Significantly >400.

...just realised my character counter doesn’t count spaces as characters for some /inexplicable/ reason. got to find a new one!

can’t edit right now; will get to in an hour or two

It’s not too bad. If you remove some of the extraneous text, you can get it under 400 characters. You’ll probably want to add a default, since every Machinist always inhabits exactly one Megasystem, so here’s a suggestion below that’s roughly 334 characters:

The Great Machine contains three Megasystems: ‘’‘System of Motion’‘’,  ‘’‘System of Dwelling’‘, and ‘’‘System of Control’‘.

Each Machinist always inhabits exactly one Megasystem, which is publicly tracked and defaults to “System of Dwelling”. As a daily action called Moving, a Machinist may change which Megasystem they’re inhabiting.

the default state is implied by the appendix; see the comments field for an explanation!

So it is…sorry about that. People in previous dynasties had made a big fuss about default values, so I’ve always tried to keep an explicit one in mind for every gamestate variable.

In any case, the point still stands that you can trim this down to be under 400 characters by simply removing the “A.K.A.” parts.

edited for actual brevity!

May be worth considering a brevity carve out for the emperor.