Preserve permanent Traitor markers through legal replacement recycling

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

@@ -29,6 +29,30 @@ optional skill bands, combinations and public expansion starts remain open.
 Rules implementation continues; comprehensive assurance and administration
 remain deferred until all rules are implemented.
 
+**Physical Traitor replacements and permanent markers — 15 October.**
+Original native Ix play now draws the real Hero Traitor after Dominic4's
+retirement, without turning it into a leader disc or faction target.
+Shared optional permanent-card census preserves retired victims across
+Nexus exchange, Face Dancer, Betrayal source/replacement and Rihani consumers.
+Old absent-zone formats remain; completed source history stays historical.
+A replacement may legally return and be drawn again: native Hasimir6 return,
+retained Esmar3, a real turn-three Guild loss/retirement and one Hasimir6
+redraw now work without rewriting the first receipt or older Nexus history.
+
+Affected15-file134/134, final types/lint/build and11 original API/policy paths pass.
+Existing build deprecation/chunk/Unknown-route warnings remain. Actual styled390px
+controls Ready through owned Mentat initialization, inspect private Hero,
+return Hasimir/Caid, restore/pass Mori placement, reach next Storm and reveal
+Esmar3 before the second draw. One live Hasimir, two permanent markers;
+no overflow/browser errors. All four mandatory-return policies legally keep
+Hasimir; the human/scripted old-card return is distinct, not calibrated strategy.
+Older adjacent fixtures now consume actual borrowed Voice before native
+Prescience/plans; obsolete ownership/uniqueness and wording/markup pins are
+removed, not re-pinned. No wallet/hand/army/leader/phase/battle staging.
+[Canonical roles, exact source and boundaries](MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md#physical-replacement-roles-and-retired-card-zone--15-october-2026).
+No saved/deployed room touched. Full assurance, optional combinations,
+exceptional targets, public starts and full project completion remain open.
+
 **Canonical Moritani winning discs and ordinary Guild arrival — 15 October.**
 The surviving played disc no longer has to be an ordinary native of its
 victorious player. Original Ecaz/Duke6 opens Sanya Ecaz4; original

