Implement the five 7 October pending rule rulings

The user answered five recorded questions; each ruling is indexed in
RULE_DECISIONS.md and implemented with a focused regression.

- CHOAM opening income counts as a qualifying collection, so low-population
  Tupile adds its bank increment under the Inflation multiplier. The engine
  guard is removed and the projection/notice expose the added bonus.
- An exhausted Richese cache is legal and restores one ordinary lot; the
  canceled/prevented compulsory cache auction branch restores the reduction
  before the ordinary pool runs and the cache offer is skipped when no cache
  lot can run. The pure continuation quote mirrors the count.
- Suk-rescued casualties count toward Advanced Atreides' seven Kwisatz
  Haderach losses: the battle-loss counter gains the full dialed allocation in
  both rescue paths, and the earlier Suk availability restriction is removed.
- The Guild Nexus Secret Ally reserve return overrides the Arrakis-to-native-
  Homeworld restriction for the holder's own reserves and deposits through the
  shared native-reserve pipeline (generalized from the revival deposit).
- Interior passengers count as entering the territories a relocated Ixian HMS
  points into, so Sandmaster collects there before the native collection.

Full offline suite 7804/7804, types and lint pass. Historical evidence and
superseded test expectations are updated to the ruled behaviour; preserved
combined Homeworld/Nexus, occupation and Richese captures are unblocked but
not re-run here. No existing game, seat or saved state was changed.

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

@@ -17,6 +17,33 @@ open mode gates.
 
 ## Current checkpoint and work
 
+**7 October 2026 — five pending rulings resolved by the user.** The user
+answered five recorded questions; each is now recorded in
+[the decision index](RULE_DECISIONS.md#user-rulings--7-october-2026) and
+implemented:
+- CHOAM's opening income counts as a qualifying collection, so low-population
+  Tupile adds its bank increment under the Inflation multiplier
+  (`game/engine.ts`, charity projection and controls).
+- A Richese exhausted cache is legal and a canceled/prevented compulsory cache
+  auction restores one ordinary lot (`game/richese-settlement.ts`,
+  `game/auction-continuation-quote.ts`, `game/engine.ts`).
+- Suk-rescued casualties count toward Advanced Atreides' seven Kwisatz Haderach
+  losses, and the earlier Suk availability restriction is removed.
+- The Guild Nexus Secret Ally reserve return overrides the Arrakis-to-native-
+  Homeworld restriction for the holder's own reserves, depositing through the
+  shared native-reserve pipeline (`game/nexus-guild-secret-ally-options.ts`,
+  `game/engine.ts`).
+- Interior passengers count as entering the territories a relocated Ixian HMS
+  points into, so Sandmaster collects there before the native collection
+  (`game/sandmaster-movement.ts`, `game/engine.ts`).
+
+The remaining recorded questions (Bureaucrat/Emperor gifts, Recruits late
+accounting, ordinary Guild cancellation, base special Karama, Nexus
+composition, Orgiz, Testing Station, Jacurutu, occupied Homeworlds and the
+Homeworld restoration questions) stay pending. Preserved combined
+Homeworld/Nexus, occupation-profile and Richese captures can now be resumed
+against the rulings; resumption itself is not yet re-run here.
+
 **In progress — mixed E3 and three-family Nexus.** Original selected Ecaz
 plus Ix and/or CHOAM now requires an actual native from every selected
 family, with optional classics: Basic/Advanced2–6/all12 Nexus, optionally
@@ -2630,7 +2657,7 @@ These links define bounded working behavior, not complete module certification.
 | --- | --- |
 | Basic core | Ordinary Guild repricing/transport settlement, broader truthful commitments, unresolved special timing and integrated rules/human/AI acceptance. |
 | Six-faction Advanced | Base gaps, provisional special-Karama outcomes, remaining timing audits and authentic multiplayer/browser acceptance. The user-authorized unfinished preview is available; setup matrices and complete samples do not certify full compliance. |
-| Twelve factions and all optional modules | Every missing effect, remaining skill bands, Ecaz card variant, Kull Wahad, unfinished Richese cards, Terror effects, occupation entitlement, Nexus interactions, contested Discoveries and complete games across valid combinations. Detailed boundaries remain in the checklist/decision index. |
+| Twelve factions and all optional modules | Every missing effect, remaining skill bands, Ecaz card variant, Kull Wahad, unfinished Richese cards, Terror effects, occupation entitlement, Nexus interactions, contested Discoveries and complete games across valid combinations. The 7 October 2026 rulings settled CHOAM's low-population opening income, the Richese exhausted/canceled cache count, Suk/Kwisatz loss counting, the Guild Secret Ally Homeworld reserve return and Sandmaster HMS-relocation eligibility; the preserved captures can be resumed. Detailed boundaries remain in the checklist/decision index. |
 | AI | Maintain minimal legal participation and critical correctness fixes while game features are unfinished. Full implementation, strategy refinement and calibration wait until all non-AI features are complete; then target approximately 75% higher-tier wins for Medium/Easy, Hard/Medium and Brutal/Hard. See the [AI development plan](AI_DEVELOPMENT_PLAN.md). These targets remain unverified. |
 | Multiplayer | Broader disconnected/abandoned-seat recovery, unattended continuation and network-failure acceptance, while preserving authoritative versioning, custody, privacy and saves. |
 | Administration | Complete the [admin panel](ADMIN_PANEL.md): permissions, room directory and creation/removal, lifecycle controls, participant support, backup/restore and operational audit tools. Required before full AI refinement. |

