Document original Ix Spice card policies and readable effects

Retain the current first-turn worm precedence, later Thumper/Sandtrout equivalence and sequential physical Harvester doubling under explicit provisional preview interpretations. Record photographed component and publisher-source provenance, authorized Advanced corroboration, and unresolved wider timing boundaries. No new numerical rule or publisher clarification is claimed.

Warn persistently before first-turn Thumper disposal and explain waiting Sandtrout replacements. Public chronicle entries explain ignored first-turn Thumper and Sandtrout encounters. Correct stale preview gates in the relevant reference topics.

Genuine public Basic/Advanced selected-Ix programmes use original setup, unopened deal and Spice lotteries, real intervening turns and actual held physical cards. Separate assertions prove phase continuation, Nexus/doubling behavior, ready reset and retained physical stock; four existing minimal profiles legally accept a harvested window. Focused tests, types/lint/build and actual GameTable rendering are recorded in docs/IX_PROTOTYPE.md.

This remains bounded prototype evidence, not full native factions, optional combinations, browser/deployed or final assurance. No strategic AI refinement, state version, saved-room/database/reset/restart/deployment operation.

docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md

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 # Dune implementation status
 
+## 24 October 2026 — Original Ix Spice card interpretations
+
+Retain existing Thumper/Sandtrout/Harvester mechanics after bounded printed-source
+review, with explicit provisional first-turn precedence, later generated-worm
+suppression and sequential physical doubling. Persistent held-card warnings
+explain first-turn disposal and replacement behavior; public logs explain ignored
+encounters. Correct stale preview-gate claims in the relevant reference topics.
+
+A disjoint genuine original-source fixture lane, bounded source review and owner
+integration pass4-file47/47, types/lint/build, twelve original Basic/Advanced
+gameplay/rendering programmes and four legal policies. Actual original Thumper,
+both distinct Harvesters and native Sandtrout across a real turn finish the phase
+with expected8/32/enhanced64, Nexus membership, readiness reset and physical stock.
+The only final feedback repair was a private rendering assertion about the
+default-collapsed chronicle; source-identical runtime alone reran. [Canonical
+sources, selected policy, action counts and frozen evidence](IX_PROTOTYPE.md#original-spice-cards-and-selected-policy--24-october-2026).
+No new numerical ruling, module opening, strategy calibration, wider native-
+faction/combination/browser/deployed or final assurance claim. No saved-room/
+database/reset/restart/deployment operation in this rule batch.
+
 ## 24 October 2026 — Basic occupied Tupile lifecycle
 
 Extend the existing provisional Basic current-sole policy to one-slot grants and