Dusk treats silence as a signal, not a gap to be patched.
A committee can be present, reachable, even responsive...and still fail to move the state if quorum never actually forms. No fallback signer steps in. No intent gets inferred. On Dusk, abstention isn’t neutral. It blocks the path.
From the outside, the network keeps pace. Blocks advance. Nodes answer.
Inside that one transition, nothing resolves because agreement never fully landed inside the window.
Progress continues everywhere else.
That absence just stays put.
