Dune/docs/LEADER_SKILLS_RUNTIME.md

# Leader Skills first functional prototype

## Independent band inventory — 26 October 2026

A bounded delivery inventory finds connected first versions of all28 independent
normal/battle bands on the fourteen physical faces. This supersedes older
absence claims below; it does not certify every interaction, complete modes,
comprehensive verification, polished controls or AI strategy.

| Faces | Connected normal and battle effects |
| --- | --- |
| Warmaster and four weapon/defense disciplines | Shared role scoring and actual battle-plan/posture controls |
| Bureaucrat and Spice Banker | Payment redirection, normal deferred income, stronghold penalty and sealed battle spending |
| Mentat, Rihani, Diplomat and Suk Graduate | Private questioning, traitor inspection/exchange, defense copying/retreat and physical rescue |
| Sandmaster, Smuggler and Planetologist | Route/victory collection, shipment/battle collection and movement/Special substitution |

The [physical faces](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md),
[canonical implementation/control/AI checklist](../game/reference.ts) and its
linked current helpers are the evidence. Current Sandmaster flight/marker
delivery completes the previously guarded route adapters; no wholly absent
independent band was identified. Keep `Prototyped` / `Partial` classifications.
Recorded edge interpretations, including [empty-hand Mentat](MENTAT_QUESTION.md),
valid module combinations, full games and final assurance remain open.

**17 October default cutover:** normal Spice Banker income is mandatory in
fresh supported ordinary all-fourteen Skills setups, including their existing
module and native-overlay envelopes. The separate income initializer/profile
and fixture opt-ins are removed; existing games are not retrofitted.
Earlier dated references to a separate entry describe historical checkpoints.
See [current activation and limits](SPICE_BANKER_RUNTIME.md#mandatory-ordinary-skills-default--17-october-2026).

## Classic Nexus with original phase modules — 18 October 2026

Classic base33/selected36 Nexus now retains optional all14 with original
Tech3+ and Advanced Strongholds2+. Public capability and original setup
preserve actual first-Storm tokens/end-Mentat cards; none is assigned by a
fixture or retrofitted into played state. Native bank subsidy funds actual
holder support, not reserve fees or personal money. Actual trained Carthag
Shield defense, original call/cancellation, winner cleanup and private Mentat
replacement remain. Fixed paid groups/free returns and phase Tech income
stay separate from mandatory normal Banker.
[439/439, actual normal controls and legal policies](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#classic-nexus-original-phase-modules--18-october-2026).

## Classic Nexus core without card dependency — 18 October 2026

Original base33 or explicitly selected independent36 Nexus core admits
optional all14 in classic2–6 Basic/Advanced starts. Native offers/deal order,
mandatory normal Banker and actual role/card sources remain. Fresh reaction
states do not require the three-card variant or reflag a played game.
Real paid5 redirected by Guild Nexus names the actual recipient; a different
living Bureaucrat diverts2, while the paying trainer remains ineligible.
Native Cunning and Richese grants retain their signed physical/payment
continuations through the same fee gate. No new numerical or universal rule.
[304/304, native phone controls and four legal policies](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#classic-nexus-core-and-funded-card-shipments--18-october-2026).

## Classic selected-card native reactions — 18 October 2026

The fresh independent36/Nexus12 optional14 entry now initializes original
Ixian purchase replacement and actual native Harkonnen call cancellation,
without retrofitting played games. Native skilled-disc shield choices precede
real plans; public selection binds the physical catalogue/census. The same
provisional neutral acknowledgement and original replacement-before-bonus
protocols are inherited, not a new universal timing policy.
Actual allied native counter/Use→Harass→Mentat and paid-card Use/Keep controls,
six combined regressions and four legal policies pass. Other overlays, full
combinations, strategy and assurance remain separate.
[Source and exact current proof](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#classic-selected-card-reactions--18-october-2026).

## Classic independent Nexus composition — 18 October 2026

Fresh classic2–6 Basic/Advanced all14 may now select independent36 plus
original Nexus12 without any other overlay. One public configuration
predicate joins the original initializers and effect quotes; native offers,
starting-card-before-training order and mandatory normal Banker remain.
An unused expansion selection is not part of this entry. Native selected
families, World/phase/Discovery/Semuta and reaction-preview envelopes retain
their existing separate limits; no played save is converted.

Actual normal module selection completes original training and first Storm.
Real Nexus draws then exercise Recruits/fixed Tleilaxu revival, a selected
ordinary bank purchase and native Cunning with separate Reinforcements fees
and Harass returns. Frozen25-file249/249, types/lint/build, three390px
surfaces and four legal all14 policies pass. Broader effect bounds, full
combinations, strategy, deferred assurance and deployed acceptance stay open.
[Exact source, native quantities and proof](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#classic-independent-treachery-composition--18-october-2026).

## Provisional paid Richese retention — 18 October 2026

Positive Black Market seller wins now retain the same held card/order and pay
the original Emperor/Bank invoice. This visibly provisional policy is not a
retrieved ruling; zero/unbid stays free and unsold. All14 is not required:
real bare full-hand and original Nexus starts also complete native paid retention.
Owned full hands need no new slot. Bureaucrat sees one whole eligible Emperor
payment, not a private Richese portion; cancellation/Banker keep original legs.

Frozen17-file151/151, types/lint/build, three actual390px methods and four legal
full-hand seller policies pass. Native original cards, deferred bribe/acquisitions
and physical counter sources are retained. No new acquisition/free-seller frame,
spurious Nexus spend, full-mode or assurance claim.
[Source, exact receipts and scope](RICHESE_AUCTION_RULES.md#provisional-paid-black-market-retention--18-october-2026).

## Advanced Richese portions — 18 October 2026

Bureaucrat now evaluates buyer-to-Richese and Richese-donor-to-Emperor receipts
separately in original cache/Black Market sales. Real donor5 no longer vanishes
as a fictitious self-payment to Richese. Basic keeps its original seller receipt.
The inherited seller-first/native-Emperor-counter sequence is visibly
provisional; one physical phase use survives both distinct source events.
Private exact portions stay private: controls show original public price and
recipient portion, not an invented whole-price-minus-two credit.

Frozen18-file413/413 and focused donor1/1 pass. Two actual390px flows reach the
next original ordinary bid or native cache selection, and all four legal
policies settle a real donor receipt with the buyer as trainer. Original card,
escrow, deferred Banker and native counter callbacks remain. No new module
admission, complete-mode, deployed or assurance claim.
[Source, precise receipts and limits](BUREAUCRAT_PAYMENTS.md#advanced-richese-portions--18-october-2026).

## Registered native allied Bureaucrat receipts — 18 October 2026

Single and actual allied receipts now share the ordinary Skills capability.
Registered all14 selected-family tables need no incidental Nexus Cards or exact
single family for otherwise supported auction/shipment funding. Original
module/Advanced role admission, individual payer thresholds, private shares,
native income cancellation, full costs and Bank2 remain. No new ruling or
played-save conversion occurs.

