Connect Suk Graduate casualty rescues and saved continuation

Implement both rescue bands with legal physical casualty routing, owner controls,
all four bot profiles and durable battle receipts. Preserve paid support, elite
identity, killed/returned leader custody and replay rejection. New Advanced
Atreides skill choices exclude Suk while the KH loss-count ruling is pending;
legacy assigned combinations retain their preflight guard. Public gates remain.

Independent review fixed stale dead trainer assignments and detached rescue
receipts. Final focused Suk/Leader Skills union: 46 passed. Typecheck, lint,
4,452 offline tests, production build and 43 HTTP tests passed on unchanged
source tree 3b76239a46d0ba874299495e64295a5eaaa8f2415c3e9a041bee944bbce50c5a.

Actual browser rescue and refresh retained counters, private hand and pending
winner card cleanup. Two four-profile Basic/Advanced smoke games completed
with JSON restoration and no rejected actions; neither exercised a Suk rescue.
After the outage report the server was healthy. All 360 pre-check rooms and
original seat/recovery records are unchanged; checks added 33 rooms. SQLite
integrity and foreign-key checks pass. No server restart or database reset.

docs/COMPONENT_INVENTORY.md

@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ now have sourced names and complete paraphrased normal/battle text, shared
 inspectors, private two-card offers and one-card assignment custody. Five role
 bonuses, public skilled capture, death return and own revival are connected;
 Planetologist now also has movement and base green-Special battle controls;
-eight effects remain missing. This supersedes the historical missing-inventory
+[Suk Graduate](SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md) redirects actual ordinary/elite casualties
+through readable rescue choices without creating counters. Seven effects remain
+missing. This supersedes the historical missing-inventory
 rows below only for Leader Skills. See [source inventory](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md),
 [capture interpretation](LEADER_SKILLS_CAPTURE.md) and [prototype evidence](LEADER_SKILLS_RUNTIME.md).
 

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

@@ -4,6 +4,15 @@ Updated 13 September 2026. This is the short navigation dashboard; detailed evid
 
 ## Evidence and source of truth
 
+- [Suk Graduate](SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md) now connects both casualty-rescue bands,
+  ordinary/elite counter routing, player controls, all four AI profiles and saved
+  continuation. Targeted browser rescue and refresh preserved two board forces,
+  seventeen reserves, one Tank and the private hand. Two Basic/Advanced samples
+  finished but did not encounter an eligible rescue; targeted tests cover that
+  effect. Advanced Atreides selection remains unavailable pending the recorded
+  Kwisatz Haderach question. After the latest reported outage, the server was
+  healthy and all 360 rooms were backed up; the 359 opening rooms and their seat
+  records were unchanged. Checkpoint-wide results are in the commit.
 - [Planetologist](PLANETOLOGIST_RULES.md) now has bounded movement and Special-card
   battle prototypes. Independent review and **84 focused tests** pass. Two genuine
   four-profile Basic/Advanced samples finished with saved continuations and no
@@ -20,7 +29,8 @@ Updated 13 September 2026. This is the short navigation dashboard; detailed evid
 - The [first Leader Skills prototype](LEADER_SKILLS_RUNTIME.md) connects all
   fourteen physical cards, private setup, five battle disciplines, skilled capture,
   death and own revival through controls, legal AI and saved choices. The [Planetologist follow-up](PLANETOLOGIST_RULES.md) adds movement and
-  Special-card battle controls; the other eight skills remain **Missing**. The user-requested [capture search](LEADER_SKILLS_CAPTURE.md)
+  Special-card battle controls, and Suk Graduate adds casualty rescue; the other
+  seven skills remain **Missing**. The user-requested [capture search](LEADER_SKILLS_CAPTURE.md)
   resolves publicity through the known physical card; captured replacement and
   broader combinations remain pending. No mode gate is opened.
 - Following the reported power outage, the existing server responded normally,

docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,42 @@
 # Dune implementation status
 
