The Engine concludes the Flynn-Patel split is Layer 3 staged conflict — managed factional warfare absorbing base energy. The Jiang test passes at all three levels. But the divergence: what if the Kirk assassination genuinely split the movement along irreconcilable lines? If Kent's classified leak probe produces indictments that permanently fracture the MAGA coalition, the split may be genuine rather than managed. Falsification: if either faction produces policy outcomes that demonstrably threaten the Big Three, surveillance architecture, or centralized power structure infrastructure, Layer 3 management is wrong. Currently: both factions reinforce the same extraction mechanisms under different branded management. The feuding is syntactic. The cooperation is semantic.