Real no-Nexus E1/E3 normal starts, actual Advanced Guild interception and an
unused selected CHOAM deck retain original armies, escrow and continuation.
Frozen17-file442/442, types/lint/build and three actual390px native controls
pass. All four legal policies settle the genuine Advanced E1 receipt without
changing Carthag10/HMS6. Full-mode/AI calibration and deferred assurance remain.
[Source, exact receipts and limits](BUREAUCRAT_PAYMENTS.md#registered-native-allied-receipts--18-october-2026).

## Registered native E3 selected decks — 18 October 2026

Fresh all14 now validates every registered actual seat against its selected
ordinary family, Basic/Advanced2–6. Ecaz/Moritani may coexist with selected
E1/E2 natives; unused selected decks need no native seat. No Nexus, exact
single E3 family or independent-card dependency is invented. Original Worlds,
Tech3+ and Advanced Strongholds2+ remain optional; independent36/38/50 reuses
the same capability and separate Richese cache.

Actual Eca/Mori role predicates bind the seated factions to this capability,
retaining printed setup, mandatory normal Banker and native powers. Original
Nexus/Discovery/Semuta envelopes retain their existing predicates; independent
Nexus/Discovery, bare no-Skills mixed E3 World/phase, Advanced E3/Harkonnen,
shared Duke and effect-specific exclusions remain. Foreign-ghola custody still
explicitly requires Advanced. No numeric ruling, new state or save retrofit.

Sixteen normal starts rejected before and now reach actual native setup.
Actual unused Ecaz+Emperor+Guild with all three families keeps ordinary47,
no Nx/cards, a paid1 Guild arrival and untrained native Duke6 acquisition.
It creates neither an Ixian nor a CHOAM seat. Normal original Nx/Nx+Discovery
starts remain; unselected mixed Discovery and independent Nx reject unchanged.

Existing mixed-Nexus Ecaz/Mori fixture/runtime pairs add default-preserving
`nexus:false` and optional `independent:true` at original setup. Null drawing/
alliance fields are real absences, never synthetic phases or played-card
removal. World sources, original source entropy and labelled conserved cards
remain. The shared World stock guard now counts the selected original three
cards; the plan helper uses the actual native source type, not an impossible
literal-Action extraction.

Actual turn3 mixed Eca/Mori/Ix/Guild World coalition earns Tabr and its receipt1.
Support2, own R fee3, H return2 and committed-only Suk3 (keep1/return2) settle
separately: Eca reserves9→10/Tanks0→3/board5→1/purse7→6; ally loses only2.
The four-seat loser owns no Tech token in this programme; the separate Basic
three-seat no-card case proves its actual transfer. No token is fabricated.
Actual Moritani/CHOAM/Richese/Guild World loss uses CHOAM’s original R:
native reserves19→16/Tanks0→4 (fee3+commit1), while Mori reserves14 stay.
Different unused trained Frankos Aru4 dies once, returns one technique and
yields one actual Mentat replacement. This route has no rescue window;
the Eca programme supplies the committed-only rescue proof.

Frozen53-file **609/609**, types/lint/build and independent actual controllers
pass. Three bounded ordinary tables reach turn3/earlier wins through nine
battles with all four legal policies represented, not calibrated strategy.
Real390px four-seat Ix/Eca/Mori/Guild five-module normal entry chooses the
original Ix Shield draft before offered Smuggler/Dominic training, completes
Traitors/native setup and the Amal opening into Storm, with Ix10N4C/native14,
no browser errors/root overflow. Detailed targeted programmes, not those
natural tables, prove fees, income and assassination. No full-mode, deployed
or deferred assurance acceptance follows.


## Mixed BG Planetologist gather — 18 October 2026

The actual checklist gap now has a connected prototype: mixed advisor/fighter
origins entering an otherwise enemy-held territory declare one common fighter
arrival before either group moves. Original native Karama may cancel that
flip. Both source groups, spice, shipment and movement remain unchanged while
waiting and after cancellation; the native flip stays blocked for the current
movement opportunity. A legal non-flipping replacement remains available.
Fresh advisors, ordinary route/range/occupancy and existing destination stances
retain their rules. Old single-origin and ordinary flip windows keep their timing.

This is an explicit [recommended provisional timing policy](PLANETOLOGIST_RULES.md#mixed-advisor-and-fighter-gather--18-october-2026),
not a newly retrieved combined FAQ. The original response carries the exact
living trainer and two-origin movement; its public current-slot block feeds
shared human/bot quotes. No selected source, ordinary range or physical counter
is replaced by a synthetic force. Existing game windows are not reopened.

`tests/fixture-planetologist-advisor-gather.ts` reaches its source position
through normal module/ready/start, actual training, paid Carthag shipping,
Imperial Basin accompaniment and a later native movement turn. The only card
positioning conserves one original Karama. Three meaningful consumer cases
exercise advisor-first allowance, whole-declaration cancellation/replacement
and an actual fresh arrival-turn lock. Old exclusion, wording and action-copy
pins are deleted, not re-pinned.

The related20-file **191/191**, types/lint/build pass. Actual original
controllers produce Arrakeen2 fighters/one movement when allowed, or unchanged
sources/zero movement plus one spent Karama when canceled; a normal fighter
replacement leaves its original advisor behind. All four bot profiles submit
legal actions; three choose mixed gathering into an empty destination, not the
new contested-entry response. That is participation proof, not calibration.

Actual390px GameTable proof uses the same original fixture and real engine
actions in isolated memory, not staged stored rooms: select both sources,
read the provisional warning, declare, allow/cancel with native controls,
observe a blocked retry and perform the ordinary replacement. Fresh-advisor
rejection also renders. No browser errors or root overflow; all owned QA
memory/routes are released and the healthy existing dev server is reused.
This is changed-surface proof, not normal HTTP/storage, deployed,
complete-mode or deferred assurance acceptance.


## Native E3 Worlds with independent cards — 17 October 2026

This supersedes the earlier17 October non-World E3 card boundary below.
Fresh standalone or paired Ecaz/Moritani/classic Worlds now retains all14,
optionally independent cards and original Tech3+/Advanced Strongholds2+.
Paired plain World Skills needs neither Nexus nor these three cards. Original
native E3 World/card/phase starts also work without Skills. Exact ecaz33/36,
two through six distinct seats, printed6/6 and original setup remain; actual
mixed E3, Nexus/Discovery card contexts and unrelated roles/effects stay separate.
Advanced Skills/Harkonnen, bare Moritani phase/Harkonnen and shared-Duke
training guards remain. No new state shape or played-save retrofit.

One original native module capability feeds live World cards and native powers,
including mandatory fresh Banker or native Ecaz/Moritani markers. Original
Worlds supply actual shipped/fee/rescue counters; they do not replace the
ordinary Arrakis coalition or create Occupy on a Homeworld. Card fees and
separate fixed Ecaz/variable allied losses retain their own sources. Every
own-World Harass ban, original pre-fee traits and committed-only Suk remain.
Native skill-first assassination, normal-call forfeiture, unused-disc bounty
and one real Mentat replacement retain their original handlers.

