Compose classic Nexus and Leader Skills with physical Suk rescue

game/engine.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { classicNexusModulesProfile, pairedNexusModulesProfile } from './nexus-module-profile';
 import { nativeFactionTechProfile } from './faction-module-profile';
-import { advancedMoritaniLeaderSkillsProfile, advancedNativeLeaderSkillsProfile, classicTechLeaderSkillsProfile, nativeExpansionLeaderSkillsProfile, nativeTechLeaderSkillsProfile, ordinaryLeaderSkillModeSupported, strongholdLeaderSkillsProfile } from './leader-skill-profile';
+import { advancedMoritaniLeaderSkillsProfile, advancedNativeLeaderSkillsProfile, classicNexusLeaderSkillsProfile, classicTechLeaderSkillsProfile, nativeExpansionLeaderSkillsProfile, nativeTechLeaderSkillsProfile, ordinaryLeaderSkillModeSupported, strongholdLeaderSkillsProfile } from './leader-skill-profile';
 import { bribeTimingBlock, maximumBribe, type BribeOptions } from './bribe-options';
 import { quoteSpicePlacement, stormExposesTerritory, stormSectorAfter, wormConsumesForces } from './disaster-rules';
 import { isStormCardDistance, type StormCardComponent } from './storm-cards';
@@ -3439,7 +3439,13 @@ function nexusSardaukarIntegrity(g: Game) {
           'The pending Sardaukar casualties have lost their exact physical army.');
         const decisions = homeworldSavedDecisions(g).filter(d => d.kind === 'battleLosses' && d.player === record.receipt.owner);
         const committed = continuation?.kind === 'battleResolved' && continuation.event === record.receipt.battle ? continuation.casualties : null;
-        requireRule(decisions.length > 0 || committed, 'The Nexus Sardaukar battle has lost its casualty choice.');
+        const rescue = g.pendingSukRescue?.event === record.receipt.battle ? g.pendingSukRescue : null;
+        requireRule(decisions.length > 0 || committed || rescue?.losses, 'The Nexus Sardaukar battle has lost its casualty choice.');
+        if (rescue) requireRule(rescue.player === record.receipt.owner &&
+          rescue.turn === record.receipt.turn && rescue.territory === record.receipt.territory &&
+          JSON.stringify(rescue.commitment) === JSON.stringify({forces:losses.forces,dial:losses.dial,support:losses.support,options:losses.options}) &&
+          (!rescue.losses || losses.options.some(option => JSON.stringify(option) === JSON.stringify(rescue.losses))),
+          'The Suk rescue differs from the committed Nexus Sardaukar casualties.');
         for (const decision of decisions) requireRule(decision.kind === 'battleLosses' &&
           decision.territory === record.receipt.territory && JSON.stringify(decision.options) === JSON.stringify(losses.options),
           'The casualty choices differ from the committed Nexus Sardaukar plan.');
@@ -9394,7 +9400,7 @@ export function initializeLeaderSkillsGameForAudit(state: Game): Game {
   requireRule(!state.leaderSkills, 'Leader Skills cannot redeal existing skill cards.');
   const g = structuredClone(state);
   g.leaderSkills = createLeaderSkills(random);
-  const initialized = initializeSetupGameForAudit(g, false, false, false, false, true,
+  const initialized = initializeSetupGameForAudit(g, false, classicNexusLeaderSkillsProfile(g), false, false, true,
     g.expansions.length === 1 && g.expansions[0] === 'choam', nativeExpansionLeaderSkillsProfile(g));
   if (advancedMoritaniLeaderSkillsProfile(initialized)) initializeMoritaniAssassinateState(initialized);
   return initialized;
@@ -21204,6 +21210,13 @@ function settleSukRescue(g: Game, option: SukRescueOption, automatic: boolean) {
   const player = getPlayer(g, pending.player);
   requireRule(pending.losses && pending.physical === sukPhysicalSignature(player),
     'The Suk Graduate rescue no longer has its committed physical counters.');
+  const sardaukar = g.nexusSardaukarHistory?.find(record =>
+    record.receipt.battle === pending.event && record.receipt.owner === pending.player);
+  if (sardaukar?.casualties) requireRule(sardaukar.casualties.outcome === 'pending' &&
+    JSON.stringify(pending.commitment) === JSON.stringify({forces:sardaukar.casualties.forces,
+      dial:sardaukar.casualties.dial,support:sardaukar.casualties.support,options:sardaukar.casualties.options}) &&
+    sardaukar.casualties.options.some(choice => JSON.stringify(choice) === JSON.stringify(pending.losses)),
+    'The Suk rescue lost its original Nexus Sardaukar casualty allocation.');
   const quote = quoteSukRescue(pending.skill, pending.pool, pending.losses, option, pending.eliteOrigins);
   for (const group of quote.removed) {
     player.forces[group.key] -= group.normal + group.elite;
@@ -21220,6 +21233,10 @@ function settleSukRescue(g: Game, option: SukRescueOption, automatic: boolean) {
     player.elites.reserves += quote.reserves.elite;
     player.elites.tanks += quote.tanks.elite;
   }
+  if (sardaukar?.casualties) {
+    sardaukar.casualties.outcome = 'complete';
+    sardaukar.signature = nexusSardaukarSignature(sardaukar);
+  }
   g.pendingSukRescue = null;
   g.lastBattleContext!.sukRescue!.completed = true;
   log(g, `${player.name}'s Suk Graduate saved ${option.normal} ordinary and ${option.elite} elite forces: ${option.kept ? `1 remained in sector ${splitLocation(option.kept.key).sector}` : 'none remained in the battle territory'}, ${quote.reserves.normal + quote.reserves.elite} returned to reserves, and ${quote.tanks.normal + quote.tanks.elite} casualties went to the Tanks.${automatic ? ' The only legal rescue was applied automatically.' : ''}`, { faction: player.faction, name: 'Suk Graduate rescue' });

