diff --git a/REBUILD.md b/REBUILD.md
index 45cdced..f93739d 100644
--- a/REBUILD.md
+++ b/REBUILD.md
@@ -690,7 +690,15 @@ ranges are all stored is replayed once with the window's bounds as
 `--from`/`--to` (the corpus holds other windows of the same group), 4
 groups at a time, logs and `.done` markers in `.cache/replay/`, looping
 until the window is done (LOG.md 2026-10-26 (111) has the first local
-numbers, (112) the homelab run).
+numbers, (112) the homelab run). **Deployed 2026-10-26** (LOG.md (116)):
+voyager 3 runs on homelab without its edge worker (`.cache/no-edge`:
+deploy.sh and the nightly resume leave it stopped, since range by range
+it would split releases at every edge with no merger left), and history
+comes from the corpus through this driver into the catalog itself
+(`DB=usenet_rebuild OUT=.cache/replay-catalog`, the harness allowed by
+`REPLAY_INTO_CATALOG=1`), the prober's ladder, the merger and the judge
+working on it as it fills; the scratch run's numbers (63 groups) were
+read before (LOG.md (115)). The tail waits for the window worker.
 
 Next: the replay on homelab over the 2016 window (the NVMe bytes per
 header for real), the ordered range leases with the carried window in
diff --git a/commands/replay_corpus.ts b/commands/replay_corpus.ts
index 50521aa..c93027c 100644
--- a/commands/replay_corpus.ts
+++ b/commands/replay_corpus.ts
@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ import { fromWire, type WireBatch } from '#lib/edge/index'
 
 /**
  * Only a database named like one of these is written: the replay leases and finishes ranges and fills the catalog.
- * Not the test database: the rows left behind failed 27 functional tests (LOG.md 2026-10-26 (111)).
+ * Not the test database: the rows left behind failed 27 functional tests (LOG.md 2026-10-26 (111)). With
+ * REPLAY_INTO_CATALOG=1 any database but the test one: voyager 3 deployed, history replayed from the corpus into
+ * the catalog itself (deploy/replay-window.sh, LOG.md (116)).
  */
 const SCRATCH_DB = /_(replay|scratch)$/
+const TEST_DB = /_test$/
 const NODE_NAME = 'replay'
 
 interface StoredRange {
@@ -79,9 +82,10 @@ export default class ReplayCorpus extends BaseCommand {
 