Existing Ecaz/Moritani independent fixture/test pairs add default-off
`homeworlds`, source-bearing original shipments/fees and six distinct World
consumer cases. Shared setup uses actual native shipment selections, including
Kaitain/Salusa. Fresh external lobby selections use their real `lobbyOptions`,
not already initialized Skills/card fields; original seat IDs remain.
Conserved cards/Traitors and undealt lotteries are explicit inputs, never
fabricated counters, money, module owners or elapsed phases.

Frozen39-file **459/459**, types/lint/build and actual programmes pass. Fourteen
of18 scoped normal World/phase starts rejected before; all18 start afterward.
Actual earned Arrakeen pays Bank2/own0; native Ecaz fee3 stays in Tanks while
H returns2 and Suk saves only committed2 (keep1/return1). Allied Moritani loses
its own2. Plain paired World Skills lets Moritani lead without cards/Nexus.
No-Skills Emperor lead withdraws2E to native Salusa after a separate3N fee.

Actual paired Advanced World Moritani loses, returns2N, pays its own3N fee
and assassinates a different unused trained Whitmore Bludd4: one death,
one returned Killer Medic and one actual Mentat replacement. Actual native
Ecaz own-World H rejects without mutation; subsequent original battle deaths
let Guild play Recruits and revive2 free into native Junction (13→15).

Actual Basic no-Skills card and Advanced all14 World phase entries also retain
the [original arrival queue](MORITANI_ENTRY_TIMING.md#paired-world-card-entries--17-october-2026):
one source-labelled paid Guild arrival, both storm-order branches, untrained
Duke6/Robbery and resumed movement, without inventing Nexus or a new priority.
Three bounded normal World tables exercise all four legal policies through
turn3 or earlier wins (seven battles); targeted programmes supply the detailed
card/power proof, not natural acquisition claims. Real390px paired five-module
normal entry assigns offered Prana Bindu Adept, keeps a Traitor, places native6
and reaches Storm with Grumman14 and Ecaz/Junction/Stronghold inspectors,
no browser errors/root overflow. Local working-tree evidence is not deployed
revision-matched, full-mode, calibration or deferred assurance acceptance.


## Registered World Skills occupation — 26 October 2026

The existing clean registered World/all14 starts now initialize mandatory
occupation benefit state alongside native locations and normal Banker state.
Roster, role, ordinary Skill offers and original phase-module limits remain;
no new admission or played-game conversion is introduced. Other registered
module contexts keep their separate scopes. The [World source and income
contract](HOMEWORLD_RULES.md#registered-world-skills-occupation--26-october-2026)
distinguishes occupied Collection, other-payer Banker at Mentat and token payout.

## World Skills and selected decks — 17 October 2026

Fresh ordinary all14 setup now validates selected ordinary decks and actual
seats once for Basic/Advanced2–6. Registered classic/E1/E2 seats retain their
required family selection; neither a native expansion seat nor independent
cards is required. Unused selected Ecaz metadata creates no Ecaz/Moritani power.
`selectedDeckLeaderSkillsProfile` replaces the separate Basic-family and
Advanced-native aliases. Foreign-ghola custody still explicitly requires
Advanced and the original native revival conditions; Basic gains no such power.

The independent three-card variant now composes classic or selected E1/E2
Homeworlds/all14, optionally original Tech3+ and/or Advanced Strongholds2+.
All selected known family decks remain authoritative, including unused Ecaz
metadata; actual E3 natives with World cards, Nexus/Discovery and unrelated
role/effect guards remain outside this new envelope. Original hand/draft/cache,
training, typed counters, mandatory normal Banker and phase-module owners stay.
No new saved state, printed arithmetic or played-game conversion is introduced.

World revival uses the accepted current-population invoice and recorded prior
returns. Recruits does not double a separate income ledger or cap native
Tleilaxu at seven. Normal Banker qualifies on the accepted payer contribution,
not a wallet delta after separate native income; Axlotl pays only at phase end,
while Banker waits for actual Mentat. Bulk/split repricing keeps its existing
explicit provisional timing.

Own-World fee counters cannot also fund the dial or Suk rescue. Original
pre-fee traits remain sealed; only committed battle losses can be rescued,
and visitor Harass returns retain their native typed destinations. Every
own-World Harass ban remains. Earned Arrakeen support and Banker strength
create no reserve-fee subsidy. Richese must still retain three actual reserves
after projected materialization and before any later withdrawal.

`tests/selected-deck-skills-runtime.test.ts` uses actual moduleOption/ready/start,
paid shipment and battle, including both real poisoned-disc deaths before
Basic-forbidden/Advanced-legal foreign revival. Existing native/classic World
Recruits, battle and marker fixture/test pairs add default-off original setup
training and meaningful income/source/return cases. Custom seat IDs are retained;
only undealt lotteries and explicitly conserved original card inputs are
controlled, never counters, money, owners or elapsed phases.

Frozen61-file **683/683**, types/lint/build and actual rule programmes pass.
Eight World card/Skills phase starts and five bare selected-deck starts rejected
before and pass after. Actual own-Ix Suk returns only its two committed Cyborgs;
fee1N2E stays in Tanks and exported troops stay separate. Actual Richese funded
marker5 pays three then returns four; capped5/stock3 rejects R and legal H
returns one/loses two. A Basic Ix return programme preserves separate Axlotl and
Banker stores. The regressions additionally cover accepted Tleilaxu invoice5
versus net wallet4, unlimited11 returns and original typed visitor aftercare.

Two unstaged normal World tables exercise Easy/Medium/Hard/Brutal participation:
Basic Ix reaches turn3; Advanced classic wins at turn1 after two battles.
Actual390px normal five-module entry trains an offered disc, keeps a Traitor
and reaches Storm with Kaitain/Salusa and Stronghold inspectors, no app errors
or root overflow. These are changed-path proofs, not full combinations,
strategic calibration, complete-mode, deployed or deferred assurance acceptance.


## Independent cards with original phase modules — 17 October 2026

Fresh original all14 Skills plus independent Recruits/Reinforcements/Harass now
retains Tech3–6 Basic/Advanced and/or Strongholds2–6 Advanced (both3–6).
Existing classic, selected Ix/CHOAM native/base and standalone/paired E3
ecaz rosters/decks36/38/50 remain; the Richese cache stays separate. Plain
paired E3 Skills also uses these original modules without a card dependency.
World/Nexus/Discovery, mixed E3, Advanced E3/Harkonnen, shared-Duke training and
effect-specific guards are unchanged. No new state shape or save retrofit.

One shared independent profile feeds setup, native skills and live card
availability, including mandatory normal Banker and native markers. Real
claims and first-Storm owners remain authoritative. Arrakeen funds only actual
selected-holder support; it creates neither personal cash nor reserve fees.
Source-labelled R/H/Suk, typed aftercare, winner Tech and native assassination
retain existing order and provisional interpretations.

