Digital Ontological Decay: Persistent World Asset Corruption during Large-Scale Cross-Platform Engine Migrations

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: This dossier constitutesa forensic analysis of the catastrophic "Persistent EntityStreaming" (PES) integration event of March 2023, knowncolloquially within the Star Citizen simulation as "TheGreat 3.18 Collapse." This event represents a critical casestudy in Digital Ontological Decay—a phenomenon wherethe fundamental rules of existence within a virtual envi-ronment degrade during architectural migration. The re-search documents the failure of the Entity Graph to main-tain object permanence, the emergence of "unstowed"player states, and the socio-economic collapse of the Stan-ton system. This document serves as a warning protocolfor future distributed server meshing implementations.