Torso: the TWIST goes LIVE -- electrical watchdog chain, centered crosshair, coherent controls (task #57/#58)

The MadCat torso twists, the view turns with it, and targeting follows.
Three reconstruction fronts closed:

THE ELECTRICAL WATCHDOG CHAIN (why the torso never powered up):
- PowerWatcher::UpdateWatch reconstructed (@004b181c, the REAL registered
  Performance -- PTR @0050f5fc; Ghidra missed the fn start): the watchdog
  MIRRORS the watched subsystem's electrical level (+0x278), brownout
  downgrade when gen output <= minVoltage% x rated.  @004b1804 relabeled
  ResetToInitialState (slot 10) -- the old "Simulation" tag was wrong.
- The factory watcher-CONNECT pass reconstructed (vtable slot +0x38,
  @004aee2c/@004b1a40 byte-identical, recovered from raw exe bytes):
  watchedLink.Add(roster[watchedSubsystem]) on the master node.  Was the
  SubProxy::Start() no-op -- every watchdog sat at 0 forever.
- MinVoltageScale = 0.01 (a 10-byte x87 literal @0x4b1924; was 1.0f =
  permanent brownout) and PowerWatcher's Derivation chains its REAL base
  HeatWatcher (the HeatableSubsystem stand-in broke IsDerivedFrom for the
  whole Torso/Searchlight/ThermalSight family).
- KB correction swept: derivation tag 0x50e604 = HEATWATCHER (not
  "HeatSink"); the btl4gaug heat-widget gate now tests it via the
  BTIsHeatWatcher bridge.

THE CROSSHAIR (task #58 forensics, 6-agent workflow + live probes):
- The VIEW is TORSO-MOUNTED: jointtorso -> jointeye -> siteeyepoint in
  every twist-capable .SKL; the camera + canopy ride the same hinge
  subtree through HingeRenderable's live matrix-stack compose -- ALREADY
  WORKING in the port.  The crosshair stays screen-centered (center IS
  the boresight); the twist reads on the tape carets/compass/radar.
- The real bug was the port's gBTAimX = tan(twist) slew (the falsified
  "body-mounted view" model): the camera already carried the twist, so
  the crosshair counter-slid to hull-forward and the fire ray with it.
  Deleted; the pick ray inherits the twist from the yawing eye basis.
- Two instrumentation traps documented (chase-eye-as-default-camera,
  BT_FORCE_TORSO clobbering real joints -> the hook now only fills
  unresolved ones); an over-correcting explicit eye compose was added on
  those false readings and retired the same day.

CONTROLS + REPLICATION:
- Q/E spring-center on release (the axis is a twist-RATE demand; the old
  hold-deflection model drifted forever); X also zeroes the axis and
  pulses the authentic torso Recenter (@004b6918).  M cycles control
  mode via the real CycleControlMode body.
- Torso update-record DIRECTION fixed: engine truth is Write=serialize /
  Read=apply; @004b6a78 is the READ (was mislabeled Write) and the
  missing WRITE @004b6a1c recovered from raw disasm (recordLength 0x1C,
  twist/vel/rate at +0x10/14/18) -- kills the replicant's 0xCDCDCDCD
  -140-degree ghost twist.
- Marching-ghost desync: 4 Standing-case guards zero stale reverse
  cycleSpeed (negative cadence passed the <= ZeroSpeed stop gate).
- Kill credit rerouted to the OBSERVED killer (lastInflictingID ->
  killer's player link) -- kills count, target K/D populates.

KB: subsystems.md (watcher chain), multiplayer.md (record direction),
combat-damage.md + gauges-hud.md + cockpit-view.md (torso-mounted view
re-correction), decomp-reference.md (new addresses + tag fix),
open-questions.md (dead capability-roster loops 2-4, snapshot CD read).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -146,7 +146,8 @@ queue. `SeekVoltageGraph`'s 4 Seek* attrs are a cluster-child (not config-called
view only, via the recovered **dpl2d** 2D display-list API (recorders @0x487f34-0x488630; opcode
map + coordinate model in `phases/phase-02-dpl2d-reticle.md`; port: `game/reconstructed/dpl2d.cpp`).
Geometry is the ctor's hardcoded calibration (originX 0.35, originY 0.25, scaleY 0.5, right range
ladder 0..1200 m, bottom heading tape, center cross + dot; tick ladders via FUN_004cd938). The
ladder 0..1200 m, bottom TORSO-TWIST tape (NOT a heading tape — stale wording swept task #58; see
the tape entry below), center cross + dot; tick ladders via FUN_004cd938). The
range caret binds to the live target range (`BTSetHudTargetRange`, fed by mech4's targeting step).
**Weapon pips:** the build loop (part_014.c:5386) registers EVERY subsystem
`IsDerivedFrom(0x511830 = MechWeapon)` — lasers, PPCs AND missile launchers (BLH = 7 pips) — via
@@ -196,8 +197,14 @@ and every instrument is now live [T2]:**
around the hotbox point, +1/11.5 vertical (K=2.8145 baked projection; the port uses the live
per-axis projection) — switching to the left/right edge ARROW past ±1.6 or behind.
- Reticle state Off/On + `PrimaryHudOn` (mask 0x20) picks full HUD vs the "simple X" list;
the aim group translates by `reticlePosition` = the TORSO BORESIGHT (SetMatrix; NOT a free
cursor — see [[combat-damage]] Targeting: the stick twists the torso, no mouse-aim exists).
the aim group SetMatrix-translates by `Reticle::reticlePosition` (screen 1..+1 [T0]) every
frame — but **NOT by torso twist** (task #58 CORRECTION): the VIEW is torso-mounted (the eye
hangs off jointtorso → jointeye → siteeyepoint), so the crosshair stays SCREEN-CENTERED through
a twist — screen center IS the boresight; the twist reads on the bottom tape/compass/radar
wedge instead. The reticlePosition writer is un-exported (one xref binary-wide: the read-side
lookup part_014.c:5132); its coherent use is the FIXED-torso free-aim channel (mech+0x36c
[T4]). The old "translates to the torso boresight" wording here was the falsified
body-mounted-view model — see [[combat-damage]] Targeting for the full re-correction.
This recovery also CONFIRMS the HUD attr-table ids 4/5/6/8/0xA/0xB/0xC/0xD name↔use pairings
(hud.hpp had flagged them uncertain). Deferred: PNAME1-8.bgf 3D marker chain. (The canopy shell
is now authentic and shows by default — see [[cockpit-view]]; `BT_HIDE_COCKPIT=1` hides it.)