Retain independent36, original Homeworlds and Nexus12 through classic fresh setup with optional Skills and phase modules. Resolve own-World Reinforcements fees before computing temporary Sardaukar roles, preserving original Cunning declarations, printed traits and physical counters. Record the provisional ordinary-nonrole-first policy and align human/AI quotes and captions.
Validation: types/lint/build, 128 affected tests across 15 files, bounded rule-source review and finite original-action smoke for Recruits, Harass, local-fee Cunning, all four legal policies and rendered source controls. Verified runtime c219ec587a54b44079539168d93835a5af904c8afb4de58bcec0a3d60c809f0c; documentation-only proof update 8ee21598e7be0c89a08fbad50786c346ebc8ae705492d8b31ea00fae0ffefa3c. Full modes, combinations, assurance and deployed acceptance remain open. No saved-room/provider changes.
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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