Add optional short alliance victory

docs/CURRENT_STATUS.md

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 ## Current checkpoint and work
+**Optional three-stronghold two-member alliance — 28 October. Prototyped /
+Partial.** The host can select the printed shorter target; changes clear human
+readiness and the normal target remains the default. Public progress and the
+actual Mentat outcome use the same calculation. A genuine Nexus alliance with
+a staged three-stronghold board tests both selected and default outcomes;
+the existing four-stronghold target remains for two physical controllers as a
+provisional precedence choice. The combined batch passes 96 focused cases and
+three administrator boundary HTTP cases. The administrator's existing audited
+lobby controls can also show and change the setting. Larger alliances, wider interactions and deployed
+acceptance remain open. [Scope](OPTIONAL_ALLIANCE_VICTORY.md).
+
+**Conditional future-battle Truthtrance in Basic Revival — 28 October.
+Prototyped / Partial.** The existing phase-five question also works in a quiet
+phase-four window, using leaders available at answer time without predicting a
+revival. Native Revival, subsequent real battles and no-battle expiry are
+covered in the 96-case combined batch. Pending transactions and broader
+promise compositions remain separately guarded.
+
 **Conditional future-battle Truthtrance — 28 October. Prototyped / Partial.**
 A quiet Basic classic game can ask whether a named native leader will be used
 in the respondent's first later battle this turn, if there is one. The answer