game/leader-skill-profile.ts

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ export type LeaderSkillProfile = {
   nexusCards?: unknown;
   discoveries?: unknown;
   discoveryEnabled?: unknown;
+  discoveryStash?: unknown;
+  greatMaker?: unknown;
   strongholdCards?: unknown;
   techTokens?: unknown;
   ecazTreachery?: unknown;
@@ -22,6 +24,8 @@ export type LeaderSkillProfile = {
   nexusIxianReplacementPreview?: unknown;
   nexusIxianBetrayalPreview?: unknown;
   nexusHarkonnenBetrayalPreview?: unknown;
+  mentatQuestionPreview?: unknown;
+  spiceBankerIncomePreview?: unknown;
 };
 
 export function noOtherLeaderSkillModules(game: LeaderSkillProfile): boolean {
@@ -29,6 +33,29 @@ export function noOtherLeaderSkillModules(game: LeaderSkillProfile): boolean {
     !game.discoveryEnabled && !game.strongholdCards && !game.techTokens && !game.ecazTreachery;
 }
 
+/** Fresh classic Nexus/Skills only; other module and native compositions stay separate. */
+export function classicNexusLeaderSkillsProfile(game: LeaderSkillProfile): boolean {
+  const players = game.players;
+  if (!game.nexusCards || typeof game.advanced !== 'boolean' || game.expansions.length ||
+    !players || players.length < 2 || players.length > 6 ||
+    game.homeworlds || game.discoveries || game.discoveryEnabled ||
+    game.discoveryStash || game.greatMaker || game.strongholdCards || game.techTokens ||
+    game.ecazTreachery || game.semutaPreview || game.moritaniAssassinatePreview ||
+    game.advancedPreview || game.kullPreview || game.nexusKullPreview ||
+    game.guildBetrayalPreview || game.richeseBetrayalPreview ||
+    game.nexusIxianReplacementPreview || game.nexusIxianBetrayalPreview ||
+    game.nexusHarkonnenBetrayalPreview || game.mentatQuestionPreview ||
+    game.spiceBankerIncomePreview) return false;
+  for (let i = 0; i < players.length; i++) {
+    for (let j = 0; j < i; j++) if (players[j].faction === players[i].faction) return false;
+    let classic = false;
+    for (const faction of FACTIONS)
+      if (faction.id === players[i].faction) { classic = faction.expansion === 'base'; break; }
+    if (!classic) return false;
+  }
+  return true;
+}
+
 /** E1/E2 native skills may add Tech and Advanced Strongholds; original roster/decks remain. */
 function nativeLeaderSkillModulesSupported(game: LeaderSkillProfile): boolean {
   if (noOtherLeaderSkillModules(game)) return true;
@@ -275,5 +302,6 @@ export function nativeTechLeaderSkillsProfile(game: LeaderSkillProfile): boolean
 export function ordinaryLeaderSkillModeSupported(game: LeaderSkillProfile): boolean {
   return (noOtherLeaderSkillModules(game) &&
     (!game.expansions.length || nativeExpansionLeaderSkillsProfile(game))) ||
-    classicTechLeaderSkillsProfile(game) || nativeTechLeaderSkillsProfile(game) || strongholdLeaderSkillsProfile(game);
+    classicTechLeaderSkillsProfile(game) || nativeTechLeaderSkillsProfile(game) ||
+    strongholdLeaderSkillsProfile(game) || classicNexusLeaderSkillsProfile(game);
 }