The existing classic independent-Skills fixture/test pairs add actual revival/
income and zero-personal-spice held-support programmes; the Ix/CHOAM pairs add
typed reward/revival and real native marker/earned support. The Ecaz/Moritani
pairs add selected-holder versus ally and plain no-card phase continuation.
Original defaults remain off. Shared module setup controls undealt lotteries;
the coalition helper actually ships4 in turn1, earns Arrakeen at real Mentat
and retains the same4 for turn2. No module owner, money, army or phase is faked.
Conserved card inputs remain explicit: the native Richese held case restages
the original R between battles without claiming a natural reacquisition.

Frozen44-file471/471, types/lint/build and actual programmes pass. A real
five-Tanks revival returns3 for4, then2 for2 after Recruits: one Axlotl pending2
pays only at phase end, one normal Banker grant stays deferred. Earned Ecaz
support is Bank2/personal0, fee-only3 Tanks, one rescued survivor and separate
ally2 losses; its later Collection2 is not a support rebate. Native prices and
single Mentat replacement retain their original recipients/custody.
Eight natural composed tables reach turn3 or earlier wins; real390px normal
four-module selection/training reaches Storm without errors/overflow.
These are prototype changed-path proofs, not full combinations, strategic
calibration, deployed or deferred assurance acceptance.


## Paired E3 without Nexus — 17 October 2026

Fresh native Ecaz+Moritani/classics all14 Skills now uses its original setup
without an artificial Nexus dependency, Basic/Advanced2–6, optionally independent
cards (ecaz33/36), original Tech3+ and/or Advanced Strongholds2+. One roster validator serves
both original paired Nexus and plain Skills predicates. No Nexus hand is
created; native6/6, Loyalty, ordinary assignment discs, mandatory Banker and
native powers remain. Shared Duke never trains. Advanced Harkonnen, mixed
families and other plain-pair module combinations retain their guards.

The existing Ecaz programme now uses native Moritani as its actual variable
army/optional lead: native normal counters, own fee/returns and separate fixed
Ecaz losses remain. Trained Ecaz Suk rescues committed own losses, never reserve
fees or the ally. The Moritani programme now loses against actual Ecaz, reveals
one different held unused trained Ecaz4, returns one skill and replaces the
actual Traitor once at Mentat. Basic and no-card controls remain native.

Existing fixtures/tests `fixture-ecaz-independent-skills.ts`,
`ecaz-independent-skills-runtime.test.ts`,
`fixture-moritani-independent-skills.ts` and
`moritani-independent-skills-runtime.test.ts` extend `paired:true`; original
standalone defaults stay. `tests/paired-e3-skills-arrival.test.ts` additionally
uses genuine placements/paid entry for both native reactions, including
card-only factions without Skills. See the
[unchanged provisional queue policy](MORITANI_ENTRY_TIMING.md#paired-skills-and-independent-card-entries--17-october-2026).

Frozen29-file323/323, types/lint/build, paired runtime programmes and four-policy
lead/assassination actions pass. Four bounded paired all14 tables reach turn3
or earlier wins; targeted programmes supply assassination/overlap proof.
Actual390px normal paired training, Loyalty/Traitors and both native force
setups reach Storm without errors/overflow. No played-game conversion,
calibration, complete-mode, deployed or deferred assurance claim follows.


## Standalone E3 independent cards — 17 October 2026

Fresh native Ecaz OR Moritani/classic all14 Skills now also admits independent
Recruits, Reinforcements and Harass & Withdraw, Basic/Advanced2–6, exact ecaz36
and no other modules. The shared independent/native capability feeds setup,
card previews, skill effects, ordinary bankers and legal AI. Original native
offers, five assignment discs, Loyalty/Traitors and starting forces remain;
Advanced Harkonnen, mixed families and shared-Duke training stay guarded.

Ecaz retains real allied Arrakis lead selection and separate fixed/variable
armies. Advanced Moritani keeps skill-first winner outcomes, printed unused-disc
assassination and one actual Mentat replacement; Basic does not gain that power.
Card fees/returns and existing provisional timing/Basic rounding do not change.
No played-save conversion or complete-mode acceptance follows.

Frozen25-file274/274, types/lint/build and genuine native programmes pass.
Ecaz fee/withdrawal/Suk reaches Collection; Moritani unused-disc assassination,
one skill return, winner disposal and one Mentat replacement stay physical.
Four policies choose legal native leads and assassination cards. Actual390px
normal Moritani entry completes training/Traitors/native6 into Storm without
errors/overflow. A discovered Mentat hand-validation deadlock is also fixed:
selected independent Specials are valid private fallback disclosures, never
nameable weapons. Normal/trained question continuations retain actual custody.

[Card-source scope](ECAZ_TREACHERY_RULES.md#standalone-e3-leader-skills-composition--17-october-2026).


## Native independent Treachery composition — 17 October 2026

Fresh all14 Skills with the independent Ecaz cards now admits original selected
Ixians/Tleilaxu and/or CHOAM/Richese with classics, Basic/Advanced2–6, without
other modules. Source-ordered native hands, Ix card-before-training, Richese's
separate cache, Auditor exclusion and actual typed force/revival rules remain.
The public lobby and existing prototype command use the same setup.

One shared independent profile now feeds both ordinary and native skill
capabilities. Smuggler marker shipment/collection, Planetologist and native
Suk/Rihani/Sandmaster quotes no longer disagree with admitted setup. The
independent-card blanket block on normal Sandmaster worm collection is removed;
its actual native trainer, destination, phase and physical pickup rules remain.
No old predicate alias or played-game conversion is retained.

Frozen22-file223/223, types/lint and build pass. Original Ix typed fees/Harass/
Suk and next-Recruits pricing, Richese funded/capped marker plans, Mentat margin
and Harass fallback execute through their native sources. Six bounded native/
mixed-family games reach turn3 or an earlier win; actual390px Ix initial card
selection then training has no browser errors or overflow. Those are changed-path
development proofs, not full-rule/combination acceptance or calibration.

[Card-source boundaries and native physical programme](ECAZ_TREACHERY_RULES.md#native-e1e2-leader-skills-composition--17-october-2026).

## Standalone Ecaz coalition — 17 October 2026

Native Ecaz/classic all-fourteen Skills no longer needs Nexus Cards or
Homeworlds to resolve its ordinary allied Arrakis battle. The original native
profile now feeds the existing coalition and fresh setup marks participation in
Basic as well as Advanced. The selected lead supplies its own plan/skill; fixed
Ecaz and variable allied armies keep separate physical losses, cancellation,
normal skill effects and mandatory card cleanup.

This removes an artificial setup dependency, not the native profile's source
boundaries: Advanced Harkonnen, shared-Duke assignment and unsupported
roster/module combinations remain guarded. No starting Nexus hand or World
custody is created for Skills-only games, and no played table is redealt.

Both actual Skills-only normal starts failed at coalition admission before the
change; Basic and Advanced now reach Collection through original setup, a real
worm alliance and paid shipments. Four policies are exercised in each mode
with and without Worlds, retaining all physical counters. The affected
seven-file73/73, types/lint and build pass. Regression entropy is scoped and
restored per case; the final deterministic ten-case file also passes. Standalone
runtime smokes retain native randomness. A390px normal-lobby Skills-only
Ecaz start shows its actual offered cards with Nexus/Worlds unchecked and no
app errors or overflow. Browser evidence is entry/controls, not a played
coalition battle or final acceptance.