+## 13 September 2026 — Suk Graduate casualty rescue prototype
+
+[Suk Graduate](SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md) connects both printed bands through shared
+physical casualty quotes, owner controls, all four bot profiles and durable
+battle continuation. A face-up trainer returns exactly one casualty to reserves;
+a surviving selected leader may save up to three, keeping one in its original
+sector and returning the others. Raw casualty choice and paid support remain
+unchanged. Elites retain their identity. Sole legal normal rescues are automatic.
+
+Independent rules and implementation review found two custody defects: a stale
+dead face-up trainer could retain a skill, and a pending rescue was not bound to
+its actual skill assignment. Both now reject before mutation, with regressions.
+Saved receipt, missing continuation, replay, killed/returned captives, ordinary
+and elite rescue, JSON restore and SQLite concurrent submission are covered.
+The final Suk/Leader Skills focused union passed **46 tests**, including the
+private assignment restriction, usable alternate selection and all four bots.
+New Advanced Atreides selection is unavailable while the existing Kwisatz
+Haderach loss-count question is pending; old assigned saves retain preflight
+protection. Seven other skill effects and combined modules remain unfinished.
+
+Genuine module setup in fresh browser room `BD33WTTV` assigned Suk Graduate to
+Hasimir Fenring. A separately staged conserved battle then exercised the actual
+rescue control: three casualties saved, one kept in sector 10, two returned to
+reserves. Refresh preserved two board forces, seventeen reserves, one Tank, the
+private Crysknife/Baliset/Burseg and winner card cleanup. Two four-profile samples
+completed Basic/Advanced games with 92/188 actions and 3/6 JSON restorations,
+respectively. Neither encountered an eligible rescue; targeted tests and browser
+play establish that effect. These are bounded prototype samples, not calibration
+or full rules acceptance.
+
+The latest reported outage left the existing server healthy. A fresh online
+backup captured all 360 rooms. All 359 opening rooms and their seat/recovery
+records remained unchanged; the new QA seat restored after refresh. No restart
+or reset was needed. Required broad checks and final preservation are recorded
+in the checkpoint commit and source-bound private report. Public Advanced,
+expansion, module and publication gates remain closed.
+
 ## 13 September 2026 — Planetologist movement and green-Special battle prototype
 
 [Planetologist](PLANETOLOGIST_RULES.md) now connects capped extra range, a single

docs/LEADER_SKILLS_RUNTIME.md

@@ -49,9 +49,10 @@ publisher instruction to announce a name.
 
 ## Missing and guarded work
 
-The other nine cards have readable inventory entries but **missing effects**:
-Bureaucrat, Spice Banker, Diplomat, Mentat, Suk Graduate, Rihani Decipherer,
-Sandmaster, Smuggler and Planetologist. They are not completed features.
+Seven cards still have readable inventory entries but **missing effects**:
+Bureaucrat, Spice Banker, Diplomat, Mentat, Rihani Decipherer, Sandmaster and
+Smuggler. They are not completed features. Planetologist and Suk Graduate now
+have connected prototypes described below.
 
 Captured-card replacement entitlement remains unresolved. The prototype rejects
 own-leader revival while its original skill is captured, before beginning a
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ Before enabling them, add response-driven automatic revival continuation
 coverage; the current before/after revival observer does not certify deferred
 Tleilaxu response chains. The other source-contract timing questions also remain
 open. Planetologist now has bounded movement and battle controls as described below.
-The other eight skills still need their payments, information, rescues, retreats
+The other seven skills still need their payments, information, rescues, retreats
 and other effects connected.
 
 ## Planetologist follow-up
@@ -77,9 +78,19 @@ continuation and revalidate source custody before a response is spent.
 Six base factions remain the supported roster. Mixed BG origins are supported
 where ordinary rules determine the destination stance. Enemy-only mixed arrival
 still needs a combined flip response. Expansion faction/card/module combinations
-and full integrated acceptance remain unfinished. Eight other skill effects are
+and full integrated acceptance remain unfinished. Seven other skill effects are
 still missing; this is partial prototype coverage.
 
+## Suk Graduate follow-up
+
+[Suk Graduate](SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md) connects the mandatory one-counter
+normal rescue and the surviving selected leader’s optional rescue of up to three
+physical casualties. Normal and elite identity, original sector, paid support,
+private hands and captured-leader return survive the saved continuation. Human
+controls and all four AI profiles use the same server-projected legal choices.
+Advanced Atreides awaits the loss-count ruling; expansion factions and combined
+optional modules remain guarded.
+
 ## Local prototype entry and evidence
 
 Create a new base-faction local lobby, select its seats and mark them ready.

