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Bifrost terminal-market reopening requires authoritative catalogue recovery

Status: Superseded by ADR-0030.

PR #1234 implemented this design: a CLOSED or SETTLED tick deleted the authoritative catalogue/index relationship, retained a separate ownership tombstone, and required exact-market recovery before a later non-terminal book could be served. SETTLED→non-terminal remained gated on the existing financial reversal.

The design was superseded after review showed that terminal deletion manufactured the recovery problem and introduced a second lifecycle subsystem. ADR-0030 retains the complete authoritative relationship while status alone controls visibility. Tombstones are compatibility input for one release only and are never created by ordinary lifecycle traffic.