Galactic dust polarization has habits the ISM models did not predict: EE/BB near 2 where turbulence expected parity, systematically positive TE, and frequency decorrelation that makes the 353 GHz sky an imperfect template for the channels where primordial B-modes are hunted. The tensor program's precision now exceeds its foreground theory, and decorrelation at allowed levels can counterfeit the r-signals LiteBIRD and CMB-S4 are built to find.
The cleaning strategy assumes dust is statistically tame: one emitting population, a smoothly varying spectral law, field structure reducible to tuned turbulence. The measured organization, ratio, correlation, and decorrelation alike, keeps exceeding that tameness, because the magnetic architecture generating it is an input the standard picture never explains.
SCT expects the dust to misbehave in exactly this direction, because the field threading it is not turbulence-grown but inherited: magnetic configurations carried in pre-collision matter (P25, the premise's verbatim inheritance), recycled through the cascade (P28), and organized along deposition architecture (P33, P34). Filament-aligned dust in an ordered inherited field produces the measured grammar naturally, E-over-B excess from field-aligned filamentary emission, positive TE from the same alignment, and frequency decorrelation from multiple inherited field layers stacked along sightlines, each layer's grain population emitting with its own spectral weight. The dust statistics are a tomograph of inherited flux topology, which is why turbulence tuned from scratch keeps approaching and never landing.
For the B-mode program the practical reading is the same caution registered in the radio-loop entry: foreground architecture with large-scale phase coherence defeats template cleaning calibrated on statistical assumptions, so loop-and-layer-aware analysis is a precondition for any future r claim, and SCT's own tensor floor (r below 10⁻⁵) means every apparent detection must survive precisely this foreground class. The inherited-field framework runs through Paper 1 (P25, P28) with the deposition architecture of Papers 4 and 8.
No new premises: the same inheritance that magnetizes the voids and draws the radio loops writes the dust's polarization grammar.
The architecture is measurable: starlight-polarization tomography with Gaia distances plus multi-frequency dust mapping resolving the sightline layers and finding the EE/BB ratio, TE sign, and decorrelation fully reproduced by standard turbulence-grown field models, no inherited large-scale ordering required, would remove the heirloom reading. The B-mode stake is shared: a confirmed primordial detection at r above 0.01 surviving layer-aware cleaning falsifies SCT's tensor floor regardless of the dust.