Characterise sky sub-object 0: sparse, with duplicated entries

Range measured: level 0, sky region +365760..+388880, 23120 bytes, read as
2890 records of 8. The matched-control autocorrelation puts the peak at
stride 8 (0.217 real, 0.000 shuffled), so 8 is the unit to describe.

Composition: 1185 distinct u32 values across 5780 words; a mean of 6.99 of
every 8 bytes are zero, so most records are sparse; and 549 of 2890 adjacent
pairs, 19%, are exact duplicates of each other. The most common 8-byte record
appears 283 times and is d7d7d780 d7d7d780 -- a 4-byte value stored twice.
Others follow the same shape: 00051980 00051980, 00082580 00082580.

Not decoded. Sparsity with repeated entries is what a keyframe or index table
looks like, but nothing here establishes that, and the duplicated-4-byte shape
may just as easily be two adjacent records sharing a value.

Recorded as a characterisation with its range rather than a finding, because
that is what it is. The useful part is that the next attempt does not have to
re-derive the composition to know whether a decode is plausible.
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**Level 2's header remains genuinely different**: its count field at `+0x0c`
reads 196,617 and is unusable, while every other level yields a plausible
count. Whatever makes it different is still unexplained.
### Sky sub-object 0: sparse, with duplicated entries
**Range measured:** level 0, sky region `+365760 .. +388880`, 23,120 bytes,
read as 2,890 records of 8.
**Method:** record composition, plus the adjacent-pair and zero-density
statistics below. The matched-control autocorrelation puts the peak at stride
8 (0.217 real, 0.000 shuffled), so 8 is the unit to describe.
**What it is made of:**
- **1,185 distinct `u32` values** across 5,780 words.
- **Mean 6.99 of 8 bytes are zero**, so most records are sparse -- one or two
live bytes in eight.
- **549 of 2,890 adjacent pairs (19%) are exact duplicates of each other.** The
most common 8-byte record, appearing 283 times, is `d7d7d780 d7d7d780` -- a
4-byte value stored twice. Others follow the same shape: `00051980 00051980`,
`00082580 00082580`.
**Not decoded.** Sparsity plus repeated entries is what a keyframe or index
table looks like, but nothing here establishes that, and the duplicated-4-byte
shape may equally be two adjacent records that happen to share a value.
Recorded as a characterisation, with its range, so the next attempt starts
from the composition rather than re-deriving it.