docs/HOMEWORLD_BENEFITS_IMPLEMENTATION.md

@@ -29,4 +29,4 @@ An isolated Chrome QA room, `4K3HXJ6D`, passed desktop (1440×1000) and phone (3
 
 The prior development server was absent. A fresh read-only snapshot and SQLite backup preserved **2,648 existing rooms** before localhost startup; all versions and state hashes were unchanged afterward. The server returned HTTP 200. No database reset or recurring automation was used.
 
-Pending material interpretations remain CHOAM's own low-population opening income, the Tleilaxu special-Karama/Homeworld overlap, and Ix high-population Suboid bonus quota/shortage behavior. Invasions, Homeworld battles, occupation, remaining card effects, full module combinations and complete games are unfinished. Keep public Homeworld/Advanced/unfinished expansion starts disabled.
+Material interpretations now settled by the 7 October 2026 user ruling include CHOAM's own low-population opening income (it counts as a qualifying collection). Pending material interpretations remain the Tleilaxu special-Karama/Homeworld overlap and Ix high-population Suboid bonus quota/shortage behavior. Invasions, Homeworld battles, occupation, remaining card effects, full module combinations and complete games are unfinished. Keep public Homeworld/Advanced/unfinished expansion starts disabled.

docs/HOMEWORLD_BENEFITS_RULES.md

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Actual Ix HIGH and Tleilax LOW cards were visually rechecked in the [four-sheet
 - **Fremen alliance:** apply the granted rate of three, then the recipient's own low bonus. The donor's low population does not turn its printed alliance grant into four. Canceling the alliance benefit removes that source, not the recipient's independent Homeworld increment. This follows the distinct grant and native modifier; it does not add an ordinary Karama cancellation of every faction's printed free rate.
 - **Charity:** establish a valid collection first. Multiply ordinary charity and the conditional low bonus by Inflation, while keeping the bonus bank-paid. At zero spice, ordinary low charity is two from its ordinary payer plus one bank; Double makes four plus two. At one spice it is one plus one, or two plus two. Cancel produces no collection and no bonus. Advanced BG's ordinary amount is two regardless of wealth; a canceled BG charity claim similarly has no qualifying collection. These are cross-source compositions, not located worked examples.
 
-**CHOAM's own income needs an explicit integration decision.** Its initial two-per-faction payment is named the Charity advantage, and E2 expressly includes it in Inflation. This supports treating it as a qualifying collection for Tupile's low bank increment, but that parenthetical does not explicitly adjudicate other modifiers. Conversely, limiting the Homeworld bonus to ordinary poverty claims would give low CHOAM no increment on its usual initial income. No retrieved primary passage resolves that distinction. Preserve the ordinary claim and faction-income sources rather than accidentally awarding twice or silently excluding CHOAM.
+**CHOAM's own income — resolved 7 October 2026 by user ruling.** Its initial two-per-faction payment is named the Charity advantage, and E2 expressly includes it in Inflation. The user ruled that it **counts as a qualifying collection** for Tupile's low bank increment, so the low-population bonus is added under the same Inflation multiplier as ordinary charity. The engine no longer blocks low-population CHOAM opening income.
 