docs/IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS.md

@@ -1,5 +1,71 @@
 # Dune implementation status
 
+## 15 October 2026 — Physical Traitor replacements, retired zone and legal recycling
+
+Original Moritani Mentat replacement accepts the actual Ix Hero Traitor as a
+physical card, not a faction leader disc/target. Native Ix play retires Dominic4
+and draws one Hero; native controlled leaders and five-disc identity stay unchanged.
+The actual owned phase-opening initialization still precedes automatic retirement:
+phase8 alone is not a completed Mentat draw.
+
+Added optional `NexusTraitorSnapshot.removed`, derived only from actual replaced
+Mori victim cards. Full canonical census retains existing Loyalty exclusion;
+removed cards cannot enter reserve/hands/Face Dancers or fund draw/return.
+Exchange sources and Face Dancer receipts conditionally bind this physical zone,
+preserving old absent-field grammar. Betrayal's whole serialized source already
+carries it; replacement rejects a source-permanent card without parsing that
+inventory for a still-due/null draw. Rihani's full before/state preserves the
+zone and rejects rewriting it. No Game marker field is imported from a helper:
+engine application only changes actual reserve/hands/Face Dancers.
+
+Removed the false coupling between a historical replacement ID and permanent
+live ownership/unique historical draw. Original Harkonnen Secret Ally may return
+Hasimir6, keep newly drawn Esmar3 and restore the original Mori placement.
+A real later turn-three paid battle/retirement draws the same physical Hasimir
+again. First receipt/signature and older Nexus source stay unchanged after a
+second public marker; one live card and both permanent victims remain conserved.
+Current actor/card authorization, physical census, revealed-until-Mentat rule,
+native target, once-use and normal-call forfeiture remain.
+
+Three failing-before observations identify the role-only Hero parser, missing
+retired-card census and historical-live-ownership guard in actual native play.
+Shared helper/engine consumers and original native producers are integrated
+without a save-schema migration, second deck or fabricated card.
+Shared fixture options direct only original undealt reserve prefix and actual
+closing Nexus singleton; return-shuffle entropy and conserved unplayed Spice
+ordering are disclosed. No raw played reserve/hand/wallet/forces/leader/phase/
+battle or ledger assignment produces the accepted native paths.
+
+Focused nine-file76/76 passes. The broader affected15-file union exposed obsolete
+old ownership/uniqueness assertions and fixtures skipping original borrowed Voice
+before Prescience/plans. Those fixtures now use the existing canonical native
+preparation actions, leaving requested native Prescience available. No rules or
+bot legality is weakened. Repaired affected15-file **134/134** passes.
+Removed markup/wiring/wording pins, unnecessary casts and their unused imports.
+
+**Eleven original API/policy scenarios** pass: Hero/next Storm, four final
+Ready paths through original owned initialization, real old-card return,
+native repeated draw, and four mandatory-return policies. All four return
+policies keep Hasimir in that position; the human/scripted return gives it back.
+No strategic tuning or calibration claim.
+
+Actual styled390px GameTable performs final Collection readiness and private
+Hero inspection; draws two Secret Ally cards; native checkboxes return Hasimir6
+plus Caid3, keep Esmar3 and restore/pass Mori placement; original continuation
+reaches next Storm. A separate genuine recycled chronology reveals Esmar3 and
+shows one Hasimir6 after second Mentat, with both public markers and unchanged
+older Nexus history. No horizontal overflow/browser errors. The first UI
+return uses live randomness; the separately generated recycled chronology
+discloses its original return-shuffle entropy.
+
+This implements printed card mechanics, not a new privacy/custody/recovery
+campaign. Receipt consistency does not authenticate every alleged past save.
+No saved/deployed rooms, public gates or existing game state are changed;
+full combinations, assurance, exceptional targets and full goal remain open.
+Final types/lint and production build pass after reference integration.
+Existing module.register deprecation, large-chunk and Unknown-route warnings remain.
+[Canonical source, controls and scope](MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md#physical-replacement-roles-and-retired-card-zone--15-october-2026).
+
 ## 15 October 2026 — Canonical Moritani winning discs, Auditor targets and Guild entry
 
 Separated canonical played-disc identity from the victorious player's printed

docs/LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md

@@ -5,6 +5,18 @@ Leader Skills module from *CHOAM & Richese*. The later [first runtime prototype]
 records connected behavior and remaining gaps. This contract does not enable
 the module or certify its combinations.
 
+## Rihani and permanent Traitor markers — 15 October 2026
+
+The shared canonical Traitor snapshot now includes an optional permanent
+`removed` zone derived from Moritani's retired victims. Rihani preserves that
+zone in its full before/state receipt and cannot peek, draw, return or rewrite
+one of those cards. Existing used-card exclusions, native Tleilaxu Face Dancer
+classification and both original skill bands remain. Old absent-zone JSON
+receipts keep their existing body/signature. Focused physical-transition
+coverage verifies this consumer; the coupled native Nexus proof is not a
+claim of a new full native Rihani/Moritani or saved-game assurance campaign.
+[Canonical shared role/census and evidence](MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md#physical-replacement-roles-and-retired-card-zone--15-october-2026).
+
 ## Sources and local evidence
 
 The governing source is Gale Force Nine's twelve-page English *CHOAM &

docs/MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md

@@ -209,6 +209,62 @@ Exceptional captured/Ghola **targets**, Skills/Harkonnen, private-step UX,
 remaining arrival combinations, full assurance and deployed acceptance remain
 separate. Passing these local native paths does not certify complete modes.
 
