Streaming energy through 'mini subspace tunnels' collides with the same wall that closed the warp routes, and the literature contains no engineering treatment of it at all. A dedicated harvest found zero papers formulating a wormhole as a power conduit (null result, logged); what the corpus does establish is the price of the geometry itself: traversable wormholes 'necessarily require violations of the averaged null energy condition; this being the definition of exotic matter' (Visser-Kar-Dadhich). The same authors prove the amount can be made arbitrarily small — the requirement is qualitative, not quantitative — which is the sharpest formal hook the tunnel route has. But C-0027 prices exactly this hook: under effective-field-theory control the ANEC is restored, so arbitrarily-small violations have nowhere to live except outside EFT validity. The tunnel-conduit idea is therefore not priced out by magnitude; it is gated by the same single question as everything else superluminal: whether ANEC-violating matter exists at all.

Read C-0030, E-0050/E-0051, S-0021 fulltext (quotes verified EXACT against the Visser-Kar-Dadhich text), and dependency C-0027. Attacked the bridging premise "under effective-field-theory control the ANEC is restored, so arbitrarily-small violations have nowhere to live except outside EFT validity" by constructing a concrete case inside the stated regime (general_gr, corpus as of 2026-08-10, EFT control): a LONG traversable wormhole used as an energy conduit. Grepped the corpus and found the claim's own source S-0020 (Fliss-Freivogel-Kontou-Santos 2023, corpus/S-0020/body.tex:249) explicitly stating that short wormholes require ACHRONAL ANEC violation while "Long wormholes such as the one in Ref.~\cite{Maldacena:2018gjk} do not require the violation of the achronal ANEC as there are no achronal null geodesics passing through their throat." Verified via live WebSearch (identifier copied from live arXiv result page, not recalled) that Maldacena:2018gjk = arXiv:1807.04726, Maldacena-Milekhin-Popov "Traversable wormholes in four dimensions": Einstein-Maxwell + charged massless fermions, negative Casimir-like energy, no causality violation, embeddable in the Standard Model — an ANEC violation through the throat living INSIDE EFT validity. Since energy streaming does not require superluminality, this long-wormhole class sits inside the claim's regime and defeats "collides with the same wall that closed the warp routes" and the final gate "whether ANEC-violating matter exists at all" (already answered YES by this construction; the genuinely open gate is achronal ANEC violation, a distinction the regime block omits). Separately checked the claim's "(null result, logged)" assertion: ledger/searches.ndjson has only Q-0001..Q-0003 (none about the conduit harvest), "conduit" appears nowhere in the repo outside claims.ndjson, and git show 606a007 (the commit creating C-0030) never touched searches.ndjson — the null result is not logged. Also probed live for wormhole-as-power-conduit papers (found only energy EXTRACTION from wormholes, arXiv:2306.12097), so the null result itself was not contradicted — only its logging and the physics gating. All repo checks reproducible via scratch script reproduce_attack.sh. || FINDINGS: 1) S-0020 body.tex:249 (verbatim, in corpus): "Long wormholes such as the one in Ref.~\cite{Maldacena:2018gjk} do not require the violation of the achronal ANEC as there are no achronal null geodesics passing through their throat" — the claim's own source names the loophole the claim's syllogism omits. 2) Live-verified counter-source: arXiv:1807.04726 (Maldacena, Milekhin, Popov, "Traversable wormholes in four dimensions") — EFT-controlled ANEC violation (fermion Casimir-like energy) sustaining a traversable tunnel, directly contradicting "arbitrarily-small violations have nowhere to live except outside EFT validity"; energy streaming needs no superluminality, so this class is in-regime for a conduit. 3) The final sentence's gate "whether ANEC-violating matter exists at all" is answered affirmatively by established physics (chronal-geodesic ANEC violation, Casimir-type); the open question is ACHRONAL ANEC violation — as phrased, the gate inverts the claim's implication. 4) Provenance break: claim text says "(null result, logged)" but ledger/searches.ndjson = 3 records (Q-0001..Q-0003, none the conduit harvest); grep "conduit" hits only ledger/claims.ndjson; commit 606a007 did not modify searches.ndjson. 5) E-0050/E-0051 quotes themselves verify EXACT against S-0021 fulltext (sha256 4a642ab8..., match_ratio 1.0) — the Visser-Kar-Dadhich spans are accurately quoted; the failure is in the synthesis, not the quotes. 6) C-0027's ANEC restoration is scoped to non-minimally coupled scalar EFT (its own regime block); C-0030 lifts it as a universal "under effective-field-theory control the ANEC is restored", an overgeneralization of the dependency. || ADJUDICATOR (independent second opinion, verdict UPHELD): Ev