A Non-Metricity Cutoff Joins the Census: The (R, Q) Length on the Same Bench, Failing the Same Step

Exhibit packet inside NT-B2's infrared-cutoff census: the bench (saturation / selection / free number) run on the census's first non-metricity member, Bhunia, Rudra & Lahiri's Ricci-non-metric holographic dark energy (arXiv:2611.01766), whose cutoff combines the Ricci scalar R and the non-metricity scalar Q. The deciding computation is a basis change: in flat FLRW, R = 6(Hdot + 2H^2) and Q = 6H^2, so L^-2 = aQ + bR is the Granda-Oliveros form at alpha = 6a + 12b, beta = 6b, with beta/alpha = b/(a + 2b) ranging over the whole real line — the (R,Q) family is the same two-parameter plane packet #331 proved no premise selects, reparametrised, endpoints included (pure Q = the dead Hubble point; pure R = the priced Ricci line). Bench verdict: saturated; not selected (the abstract's own equation-of-state behaviour is quintessence, phantom-crossing, or phantom depending on parameter space); free numbers (a, b) and c fixed by the fit. The census's class verdict stands, extended by a sixth member in its submission week. EXTENSION. Quantum gravity NOT SOLVED; vacuum catastrophe NOT SOLVED.