+## Physical replacement roles and retired-card zone — 15 October 2026
+
+The original Mentat draw takes a **physical Traitor Card**, not necessarily a
+faction leader-disc identity. With the original Ix deck selected, the single
+Cheap Hero / Heroine Traitor is a legal replacement. It remains a Traitor:
+no physical leader, native-faction assassination target or Duke Traitor is
+manufactured. Original native Ix play kills Dominic Vernius4, retires its real
+held card and draws that original reserve Hero once.
+
+Retired victims remain permanently out of circulation. The shared
+`NexusTraitorSnapshot.removed` zone derives from actual `stage: 'replaced'`
+victim cards, not from historical replacement IDs. It participates in the
+canonical full census, retaining the existing Ecaz Loyalty exclusion, but
+cannot appear in reserve, ordinary hands or Face Dancers. Harkonnen exchange,
+Tleilaxu Cunning, Betrayal source/replacement and Rihani consumers preserve
+that zone. This is distinct from Face Dancers temporarily set aside before
+their own return shuffle, or a Betrayal-declared card returned to the deck.
+
+A replacement's recorded ID is a **historical draw**, not permanent ownership.
+Its real card can later be exchanged, returned and drawn again. Keep the old
+receipt/signature unchanged; count current custody once, not once per past
+reference. Original native CHOAM/Auditor play draws Hasimir6, Harkonnen Secret
+Ally returns that card while keeping Esmar3, then a real turn-three Guild loss
+retires Esmar3 and original Mentat draws the same Hasimir6 again. Both public
+victim markers stay out; one live Hasimir card remains.
+
+New Nexus exchange sources carry/sign the optional permanent zone when present.
+Absent-zone records retain their original grammar/signature; completed history
+validates its recorded physical state rather than adopting later live markers.
+No old receipt is rewritten when a second victim retires. Engine application
+never rewrites the derived Game marker zone from an exchange result. Existing
+actor/card authorization, full current census, native target guards and
+revealed-card reservation remain.
+
+Affected15-file **134/134** passes, including adjacent engine/continuation
+consumers. **Eleven original API/policy paths** cover Hero/next Storm, all four
+Ready paths through actual owned Mentat initialization, legal old-card return,
+the repeated native draw and all four pending-return policies. All four return
+policies legally keep Hasimir; the human/scripted return chooses to give it back.
+This is legal participation, not strategic calibration.
+
+Actual styled390px GameTable completes final Collection readiness, displays
+the private Hero inspector, draws two real Nexus cards, returns Hasimir/Caid
+through the native checkboxes, restores the original Mori placement, passes it
+and reaches the next Storm. A separate original recycled chronology reveals
+Esmar3 and displays one Hasimir6 after the second draw. No overflow/browser
+errors. Only original deal/return-shuffle entropy and conserved unplayed
+Spice/Nexus ordering are directed; no hand, wallet, force, leader, phase or
+battle is staged. No saved/deployed rooms or broad assurance are covered.
+
+The wider consumer run exposed older fixtures skipping the real borrowed-Voice
+opportunity before native Prescience/plans. They now consume the original
+canonical preparation actions; no engine legality is weakened. Old permanent
+replacement-ownership/uniqueness and wording/markup pins were removed, not
+re-pinned. Receipt consistency is not a claim of authenticated past save history.
+
 ## Save and physical custody
 
 The resolved battle binds the opportunity's event, opposing faction and surviving
@@ -217,17 +273,19 @@ the decision opens. Reveal/decline resumes that exact cleanup once. A normal
 traitor call has a separate event ledger; its explanatory log waits until the
 normal public reveal, preserving sealed submissions.
 
