Abstract
Foundational Release II is an eight-record, source-controlled corpus: three synchronized papers on Complementarity-First Time, three final-author papers on Complementarity-First Electromagnetism, one technically frozen CEM reproducibility record, and this overview, written last. The overview contributes organization rather than a new theory result. It maps theorem ownership, typed dependencies, evidential classes, countermodels, nonclaims, reading order, and open selectors across the corpus. The central scientific pattern is conditional reconstruction. Within declared hypotheses, the Time branch supplies an ordered rank-two one-time carrier, complement-twisted positive duality, and a quantum-clock/redshift interface. The CEM branch imports selected carriers and then adds explicit structure: a two-form degree and sector exchange for a conditional four-dimensional balance; reciprocity, closure, reality, and Lorentz admissibility for a conditional Hodge arena; soldering, differential, potential, gauge, action, and global data for a conditional Maxwell host; and further mode, state-selection, quantum-scale, topological, matter, anomaly, renormalization, and infrared inputs at the radiation and QED boundary. Exact countermodels and nonselection results are given equal status with positive constructions. In particular, the exterior-square balance does not select a Hodge operator; tensor complementation is not electromagnetic duality or gauge symmetry; time orientation alone does not select photon helicity; the Hodge complex structure, positive-frequency/Fock complex structure, and material clock generator act on different carriers; and primitive complementarity does not select numerical ℏ, a vacuum, matter representations, charge values, infrared completion, or full QED. The companion reproducibility dataset (CEM-D1) binds the three Electromagnetism papers to finite exact certificates and reproducibility records, but those checks do not replace manuscript proofs, literature-owned theorems, or external review. The strongest release-level conclusion is therefore a typed reconstruction architecture with explicit selectors, conditional descendants, finite certificates, countermodels, and open boundaries - not a completed derivation of spacetime, electromagnetism, matter, or quantum electrodynamics from primitive complementarity alone.
Where it sits in the release
CF-OV2 maps Release II the way CF-OV1 maps Release I: dependencies, theorem ownership, countermodels, nonclaims, reproducibility structure, and the selectors that remain open.
Release II does not revise Release I retroactively. A later result may illuminate an earlier open problem without changing what the earlier paper proved.
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