diff --git a/Core/Scripts/ConfigManager.cs b/Core/Scripts/ConfigManager.cs
index ec947a4..cbc0a52 100644
--- a/Core/Scripts/ConfigManager.cs
+++ b/Core/Scripts/ConfigManager.cs
@@ -52,20 +52,26 @@ namespace IslaApocalypse.Core // Change this if your namespace is different
 		// A/B. The shelf cannot move the waterline, so biomes and water are identical
 		// either way. Default: wide.
 		//
-		// IslandAxisX/Y: the falloff axis ratios (pre-task-11: 1.15 / 0.90). NOTE,
-		// measured: the island is already Trench-clamped in x at ~90% of the map
-		// width, so AxisX is a weak lever — aspect responds almost entirely to AxisY.
-		// These MOVE THE COASTLINE and therefore move biomes, by design.
+		// IslandAxisX/Y: the falloff axis ratios. These MOVE THE COASTLINE and
+		// therefore move biomes, so the DEFAULT is the shape the gate approved.
+		// Task 11 shipped 1.30/0.78 as the default and the developer's gate REJECTED
+		// that elongation; the defaults are back to 1.15/0.90 so that omitting the
+		// keys can no longer silently produce the rejected island (task 12 §4).
+		// NOTE, measured in task 11: the island is already Trench-clamped in x at
+		// ~90% of the map width, so AxisX is a weak lever — aspect responds almost
+		// entirely to AxisY, which trades against land area.
 		//
 		// OffshoreIslandDensity: fraction of the ocean noise field above the islet
 		// threshold. 0 disables the layer. Islets never touch the Trench and are held
 		// off the mainland by a depth moat.
 		public static string CoastProfile = "wide";
-		public static float IslandAxisX = 1.30f;
-		public static float IslandAxisY = 0.78f;
+		public static float IslandAxisX = LEGACY_AXIS_X;   // 1.15 — the gate's verdict
+		public static float IslandAxisY = LEGACY_AXIS_Y;   // 0.90
 		public static float OffshoreIslandDensity = 0.02f;
 
-		// The pre-task-11 axis ratios, so "steep"/legacy runs can restore them exactly.
+		// The gate-approved island shape, named so the defaults above and the bad-value
+		// restore below both point at one place. (`const`, so using it in a field
+		// initialiser declared earlier resolves at compile time.)
 		public const float LEGACY_AXIS_X = 1.15f;
 		public const float LEGACY_AXIS_Y = 0.90f;