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.
Add an offline Ix initializer through the real setup pipeline, supporting Basic
and Advanced play, base factions, Ixians and Tleilaxu with the full 47-card deck
and 22-card spice deck. Preserve all normal start and publication gates.
Add a reusable local prototype starter: back up the named fresh ready lobby,
initialize it once by exact version/state comparison and preserve seat/recovery
tables and other rooms. Update the existing checklist with a separate prototype
stage and document functional scope, source interpretations and later refinement.
Six new tests cover all-profile private setup, exact typed starting forces,
Face Dancer/treachery custody, JSON continuation, two fixed-seed complete games
and local SQLite write/rejection boundaries. Independent review caught a missing
JSON version update, now fixed and covered; focused checking fixed one test typing
error before the stable broad check. No new rule interpretation was introduced.
Validation: types, lint and 4,211 offline tests passed (123.237s); production build
passed (6.543s); all 40 HTTP tests passed (23.578s). Source-bound report:
20260913-ix-prototype-final/report.json, fingerprint
3b8f295593bcb314bb72308d81739006b11d949d1e5906dbf6ce0704b15ebd72.
Browser W5LE6VFB: human Ixian + Medium Tleilaxu + Hard Atreides from genuine
setup, private starting-card refresh, Weather Control, mobile stronghold placement,
then owned Brutal autopilot. Atreides won on turn 1; this short complete journey
is not proof of every card or faction interaction. Finished private hand restored
at phone width; expanded Poison Tooth was readable. Fixed-seed offline games
2026091301 (Basic) and 2026091302 (Advanced) both completed with both Ix factions.
All 64 opening room versions/hashes are unchanged. One browser room and 30 HTTP
rooms were added, totaling 95. Reused the running server; no restart or automation.
Aggregate goal counters: 59,524,858 to 59,976,567 at completed verification,
451,709 tokens before final Git overhead. Two bounded workhorse helpers handled
inventory/tests and independent review; one stable full check/build/HTTP run.
Full game scope remains active and unfinished; future work prioritizes missing
functional prototypes before exhaustive refinement and final acceptance.
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