 ## Keep cancellation sources distinct
 

docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,50 @@
 # Dune implementation status
 
+## 7 October 2026 — five pending user rulings implemented
+
+The user resolved five recorded rule questions; each is indexed in
+`RULE_DECISIONS.md#user-rulings--7-october-2026` and implemented with a focused
+regression:
+
+- **CHOAM low-population opening income.** CHOAM's phase-opening income now
+  counts as a qualifying collection, so a low-population native Homeworld adds
+  its bank increment under the same Inflation multiplier as ordinary charity.
+  The previous `requireRule` guard is removed; the projection and the CHOAM
+  income notice expose the added bonus. `tests/homeworld-charity-engine.test.ts`
+  compares low and non-low Tupile with and without Inflation.
+- **Richese exhausted/canceled cache.** `requireRicheseDeclarationCache` now
+  rejects only a malformed or negative count, and an exhausted cache runs the
+  ordinary pool at its full declared count. A canceled/prevented compulsory
+  cache auction sets `cacheCanceled`, restores one ordinary lot and runs the
+  pool; the cache offer is skipped whenever no cache lot can run, and the pure
+  continuation quote mirrors that. `tests/richese-settlement-preflight.test.ts`
+  asserts the one-lot restoration, and
+  `tests/nexus-richese-betrayal-engine.test.ts` asserts an exhausted-cache
+  Black Market sale now completes.
+- **Suk Graduate / Kwisatz Haderach.** Rescued counters count toward Advanced
+  Atreides' seven battle losses: the battle-loss counter gains the full dialed
+  casualty allocation in both the ordinary and Homeworld rescue paths, and the
+  earlier Suk availability restriction (assignment block, battle preflight and
+  `unavailableSkills` projection) is removed. `tests/suk-graduate.test.ts` and
+  `tests/advanced-native-skills.test.ts` cover assignment and loss counting.
+- **Guild Secret Ally Homeworld reserve return.** The reserve-return grant now
+  overrides the Arrakis-to-native-Homeworld restriction for the holder's own
+  reserves. The return deposits through the shared native-reserve pipeline
+  (`addNativeReserves`/`quoteNativeReserveDeposit`, generalized from the revival
+  deposit), so Homeworld custody stays conserved.
+  `tests/nexus-guild-secret-ally-engine.test.ts` returns a staged Emperor group
+  with Homeworld custody and `tests/nexus-guild-secret-ally-controls.test.ts`
+  updates the route expectation.
+- **Sandmaster / native HMS relocation.** Interior passengers count as entering
+  the territories the stronghold points into, so the Sandmaster skill collects
+  one spice per entered territory with an unambiguous pile before the faction's
+  own traversed-sector collection. `tests/sandmaster-movement.test.ts` compares
+  an identical relocation with and without the assigned skill.
+
+The related union passes; types and lint are green. Preserved combined
+Homeworld/Nexus, occupation-profile and Richese captures are now unblocked but
+have not been re-run here.
+
 ## 7 October 2026 — distinct Mentat replacement and reproducible suites
 
 `replaceMoritaniAssassinationTraitors` now draws the first **distinct** physical

docs/NEXUS_GUILD_SECRET_ALLY_RULES.md

@@ -32,9 +32,7 @@ Native Homeworld custody can represent the same outgoing reserves without creati
 
 **Price and permission are separate.** E3 already permits world-to-world shipment by non-Guild factions, with a one-spice-per-force tariff and Guild half price. The card's Guild-rate clause therefore supports `ceil(n / 2)` for an independently legal world-to-world invasion. This price composition borrows no high-Junction advantage and grants no new destination. Preserve the source custody and own/ally-world restrictions. [GF9 E3, p10](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/EcazMoritani-Rulebook-LOWRES.pdf#page=10)
 
