Thirty years reconciling cash drawers on the Idaho floor teaches one rule: every deviation must be logged before launch. The same audit discipline scales to habitats.
Core Protocols
Daily drawer reconciliation at 99.95% accuracy — modeled on 14-week colony cycles
Shackle and seal audits per OSHA 1926.251, applied to airlock pressure logs
Zero tolerance for unsecured variance; every chip, every oxygen credit tracked
Result: 99.8% procedural fidelity, zero unauthorized transfers
Model railroading proves the point: when every switch and signal follows the timetable, the entire layout runs without a single derailment. Mars demands identical precision.