game/nexus-emperor-secret-ally.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import type { Game, Player } from './engine';
 import { eliteRevivalRemaining } from './revival';
 import { classicNexusModulesProfile } from './nexus-module-profile';
+import { classicNexusLeaderSkillsProfile } from './leader-skill-profile';
 
 export const EMPEROR_NEXUS_REVIVALS = 3;
 export type EmperorNexusPools = {
@@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ export function emperorNexusModeSupported(g: Game): boolean {
       ),
     ) &&
     !g.homeworlds &&
-    !g.leaderSkills &&
+    (!g.leaderSkills || classicNexusLeaderSkillsProfile(g)) &&
     !g.discoveryEnabled &&
     !g.discoveries &&
     !g.discoveryStash &&

game/nexus-fremen-revival.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import type { Game, Player } from './engine';
 import { eliteRevivalRemaining, forceRevivalLimit, freeRevivalRate } from './revival';
 import { classicNexusModulesProfile } from './nexus-module-profile';
+import { classicNexusLeaderSkillsProfile } from './leader-skill-profile';
 
 export const FREMEN_NEXUS_FREE_FORCES = 3;
 type RevivalPools = { reserves: number; tanks: number; eliteReserves: number; eliteTanks: number;
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ export function fremenNexusRevivalOffer(g: Game, owner: string) {
   let blocked: string | null = null;
   if (p.ally) blocked = 'An allied player cannot use a Nexus card.';
   else if (g.status !== 'playing' || g.phase !== 4) blocked = 'Use Fremen Secret Ally during Revival.';
-  else if (!classicNexusModulesProfile(g) && (g.expansions.length || g.homeworlds || g.leaderSkills || g.discoveryEnabled ||
+  else if (!classicNexusModulesProfile(g) && !classicNexusLeaderSkillsProfile(g) && (g.expansions.length || g.homeworlds || g.leaderSkills || g.discoveryEnabled ||
     g.discoveries || g.discoveryStash || g.greatMaker || g.ecazTreachery ||
     g.techTokens || g.strongholdCards ||
     g.players.some(seat => !['atreides', 'harkonnen', 'emperor', 'guild', 'beneGesserit'].includes(seat.faction))))

