JADES-GS-z14-0 at z = 14.18 carries 10⁸ to 10⁹ solar masses of stars and tenth-solar oxygen at under 300 Myr, breaching the ΛCDM stellar-mass ceiling by factors up to 30; MoM-z14 shows evolved-population abundance ratios at z = 14.44. By z of 5 to 9, ultra-massive galaxies demand 47 to 52 percent baryon conversion, self-destructively beyond any observed epoch, and quenched z = 7.29 galaxies outnumber every simulation by 100 to 1000 times.
The model assembles mass hierarchically: halos grow, baryons follow, stars convert at capped efficiency. Stellar mass is therefore bounded by halo growth times conversion ceiling, and the observed objects break the bound; the model can only respond with efficiencies whose own supernovae would unbind the host, or with measurement impeachment that spectroscopy keeps retiring.
SCT replaces hierarchical assembly with collision seeding: proto-structures condense from cascade-deposited overdensities with masses set by collision geometry at the moment of deposition, M_proto = α_th × f_b × μ × Ω(b, R₁, R₂), spanning 10⁷ to 10¹¹ solar masses across the collision mass function (P56, P22). The mass of a z = 14 galaxy was never assembled against the hierarchical clock; it was present from seeding, and the apparent 50 percent conversion efficiencies are geometric artifacts of attributing a deposited mass to growth-limited star formation. The ceiling breach measures the seed, not an impossible efficiency.
The chemistry and the quenching follow from the same head start. Collision-seeded proto-structures begin star formation at the deposition epoch, allowing multiple stellar generations before z = 14, which is what tenth-solar oxygen and super-solar N/C record (P25); and systems that burned through their seeded reservoirs early can quench by z = 7.29 without waiting for hierarchical assembly to finish, matching the impossible quenched abundances. The framework's registered forecast makes the demographics decisive: massive-galaxy counts at z of 12 to 15 decline as a power law rather than the ΛCDM exponential, with Roman expected to find of order 1600 galaxies above 10¹⁰ solar masses where the standard model allows fewer than 3.
This is the same deposition physics behind the born-big black holes and the Little Red Dots. There is no need to invoke top-heavy initial mass functions or feedback that outruns its own destruction.
The registered kills: JWST spectroscopic programs at z above 14 finding zero galaxies above 10⁸ solar masses, consistent with exponential ΛCDM suppression, would remove the power-law seeding signature; and the Roman high-latitude survey finding fewer than 100 galaxies above 10¹⁰ solar masses at z of 12 to 15, more than 2.3σ below the SCT band, falsifies the collision mass function at the high-mass end.