GeoGenesis started as a raw AI Studio export with zero-byte stub files and Tailwind loaded from a CDN. The Gemini chat panel? Empty. The AI integration? Every file was 0 bytes. Dark mode? Broken — Tailwind CDN defaults to media not class for dark mode detection. But the globe itself worked. D3 orthographic projection, auto-rotation, drag-to-spin, and the bones of the unfold animation were all there. Ran the rescue workflow: deleted 8 scaffold files, swapped CDN Tailwind for npm, captured 3 screenshots and a demo GIF, wrote the README, git init → gh repo create → push. From download to github.com/AndrewVoirol/geogenesis without closing the terminal.