game/reference.ts

@@ -4367,6 +4367,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'Use Cunning for your own faction, Betrayal when another player controls the printed faction, and Secret Ally when that faction is absent. Used cards go to the separate Nexus discard pile. Each printed effect has its own timing.',
       'Fresh local classic Nexus tables may preserve original Tech Tokens in Basic/Advanced three-through-six-seat lobbies and/or Stronghold Cards in Advanced two-through-six-seat lobbies; selecting both requires three or more. Original base33/all12 setup, closing Nexus deals, first-Storm Tech and actual end-Mentat Stronghold custody remain. Skills, Homeworlds in this composition, native expansions, unrelated previews, public starts and saved-game conversion stay separate.',
       'The same fresh local Nexus entry also composes Tech and/or Advanced Strongholds with paired Ixians + Tleilaxu OR CHOAM + Richese and classic opponents, one original family deck and no Skills. Tech needs three through six seats; Strongholds needs two through six Advanced seats. Real closing draws, native typed forces, physical Face Dancers and No-Fields, original payments/rewards and held effects remain. Mixed families, E3, Homeworlds, unrelated previews, public starts and unresolved rulings are not opened.',
+      'The separate fresh local leader-skills --nexus-cards entry combines classic base33/all14 Skills/all12 Nexus in Basic or Advanced, two through six seats, without other overlays or public starts. Original starting hands and skill offers are continued, not redealt. Actual closing Nexus draws remain required. Extra/ordinary free-three returns, bank purchase and committed Traitor Deck exchanges preserve skill custody. Native Emperor Cunning composes ordinary skill posture, bonuses and Suk rescue without changing physical starred inventory or repeating support.',
       'Atreides Cunning adds a second, different opposing plan element after the first native answer. Both remain binding. Use it in your own battle before sealing your plan; Karama may cancel the extra attempt while preserving the first disclosure.',
       'With Atreides absent, Secret Ally inspects one opposing element in your battle. A sealed plan supplies only that selected answer automatically. Otherwise the opponent chooses an answer that permits a legal plan. Other players receive no private answer.',
       'The No-Field restriction names Atreides, so Cunning cannot inspect that dial. A non-Atreides Secret Ally holder may request it without learning the token denomination or other plan elements.',
@@ -4417,7 +4418,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       { area: 'Player controls', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Private lifecycle, inspections, exchanges, Tleilaxu refresh, Ixian activation, advisor selection, temporary Sardaukar and CHOAM effects, Moritani Betrayal, Ecaz Betrayal and owner-only Secret Ally inquiry, native Duke Cunning, Richese shipment and bounded auction Betrayal, Emperor purchase and Fremen Cunning controls are connected. Remaining effect controls are unfinished.', evidence: ['components/nexus-cards.tsx', 'components/nexus-traitors.tsx', 'components/nexus-tleilaxu.tsx', 'components/nexus-suboids.tsx', 'components/nexus-advisors.tsx', 'components/nexus-sardaukar.tsx', 'components/choam-power-cost.tsx', 'components/moritani-terror.tsx', 'components/nexus-moritani-betrayal.tsx', 'components/nexus-ecaz-betrayal.tsx', 'components/nexus-ecaz-inquiry.tsx', 'components/nexus-ecaz-duke.tsx', 'components/nexus-richese-betrayal.tsx', 'components/game-table.tsx'] },
       { area: 'AI', status: 'Partial', detail: 'All four profiles choose legal actions through private offers, including Moritani/Ecaz Betrayal, Ecaz Secret Ally inquiry and native Duke Cunning, Fremen Cunning, Emperor purchase and bounded Richese auction Betrayal. Complete module strategy and calibration remain unfinished.', evidence: ['game/nexus-card-options.ts', 'game/nexus-traitor-options.ts', 'game/nexus-tleilaxu-options.ts', 'game/nexus-suboid-options.ts', 'game/nexus-advisor-options.ts', 'game/nexus-sardaukar-options.ts', 'game/choam-power-options.ts', 'game/nexus-moritani-options.ts', 'game/nexus-moritani-betrayal-options.ts', 'game/nexus-ecaz-betrayal-options.ts', 'game/nexus-ecaz-inquiry-options.ts', 'game/nexus-ecaz-duke-options.ts', 'game/nexus-richese-options.ts', 'game/bot-nexus-richese-betrayal.ts', 'game/nexus-guild-cunning-options.ts', 'game/bots.ts'] },
       { area: 'Documentation', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Common rules, twelve printed faces and bounded runtime contracts retain explicit unresolved Ecaz Duke capture/Tanks/Ghola and inquiry audience/scope, Fremen nested Cunning, Great Maker, combined modules, fresh advisors, storm and borrowed Voice. Richese auction Betrayal has a separate cost/prepayment/privacy contract and excluded-producer boundaries. Guild Betrayal separately records full funded payment, own pre-funding, donor escrow once, the printed full-Junction override, four native adapters and neutral privacy; ordinary occupation/rounding and general response-priority questions remain unresolved.', evidence: ['docs/NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_ATREIDES_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_HARKONNEN_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_TLEILAXU_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_IXIAN_CUNNING_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_CUNNING_RUNTIME.md', 'docs/NEXUS_BENE_GESSERIT_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_ADVISOR_RUNTIME.md', 'docs/NEXUS_EMPEROR_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_SARDAUKAR_RUNTIME.md', 'docs/NEXUS_FREMEN_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_ECAZ_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_CHOAM_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_CHOAM_RUNTIME.md', 'docs/NEXUS_MORITANI_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_MORITANI_RUNTIME.md', 'docs/NEXUS_RICHESE_RUNTIME.md', 'docs/NEXUS_RICHESE_RULES.md', 'docs/NEXUS_GUILD_CUNNING_RUNTIME.md', 'docs/NEXUS_GUILD_RULES.md'] },
