diff --git a/changelog.d/gst-1226-scoped-base-lines.md b/changelog.d/gst-1226-scoped-base-lines.md
index dc913f7f4..5c793630c 100644
--- a/changelog.d/gst-1226-scoped-base-lines.md
+++ b/changelog.d/gst-1226-scoped-base-lines.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 **A base merge next to a reviewed hunk no longer forces a second full review because of the base's own lines.** On founderstar#515, a base merge put 62 lines of another PR, already merged at base, next to the PR's 76 reviewed and unchanged lines in `tests/ui_shots.gd`. The scoped-review section went past its 200-line limit, so `gstack-ship-release finish` took the behavior route, which a review-loop exception can't accept, and asked for Steps 5 to 11.5 again. #3923 hit the same limit when only one trailing context line changed (GST-1226).
 
 ### Fixed
-- **The scoped-review packet counts only the branch's own lines toward its 200-line section limit.** The base's change and the base-added lines that appear as context in the current hunks are still shown to the reader but no longer count, in finish and in the receipt carry. A section the branch's own lines push past the limit still takes the full loop. Context-only drift is not carried silently: it still gets the scoped read.
+- **The scoped-review packet counts only the branch's own lines toward its 200-line section limit.** The base's +/- lines, already merged at base, are still shown to the reader but no longer count, in finish and in the receipt carry. A base change over 2,000 lines in one file counts in full again, and a section the branch's own lines push past the limit still takes the full loop. Context-only drift is not carried silently: it still gets the scoped read.
 
 ### Tests
-- `test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts`: 210 lines another PR merged at base next to the branch's 76 reviewed lines, and a changed trailing context line beside a 221-line base rewrite, both reach the scoped read (both took the behavior route on main). Negative control: a section the branch's own 230 lines push past the limit still takes the behavior route.
+- `test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts`: 210 lines another PR merged at base next to the branch's 76 reviewed lines, and a changed trailing context line beside a 221-line base rewrite, both reach the scoped read (both took the behavior route on main). Negative controls: a section the branch's own 230 lines push past the limit, and a 2,100-line base insertion beside the hunk, still take the behavior route.
diff --git a/docs/troubleshooting.md b/docs/troubleshooting.md
index 24fde8569..ac60b8500 100644
--- a/docs/troubleshooting.md
+++ b/docs/troubleshooting.md
@@ -6033,9 +6033,10 @@ The refusal names the paths and a packet file with the hunks that differ and
 the base's own change. The same lines moved somewhere else are
 `RECEIPT_CARRY_PRODUCT_CHANGED`, not this code. A packet section over 200
 lines takes the full loop instead, but only the branch's own lines count toward
-that limit: the base's change and the base-added lines that sit as context in
-the current hunks are shown and not counted (GST-1226), so a large base edit
-next to the branch's hunk still gets the scoped read.
+that limit: the base's +/- lines, already merged at base, are shown and not
+counted (GST-1226), so a large base edit next to the branch's hunk still gets
+the scoped read. A base change over 2,000 lines in one file counts in full
+again and takes the full loop.
 
 **Fix.** Dispatch one fix-check reviewer
 ([review-policy.md](review-policy.md)) on the packet. When it comes back clean,
diff --git a/lib/ship-patch.ts b/lib/ship-patch.ts
index 2be573be8..447c1a548 100644
--- a/lib/ship-patch.ts
+++ b/lib/ship-patch.ts
@@ -126,13 +126,14 @@ function hunkTexts(diff: string): string[] {
 
 /** The most lines one packet section may hold; a path with a longer section takes the full loop instead. */
 export const PACKET_SECTION_CAP = 200;
+/** The most lines the base's change section may hold before its uncounted base lines count again (GST-1226). */
+export const BASE_SECTION_CEILING = 2000;
 
 /**
  * The scoped-review packet: per context path, the hunks that differ between the two branch patches and the base's own
  * change; per test path, its test hunks. `over` names every path with a section past PACKET_SECTION_CAP: one reviewer
- * cannot be shown all of it, so the caller sends it to the full loop. Only the branch's own lines count toward the cap
- * (GST-1226): the base's +/- lines, already merged at base, and the base-added lines that sit as context in the current
- * hunks are shown but not counted.
+ * cannot be shown all of it, so the caller sends it to the full loop. The base's +/- lines, already merged at base, are
+ * shown but do not count toward the cap (GST-1226) until that section passes BASE_SECTION_CEILING lines.
  */
 export function contextPacket(repoRoot: string, s: PatchSides, paths: readonly string[], tests: readonly string[] = []): { text: string; over: string[] } {
   const over = new Set<string>();
@@ -148,9 +149,8 @@ export function contextPacket(repoRoot: string, s: PatchSides, paths: readonly s
     const r = hunkTexts(pathDiff(repoRoot, s.reviewedBase, s.reviewed, rel, 3) ?? '');
     const c = hunkTexts(pathDiff(repoRoot, s.currentBase, s.current, rel, 3) ?? '');
     const b = hunkTexts(pathDiff(repoRoot, s.reviewedBase, s.currentBase, rel, 3) ?? '').join('');
-    const merged = new Set(b.split('\n').filter(l => l.startsWith('+')).map(l => ` ${l.slice(1)}`));
-    parts.push(`## ${rel}\n`, fence('Reviewed hunks', r.filter(h => !c.includes(h)).join('')), fence('Current hunks', c.filter(h => !r.includes(h)).join(''), l => !merged.has(l)),
-      fence("The base's change", b, l => !/^[+-]/.test(l)));
+    parts.push(`## ${rel}\n`, fence('Reviewed hunks', r.filter(h => !c.includes(h)).join('')), fence('Current hunks', c.filter(h => !r.includes(h)).join('')),
+      fence("The base's change", b, b.split('\n').length > BASE_SECTION_CEILING ? undefined : l => !/^[+-]/.test(l)));
   }
   return { text: parts.join('\n'), over: [...over] };
 }
diff --git a/test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts b/test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts
index 2ac15f01e..b2ffa01ca 100644
--- a/test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts
+++ b/test/ship-rereview-triggers.test.ts
@@ -915,4 +915,14 @@ describe('base lines do not count toward the scoped-review cap (GST-1226, founde
     expect(scoped(r)).toEqual([3, 'behavior=1 docs=0 metadata=0 tests=0 base=0 context=0', false, true]);
     expect(r.stdout.includes('STOP: behavior, tests or build inputs changed since review (src/shots.ts)')).toBe(true);
   });
+
+  test('a base change past BASE_SECTION_CEILING counts in full again and takes the behavior route', () => {
+    const pr = block('pr', 76), other = block('other', 2100);
+    const f = fx({ 'src/shots.ts': lines(20) }, { 'src/shots.ts': join(at(20, 10, pr)) });
+    const reviewed = wtree(f), reviewedBase = mergeBase(f), post = snapshot(f);
+    f.advanceBase({ 'src/shots.ts': join(at(20, 11, other)) });
+    const merged = at(20, 11, other); merged.splice(10, 0, ...pr);
+    mergeMain(f, { 'src/shots.ts': join(merged) });
+    expect(scoped(finish(f, reviewed, post, ['--reviewed-base', reviewedBase]))).toEqual([3, 'behavior=1 docs=0 metadata=0 tests=0 base=0 context=0', false, true]);
+  });
 });