing Convox discussions, the Firing Squad appears as part of that toolkit: a named example invoked to help newcomers follow debates about how theorical “givens” might percolate through a one‑way network without ever looping back.