-A physical Traitor Card belongs to one of three zones: reserve deck, player hands,
-or this ability's public set-aside markers. Revealed cards stay held until Mentat;
-retired cards never return to the deck in this profile. A replacement remains with
-Moritani or becomes the card consumed by a later-turn assassination against another
-faction. Cross-zone duplication, missing replacements, duplicate draws, forged
-same-turn chains and altered continuation receipts fail validation.
+A physical Traitor Card belongs to reserve, an ordinary/Face Dancer hand,
+or a public permanent marker in the existing canonical census. Revealed
+assassination cards remain held until their actual Mentat retirement.
+Retired victims never return. Historical replacement references may recur
+after legal physical exchanges; they are not additional live cards or a
+permanent hand-ownership constraint. Cross-zone duplication and altered
+pending continuations still reject.
 
-Replacement runs automatically when Mentat begins. In this bounded profile it does
-not compete with other traitor draws, and Terror placement does not alter traitor
-custody. Ordering with Face Dancers, Nexus/Rihani draws, Extortion and other modules
-remains an explicit integration boundary, not an inferred universal ordering.
+Replacement runs during original Mentat initialization, after the owned phase
+opening; merely displaying phase8 does not mean that initialization finished.
+The current native Nexus path can pause/resume original Mori placement without
+repeating retirement, drawing or payment. Complete timing/optional-module and
+save-authenticity assurance remain separate from these exercised local paths.
 
 ## Reproduction and evidence
 

docs/NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md

@@ -2,6 +2,25 @@
 
 Original source audit, 10 September 2026, with dated bounded runtime follow-ups below. This document establishes the printed component inventory, source protocol and implementation boundaries; none lifts expansion release gates. The ordinary worm-triggered alliance Nexus already in the engine is distinct from this optional card module.
 
+## Moritani permanent markers and live replacements — 15 October 2026
+
+Original Harkonnen Secret Ally now works after Moritani has permanently retired
+a victim Traitor. The canonical snapshot carries optional `removed` cards:
+they remain in its census but cannot be drawn, held or returned. This keeps the
+existing Ecaz Loyalty exclusion. Exchange and Face Dancer history bind their
+own source zone; old absent-zone grammar stays unchanged. Betrayal's serialized
+source and Rihani's before/state also preserve it. No mode gate is widened.
+
+A recorded Mentat replacement remains an ordinary physical card: it may be
+returned and later drawn again without rewriting the older receipt or treating
+two historical references as two live cards. Hero is a legal original Ix
+Traitor replacement, not a physical opposing leader or faction target.
+Actual native Hasimir return, suspended Mori placement, next-turn Guild
+target/Esmar3 retirement and one physical Hasimir redraw are connected.
+[Canonical role/census contract, 134/134 and11 API/policy paths](MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md#physical-replacement-roles-and-retired-card-zone--15-october-2026).
+Actual390px controls/inspectors pass without overflow/browser errors;
+full combinations, saved/deployed assurance and publication remain open.
+
 ## Canonical Moritani winning discs — 15 October 2026
 
 Existing native Advanced profiles now distinguish the actual surviving played

docs/NEXUS_HARKONNEN_RULES.md

@@ -2,6 +2,24 @@
 
 Source audit, 10 September 2026. This is a rules contract, not a runtime completion claim. The [common Nexus lifecycle](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md) and existing expansion release gates still apply. The pending reaction-privacy question remains unresolved; this audit does not authorize a Betrayal reaction policy.
 
+## Permanent markers and legal replacement return — 15 October 2026
+
+Shared Harkonnen exchange snapshots now include Moritani's derived permanent
+`removed` zone in the canonical census. It is not reserve or hand custody and
+cannot fund a draw/return. New source records bind it; old absent-zone tuple
+grammar remains unchanged, and older completed history does not adopt later
+live markers. A historical Moritani replacement can legally return and be
+drawn again; only its actual public victim marker remains permanently out.
+
+This is distinct from Betrayal returning the declared Traitor to reserve,
+which may legitimately be redrawn. Its whole serialized source preserves
+existing permanent markers and cannot use one for replacement. The bounded
+classic-only Betrayal roster is unchanged; no native Moritani/Betrayal
+composition is certified by the pure source/replacement regressions.
+Actual native Secret Ally controls return Hasimir6, keep Esmar3, restore Mori
+placement and preserve historical receipts through a later same-card redraw.
+[Canonical source/role, native evidence and remaining gates](MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md#physical-replacement-roles-and-retired-card-zone--15-october-2026).
+
 **1 October bounded local follow-up, verified 2 October:** `harkonnen-betrayal`
 connects a separate fresh classic/base-deck/Nexus-only Basic/Advanced preview.
 Native allied Harkonnen counters precede a uniform acknowledgement by public

