?? at the moment i'm confused about ... ?? toric map from arbitrary toric variety to 0d torus ... whether it's really there ... ??? ... ?? terminalness of 0d torus wrt certain concept of "toric map" ... ??? ... 0d torus .... corresponding commutative monoid as initial, so .... looks like these maps are there in the affine case, but ... ??? non-affine case ??? ..... why _was_ i worrying about this ?? ... ??? something about essentialness ?? ... ??? .... ??? .... ... ... actually i guess because of ... ?? issue of preservation of "basic"ness ... alleged interpretation of topos-geometric morphism between accidental toposes, acting on models, as something like ... ?? "inverse image of basic open under dense-toric-openly defined toric map" ?? .... ???? .... ?? try to straighten out .... ???? ....