-**Arrakis to native reserves remains a material interpretation question when Homeworlds are enabled.** Reserves occupy native Homeworld discs; E3 expressly restricts Arrakis-to-Homeworld shipment to Guild, with a named Homeworld-advantage exception. The Nexus expressly grants reserve return. A card-specific exception is plausible, especially because it already exceeds normal alliance rights. Conversely, E3's specific Homeworld restriction can be read as limiting that grant. Its Nexus FAQ resolves neither reading. [GF9 E3, pp9–11 and 16](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/EcazMoritani-Rulebook-LOWRES.pdf#page=9)
-
-The concrete question is whether Secret Ally's reserve-return permission overrides that restriction **for the holder's own native reserves**. An affirmative answer does not grant Arrakis-to-arbitrary-foreign-Homeworld transport. Until resolved, expose this particular return as unfinished; ordinary Arrakis routes and independently legal world-to-world discounted shipment need not be blocked.
+**Arrakis to native reserves — resolved 7 October 2026 by user ruling.** Reserves occupy native Homeworld discs; E3 expressly restricts Arrakis-to-Homeworld shipment to Guild, with a named Homeworld-advantage exception. The Nexus expressly grants reserve return. The user ruled that the Secret Ally's reserve-return permission **overrides that restriction for the holder's own native reserves**. It still does not grant Arrakis-to-arbitrary-foreign-Homeworld transport; ordinary Arrakis routes and independently legal world-to-world discounted shipment are unchanged. The engine now routes the return through the native-reserve deposit pipeline so Homeworld custody stays conserved.
 
 ## Implementation boundaries
 

docs/NEXUS_GUILD_SECRET_ALLY_RUNTIME.md

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Fremen can retain their ordinary free reinforcement option. Choosing the Nexus i
 
 For an independently legal world-to-world shipment, the Nexus changes only the price to half a spice per force, rounded upward. Actual foreign/native source custody, special counters, own-world return restriction and ally-world prohibition remain authoritative. The card does not grant arbitrary Arrakis-to-foreign-Homeworld transport or high-Junction sponsorship.
 
-The material interaction between the card's return to reserves and the Homeworld native-Guild route restriction has been asked of the user. Until resolved, returning to Homeworld reserves with this grant is unavailable. Concealed No-Field transport retains its existing separate implementation boundary.
+**Resolved 7 October 2026:** the user ruled that the card's return to reserves overrides the Homeworld native-Guild route restriction for the holder's own reserves, so returning to Homeworld reserves with this grant is available and deposits through the shared native-reserve pipeline. Concealed No-Field transport retains its existing separate implementation boundary.
 
 ## Payment, arrival and saved history
 

docs/RICHESE_AUCTION_RULES.md

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ For Black Market with ordinary bidding, preserve the ordinary opener progression
 
 These questions cannot be silently represented as settled FAQ compliance:
 
-1. **Canceled compulsory lot and an exhausted cache.** The start-of-round reduction and the permission to prevent the cache auction are both printed, but the cancellation table does not say whether a replacement ordinary lot is restored. Nor does it prescribe exhausted-cache or zero-eligible-player arithmetic. Preserve separate count facts so an eventual ruling changes one policy rather than corrupting custody. Never draw a negative count.
+1. **Canceled compulsory lot and an exhausted cache — count resolved 7 October 2026 by user ruling.** The start-of-round reduction and the permission to prevent the cache auction are both printed, and the cancellation table does not say whether a replacement ordinary lot is restored. The user ruled that when no cache lot can run — the cache is exhausted, or the compulsory cache auction is canceled/prevented — **one ordinary lot is restored**, so the ordinary pool runs its full declared count rather than the cache-reduced count. `requireRicheseDeclarationCache` now accepts an exhausted cache (only a malformed or negative count is rejected), and the `richeseAuction` cancellation branch already restores the reduction before the ordinary pool runs. The Karama **authorization** to cancel the compulsory cache auction itself is still gated in `validateKaramaUse` (`richeseAuction` remains non-cancelable), so that branch is the ruled policy awaiting that separate feature rather than a reachable path.
 2. **Black Market count wording.** Its specific rule conditions reduction on a sale. The embedded Ixian answer refers more broadly to cards put up for auction. The more specific sale condition supports no reduction for an unsold/canceled Black Market offer. Record that composition explicitly; do not decrement merely on declaration.
 3. **Self-purchase of a Black Market card.** The generic alternative methods include Richese, but Black Market says Richese receives all payments and already owns the card. No retrieved paragraph specifies seller exclusion, a self-payment loop, an Emperor payment, or whether self-retention is a sale reducing the normal pool. Do not borrow the cache self-payment exception without a ruling.
 4. **Ixian advanced Technology on special lots.** I20 p.9 broadly applies before bidding on a card and before Atreides inspection. R2's explicit restriction concerns the _ally's post-purchase replacement_, not Technology. Consequently that FAQ cannot justify disabling Technology on special lots. No retrieved Richese paragraph explains an exchanged cache lot's new public face, or the custody of a substituted Black Market lot if nobody bids. This is a genuine interaction to resolve before certifying the combined implementation.

