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Connect all fourteen physical skills and private setup to five card-role battle modifiers, public posture, Harkonnen skilled capture, death return and optional own-leader revival through controls, legal AI and persisted room actions. Nine skill effects and combined-mode/publication acceptance remain unfinished. Captured replacement entitlement and foreign ghola integration stay guarded. Fresh publisher/designer research supports skilled-capture publicity through its unique known physical card; this is recorded as a component inference. Independent review found and fixed Voice/must-use-leader and invalid saved assignment/offer cases. A pre-existing Discovery privacy assertion confused card ID prefixes; the corrected deterministic physical-pair scenario was independently reviewed. The first broad run was 4410/4411; corrected final verification passes types/lint, all 4411 offline tests, build and 43 HTTP tests. Final durations: check 149741ms, build 6659ms, integration 28274ms. Source fingerprint: aef655ac1ebc0eb2f64294e13d3d27337167312cf8ab17568a166ee9c39f6a85. Private final report: 20260913-leader-skills/checks-final/report.json. Three seeded prototype games completed with no rejected bot candidates. Browser setup/card inspection/refresh passed. Another user-reported power outage stopped the server; backup and necessary restart restored the same private seat. All 292 games at restart and their original application records remain unchanged; 33 isolated HTTP-test rooms bring the current total to 325. No database reset. Efficiency: one shared setup/lifecycle implementation supports five connected role effects; selective existing agents handled catalog/UI/tests/research and independent reviews. One repeated broad check was required by the reproduced ID-prefix assertion failure. Aggregate goal counter rose from 65529766 to 67313673 through this checkpoint (1783907), including inherited context and coordination; this is not a billing or savings estimate. Full goal remains active.
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# Leader Skills and Harkonnen capture
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Updated 13 September 2026. This note resolves the public-state boundary for a
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skilled leader captured by Harkonnen. It records a source interpretation for
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implementation; it does not claim the Leader Skills module is complete.
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## Strongest source-supported answer
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A Harkonnen capture is not universally secret in the published base rules.
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The explicit face-down procedure applies to the branch where Harkonnen kills
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the randomly selected leader for 2 spice: the leader is placed “face down into
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the Tleilaxu Tanks.” The alternative branch says Harkonnen keeps the leader for
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one later battle, but does not instruct players to turn that retained leader
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face down or conceal its identity. [GF9 base rulebook, p. 17](https://www.gf9games.com/dunegame/wp-content/uploads/Dune-Rulebook.pdf)
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The official FAQ's restricted-view answer is likewise framed around the
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leader Harkonnen chose to kill and place face down in the Tanks. It authorizes
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Harkonnen, the leader's original owner and Tleilaxu to inspect that dead disc;
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it does not establish a general secrecy rule for every retained captive.
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[GF9 FAQ, p. 6](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dune-FAQ-Nov-2020.pdf)
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Leader Skills adds a later, component-specific rule. A faction's one chosen
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skill and its assigned leader begin face up together, and “If a skilled leader
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is captured, the skill goes with them.” The expansion Q&A then says Harkonnen
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may use only that leader's battle skill, and only by using the captured leader
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in battle. [GF9 *CHOAM & Richese* rulebook, pp. 9, 12](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/CHOAM-Rulebook-low-res.pdf)
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The rules never literally instruct Harkonnen to announce the captured skilled
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leader's name. The physical procedure nevertheless makes that identity public
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or necessarily inferable. The assignment was already public, the unique skill
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card must travel with the captured leader, and the card must leave play and be
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shuffled into the Leader Skill deck if that leader dies. Concealing the leader
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while exposing truthful custody of its unique public card is impossible without
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adding a proxy or decoy component that the rules do not provide.
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The source-supported implementation boundary is therefore:
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- capturing the skilled leader publicly transfers that leader's attached skill
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to Harkonnen custody, which identifies that one captured leader;
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- Harkonnen loses the normal/top effect and may use only the battle/lower effect
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when actually using that captured leader in a battle;
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- an unskilled retained captive keeps the ordinary base-game privacy treatment;
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- a captive killed for 2 spice still follows the FAQ's face-down Tanks access
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rule, although killing the skilled captive also returns its unique public
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skill card to the deck and therefore makes that particular identity
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inferable; and
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- if a used skilled captive survives, the leader and attached skill return to
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the original faction together.
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This is a necessary inference from the published component movements, rather
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than an express publisher sentence saying “reveal the captured skilled
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leader.” It is narrower than a rule that all Harkonnen captures are public.
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## Source record
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The [Future Pastimes expansion page](https://futurepastimes.com/dune-choam-richese)
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links the GF9 expansion rules and identifies the official design/publisher
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lineage. A fresh search of that designer site, the GF9 rulebook and FAQ, and
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Jack Reda's official Leader Skills walkthrough found no contrary instruction
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that the attached skill should be concealed or detached during capture.
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The persistent local source archive is
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`/home/quintine/.local/share/dune/sources`:
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- `dune-rulebook-gf9-mirror.pdf` and its `.txt` extraction preserve the
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publisher-authored 2019 base rulebook. SHA-256:
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`02660bcce906d13dde65e0eb7599b49543af4d76e8cf6c7617bc19117887933c`.
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The readable mirror was retrieved from
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[1jour-1jeu's document archive](https://cdn.1j1ju.com/medias/37/57/71-dune-rulebook.pdf).
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- `choam-richese-rulebook-en.pdf` and its `.txt` extraction preserve the
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publisher-authored expansion rules.
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- `leader-skills-designer-video-auto-transcript.txt` preserves Jack Reda's
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card walkthrough. The walkthrough explains the skill bands but does not add
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a capture-privacy exception.
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The GF9 URLs now redirect or reject some direct clients, but their indexed
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publisher text and the byte-stable local copies agree on the quoted rules.
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## Remaining separate ruling
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Capture does not settle whether the original faction counts as having no skill
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card while its only card is attached to a captive, and therefore whether a
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later own-leader revival may create a replacement assignment. That entitlement
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should remain gated until separately ruled. It does not affect the custody and
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visibility conclusion above.
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