13 September 2026. This is **Prototyped**, with **Partial** rules coverage.
Normal lobby access now exposes supported previews; full rules-mode acceptance and publication remain gated. The [source contract](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md)
contains all fourteen physical cards; the [capture interpretation](LEADER_SKILLS_CAPTURE.md)
records the fresh publisher/designer search requested by the user.

## Native Guild rate with independent Smuggler — 15 October 2026

Original module selection no longer suppresses native rate cancellation.
Moritani actually selects an originally offered Smuggler through the shared
undealt permutation and normal training action. Three physical reserves into
empty desert contain two paid counters: half2 becomes full4, never6, while
the free companion remains independent. An unaffordable cancellation releases
the uncommitted group and a smaller full-price replacement keeps that companion.

The own No-Field/companion case is explicitly controlled, not an original
action-only game: the older fixture stages phase/army/wallets, then this
extension conserves one real Karama and a mutual alliance. Hidden0/5 both
price one marker1→2; only the companion initially withdraws. Actual390px
reveal of the five-counter marker produces six at Wind Pass and14 reserves,
with the already paid two unchanged. The original composed Smuggler UI
instead pays Mori12→8, moves all three, then makes a legal ground move.

Skills/No-Field receipts now recognize their original rate stage rather than
requiring only Guild interception. Private proof follows authenticated event/
price changes; no hidden value enters billing. Canonical source cases, runtime
provenance and remaining limits are in [the rate contract](GUILD_RATE_KARAMA_RULES.md#native-price-source-composition--15-october-2026).
No full-module, recovery or strategic-AI certification is claimed.

## Explicit Semuta composition — 11 October 2026

`--profile semuta --leader-skills` reuses original all14 native setup for Basic
Richese/CHOAM with exact CHOAM, or Advanced E1/E2 with native Richese and selected
CHOAM/optional Ix. Original Tech3+ and Advanced Strongholds2+ may remain. Default
Semuta callers are unchanged. Adding `--nexus-cards` uses the original
single/paired CHOAM or both selected E1/E2 Nexus/Skills envelope, retaining
the actual qualifying closing draw and no starting Nexus hand. Without that
original envelope, Basic Ix mixtures remain excluded. Homeworlds, Discovery/E3,
Banker overlays, public starts and played-save conversion stay gated.

Actual offers and training precede real phase/battle controls. Completed Hajr
claim/pass resumes the original Movement owner, then the approved normal
Mentat private naming/card-show contract. Completed mandatory loser disposal
may precede trained Suk rescue or original Rihani normal inspection and optional
skilled exchange. Winning compulsory Artillery stays reserved until that
skill finishes; only then is it fresh Treachery. Traitor/Face Dancer movement
does not enter a Semuta batch. Original native handlers/skill rulings are reused.

Four genuine starts,36 question cases and48 aftermath cases cover claim/pass,
four legal profiles and original module envelopes. The isolated prototype-room
option stores a real original skill offer in one fresh memory-only record.
Styled390px controls exercise all three continuations plus actual native
CHOAM/other-seat training; Auditor is absent from its five eligible discs.
Suk inspector shows14reserves/1normalTank/5board including2Sardaukar. Rihani keeps
one new private Traitor and returns its selected old card before Artillery and
Shield cleanup; normal private inspection remains inherited, not suppressed.
No comprehensive privacy/custody/recovery campaign or mode certification is
claimed by these changed-path proofs.

The Nexus follow-up retains original all14 training through public CHOAM
Secret Ally trade and private native CHOAM Betrayal discard reactions.
Semuta never re-pays the two-spice trade or re-samples Betrayal. Actual
Advanced Skills/Tech/Strongholds controls and full-hand exchanges reuse the
original singleton-at-Commit rule; there is no extra selection acknowledgement.
See [Nexus composition](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#semuta-with-original-native-nexus--11-october-2026).



## Mixed E1/E2 and paired E3 Nexus — 7 October 2026

The original all14/Nexus entry now composes natives from both selected
Ix+CHOAM families/union47 or both Ecaz+Moritani/ecaz33 with classics and
optional original Homeworlds/Discovery7/8/Tech3+/Advanced Strongholds2+.
Native offers, ordinary discs, Auditor/shared-Duke exclusions and physical
payments/rescue/rewards remain. The exact new bare-Nexus profiles feed
the existing Bureaucrat payment consumer; two real five-spice bribes
redirect two to the bank once, not owner income or a payer refund.

New31 physical programmes plus two separate-Loyalty stock regressions,
the final489/489 affected checks across42 files pass with types/lint/build.
Original64-family play completes258/288 across **three** frozen trees and
preserved continuations;30 source-guard captures remain. Actual original
human Ixian offer/hidden trained plan, paid typed visitor shipment and
native free Suboid support preserve20 counters. Its actual loss is not
a winner-only Suk rescue; the winning programmes prove those outcomes.
[Canonical source and runtime qualifications](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#mixed-e1e2-and-paired-e3-nexus--7-october-2026).
Complete rules, public starts, full AI and comprehensive assurance remain open.

## Single-native E1/E2 Nexus composition — 7 October 2026

Original `leader-skills --nexus-cards` now admits exactly one native Ixians
OR Tleilaxu OR CHOAM OR Richese with classics and the required one-family
deck, all14 Skills/all12 Nexus, optional Homeworlds/Discovery7/8/Tech3+
and Advanced Strongholds2+. Original Ix offers, ordinary-disc training,
Auditor exclusion, physical rescue/substitution and cleanup/Tech/Face
Dance remain. Optional revived own-disc training accepts the original
two-card draw before selection; foreign revival grants no new training.
[Canonical current programme evidence and retained boundaries](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#single-native-e1e2-nexus-composition--7-october-2026).
Fifteen original programmes/398 affected checks and source-qualified
190/192 completed games retain two printed ruling captures. The actual
bare-Nexus ordinary-skill omission is repaired through one shared term;
its original Smuggler capture finishes40/40 actions. Original bare
Smuggler5 plus Collection1 pays one physical six-spice pile exactly once.
Human C’tair's offered Planetologist remains alive/trained after free
Suboid support and equal nested Cyborg exchange. Comprehensive assurance,
full AI, public starts and complete-mode acceptance remain open.

## Native Homeworld Nexus composition — 6 October 2026

Original paired Ixians+Tleilaxu OR CHOAM+Richese and standalone Ecaz OR
Moritani/classic skill-Nexus entries now retain Homeworlds, optional
Discovery7/8, Tech3+ and Advanced Strongholds2+. Original all14 offers,
decks/cache, native placement, ordinary-disc training and Duke/assassination
restrictions remain. Existing physical Suk/substitution/cleanup/Tech order
and source-local native returns remain; foreign-Homeworld Face Dance stays
suppressed. Quiet Duke Cunning does not train the shared disc or create
Homeworld Occupy/Intrusion.