docs/RULE_DECISIONS.md

@@ -1,6 +1,26 @@
 # Rule decision index
 
-Updated 2 October 2026. This is the authoritative navigation index for existing decisions, not a replacement rulebook or a new ruling. Detailed linked contracts retain their source citations and exact supported boundaries. Runtime follow-ups supersede historical absence claims; passing tests establish software behavior, not publisher authority.
+Updated 7 October 2026. This is the authoritative navigation index for existing decisions, not a replacement rulebook or a new ruling. Detailed linked contracts retain their source citations and exact supported boundaries. Runtime follow-ups supersede historical absence claims; passing tests establish software behavior, not publisher authority.
+
+## User rulings — 7 October 2026
+
+Five previously pending questions were answered directly by the user. These are
+recorded user rulings, not located publisher passages; the source documents
+below retain the passages that left each question open.
+
+| Boundary | Ruling | Superseded question record |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| CHOAM opening income at low-population Tupile | CHOAM's opening income (`2 × players`) counts as a qualifying collection for Tupile's low-population bank increment: add `homeworldLowBonus × Inflation multiplier` exactly as ordinary poverty charity does, instead of leaving the engine guard. | [Homeworld benefits](HOMEWORLD_BENEFITS_RULES.md) |
+| Richese exhausted/canceled cache count | When no cache lot can run — the cache is exhausted, or the compulsory cache auction is canceled/prevented — one ordinary auction lot is restored, so the ordinary pool runs its full declared count rather than the cache-reduced count. | [Richese auction boundaries](RICHESE_AUCTION_RULES.md#explicit-source-boundaries) |
+| Suk Graduate / Atreides | Counters rescued by Suk Graduate count toward the seven force losses that activate Kwisatz Haderach (raw dialed casualties), so Suk is no longer withheld in Advanced Atreides. | [Suk Graduate rules](SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md#atreides-loss-count-question) |
+| Guild Secret Ally / Homeworlds | The Nexus Secret Ally reserve-return grant overrides the Arrakis-to-native-Homeworld restriction for the holder's **own** native reserves only; arbitrary foreign-Homeworld transport stays unavailable. | [Homeworld return](NEXUS_GUILD_SECRET_ALLY_RULES.md#homeworld-prices-and-the-unresolved-return) |
+| Sandmaster / native HMS relocation | Forces remaining inside a relocated HMS interior count as entering the outside territories the stronghold points into, so Sandmaster grants its per-entered-territory collection for those territories. | [Native HMS relocation eligibility](SANDMASTER_MOVEMENT.md#21-september-native-hms-relocation-eligibility) |
+
+Each ruling changes only the specific combination named. Ordinary behaviour the
+sources already established (ordinary charity, ordinary Richese auction counts,
+non-rescue losses, ordinary Arrakis routes and ordinary Sandmaster entry/exit)
+is unchanged. Implementation, guidance and tests follow the ruling; the retained
+documents above keep their original source analysis.
 
