Route Advanced Emperor allied auction funding

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

@@ -17,6 +17,23 @@ open mode gates.
 
 ## Current checkpoint and work
 
+**Advanced Emperor auction funding — 29 October. Prototyped / Partial.**
+New ordinary and Richese auction invoices route the Emperor's direct allied
+contribution to the bank under the supplied Advanced source, while direct gifts
+remain buyer-owned and Basic keeps its existing payment rule. Pair and staged
+classic group bids, Richese lots and selected payment effects have focused
+coverage: nine changed-path files pass 69 cases, and the two related paired
+Bureaucrat files pass 102 cases after updating their expectations. Typecheck,
+lint and build pass.
+An additional five-file legacy payment run exposed 56 failures at the previous
+commit and 58 here: 55 failure names overlap, one Charity fixture failure varied
+between runs, and the two new outdated expectations were corrected afterward.
+Homeworld fixture repair and a clean broader run remain open. Current-turn negative bribe answers also permit group funding without
+releasing the answer, and group members are excluded from bribe recipient
+controls. Full group games and broader module interactions remain open.
+[Payment scope](NEXUS_EMPEROR_RULES.md#advanced-emperor-contribution-recipient--29-october-2026);
+[group scope](OPTIONAL_ALLIANCE_VICTORY.md#group-funding-with-negative-bribe-answers--29-october-2026).
+
 **Advanced classic group foundation — 29 October. Prototyped / Partial.**
 Staged group alliances now connect genuine Advanced Nexus consent, ordinary
 multi-donor bid/shipment funding, the ending player's immediate allied
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+isolated HTTP verification, registry login and image publication. Run 52 was
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+check. The already-approved runner network adjustment and registry secret
+remain in use; neither needed to be recreated.
 Deployment remains unverified.
 Existing NAS deployment and its persistent storage remain untouched.
 

docs/NEXUS_EMPEROR_RULES.md

@@ -353,7 +353,25 @@ compulsory funding below. Seller-paid Secret Ally purchase remains unfinished.
 
 ## Betrayal and remaining decisions
 
-Normal Emperor-funded auction help goes to the ally and is paid back to Emperor, according to November's FAQ. Therefore forcing its contribution cannot automatically be implemented as transferring its spice to the bank. Bind the actual allied purchase and its original price/contributions. [November FAQ, p.2](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dune-FAQ-Nov-2020.pdf#page=2)
+The earlier Basic interpretation sends normal Emperor-funded auction help to
+the ally and back to Emperor, following [November FAQ, p.2](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dune-FAQ-Nov-2020.pdf#page=2).
+The Advanced source cutover below changes the recipient of a contribution;
+bind the actual allied purchase and its original price and payer shares.
+
+### Advanced Emperor contribution recipient — 29 October 2026
+
+The user-authorized supplied revised rulebook, physical p. 15 (printed p. 13),
+Bidding, directs Emperor's contribution to an ally's Treachery Card purchase
+to the Spice Bank. An amount transferred directly using Emperor's alliance
+ability is instead the buyer's own spice and follows the purchase's normal
+recipient. This is an Advanced source cutover; Basic retains the earlier
+interpretation above. Ordinary and Richese paid-lot prototypes preserve the
+actual payer and recipient legs through settlement. For example, if an ally
+buys an ordinary card for six with two contributed by Emperor, four goes to
+Emperor and two to the bank. Income cancellation can affect only the eligible
+Emperor income, not return or replay the bank contribution. This implementation
+is partial and does not certify Nexus purchase variants, all optional-module
+interactions or full Advanced play.
 
 ### Implemented battle alternative (bounded)
 

docs/OPTIONAL_ALLIANCE_VICTORY.md

@@ -158,11 +158,24 @@ entry remain unfinished.
 **Staged Basic prototype, not a selectable game mode.** Fulfilled and released
 Truthtrance records no longer disable later group Nexus negotiations or group
 funding. The later scope above allows departures with live bribe answers and
-funding with outsider-only commitments; group-member funding with unresolved
-records remains fenced until reconciliation. The existing committed-bid
+funding with outsider-only commitments. The later negative-answer extension
+below permits current-turn No bribe commitments while other unresolved
+group-member commitments remain fenced. The existing committed-bid
 settlement exception is retained. Other combinations remain unfinished, and no
 lobby exposes group play.
 