   async run() {
     const database = db.connection().getReadClient().client.config.connection.database as string
-    if (!SCRATCH_DB.test(database)) {
+    const intoCatalog = process.env.REPLAY_INTO_CATALOG === '1' && !TEST_DB.test(database)
+    if (!SCRATCH_DB.test(database) && !intoCatalog) {
       this.logger.error(
-        `The replay writes the catalog: it only runs against a database named *_replay or *_scratch (this is "${database}")`
+        `The replay writes the catalog: it only runs against a database named *_replay or *_scratch (this is "${database}"; REPLAY_INTO_CATALOG=1 allows it)`
       )
       this.exitCode = 1
       return
diff --git a/deploy/deploy.sh b/deploy/deploy.sh
index 982da19..fac6883 100755
--- a/deploy/deploy.sh
+++ b/deploy/deploy.sh
@@ -51,7 +51,14 @@ if [ -e "$CACHE/paused" ]; then
   docker compose up -d --no-deps node-api web
 else
   docker compose up -d --no-deps node-api web coordinator prober merger judge spotter spot-inspector
-  docker compose up -d --no-deps edge
+  if [ -e "$CACHE/no-edge" ]; then
+    # Voyager 3 (2026-10-26, LOG.md (116)): the worker indexes range by range, without the carried window, and
+    # would split releases at every range edge with nothing to join them; history comes from the corpus through
+    # deploy/replay-window.sh until the window worker is built. Remove the marker to start it again.
+    echo "== no-edge: the edge worker left stopped"
+  else
+    docker compose up -d --no-deps edge
+  fi
 fi
 echo "$SHA $(date -Is)" >> "$ROOT/deployed.log"
 # The images this replaced (321 MB each; the root filesystem is the NVMe, with a 10 GB floor).
diff --git a/deploy/replay-window.sh b/deploy/replay-window.sh
index 82ac5d3..ae7b589 100755
--- a/deploy/replay-window.sh
+++ b/deploy/replay-window.sh
@@ -8,13 +8,17 @@
 # from the deployment root:
 #   setsid nohup deploy/replay-window.sh > .cache/replay/driver.log 2>&1 &
 # No new group starts while the nightly pause is on (.cache/paused); the running ones finish.
+# DB=usenet_rebuild replays into the catalog itself (voyager 3 deployed, 2026-10-26: history comes from the corpus
+# this way until the window worker is built); the harness then needs REPLAY_INTO_CATALOG=1, passed here. OUT keeps
+# a run's logs and markers apart (.cache/replay-catalog for the catalog's).
 set -u
 ROOT=${ROOT:-/mnt/bulk/usenet-rebuild}
 PRIORITY=${PRIORITY:-0}
 PARALLEL=${PARALLEL:-4}
 MEMORY=${MEMORY:-12g}
 IMAGE=${IMAGE:-usenet-voyager3:latest}
-OUT=$ROOT/.cache/replay
+DB=${DB:-usenet_replay}
+OUT=${OUT:-$ROOT/.cache/replay}
 mkdir -p "$OUT"
 cd "$ROOT" || exit 1
 
@@ -34,7 +38,7 @@ replay() {
   say "$group: replaying $from–$to"
   if docker run --rm --name "replay-${group//./-}" --network usenet-rebuild --env-file .env \
       -e NODE_ENV=production -e HOST=0.0.0.0 -e PORT=3334 -e APP_URL=http://web:3334 -e SPOOL_DIR=/spool -e CORPUS_DIR=/corpus \
-      -e DB_HOST=postgres -e DB_PORT=5432 -e DB_DATABASE=usenet_replay -e CHUNK_TABLESPACE=pg_default \
+      -e DB_HOST=postgres -e DB_PORT=5432 -e DB_DATABASE="$DB" -e CHUNK_TABLESPACE=pg_default -e REPLAY_INTO_CATALOG=1 \
       -v "$ROOT/corpus:/corpus:ro" --memory "$MEMORY" "$IMAGE" \
       node ace replay:corpus --group "$group" --from "$from" --to "$to" > "$OUT/$group.log" 2>&1; then
     touch "$OUT/$group.done"
diff --git a/deploy/usenet-rebuild-resume.sh b/deploy/usenet-rebuild-resume.sh
index 3b319d8..3f126c7 100755
--- a/deploy/usenet-rebuild-resume.sh
+++ b/deploy/usenet-rebuild-resume.sh
@@ -6,13 +6,11 @@ exec 9>.cache/deploy.lock
 flock 9
 rm -f .cache/paused
 date "+%F %T resuming"
-if [ -e .cache/v2-reset ]; then
-  # The voyager 2 catalog is reset (2026-10-26, LOG.md (112)): only the coordinator (the corpus fill) runs until voyager 3
-  # is deployed; the edge, prober, merger, judge, spotter and spot inspector would fill the old catalog again.
-  echo "v2 reset: only the coordinator"
-  docker compose up -d --no-deps coordinator
+docker compose up -d --no-deps coordinator prober merger judge spotter spot-inspector
+if [ -e .cache/no-edge ]; then
+  # Voyager 3 without its window worker yet (deploy.sh, LOG.md (116)): the edge stays stopped.
+  echo "no-edge: the edge worker left stopped"
 else
-  docker compose up -d --no-deps coordinator prober merger judge spotter spot-inspector
   docker compose up -d --no-deps edge
 fi
 docker compose ps --format "{{.Service}} {{.Status}}"