docs/RULE_DECISIONS.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Updated 13 September 2026. This is the authoritative navigation index for existi
 | Expansion Nexus families | Source audit coverage does not imply every panel is playable; consult later runtime records in the status log. | [Ixian Cunning](NEXUS_IXIAN_CUNNING_RULES.md), [Ixian replacement](NEXUS_IXIAN_REPLACEMENT_RULES.md), [Tleilaxu](NEXUS_TLEILAXU_RULES.md), [CHOAM](NEXUS_CHOAM_RULES.md), [Richese](NEXUS_RICHESE_RULES.md), [Ecaz](NEXUS_ECAZ_RULES.md), [Moritani](NEXUS_MORITANI_RULES.md) |
 | CHOAM Secret Ally | Absent-faction Collection trade spends one actual Worthless card and the Nexus for two bank spice. It is separate from native Cunning and Auditor; the battle inspection alternative remains missing. | [Prototype contract](NEXUS_CHOAM_SECRET_ALLY.md) |
 | Sapho movement | At a clean boundary, first reorders only remaining unstarted turns; completed turns stay completed. Advanced Guild must have finished or be absent. Last retains existing protection after Guild. | [Existing source contract](JUICE_OF_SAPHO_SOURCE_UPDATE.md#movement-firstlast), [runtime](JUICE_OF_SAPHO_RUNTIME.md) |
-| Leader Skills | Fourteen physical cards, variant setup order, public/hidden assignment, death return, own-leader revival and captured lower-band effects are sourced. Five battle disciplines, Planetologist movement/Special substitution and common lifecycle are prototyped; eight skills and combinations remain missing. Known skilled capture identifies the leader through its unique public card. | [Source contract](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md), [capture inference](LEADER_SKILLS_CAPTURE.md), [runtime](LEADER_SKILLS_RUNTIME.md), [Planetologist](PLANETOLOGIST_RULES.md) |
+| Leader Skills | Fourteen physical cards, variant setup order, public/hidden assignment, death return, own-leader revival and captured lower-band effects are sourced. Five battle disciplines, Planetologist movement/Special substitution, Suk Graduate rescues and common lifecycle are prototyped; seven skills and combinations remain missing. Known skilled capture identifies the leader through its unique public card. | [Source contract](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md), [capture inference](LEADER_SKILLS_CAPTURE.md), [runtime](LEADER_SKILLS_RUNTIME.md), [Planetologist](PLANETOLOGIST_RULES.md), [Suk Graduate](SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md) |
 | Discoveries | Preserve seven sourced Spice Cards and eight physical tokens, private faction peeks and Collection choices. Revealed locations are separate territories; only Jacurutu counts toward stronghold victory. Next-turn free entry, sole-occupant Cistern income and later-turn Ornithopter spending are prototyped; Jacurutu income, Testing Station and Shrine have bounded prototypes; Orgiz and contested/mixed cases remain pending. | [Component authority](DISCOVERY_COMPONENTS.md), [prototype boundary](DISCOVERY_PROTOTYPE.md) |
 | Guild Secret Ally | One explicit Guild-priced ordinary shipment; borrowed prices/routes preserve native identity. Free Fremen reinforcement remains a separate choice. | [Route contract](NEXUS_GUILD_SECRET_ALLY_RULES.md), [verified runtime](NEXUS_GUILD_SECRET_ALLY_RUNTIME.md) |
 | Homeworld custody and mobility | Physical home/visitor groups, population thresholds, tariffs and transport permissions retain distinct sources; Homeworld immunity is not universal immunity. | [Homeworld rules](HOMEWORLD_RULES.md), [benefits](HOMEWORLD_BENEFITS_RULES.md), [mobility](HOMEWORLD_MOBILITY_RULES.md), [invasion](HOMEWORLD_INVASION_RULES.md), [Guild transport](GUILD_HOMEWORLD_TRANSPORT_RULES.md) |
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ These are unresolved in the cited records. Do not infer an answer from elapsed t
 | Mirror Weapon | Whether copied Tooth/Artillery mandatory-discard rules attach to the physical Mirror remains unanswered; arithmetic helpers do not admit the full battle card. | [Engine audit](MIRROR_WEAPON_ENGINE_AUDIT.md) |
 | Semuta Drug | Full-hand take-before-discard and the privacy-neutral immediate reaction protocol remain unresolved. Typed discard continuations already exist; they are not activation. | [Source update](SEMUTA_SOURCE_UPDATE_20260907.md), [privacy review](SEMUTA_PRIVACY_REVIEW.md) |
 | Leader Skills edge cases | Capture/replacement eligibility, Banker escrow custody, Smuggler survival settlement, Mentat empty-hand/death disclosure, Diplomat retreat ordering and simultaneous optional timing need resolution before those cases are enabled. These are newly recorded source gaps, not answered user rulings. | [Material boundaries](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md#material-boundaries-not-settled-by-the-sources) |
+| 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) |

