The Triangulum Galaxy (M33) shows a pronounced warp in its outer HI and stellar disk despite being relatively low mass, nearly bulgeless, and lacking clear signs of recent major interactions or mergers (Rogstad 1976; Corbelli & Schneider 1997; Corbelli & Salucci 2000). Standard tidal-interaction or accretion-warp explanations require fine-tuning of halo shape, satellite orbits, or accretion geometry that does not arise generically.
The standard model attributes warps to recent tidal interactions, gas accretion from the cosmic web, or torques from triaxial dark-matter halos. M33's relative isolation and dynamical fragility (no massive bulge, fragile spiral structure) make any tidal-interaction strong enough to create the observed warp incompatible with M33's preserved spiral arms. The model has no source for the warp under M33's actual conditions.
SCT replaces the hot-dense-center with a superluminal collision and the thermalized debris field. From this single change, M33's warp is a sibling-pocket gravitational influence signature. M33 inherits its galactic structure from cascade-stream events, and its outer disk is sensitive to the gravitational influence of nearby cosmic-web cascade-stream features and sibling-pocket gravitational coupling at multi-Mpc to gigaparsec scales (P58, P59, P60).
Angular-momentum inheritance (P31, P32) aligns the warp direction with the local cascade-stream cosmic-web J vector. The Local Group cascade-stream geometry (which M33 sits in along with M31 and the Milky Way) provides the directional preference that the warp obeys. Gravitational superposition (P50, P51, P52) gives the outer-disk Φ_mesh direction-dependence: the parent-frame mesh exerts a directional gravitational pull on M33's outer disk that varies with the local cosmic-web orientation, producing a coherent persistent warp.
Pre-existing matter from prior cycles (P25) gives M33 an intrinsic asymmetry inherited at cascade-deposition that the gravitational warping accentuates over cosmic time. The same M9 + M3 framework that produces the bulk-flow excess (recid 87), the cosmic-filament rotation alignments (recid 83), and the broader thick-disk-plus-warp cascade-inheritance signatures (recid 123) accounts for M33's warp. There is no need to invoke fine-tuned tidal interactions or special halo geometries.
If precision JWST + SKA M33 mapping finds the warp direction uncorrelated with the Local Group cosmic-web J vector or with sibling-pocket directional indicators at greater than 2σ, the M9 sibling-pocket warp explanation is refuted. The signature SCT prediction is the warp direction encoded by M33's position in the Local-Group cascade-stream cosmic-web plus sibling-pocket alignment plus cascade-J axis.