Fifteen meaningful original cases,307/307 affected tests and59 of68
original six-seat games across23 families retain source-qualified evidence.
Actual390px Ecaz chooses its randomly offered Warmaster on Sanya, draws
Ecaz after real alliance settlement, pays for one native Wallach visitor,
then spends the singleton for the living Duke without changing its purse
or original trained disc.
[Canonical programmes, source receipts and retained ruling captures](HOMEWORLD_RUNTIME_IMPLEMENTATION.md#native-homeworld-nexus-composition--6-october-2026).
Other native families, pending effects, public starts, comprehensive
assurance, calibration and complete-mode acceptance remain open.

## Classic Homeworld Nexus composition — 6 October 2026

Fresh classic all14 Skills/all12 Nexus now retains original Homeworlds,
optionally Discovery7/8, Tech3+ and Advanced Strongholds2+, through the
existing private `leader-skills --nexus-cards` entry. Native Homeworld/Nexus
optional-module families remain separate. Actual native/visitor Suk and
source-local support, skill death and original cleanup/winner Tech remain.
The next actual Fremen Nexus exact-three revival uses printed native deposit,
including Sardaukar to Salusa, not the external Suk split interpretation.
Thirteen meaningful cases, affected242/242, types/lint/build,22 original
six-seat games and actual390px typed human return are recorded in
[the source-bound Homeworld evidence](HOMEWORLD_RUNTIME_IMPLEMENTATION.md#classic-homeworld-nexus-composition--6-october-2026).
No full-skill, combined-mode, ruling, public or deployed acceptance claim.

## Native Homeworld composition — 6 October 2026

Fresh supported native E1/E2 or standalone Ecaz OR Moritani/classic entries
now retain original Homeworlds with all14 Skills, optional Discovery7/8,
Tech3+ and Advanced Strongholds2+. Existing roster/deck, Duke and
assassination restrictions remain. The original Ixian card-before-training
stage precedes native placement; physical Suk rescue forwards only residual
Cyborg Tanks into equal Suboid substitution. Native-world rescue, genuine
Tleilaxu own revival and Moritani death/replacement use existing custody.
See [source-qualified native proof](HOMEWORLD_RUNTIME_IMPLEMENTATION.md#native-optional-module-compositions--6-october-2026).
Nexus with Homeworlds, unsupported E3 pairs/mixed families, pending
interpretations, public starts and full-mode acceptance remain separate.

## Classic Homeworld composition — 6 October 2026

Fresh Basic/Advanced two–six unique base-faction private skill prototypes
retain Homeworlds with all fourteen offers, optionally Discovery7/8,
original Tech3+ and Advanced Strongholds2+. Original training precedes
native placement. Native/visitor/nested Suk uses actual typed pools; native
saved counters remain at the same home. External Emperor return allocation
stays an implementation interpretation, not ordinary revival placement.
Support precedes rescue; later Cistern income and mandatory winner Tech are
separate original effects. Held cards stay source-local. Payment redirection,
original lifecycle and minimal legal bots remain connected. See
[Homeworld runtime](HOMEWORLD_RUNTIME_IMPLEMENTATION.md#classic-optional-module-compositions--6-october-2026)
for145 affected cases, exact game provenance and actual390px human nested
Suk submission. Nexus/native Homeworld rosters, unrelated overlays and
pending specific interactions remain separate; no public/full-mode gate changes.

## Native trained Skills/Nexus/Discovery — 6 October 2026

Fresh original `leader-skills --nexus-cards --discoveries` now extends the
existing paired E1/E2 and standalone Ecaz-or-Moritani skill/Nexus families to
the original Discovery envelope: all14 offered training, all12 Nexus and
Discovery7/8, Basic/Advanced2–6, optional unused Tech3+ and Advanced
Strongholds2+. Only those two existing profile predicates gained the Discovery
flag; `nativeExpansion`/`nativeDiscoveryLeaderSkillsProfile` and the original
initializer already route them, so setup, first hands, offers, actors and
native components stay authoritative. Mixed/E3 pairs, Homeworlds, variants/
previews, shared-Duke training, borrowed Smuggler/pair companions, native
free-return, captured/foreign training, Basic odd Ecaz, Advanced Harkonnen,
the exhausted-cache count ruling, public starts and save conversion stay
separate.

Actual Maker losses/votes/typed rides, both Advanced piles and settled alliance
precede the end-Spice closing draw. Physical trained consumers remain: E1 Suk
rescue before equal Cyborg substitution then cleanup/Tech/Face Dance, E2 signed
one-invoice nested pair, Ecaz quiet Duke then owner-labelled mandatory Occupy,
and Moritani skill-first assassination/own revival.

[Canonical combined evidence](DISCOVERY_PROTOTYPE.md#native-trained-skillsnexusdiscovery--6-october-2026)
records the205/14 affected union,23 of24 completed original six-seat samples
(25,751accepted/685JSON) and the preserved Richese exhausted-cache capture.
This bounded composition does not certify complete factions or all fourteen
effects, and is not protected deployment acceptance.

## Classic Nexus/Discovery composition — 6 October 2026

The fresh original classic `leader-skills --nexus-cards --discoveries` entry
retains base33/all14 offered training/all12 Nexus/Discovery7/8,
Basic/Advanced2–6, optional unused Tech3+ and Advanced Strongholds2+.
Original actors, hands, training and physical phase handlers remain.
Actual Great Maker losses/votes/typed reserve rides, both Advanced piles and
settled alliance precede the original end-Spice closing choice, not Mentat.
Source-clear Emperor/Fremen free-return ledgers, original Axlotl settlement,
skilled nested battle and mandatory original-winner Tech reuse existing rules.
Native Skills/Nexus/Discovery has separate bounded evidence above. Homeworlds
remain outside this Nexus profile; unrelated variants/previews, public starts,
conversion and unresolved effects stay guarded.

[Canonical combined evidence](DISCOVERY_PROTOTYPE.md#classic-skillsnexus-and-paired-native-nexus-discovery--6-october-2026)
records the169 affected union, eighteen genuine six-seat completions and three
connected original human programmes. BT4SBSLB retains naturally offered
Prana-Bindu Adept/Suk Graduate/Sandmaster, actual Cistern entry and six Guild
Maker casualties through the human closing draw. The separate paired native
Discovery/Nexus entries do not enable Skills. No complete all14/faction or
protected deployment claim follows from this bounded composition.

## Original native Discovery composition — 6 October 2026

Fresh native `leader-skills --discoveries` composes each already-supported
Basic/Advanced native family predicate, original decks/hands/offers/all14 and
Discovery7/8, optional original Tech3+ and Advanced Strongholds2+.
E1 typed entry/range/rescue/Cyborg/Face Dance, E2 stash/invoice/green marker
and E3 trained death/assassination/own revival use original consumers.
Actual offered training and printed starting hands are not replaced.
The same supported live Ecaz profile keeps mandatory owner-labelled coalition
battles; shared Duke assignments and Basic odd-force rounding remain guarded.
Other Nexus profiles have separate bounded evidence above. Native Homeworlds,
unrelated variants, Banker/Mentat previews, public starts and save conversion
remain separate. This does not certify all fourteen effects or complete factions.

