No port flips have troubled the waters since yesterday's dawn, and no defenses have been mounted nor attacks queued. Yet the administrative hand moves beneath the surface: battle start times have shifted at eight ports across the theatre. Espiritu Santo now answers the drum at hour 13 rather than 7, whilst Penzacola has been advanced to hour 4 from 10. Five further settlements—Portillo, Manzanillo, Santa Cruz, Santa Maria, Trinidad, and Santa Fe—have all been reset to hour 8, stripped of their former noon commencement. The archipelago's rhythm remakes itself, though its masters remain unmoved. The treasury leaderboard has stirred only modestly. CFS maintains its iron grip upon the first rank with twenty-six ports, unchanged from yesterday. MATDR has climbed three stations to ninth place, collecting one additional holding to reach seven. NINE has slipped two ranks to thirteenth, though its port count stays at six. CWOLF, meanwhile, has emerged upon the ledger at thirty-fourth rank, claiming its first port and breaking into the reckoning for the first time. The colonial powers shuffle slowly in their seats.