Homeworld charity and revival benefits: source contract

Source audit, 9 September 2026. This separates publisher wording, rule composition, and remaining decisions. It does not enable Homeworld games or replace the outstanding Ambassador/Duke revival rulings.

Provisional Low Homeworld revival prevention — 25 October 2026

Prototyped / Partial. The earlier target guard against Tleilaxu special Karama is removed. Native Advanced Tleilaxu may choose a Low Homeworld faction at the existing quiet window or original pending revival decision. Eligibility, physical Karama disposal, once-per-game use and ordinary enclosing priorities remain in the native special-power contract.

The user-authorized revised PDF's physical page 38 H prevents force/leader revival for a chosen player, with no Homeworld exception. Publisher E3 printed page 10 protects Homeworld advantages and penalties from Karama. Under the 14 October choose-recommended instruction, the explicit provisional composition is event prevention: Low keeps its printed extra free-revival rate, but the ordinary return is prevented as a whole, including its conditional extra counter. No separate bonus-only return is created. This is not a located combined publisher FAQ or a change to the printed High/Low face.

No physical force, leader, payment or quota changes because of the stopped return. No actual free return exists to award Tleilaxu/Axlotl income, and no paid Cyborg or newly returned group exists to trigger Ix/Southern/Tleilax High follow-ups. Prior completed returns and their effects remain completed. There is no new response aimed only at the Homeworld bonus, and no retroactive interruption of a committed deployment.

The 24 October prevention cutover is retained: Ghola is prevented during the remaining affected Revival, then becomes available outside that phase under its own ordinary card rules. The Emperor's native special Karama keeps its printed immunity. This does not restore the old provisional Ghola bypass or conflate La La La with a Karama effect. Targets retain readable persistent guidance; existing minimal policies consume the shared actual native offer, without strategic tuning.

Bounded evidence: native source, native transitions and controlled regression. Frozen 10-file 87/87, types/lint/build and four actual-control/engine/GameTable SSR journeys pass. Genuine 75-action original setup, typed free shipment and Storm losses earn Low 0/Tanks 5 before the real second Revival. Quiet/pending prevention retains rate 4 and all physical/usage state; decline returns 4 and awards original income 1. Held Ghola rejects during affected phase 4, then returns 5 after actual phase progression. Four existing policies act legally without tuning. One existing in-memory Ghola lifecycle file is included in the selected union; this is not final assurance. Private proof: /home/quintine/.local/share/dune/checkpoints/20261025-homeworld-revival-prevention/. The earlier unresolved-overlap paragraph below remains the historical source audit; this dated policy supersedes its execution guard. Full module/High- effect combinations and final assurance remain open.

Provisional Ix High paid revival bonus — 25 October 2026

Prototyped / Partial. The printed Ix High card now connects an ordinary paid Cyborg revival to its automatic physical Suboid return. The original revive controls still choose the base group and which Cyborgs use the ordinary free quota. A free Cyborg, paid Suboid, Ghola return, or another faction paying Emperor extra revival does not trigger this native paid-Cyborg grant.

The card establishes two free Suboids per paid Cyborg. The authorized revised PDF's physical page 22 gives the current-population Homeworld rule, but does not supply an Ix-specific quota/shortage ruling. Physical page 9 retains the ordinary revival cap. The following are explicit provisional composition policies, selected under the user's 14 October instruction to proceed with recommended interpretations; they are not publisher errata:

Observe native Ix High before accepting the group. A return that first raises Ix from Low to High earns no retroactive bonus; a later independent paid Cyborg request observes its own current population.
Reserve the selected base group's normal Suboids first. Return up to two remaining physical Suboids from Tanks per paid Cyborg. A shortage reduces the grant; it never manufactures a counter, substitutes a Cyborg, blocks the original legal purchase or leaves a debt for a later return.
The bonus is additional to normal revival allowance and ordinary free quota. Recruits does not multiply it. A discounted positive Cyborg payment qualifies; canceling the price discount retains the grant only if the original request can still be funded. The original selected quantities and invoice stay intact.
Prior La La La prevents the free bonus on new requests while leaving paid revival available. The existing reactive opportunity also recognizes a bonus-only free event: successful La La La stops the whole atomic request without payment or returns; preventing La La La resumes the original frozen request and grant. No new Homeworld-only Karama response is generated.
A delivered bonus counts as one free-return event for existing Tleilaxu and Axlotl income. Combine it with any base free return rather than awarding twice. The paid invoice, once-per-turn receipts and Tleilax's phase-start Low suppression remain. This composes the revised PDF's general free-revival income at physical pages 21 and 38; neither passage specifically names Ix.