[The Discovery contract](DISCOVERY_PROTOTYPE.md#native-leader-skills-composition--6-october-2026)
records affected107, actual producer programmes and three original human
390px paths. Thirty-one genuine six-seat samples complete after three actual
hidden-Smuggler policy captures are repaired/resumed:30,874 accepted/no
rejection/815 JSON across two frozen trees, not one unstaged every-effect proof.
Original Native starting-hand order, source-local held effects and physical
reward/skill-return ordering remain; comprehensive assurance stays deferred.

**2 October normal Banker checkpoint:** the separate fresh local `banker-income`
profile connects actual final-bank payment legs, one physical Banker phase
grant and automatic current Mentat collection. The full deck14
and existing lower Banker spending remain intact. Read-only public front-shield
counts explain unavailable currency; no collect action/confirmation is added.
Original earned-faction retention after death/capture/reassignment and per-payer
nonaggregation are explicit conservative LOCAL prototype choices, not answers
to the earlier pending custody/split questions or full-module certification.
Bounded verification is Partial / Development Verified: 6,487 offline tests,
140 focused cases, eighteen native source-to-Mentat cases, four legal budgets
and two preserved six-seat CLI/human-phone rooms pass; local HTTP remains
49/55 with six upstream503 failures. Full-module/deployed acceptance stays open; see the
[existing Banker normal-band contract](SPICE_BANKER_RUNTIME.md#normal-income-local-contract--2-october-2026).

**2 October native Mentat checkpoint:** the formerly separate opt-in connected
private normal-band questions to Basic Ixian/Tleilaxu/CHOAM/Moritani starts.
The 11 October user approval now activates the same uniform flow normally
through supported skill entries. Exact/default weapon roles, target-owned
fallback, posture and native continuation remain. Empty-hand interpretation
and complete/public mode acceptance stay open. See
[normal activation](MENTAT_QUESTION.md#normal-activation-and-approved-ux--11-october-2026).


## Standalone E3 Nexus and original components — 5 October 2026

Fresh standalone Ecaz OR Moritani plus classics uses ecaz33/all14/all12
through the original explicit skill/Nexus entry, Basic/Advanced2..6, with
optional original Tech3+ and/or Advanced Strongholds2+; both3+ Advanced.
Native hands/offers/IDs, skill-first setup and actual closing deals remain.
Ecaz keeps five assignment discs and the separate living/unclaimed Duke's
existing quiet Cunning window; normal discipline never assigns that Duke.
Moritani preserves Advanced assassination/normal-Traitor forfeiture, original
post-loss printed bounty and one real private Mentat replacement.
Supply-only Cunning remains separate from ordinary later relocation.

Mandatory Advanced Ecaz Occupy composes the selected faction's battle skill
without transferring the ally's training. Owner-labelled Suk preserves the
ally's variable losses and rescues Ecaz's own fixed commitment; Diplomat uses
the selected faction's own undialed pool. Both initially failed meaningful
coalition regressions and now pass, including trained rescue/retreat JSON choices.

Fifty-four original setups/26 prerequisite rejects, new24/affected224 cases,
types/lint/build and all54 genuine games pass:24,845 accepted/no rejection,
648 JSON continuations/28 closing choices/five coalition leads. Three original
captures finish918/752/21 more actions at their original scenario seeds, without
rejected or skipped battles; resume does not reconstruct the pre-capture stream.
Three original-setup human390px rooms exercise living-Duke normal discipline,
unused-trainer assassination/skill return/private replacement/supply Cunning,
and independent fixed-Ecaz rescue before original winner Tech and Collection.
Advanced Harkonnen, paired/mixed E3/HW/
independent cards/previews, shared/exceptional Duke custody, enhanced Terror
relocation/HMS/Grumman and pending rulings remain guarded.
See [canonical standalone scope](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#standalone-e3-nexus-skills-and-original-components--5-october-2026).

## Paired Nexus with original Tech/Strongholds — 5 October 2026

Fresh original paired Ixians+Tleilaxu OR CHOAM+Richese skill/Nexus entries
preserve selected unused original Tech3..6 Basic/Advanced and/or Strongholds2..6
Advanced, both3..6 Advanced. One original family deck/all14/all12 and saved
hands/offers/IDs remain. This extends paired Skills-only evidence below,
without admitting mixed families/E3/HW/previews/public starts or pending rulings.

Original Cunning/typed rescue/equal substitution and reward-before-FaceDance,
signed physical marker pair/one invoice/native industry and held effects
retain their independent handlers. Bank subsidy changes debit, not committed
support or rescue entitlement. Captured-training revival remains guarded;
no foreign replacement, borrowed companion or native free-return ruling is added.
New50/affected175, types/lint/build,34 original setups/26 prerequisite rejects,
four legal policies and34 genuine2..6 games pass:16,094 actions/no rejection,
420 JSON continuations/22 closing choices. Human390px PPL5CNEB keeps original
bank-funded commitment through real Cyborg rescue/equal substitution and
winner reward; unmatched Face Dancer stock remains unchanged. Matching trainer
replacement/partial Cunning is a separate native source program. TZRU5GYP
preserves signed one-invoice marker settlement and physical reveal, then spends
actual Hajr once as CHOAM fuel before original Planetologist range3 movement
and phase-end Heighliners collection. Refreshed outcomes and guide remain.
See [canonical paired combined scope](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#paired-nexus-skills-and-original-techstrongholds--5-october-2026).

## Classic Nexus with original Tech/Strongholds — 4 October 2026

Fresh classic `leader-skills --nexus-cards` now preserves selected unused
Tech in Basic/Advanced3..6 and/or Strongholds in Advanced2..6; both require3+.
This extends the Skills-only checkpoint below. Original base33/all14/all12,
saved hands/offers, native setup order and real closing draws remain.
First-Storm token allocation and end-Mentat held custody are not granted
by a fixture or by setup. Free returns accrue Axlotl until Revival end;
ordinary off-planet native shipment accrues Heighliners until movement end.

Held Arrakeen subsidizes the payer, not the paid-support commitment used by
casualty/Suk rules. Cunning temporary roles remain ordinary physical counters,
rescue finishes once before cleanup and original mandatory winner token choice.
Held physical Shield and original loser retention retain their native windows.
Paired native Skills/Nexus still excludes Tech/Strongholds. Other unresolved
overlays/rulings and public/deployed gates remain guarded.
See [canonical combined scope](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#classic-nexus-skills-and-original-techstrongholds--4-october-2026).

## Paired E1/E2 Nexus composition — 4 October 2026

Fresh original `leader-skills --nexus-cards` additionally composes both
Ixians+Tleilaxu OR CHOAM+Richese plus classics, one family47/35+cache deck,
all14 Skills/all12 Nexus, Basic/Advanced2..6, without other overlays.
Actual offers/hands/IDs, native setup and real closing deals remain.

