Unify fresh/live classic and native phase admission, retaining original counts, earned custody, separate income ledgers and physical card/skill continuations. Plain paired E3 phases no longer require cards or Nexus. Coupled44-file471/471, types/lint/build, genuine programmes and390px normal entry pass. Controlled card inputs explicit; no save retrofit or deployment.
Reuse original paired roster validation with plain all14 native setup and optional independent cards. Preserve real coalition, trained death and Mentat paths; extend the existing paid Ambassador/Terror queue to paired Skills and card-only factions. Frozen29-file323/323, types/lint/build, native programmes and390px entry pass. No save conversion or deployment.
User ruling 13 October 2026: the original faction keeps its existing Skill
assignment while its trained leader is captured. Reviving a different eligible
own leader is legal and simply draws no replacement card while that assignment
exists (selected reading of authorized supplied Advanced physical p21 "if you
have no Leader Skill Card"). Not a new publisher ruling; captor lower-band use,
card movement and death-return unchanged.
Remove the replacement-question veto that suppressed the entire ordinary/Ghola
revival: leaderSkillRevivalBlocked/requireLeaderSkillRevival, the gholaLeaders
early return, the view revival.leaders: [] filter and the beginRevival/Ghola/
Emperor-special-Karama call sites are gone. offerRevivedLeaderSkill is
unchanged and still suppresses a second assignment or draw.
Rewrote the two committed rejection assertions
(tests/advanced-native-skills.test.ts, tests/leader-skills-capture.test.ts) and
added native regressions covering ordinary paid, held-Ghola and Emperor special
Karama revival from a genuinely captured skilled state: exact cost, no draw or
offer, retained captive/card/controller and a conserved all14 deck.
Docs: RULE_DECISIONS, LEADER_SKILLS_CAPTURE, LEADER_SKILLS_RULES,
LEADER_SKILLS_RUNTIME, NEXUS_CARD_RULES, CURRENT_STATUS, IMPLEMENTATION_STATUS
and the game/reference.ts leader-skills topic.
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