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 The following are notes for future Brad.
 
-## Bring-up dependencies
+## Operational Dependencies
 
-Soteria is not how Atlas gets storage back. It is useful after Kubernetes and Longhorn are already alive enough to answer API calls.
-
-It needs:
+Soteria needs:
 
 - Kubernetes API, service DNS, and Soteria's service account/RBAC
 - Longhorn managers/backend service reachable at `SOTERIA_LONGHORN_URL`