+## Group funding with negative bribe answers — 29 October 2026
+
+**Staged Basic and Advanced prototypes, not selectable game modes.** A current
+No answer to a simple or grouped bribe question remains binding while members
+pledge and spend group funding on an ordinary bid or physical shipment. Those
+transactions are not ordinary bribes. Current Yes answers and unreconciled
+older No answers still fence group funding; unrelated commitment guards and
+the existing committed-bid exception remain. Group-member recipient controls
+also exclude all allies, not just a single pair ally. Allocation and group
+extension are provisional online procedures; other commitments, modules,
+special transport and complete group play remain unfinished.
+
 ## Group funding with Karama shipment pricing — 29 October 2026
 
 **Staged Basic prototype, not a selectable game mode.** Group members can
@@ -243,6 +256,13 @@ provisional online procedures. This scope is Basic classic-faction ordinary
 auctions; optional modules, competing Truthtrance commitments, special
 auctions and complete group play remain separate. No lobby exposes group play.
 
+The later staged Advanced group path also retains each donor's original
+ordinary-bid payment destination. Under the authorized supplied revised
+rulebook, physical p. 15 (printed p. 13), Emperor's contribution goes to the
+bank; a direct Emperor alliance gift is buyer-owned and follows the ordinary
+recipient. This Advanced cutover does not change the Basic interpretation in
+the preceding paragraph. Further group interactions remain unfinished.
+
 ## Group ordinary-shipment funding — 28 October 2026
 
 **Staged Basic prototype, not a selectable game mode.** Group allies can set

docs/RICHESE_AUCTION_RULES.md

@@ -94,6 +94,21 @@ the original native counter/card continuation. Positive Black Market
 self-bidding, exhausted-cache counts and other special-lot boundaries remain;
 the supplied source excludes Richese lots from Ixian Technology.
 
+### Emperor contribution to a Richese lot — 29 October 2026
+
+The authorized supplied revised rulebook, physical p. 15 (printed p. 13),
+Bidding, sends Emperor's contribution to an ally's Treachery Card purchase to
+the Spice Bank. A direct Emperor alliance gift becomes the buyer's own spice
+and follows the normal purchase recipient. This Advanced cutover also applies
+to the connected Richese cache and Black Market sale prototypes: the seller
+receives the buyer-funded portion, while Emperor's contributed portion goes to
+the bank. If Richese buys or retains its own lot, only the buyer-funded portion
+goes to Emperor; the contributed portion goes to the bank. Basic retains its
+earlier payment policy. The original price, donor amounts, and each payment
+destination remain attached to the pending sale rather than reconstructed from
+later balances. Broader optional-module combinations and complete Richese play
+remain unverified.
+
 ## Printed rules, by checkpoint
 
 The source anchor is R2 pp.4–6,10–12: ten cache cards stay outside the hand; one revealed cache lot replaces a normal lot and is declared first or last before Ixian preparation. It uses Once Around or Silent. Other buyers pay Richese; Richese pays Emperor/bank. Discards enter normal discard. Ordinary Karama acquisition is barred. Once Around gives each other faction one ascending bid/pass in a chosen direction, then Richese's final opportunity. Silent reveals eligible bidders' simultaneous offers, including zero, with storm-order ties. A zero result permits cache keep/remove. Advanced Black Market offers one concealed hand card before Declaration, permits all three methods, allows Atreides inspection and unverified sales claims, pays Richese, and shrinks the normal pool only after a sale; no bid means retain. Direct-cache purchases cannot use Ixian allied replacement; Black Market purchases can, even for Richese-family cards. Harkonnen bonus applies to both. Juice of Sapho works in Once Around. Cancellation prevents cache auction at round start or Black Market sale. The special power buys a privately chosen cache card for three spice. [R2](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CHOAM-Rulebook-low-res.pdf)