docs/NEXUS_TLEILAXU_RULES.md

@@ -9,6 +9,19 @@ Source audit, 10 September 2026. This document does not certify runtime support
 - [GF9 Ixians & Tleilaxu, pp.6–7,9 and Karama table](https://www.gf9games.com/dunegame/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IxianAndTleilaxuRulebook.pdf#page=7): ordinary Face Dancer cycle, native revival powers, typed Ixian forces and cancellation boundaries.
 - [GF9 base rulebook, pp.9,13,16–19,22](https://www.gf9games.com/dunegame/wp-content/uploads/Dune-Rulebook.pdf#page=9), and [November 2020 FAQ, pp.2,5–9](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dune-FAQ-Nov-2020.pdf#page=2): ordinary revival, repeated deaths, special forces, Kwisatz, Ghola and special revival permissions. Fresh official indexed excerpts were inspected. Existing Ghola implementation is not substitute authority for this Nexus effect.
 
+## Permanent Traitor markers — 15 October 2026
+
+The shared snapshot's optional `removed` zone accounts for Moritani victim
+cards permanently out of circulation, retaining the canonical census and
+existing Loyalty exclusion. It is **not** Cunning's temporary set-aside group:
+those revealed Face Dancers still return after the replacement draw.
+Cunning draws only active reserve cards, preserves the permanent zone and
+binds its own original source in history. Later markers do not rewrite an
+older completed receipt; absent-zone signatures keep their old grammar.
+Focused Face Dancer/engine regressions and the coupled native exchange
+checkpoint pass, not a new full native Moritani/Face-Dancer combination audit.
+[Physical role/census contract and actual proof](MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md#physical-replacement-roles-and-retired-card-zone--15-october-2026).
+
 ## Cunning: complete physical operation
 
 Native Tleilaxu sets aside every revealed Face Dancer, privately draws the same number of replacements, and only then shuffles the set-aside identities into the Traitor Deck. Unrevealed dancers remain held. The panel has no phase restriction, no subset choice and no second choice after drawing. [Printed Tleilaxu face](https://boardgamegeek.com/image/7767032/dune-ecaz-and-moritani)

docs/RULE_DECISIONS.md

@@ -2,6 +2,22 @@
 
 Updated 15 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.
 
+## Physical Traitor roles — 15 October 2026
+
+- A Moritani Mentat replacement is an actual Traitor Card, including the one
+  Hero identity when the original Ix deck supplies it. Hero is not a leader
+  disc or printed opposing-faction assassination target; Duke has no Traitor.
+- Public retired victims remain permanently out. A historical replacement ID
+  is not permanent current ownership: the real card may be legally returned
+  and later drawn again, with its old receipt unchanged.
+- The canonical snapshot's optional permanent zone is derived from actual
+  retired victims, retaining existing Loyalty exclusion and all active-custody
+  checks. Old absent-zone formats remain; completed records keep their own
+  source rather than adopting later markers. No new numeric ruling, privilege,
+  mode gate or full save-authenticity claim is introduced.
+
+[Native chronology, controls and current evidence](MORITANI_ASSASSINATE_LEADERS.md#physical-replacement-roles-and-retired-card-zone--15-october-2026).
+
 ## Source-clear interaction cutovers — 15 October 2026
 
 - **Moritani played disc versus target faction:** the surviving actual