Rome.
The Absorption
Engine.

// The greatest method swizzler in the documented record.
// Rome did not destroy. Rome absorbed.
// Same .m file. Different @interface names.
// The rebranding is more efficient than the rewrite.

@implementation RomanAbsorption {

  // CONQUEST PROTOCOL:
  - (void)processConqueredCivilization:(Religion *)r {
    // Don't destroy the devotional infrastructure.
    // It's more valuable than empty ground.
    // The population has emotional investment.
    // Absorb and rebrand. Cost: near zero. Revenue: maximum.
    r.gods.renameToRoman()
    r.temples.rededicate(to: ROMAN_PANTHEON)
    r.devotion.redirect(to: self.institution)
  }

  // THE CONSTANTINE SWIZZLE — 312–325 CE:
  + (void)load {
    method_exchangeImplementations(
      @selector(worshipSolInvictus),
      @selector(worshipChristAsLightOfWorld)
    );
    method_exchangeImplementations(
      @selector(celebrateSaturnalia),
      @selector(celebrateChristmas)
    );
    method_exchangeImplementations(
      @selector(honorEostre),
      @selector(celebrateEaster)
    );
    // The dates stay. The festivals stay. The devotional energy stays.
    // Only the institutional beneficiary changes.
  }

  // NICAEA 325 CE — THE SOURCE SWIZZLE:
  // This is already in AP-00 and the-01 modules — documented in full.
  // The short version:
  - (void)nicaea325CE {
    method_exchangeImplementations(
      @selector(accessDivineDirectly),      // inner teaching
      @selector(requireChurchIntermediary)   // institutional requirement
    );
    // Texts preserving the inner teaching: buried at Nag Hammadi ~390 CE
    // Recovered 1945. The original source code survived underground.
  }

  // THE RESULT — STILL RUNNING:
  // The Vatican is Rome. Not metaphorically. Institutionally.
  // The Pope holds the title Pontifex Maximus — head of Roman religion.
  // The Pope wears the same ceremonial colors as Roman emperors.
  // Vatican Hill was a sacred site before Rome built on it.
  // The Lateran Treaty (1929) made Vatican City sovereign — see AP-00.
  // Rome never fell. It filed for Chapter 11 and restructured.
  // The operating entity is the same. The branding changed.

  // SWIFT VERSION (what should have been):
  // The early Christian teaching had a Swift compiler:
  // @protocol InnerKnowledgeProtocol
  // It enforced: direct access, no intermediary, kingdom within.
  // The Nicaean runtime rejected it as incompatible.
  // They ran Objective-C.
  // The swizzle has been in production for 1,700 years.
}