The accepted request stores only its positive ixSuboidBonus count. Settlement checks its paid Cyborg allocation and actual remaining Suboids, then deposits the entire physical return once. Ordinary revived and freeForcesRevived increase only for the selected base group. Old pending requests without that field retain their accepted behavior. The player view exposes current High eligibility; persistent selection text explains the automatic grant or La La La suppression. Existing minimal AI uses the same ordinary legal actions, with no strategic refinement.

Implementation and focused evidence: physical quote, native chronology, native tests, quote tests, continuation tests, controls and control tests. Frozen proof covers 12 related files, 210 cases: 209 originally passed, and the sole Recruits fixture failure was corrected to a quote-only composition test; its full 6/6 file, final types/lint/build pass with the other 2,793 source files unchanged. Four actual native runtime/SSR journeys pass (Basic 111, Advanced 118, prior-free 112 and original-Ghola 111 source actions). These earn original 47 cards, a real paid 5 mixed invasion and five actual Tanks casualties; no played state is installed. Separate controlled continuation/income/La La La/Recruits contexts are labelled. Proof is retained privately in /home/quintine/.local/share/dune/checkpoints/20261025-ix-homeworld-revival-bonus/. Full Homeworld/module combinations, comprehensive assurance and final deployed acceptance remain open. This dated section supersedes the earlier audit's decision-pending implementation boundary below; it does not turn those gaps in printed authority into located rulings.

Provisional high-threshold revival deployment — 9 October 2026

The previously blocked case "a supported revival whose own return first reaches the Homeworld's high threshold" now has a visibly provisional policy: the population resulting from that return decides the deployment ability, so the crossing return may itself place its revived starred (Fremen Southern Hemisphere) or ordinary free (Tleilaxu High) group instead of only returning it to reserves. The printed card grants the ability while the faction is at High, and the returned forces are what make it High, so evaluating after the deposit is the natural composition of the two texts.

This is a first-version implementation choice, not a located publisher timing ruling. The Tleilaxu low-income condition still snapshots native status on entry to Revival, so crossing high later does not erase that printed start-condition. Partial groups, split destinations, Southern storm placement, allied-Homeworld limits and entry effects requiring a shipment classification remain guarded.

Evidence: the homeworld-revival union (65 cases) passes with the crossing return staging its own placement choice, and the four preserved Advanced captures that previously stopped at phase 4 on this question now complete (78/68/932/133 further actions) with zero rejections. See the resumption record.

Publisher facts and provenance

Source	Verified material
GF9 E3, pp.9–10,16	Thresholds follow current native reserves. Low adds one free revival and one bank spice when collecting charity; Salusa supplies neither. Karama cannot affect Homeworld advantages or penalties. The FAQ explicitly gives low Fremen four free revivals; Recruits doubles the current rate, capped at seven. Local publisher extract: `/tmp/dune-rules/ecaz-audit.txt`, lines375–445 and745–750.
GF9 base, pp.8–9,16–17	Ordinary charity raises zero/one spice to two. Normal force revival has a three-counter limit. Fremen normally get three free, cannot buy additional normal revivals, and may grant their ally three free. Advanced BG always gets two charity. Local `base.txt`, lines472–504,929 and1068.
GF9 E1, pp.6–9,12	Tleilaxu may raise another faction's limit to five; its own normal limit is unrestricted. Revival payments and bank income for other factions' free revival/Ghola are separate. Cyborgs cost three to revive; ordinary free revival may select either type. Special Tleilaxu Karama prevents revival. The Karama table denies BG charity entirely. Local `ix-official-mirror.txt`, lines197–198,250–255,335 and535–537.
GF9 November FAQ, p.3	The explicit Advanced Karama timing table restricts Tleilaxu's special effect to Revival. This is not inferred from Guild timing.
GF9 E2, pp.7–8,14	La La La prevents Free Revival during Revival. Inflation doubles or cancels charity, expressly including BG and CHOAM's income. Cancellation of CHOAM's income changes ordinary charity's payer to the bank. Local `choam-lelekan-mirror.txt`, lines279–318 and545 onward.

Actual Ix HIGH and Tleilax LOW cards were visually rechecked in the four-sheet component photographs, locally homeworld-reddit-face2.png and homeworld-reddit-face3.png. These are photographs of publisher components, not authority derived from commenters. Ix grants two free Suboids when paying to revive a Cyborg. Tleilax specifically tests whether it starts Revival low and then denies income from other factions' Free Revival. The card catalog and broader source inventory are in Homeworld component audit.