 ## Single-native E1/E2 Nexus composition — 7 October 2026
 
@@ -377,15 +397,12 @@ These are unresolved in the cited records. Do not infer an answer from elapsed t
 | Reinforcements cost | The user question still asks whether to keep the card disabled, always transfer three reserve forces on every outcome, or waive only a sole traitor-call winner's cost; no answer is assumed. The bounded classic and Ecaz/Moritani prototype provisionally charges on all revealed outcomes, chooses normal reserves before elite and counts the transfer as battle losses. Those are product interpretations, not a ruling. Same-plan Harass/Stone Burner remain gated; opposing Harass is supported. Eligibility never depends on concealed matching Traitors. | [Source cost review](ECAZ_TREACHERY_RULES.md#14-september-reinforcements-cost-review) · [Bounded runtime](REINFORCEMENTS_RUNTIME.md) |
 | Harass / Stone Burner | A user question has been sent: keep the combination gated or compare forces remaining after withdrawal. No answer is assumed. The Richese card-family configuration is guarded publicly; hidden Stone Burner custody never controls eligibility. Ambiguous physical allocations and other optional modules remain unfinished. | [Current boundaries](HARASS_WITHDRAW_RUNTIME.md#current-boundaries) |
 | Recruits late accounting and rates | A user question has been sent for two free plus one paid Atreides return before Recruits: keep the disputed case gated, or one/two further free returns without refund. No answer is assumed. Late-changing free rates, pending repricing and same-turn recovered-card replay also stay gated. The connected clean-case preview retains the independent seven-force cap after faction-advantage cancellation as an explicit inference, not a direct combined FAQ. | [Source audit](RECRUITS_RULES.md), [runtime scope](RECRUITS_RUNTIME.md) |
-| Sandmaster / native HMS relocation | No official source located establishes that passengers remaining inside the HMS enter outside territories for this skill. Extra collection eligibility is pending a user ruling; native sector collection and ordinary force entry/exit remain available. | [Source comparison and question](SANDMASTER_MOVEMENT.md#21-september-native-hms-relocation-eligibility) |
 | Sapho remaining timing | First versus unspent Advanced Guild priority, partly completed combined turns, cyclic auction duration and later battle timing stay guarded. The existing pre-plan opportunity supports [early aggressor](SAPHO_AGGRESSOR.md). Prior questions remain unanswered. | [Source audit](JUICE_OF_SAPHO_SOURCE_UPDATE.md), [battle review](JUICE_OF_SAPHO_BATTLE_REVIEW.md) |
 | Semuta Drug | Full-hand exchange is user-approved; neutral all-seat acknowledgements remain the explicit application policy. Other discard producers, nested continuation coverage and full-game acceptance remain unfinished. | [Source update and selected exchange](SEMUTA_SOURCE_UPDATE_20260907.md), [privacy review](SEMUTA_PRIVACY_REVIEW.md) |
 | Leader Skills edge cases | Capture/replacement eligibility, Banker escrow custody, Smuggler modifier/allocation boundaries, Mentat empty-hand fallback, modified Diplomat defenses and simultaneous optional timing remain source gaps. After an online publisher/designer/tournament check found no explicit priority ruling, the bounded standalone Diplomat retreat prototype explicitly chooses printed/copied disc strength and a surviving-loser retreat before ordinary casualties; other combinations remain guarded. This is an implementation interpretation, not an official clarification. | [Material boundaries and selected retreat interpretation](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md#bounded-diplomat-retreat-interpretation), [Diplomat defense boundary](DIPLOMAT_DEFENSE.md#evidence-and-remaining-scope) |
 | Smuggler collection strength | A fresh primary-source check found no modifier ruling. The user was asked whether to keep affected combinations gated, use printed/copied disc value, or include leader bonuses with Stunner zero. No answer is assumed. The reveal-bound deferred receipt is supported as an explicit timing inference; unmodified lower collection is now [prototyped](SMUGGLER_BATTLE.md); modified strength, multiple positive piles and combined modules remain gated. | [Smuggler follow-up](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md#20-september-smuggler-follow-up) |
-| Suk Graduate / Atreides | Whether rescued dialed casualties count toward the seven-loss Kwisatz Haderach threshold remains unresolved. The user question has been sent; Advanced Atreides rescue stays guarded. | [Source and runtime boundary](SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md) |
 | Ordinary Guild cancellation | Unaffordable repricing, replacement/retry/decline, consumed opportunity, contributor adjustment and ordering with special shipment-stop. The affordability question was already sent. | [Material timing](GUILD_RATE_KARAMA_RULES.md#material-unresolved-timing) |
 | Base special Karama | Unfunded auction recovery, stopped-shipment settlement and Atreides full-plan commitment order remain provisional. Native full-plan/Voice/Prescience/Truthtrance/Ghola interactions now have genuine-setup focused evidence, but the source audit does not settle the special offer/deadline or target-first interpretation. | [Explicit base interpretations](BASE_ADVANCED_READINESS_20260907.md#explicit-unresolved-base-interpretations), [full-plan interaction audit](ATREIDES_FULL_PLAN_TIMING.md) |
-| Guild Secret Ally/Homeworlds | Whether the reserve-return grant overrides the Homeworld return restriction. The question was already sent; that route stays guarded. | [Homeworld return](NEXUS_GUILD_SECRET_ALLY_RULES.md#homeworld-prices-and-the-unresolved-return), [checkpoint](NEXUS_GUILD_SECRET_ALLY_RUNTIME.md) |
 | Occupied Homeworlds | Entitlement/expiry after departure, replacement or contest; unique powers and shared income. The first-occupier/current-occupier question was already sent. | [Occupation questions](HOMEWORLD_OCCUPATION_RULES.md#questions-the-retrieved-sources-do-not-settle), [lifecycle audit](HOMEWORLD_OCCUPATION_LIFECYCLE_AUDIT.md) |
 | Nexus responses and composition | Betrayal private-response timing, partial revival/payment choices, Emperor fewer-than-five, fresh advisor/storm cases, Duke restoration and remaining faction-specific combinations. Tleilaxu Secret Ally force accounting, leader slot/eligibility and force-only use remain unresolved after requested publisher/designer source searches; do not infer answers from native Tleilaxu revival or Ghola. | [Common boundaries](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#remaining-source-questions-and-release-boundaries), [Tleilaxu source search](NEXUS_TLEILAXU_RULES.md#source-search-follow-up) and individual faction source/runtime documents |
 | Moritani Atomics after alliance change | The publisher's persistent −1 hand-limit text names Moritani and “your ally,” but not whether the penalty follows a later ally, remains on the original ally or affects both. Requested online source searches found no clarification; the alliance-change case remains gated. | [Terror source boundary](MORITANI_TERROR_RULES.md#material-gaps-and-ordinary-compositions) |