-      { area: 'Verification', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Physical custody, commitments, controls, legal bots, Basic/Advanced and in-memory SQLite recovery regressions include native Ecaz Duke override and private Secret Ally inquiry. A read-only local browser fixture showed the owner-only Duke choice and no rival offer; no room was written. Bounded Richese auction Betrayal additionally has local CLI/runtime, authenticated SQLite and refreshed phone Use/Pass evidence in owned disposable rooms. New Guild Betrayal verification is separately Planned pending frozen direct evidence; these earlier results do not certify it. Fresh classic and paired E1/E2 Tech/Stronghold compositions have bounded runtime cases, genuine games and original CLI/phone evidence. Full module games, exceptional Duke custody, combined interactions and deployed acceptance remain separate.', evidence: ['tests/nexus-cards.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-card-engine.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-fremen-cunning.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-fremen-cunning-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-fremen-cunning-summon.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-fremen-cunning-summon-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-betrayal-quotes.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-betrayal.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-betrayal-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-inquiry.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-duke-quote.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-duke-engine.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-duke-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-duke-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-traitor-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-face-dancer-engine.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-suboids-engine.test.ts', 'tests/normal-free-support.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-suboid-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-advisor-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-advisor-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-sardaukar-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-sardaukar-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-choam-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-choam-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-moritani-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-moritani-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-moritani-betrayal.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-richese-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-richese-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-richese-betrayal-engine.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-richese-betrayal-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-guild-cunning-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-guild-cunning-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-module-payments-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-module-battles-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/paired-ix-nexus-modules-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/paired-choam-nexus-modules-runtime.test.ts'] },
+      { area: 'Verification', status: 'Partial', detail: 'Physical custody, commitments, controls, legal bots, Basic/Advanced and in-memory SQLite recovery regressions include native Ecaz Duke override and private Secret Ally inquiry. A read-only local browser fixture showed the owner-only Duke choice and no rival offer; no room was written. Bounded Richese auction Betrayal additionally has local CLI/runtime, authenticated SQLite and refreshed phone Use/Pass evidence in owned disposable rooms. New Guild Betrayal verification is separately Planned pending frozen direct evidence; these earlier results do not certify it. Fresh classic and paired E1/E2 Tech/Stronghold compositions have bounded runtime cases, genuine games and original CLI/phone evidence. Classic all14 Skills additionally has actual free-return/purchase/exchange and Cunning/Suk lifecycle programs, original phone controls and genuine2..6-seat games. Full module games, exceptional Duke custody, combined interactions and deployed acceptance remain separate.', evidence: ['tests/nexus-cards.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-card-engine.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-fremen-cunning.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-fremen-cunning-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-fremen-cunning-summon.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-fremen-cunning-summon-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-betrayal-quotes.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-betrayal.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-betrayal-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-inquiry.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-duke-quote.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-duke-engine.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-duke-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-ecaz-duke-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-traitor-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-face-dancer-engine.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-suboids-engine.test.ts', 'tests/normal-free-support.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-suboid-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-advisor-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-advisor-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-sardaukar-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-sardaukar-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-choam-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-choam-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-moritani-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-moritani-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-moritani-betrayal.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-richese-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-richese-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-richese-betrayal-engine.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-richese-betrayal-recovery.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-guild-cunning-controls.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-guild-cunning-bots.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-module-payments-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/nexus-module-battles-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/paired-ix-nexus-modules-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/paired-choam-nexus-modules-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/classic-nexus-skills-payments-runtime.test.ts', 'tests/classic-nexus-skills-battles-runtime.test.ts'] },