Supported composition for implementation

Current eligibility: use the native population before the claimed event. Do not globally freeze low benefits at phase start. Tleilax's specifically worded income penalty is the exception and requires a durable phase-start observation.
A grouped revival: quote the current rate before moving that group, preserve the accepted quote through interruptions, then derive the new population for the next independent request. Neither a mid-group per-counter repricing loop nor a whole-phase entitlement lock appears in the sources. This transaction boundary is an implementation inference consistent with the current-rate language, not a separately printed timing rule.
Free rate versus capacity: adding one free revival does not generally add one paid revival. A useful formula is max(ordinaryLimit, currentFreeRate) for total normal capacity, followed by physical Tanks and already-used allowance checks. This makes the FAQ's four-free Fremen entitlement usable without granting everyone a fourth paid revival. The exact formula is an inference; the FAQ does not separately state the no-Recruits total-limit calculation. Do not describe it as a quoted erratum.
Fremen alliance: apply the granted rate of three, then the recipient's own low bonus. The donor's low population does not turn its printed alliance grant into four. Canceling the alliance benefit removes that source, not the recipient's independent Homeworld increment. This follows the distinct grant and native modifier; it does not add an ordinary Karama cancellation of every faction's printed free rate.
Charity: establish a valid collection first. Multiply ordinary charity and the conditional low bonus by Inflation, while keeping the bonus bank-paid. At zero spice, ordinary low charity is two from its ordinary payer plus one bank; Double makes four plus two. At one spice it is one plus one, or two plus two. Cancel produces no collection and no bonus. Advanced BG's ordinary amount is two regardless of wealth; a canceled BG charity claim similarly has no qualifying collection. These are cross-source compositions, not located worked examples.

CHOAM's own income — resolved 7 October 2026 by user ruling. Its initial two-per-faction payment is named the Charity advantage, and E2 expressly includes it in Inflation. The user ruled that it counts as a qualifying collection for Tupile's low bank increment, so the low-population bonus is added under the same Inflation multiplier as ordinary charity. The engine no longer blocks low-population CHOAM opening income.

Keep cancellation sources distinct

revivalRules.freeBlocked currently represents La La La, not Karama. Its prohibition covers taking the current Free Revival, including the Homeworld increment. Homeworld Karama immunity does not provide immunity to this independent Worthless power. Likewise, Inflation is a charity modifier, not a direct Karama against a Homeworld. There should be no response aimed solely at turning off the low increment.

The Tleilaxu special Karama has a different unresolved overlap: it prevents revival itself, while E3 protects Homeworld advantages. The natural event-based reading prevents the ordinary request without erasing its rate, just as denying a qualifying charity event prevents its conditional bonus. However, no retrieved primary text specifically settles whether the low extra counter survives that special prohibition as an independently executable return. Do not silently turn this into La La La's known non-Karama rule, or claim that only the bonus survives without an explicit interpretation.

Tleilax and Ix finite effect boundaries

Tleilax: snapshot native low status on entry to Revival; crossing high later does not erase the printed start-condition. Suppress only the bank income for another faction's Free Revival. Do not suppress paid receipts, its own revival, or Ghola income merely because they share a helper. E1 names Ghola separately; the low card does not name it. Preserve existing once-per-faction ordinary-free-income accounting independently of this condition. High Tleilax's optional shipment of the returned group is a separate destination continuation, not an automatic consequence of this low-income work.

Ix: the trigger requires an actually paid Cyborg return while the relevant high advantage applies. A free Cyborg, Ghola, or a paid Suboid supplies no such trigger. The grant remains two physical Suboids per qualifying Cyborg, never two newly created pieces or a Cyborg substitution. A discounted but positive Cyborg payment is still payment. Keep paid/free typed allocations in the quote so total transaction cost is not mistaken for proof that every selected Cyborg was paid.

The retrieved card and publisher FAQ do not settle whether those Suboids consume normal revival allowance or are additional to it; this changes legal quantities after one or more earlier revivals. Nor do they explicitly choose between partial fulfillment from an insufficient Suboid Tanks pool and requiring both. Both issues materially affect a complete automatic purchase/bonus implementation. Do not add an arbitrary optional decline to hide that uncertainty. Recruits explicitly doubles free rates, so it does not by itself establish four bonus Suboids per paid Cyborg. Its interaction with any exceptional total must follow the resolved quota policy.

Release boundary

Implementable together: current low benefit projection, source-separated ordinary charity payments, current normal revival quotation, retained accepted-request pricing, and the explicit Tleilax phase-start income condition. Add tests at the exact threshold, during a suspended request, after crossing it, with a Fremen ally, and with Inflation/La La La/BG cancellation. Keep CHOAM's own-income classification, special-Karama overlap and Ix bonus quota/shortage behavior visible until interpreted. These are the remaining material combinations from this audit, not reasons to postpone the independently established mechanics.

Fresh searches of publisher rulebooks/November FAQ and targeted designer clarification queries found no additional primary ruling for the unresolved cases. Tournament compilations, wishlists, and movie-game rules were not used as authority. In particular, a third-party compilation's added “breaking current revival limits” language is not a GF9 quotation. No runtime, tests, saved rooms, or automation were changed.

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