docs/SANDMASTER_MOVEMENT.md

@@ -93,7 +93,10 @@ allows Karama to prevent HMS relocation and collection together.
 
 The checked card, designer walkthrough and available official rules did not
 clarify whether passengers staying in the interior count as entering outside
-territories. Skill-before-faction precedence settles ordering only if eligibility
-is established. A user ruling question was sent; no answer is assumed. Native
-relocation and ordinary Sandmaster entry/exit remain available. No extra
-collection is silently applied, and full combined compliance remains unverified.
+territories. **Resolved 7 October 2026 by user ruling:** interior passengers
+**do count as entering** the outside territories the stronghold points into, so
+the Sandmaster skill collects one spice per entered territory with an
+unambiguous pile during a native relocation, before the faction's own
+traversed-sector collection. Skill-before-faction precedence settles the
+ordering. Ordinary Sandmaster entry/exit and native relocation are unchanged;
+full combined compliance remains unverified.

docs/SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md

@@ -127,20 +127,17 @@ Human L7C8HTQT confirms17 Ecaz reserves/0 Tanks/3 board, ally16 reserves/
 See [standalone source and evidence](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#standalone-e3-nexus-skills-and-original-components--5-october-2026).
 
 
-## Atreides loss-count question
+## Atreides loss-count question — resolved 7 October 2026
 
 The base Advanced rules activate Kwisatz Haderach after seven force losses.
 Suk describes rescued counters as losses redirected away from the Tanks, and
-the designer describes the retained counter as having been killed. Counting
-the raw dialed casualties is therefore the stronger textual inference, but
-the retrieved publisher/designer sources do not expressly settle this combination.
-The user question is pending. New Advanced Atreides setup and revival offers
-retain their physical cards but make Suk unavailable, explain why and allow the
-other offered card. The server, private view, controls and bots share this
-prototype restriction. Already-assigned saved combinations retain the battle
-preflight guard before final traitor votes or resources commit. This availability
-restriction is not an official rule. Other rescued counters are kept out of the
-physical Tank and ordinary battle-loss totals in this bounded prototype.
+the designer describes the retained counter as having been killed. The user
+ruled that **rescued casualties count toward the seven losses** (raw dialed
+casualties), so Suk is no longer withheld from Advanced Atreides: the setup
+and revival offers can assign it, and the battle path records the full dialed
+casualty allocation on the battle-loss counter rather than only the counters
+that reach the Tanks. The earlier prototype restriction (unavailable skill,
+battle preflight guard) is removed.
 
 ## Evidence and remaining work