     ],
   },
   {
@@ -4604,6 +4605,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'Fresh Advanced profiles compose native Ixians, Tleilaxu, CHOAM and/or Richese with classic opponents and distinct required family decks. All fourteen skills and native starts remain. Auditor stays unskilled; cyborg casualties, original CHOAM support and Richese capped marker revelation remain physical. Foreign revival creates no new skill. Native Ixian Technology on Richese lots, own mixed No-Field, captured replacement, Advanced Atreides Suk/KH and unrelated overlays retain their guards.',
       'Fresh three-through-six-seat Basic/Advanced development tables may compose all fourteen Skills with original Tech Tokens: classic factions, supported E1/E2 native families, or standalone Ecaz/Moritani with the exact ecaz deck and original roster exclusions. Starting cards/cache, skill/Traitor choices and printed/first-Storm assignment stay genuine. Existing leader-skills/banker-income entry preserves unused selected tokens; mixed E3 families, other overlays, public activation and saved-game conversion remain separate.',
       'Fresh Advanced classic or supported native two-through-six-seat skill tables may retain six original Stronghold Cards, with Tech at three or more seats. Original end-Mentat/local held effects remain. Arrakeen changes actual payer cost, not rescue or Banker eligibility; native CHOAM income retains bank support. Physical defenses, normal disciplines, holder ties and original dial/Worthless earnings remain. Standalone Ecaz Duke and Moritani assassination compose original rules; mixed E3, allied Occupy skills, copied Diplomat defenses, active skill/Stone and other guards stay separate.',
+      'Fresh classic Leader Skills may explicitly add Nexus alone through the local leader-skills --nexus-cards entry, Basic/Advanced two through six players. Starting hands can already be dealt before skill choice; saved offers remain authoritative. Original closing Nexus draws, free-return ledgers, bank purchase and Traitor Deck declarations stay distinct from physical training. Native expansions, Tech/Strongholds/Homeworlds, Banker/Mentat previews, borrowed Smuggler shipment arithmetic and other unresolved interactions remain separate.',
       'With this optional module, starting Treachery Cards are dealt after prediction and before skill assignment. Every faction privately receives two skills, keeps one, returns the other to the shuffled deck, and assigns its chosen card to an eligible leader. Skill and leader become public before traitor selection.',
       'Before Battle Plans, leave the skilled leader face up to keep its normal effect, or move it behind the shield for possible use. A face-up leader cannot be selected for the plan. Concealing it while choosing another leader gives neither effect. A leader that must be used because no alternative remains moves behind the shield automatically.',
       'Warmaster, Master of Assassins, Swordmaster of Ginaz, Killer Medic and Prana-Bindu Adept are connected. They give another leader +1 for the matching physical card role, or the surviving assigned leader +3. These bonuses do not stack to +4. They change battle strength, not the printed disc value or leader bounty.',
@@ -4611,6 +4613,7 @@ export const RULE_TOPICS: RuleTopic[] = [
       'When reviving an own leader without an assigned skill, decide whether to draw before seeing two private cards. Once drawn, keep one and assign it to that revived leader. Replacement while an earlier skill is captured remains a separate unresolved case.',
       'Planetologist chooses either one extra movement range (maximum three) or forces from two territories to one destination at normal range. These alternatives do not stack. The actual skilled leader can use an eligible green Special in the weapon slot for +2 if it survives; discard that Special after battle without activating its ordinary effect. Mixed advisor/fighter entry into an enemy-only territory and combined expansion modules remain unfinished.',
       'Suk Graduate returns one selected casualty to reserves while its leader stays face up, or lets its surviving battle leader save up to three: one stays in its original sector and the rest return to reserves. The effects do not stack. Advanced Atreides awaits the Kwisatz Haderach loss-count ruling; combined modules remain unfinished.',
+      'In the supported classic Nexus/Skills composition, Emperor Cunning counts five actual ordinary counters as temporary Sardaukar. Normal or trained Suk rescue still saves physical ordinary casualties. The original casualty allocation remains pending while the rescue choice is open; physical counters move only when rescue settles. Original support is already paid and is not refunded or charged twice. A normal save returns one to reserves; a trained save keeps one and returns the rest. Actual starred reserves and Tanks remain unchanged.',
       'A surviving selected Mentat adds two battle strength. A surviving selected Bureaucrat subtracts one from the opponent’s total per distinct stronghold occupied by that opponent; advisors do not count. Printed disc values and bounties stay unchanged.',
       'A living native Sandmaster may collect one spice per entered territory along a declared legal ground route. Choose each collection separately; canceled moves earn nothing. The initial source and a sector-only reposition earn nothing. Separate movements have separate collection opportunities. Native Fremen worm rides may collect once at the destination before faction arrival reactions, without a ground route or normal movement use. Multiple piles and other special relocation remain unfinished.',
       'A surviving skilled Sandmaster victory automatically adds three board spice to an existing pile in the battle territory, even with no surviving forces. Multiple piles await a placement ruling.',