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An unallied player holding CHOAM Nexus while CHOAM is absent can now discard one Worthless card during Spice Collection for two bank spice. The server spends both physical cards once, exposes only private legal card choices, and persists an already-paid discard receipt. Human controls and all four AI profiles share the action. The after-victory inspection alternative remains missing; normal unfinished modes and publication stay gated. Independent review caught and fixed a queued Grumman Collection lock mismatch. Focused tests cover Basic/Advanced, actual card custody, private controls, all AI profiles, stale and wrong-mode rejection, Truthtrance and Grumman locks, JSON corruption/replay, competing production SQLite writes and private seat restoration. A separate bounded acquisition helper recorded all seven Discovery Spice Cards, eight tokens and exact physical card placements from publisher-authored sources. Discovery runtime remains missing. Validation: types, lint, 4,217 offline tests, production build and 40 HTTP tests passed. Durations: check 139298 ms; build 6617 ms; HTTP 24329 ms. Source fingerprint dfdaaf8bafe69acd31c9d0afc13f7a0d070da43deb544f091e95fe840b399493; private report under ~/.local/share/dune/checkpoints/20260913-choam-nexus-trade/verification/report.json. Browser reference search, Prototyped label and related Collection link checked. All 95 opening saved rooms unchanged; 30 HTTP test rooms added, 125 total. No server restart or database reset. Efficiency counter: 59,982,405 at batch start; 60,581,959 after broad verification, delta 599,554 aggregate tokens before final preservation/Git/usage checks. One newly playable function plus the acquired Discovery inventory; this is not full CHOAM or Nexus compliance.
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CHOAM Nexus Secret Ally prototype
13 September 2026. The Spice Collection trade is Prototyped in the development Nexus module. Its battle inspection alternative is still missing. This checkpoint does not enable normal Nexus starts, certify the full card family, or open a publication gate.
Source and behavior
The printed CHOAM card's Secret Ally panel allows a Worthless card to be discarded during Spice Collection for two spice, or a random unused opposing hand card to be inspected after a victory. The common source contract records the photographed publisher component and publisher lifecycle rules. Native Cunning has different costs and effects and is not reused as a substitute for this panel.
Only an unallied holder with CHOAM absent may use this trade, in Basic or Advanced. The server quotes the holder's actual Worthless cards. The player selects one; its printed identity and physical discard custody remain intact. Both that card and the CHOAM Nexus card are spent, and two spice are paid from the bank exactly once. No native faction identity, market sale, Cunning conversion, or Auditor payment is introduced. No blanket Nexus Karama immunity is inferred: this trade uses the absent-faction panel rather than a native CHOAM advantage.
Collection readiness remains optional; continuing without trading keeps the cards. The action cannot interrupt a decision, Truthtrance, committed discard, exchange, or queued automatic Collection choice. It may still be used while its owner is ready if Collection has not ended. Exhaustive simultaneous Collection combinations remain part of the later integration pass.
Connected paths
game/nexus-choam-trade.tsprovides the private quote and saved receipt checks.game/engine.tsapplies payment, Nexus/card custody and the semantic fresh discard continuation. The completed history remains private server evidence.game/nexus-choam-trade-options.tssupplies the shared human/AI action.components/nexus-choam-trade.tsxprovides a card picker, inspector, costs and availability reasons at the table. All four AI profiles use eligible trades.- The existing JSON room state stores the receipt. No database migration or server restart is required. Recovery validates the already-paid outcome and retires the discard; it never credits spice a second time.
Focused evidence and remaining scope
Run npm test -- nexus-choam-trade. Focused cases cover Basic/Advanced payment,
physical custody, all four AI profiles, private rendered controls, wrong-mode and
stale action rejection, Truthtrance locking, damaged saved receipts and JSON
continuation. Production SQLite tests exercise competing trades, seat restoration,
replay rejection and an already-paid discard resume.
The after-victory inspection still needs an original battle receipt, exclusion of the opponent's used cards, a private one-card sample and composition with winner cleanup. Complete Nexus games, broader Homeworld interactions, strategic choice between the two Secret Ally uses and visual acceptance of that full family remain unfinished. Prototype evidence is deliberately narrower than complete compliance.