docs/SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md

@@ -0,0 +1,100 @@
+# Suk Graduate rescue prototype
+
+13 September 2026. **Prototyped / Partial**. This connects both Suk Graduate
+bands to real battle resolution, player choices, AI and saved continuation.
+Complete module, faction and publication gates remain closed.
+
+## Source contract
+
+Use the physical card and the [Leader Skills source archive](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md).
+The [GF9 CHOAM & Richese rulebook](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CHOAM-Rulebook-low-res.pdf)
+page 9 governs visibility, survival and skill-before-faction ordering; its
+page 12 Q&A gives a captor only the lower band of an actually used captive.
+The [designer walkthrough at 11:10–11:59](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT_azRVLq_0&t=670s)
+expressly distinguishes the normal and selected-leader rescues and says they
+do not accumulate. The archived card photograph supplies the precise quantities.
+
+After an ordinary win with physical casualties, a face-up native Suk Graduate
+returns exactly one chosen casualty to reserves instead of the Tanks. This band
+is mandatory. When the actual skilled leader is used and survives, the player
+may instead save zero through three casualties, limited by the raw casualties.
+If any are saved, exactly one stays in the battle territory and the rest return
+to reserves. Declining this lower band does not trigger the normal band.
+
+A concealed skill with another selected leader grants neither band. A killed
+selected skilled leader grants no rescue. A different selected leader may die
+while the face-up native trainer remains alive and grants the normal rescue.
+A traitor victory loses no winning forces; mutual traitors and explosions have
+no winner. None creates a Suk rescue. The zero-dial case also creates no window.
+
+## Physical settlement and continuation
+
+The existing legal raw normal/elite casualty choices are retained. Choose that
+allocation first; Suk then redirects only those actual counters. Paid support
+is unchanged. Saved elites remain elites in reserves or on the board. The
+normal band resolves automatically when only one counter type can be saved;
+the lower band's optional choice remains with its owner.
+
+The receipt freezes revealed eligibility before the live battle is cleared or
+a used captive returns. It records the battle, raw commitment, source groups,
+physical pool and remaining card cleanup. A separate obligation in the last
+battle context prevents a missing receipt from silently bypassing rescue.
+Actions, views and automatic continuation validate it. A stale event, altered
+allocation, changed physical pool or missing choice rejects without mutation.
+The server alone projects the legal rescue options; the receipt is not exposed.
+
+The current engine assigns a raw casualty mix across sectors in existing
+location order. A saved counter that remains stays in that original sector;
+there is no free sector relocation. This is an explicit implementation inference:
+the card specifies a territory, not how to select sectors. Saved counter types
+and any eligible sector choice remain visible to the player.
+
+Suk settles before winner card choices and faction aftermath, including capture
+and Face Dance. Mandatory loser-card cleanup uses its existing continuation.
+The exact ordering against future combined optional card interruptions still
+needs integrated acceptance. Homeworld custody, Nexus and expansion-faction
+combinations are explicitly rejected before resources or traitor votes commit;
+the genuine Leader Skills initializer currently admits base factions only.
+
+## Atreides loss-count question
+
+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.
+
+## Evidence and remaining work
+
+Focused regressions cover genuine module setup followed by conserved targeted
+battles; both bands, no stacking, decline, killed leaders, captured-leader return,
+normal/elite routing, unchanged support and all four bot profiles. JSON and
+SQLite store restart retain the pending choice. Concurrent submissions commit
+one rescue; the stale submission changes no counters. Component checks cover
+clear destinations, required selection and disabled controls.
+
+Fresh browser room `BD33WTTV` used genuine Emperor/Guild module setup and selected
+Suk Graduate/Hasimir Fenring. A separately staged, conserved battle position used
+one physical Baliset from the deck. Actual browser rescue saved three ordinary
+casualties: one stayed in sector 10 and two returned to reserves. The result was
+two board forces, seventeen reserves and one Tank. Refresh after another reported
+outage retained that result, the private Crysknife/Baliset/Burseg and winner card
+cleanup. This was a targeted battle, not a naturally reached full game.
+
+Four-profile samples completed Basic seed 20260918 (92 actions, three JSON
+restorations) and Advanced seed 20260919 (188 actions, six restorations), with no
+rejected actions and conserved cards/forces after each action. Neither sample
+encountered an eligible Suk rescue; effect evidence comes from the targeted
+tests and browser journey. Checkpoint-wide results and final preservation are
+recorded in the commit and source-bound private report.
+
+These tests do not certify the full expansion, every combination,
+AI strength ordering or complete human games. Seven other skill effects remain
+missing; retain the [full scope and pending rulings](CURRENT_STATUS.md).