Full unsupported Suboids compose original skill posture/bonuses and typed
Suk rescue before equal subsequent substitution. Only actual Cyborg Tank
losses can be recovered; support and losses do not repeat. Face Dance follows
winner rescue/cards/rewards, kills a matching trainer and returns its skill
once, with no second bounty. Tleilaxu Cunning preserves unrevealed stock and
ordinary Mentat allowance. Original Richese pair uses its signed two-token
frame, not an ordinary single-marker skill proof; one invoice/response/Guild
continuation and capped physical reveal remain. CHOAM Cunning's actual
Special fuel is discarded before a separate ordinary Planetologist move.

New27/affected136, types/lint/build, twenty actual setup programs, fourteen
native programs, four legal pair policies and twenty genuine2..6-seat games
(7,458 actions/no rejection,195 JSON continuations/four closing choices) pass.
Human390px **FZ2END3W v24/Collection** saves one of three lost Cyborgs,
then exchanges only two Suboids for two actual Cyborg Tank losses, leaving
one Suboid/two Cyborgs on board and zero Cyborg Tanks. Actual support10→9
precedes separate city2→11. **GZFAT6AE v15/movement** pays original one-marker
fee for immediate5/concealed3, then reveals real3, leaving12 reserves/8 ordinary
board/last-used3 and unchanged all14 training. Original controllers/inspectors/
refresh pass; only QA rooms change. [Canonical scope and evidence](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#paired-e1e2-nexus-and-leader-skills-composition--4-october-2026)
retains foreign replacement, companion/mixed-plan, native revival and other
pending guards, without certifying full modules or deployed acceptance.

## Classic Nexus composition — 4 October 2026

Fresh `leader-skills --nexus-cards` composes classic/base33/all14 Skills/all12
Nexus, Basic/Advanced2..6, without native factions, Tech, Strongholds, Homeworlds,
Banker/Mentat previews or other overlays. Original starting hands may already
be dealt before skill selection; supplied saved offers/hands and authenticated
actors are continued, not replaced. Actual closing Nexus deals remain required.

Original free-three ledgers, bank purchase and Traitor Deck draw/return preserve
physical skill custody. Temporary Emperor Sardaukar remain ordinary counters
through actual discipline bonuses, paid support, casualties and Suk rescue.
The reproduced normal/selected trained rescue failures now retain the identical
original Cunning casualty commitment until actual physical settlement, then
complete its receipt once. Rescue never repeats support or converts actual
normal counters into starred inventory.

New40/affected151, types/lint/build, ten genuine setup programs, twelve actual
rule programs, four legal rescue/free-return policies and ten genuine2..6-seat
games (4,446 actions/no rejection,117 JSON continuations/eight actual closing
choices) pass. Human390px **HKCLYXPK v20 / APXBER55 v24, Collection** seals
Caid3 or trained Fenring6/dial6/support3/Shield. Normal loss4 saves1 to reserves
(14 reserve/3 Tanks/3 board); trained loss5 saves3 with1 kept/2 returned
(15 reserve/2 Tanks/3 board). All5 native Sardaukar stay reserved and Shield/
Suk remain; actual support10→7 precedes separate city2→9. Pending trained
rescue retains all7 original physical counters until selection resolves.
Original posture/Cunning/casualty/rescue/cleanup/inspectors and refreshed phone
outcomes pass. Controlled original shuffle/order/relocations are labeled.
[Canonical scope, source and evidence](NEXUS_CARD_RULES.md#classic-nexus-and-leader-skills-composition--4-october-2026)
preserves the other explicit skill/Nexus rulings, source guards and all gates.

## Standalone E3 module composition — 4 October 2026

Fresh original Ecaz OR Moritani skill profiles preserve unused Tech Tokens in
Basic/Advanced3..6 and Stronghold Cards in Advanced2..6, optionally both.
Exact ecaz33/all14, native setup/wallets and actual first-Storm/end-Mentat
ownership remain. Ecaz trains its five ordinary discs, not Duke; Advanced
Harkonnen exclusion remains. Advanced Moritani keeps non-Harkonnen skill-first
assassination and normal-call forfeiture. Basic has no Advanced assassination.
E3 pairs, mixed families, allied Occupy skills, other overlays, public starts
and save conversion remain excluded.

Ecaz ordinary Suk preserves support and original card/Tech order. Actual
paid Ambassador placement, entrant shipment and acquisition supply temporary
Duke6. Living face-up Warmaster adds normal1 with Worthless, never trained3.
Carthag adds poison protection to physical Shield. Living release or real
printed6 death preserves native training; original paid5 revival returns the
same living set-aside Duke under the earlier ruling. Separate Banker counts
actual opposing paid4, not subsidy or paid1, and waits for actual Mentat.

Normal Guild Suk saves one before original after-loss assassination. The used
battle disc stays ineligible; unused Master Bewt3 can die, returns Suk once and
pays printed3, without replaying casualties or winner income. Original winner
cards/Tech and retained Strongholds remain. Actual Mentat gives one private
replacement. A single death does not bypass ordinary all-five-disc revival.

New15 meaningful cases, affected152/152, types/lint/build and nine actual
programs pass. Original probes cover22 valid two/three/six-seat entries and
ten retained Basic-Stronghold/Advanced-Hark rejections.
Eight genuine E3 games complete1,531 actions/no rejection/38 JSON continuations;
broader47 games complete13,936 actions/no rejection/358 continuations.
Captured unchanged tree:
`d9c5e4d1a611f8ab7cf18e4c816161604d18f8aa8c94b25962fc38595fcc71a3`.
Natural Moritani samples do not claim assassination; controlled programs prove
it separately. Existing sample names/ordinals remain; new E3 rows append and
resume matches original assassination markers.

Fixture corrections preserve original chronology: later Basic dials use1..3,
BG prediction precedes skill offers and Moritani's start includes no other
fighters/advisors. Wallet/location pins were removed, not repinned. Actual
Guild allowance finishes before shipment/accrual; the spice-free desert
shipment does not occupy the conserved diverted deposit. Advanced Tuek
Collection1 is separately quoted, not confused with assassination bounty.

Original CLI **X4YSWBLR/BJH3UVQF v8/setup** retains six unowned cards/three
unowned tokens and genuine Ecaz/Moritani skill setup.
Human390px **334W75B6 v13/Collection** uses acquired Duke6/La La La/Shield at
held Carthag, normal Warmaster1, against dial1/support1/Captain Aramsham5/
Chaumurky. Real7–6 poison-surviving victory releases Duke living, preserves
native Warmaster and both cards. Ecaz8 survive, Emperor8 Tanks; sole opposing
Axlotl transfers, Atreides retains Production. Wallet12 plus separate Carthag2
becomes14.
Human390px **AL6WCG8B v13/Mentat** follows normal Guild Suk rescue1, then
selects unused Master Bewt3. Moritani retains losing Tuek Worthless4/support1;
actual wallet14→17 printed bounty. Guild3/Tanks2/reserves15, Moritani6 Tanks/
one shipped Wind Pass counter remain without repeated losses. Disc death
returns Suk once; Guild discards its original card and takes only Heighliners,
retaining Production while Emperor keeps Axlotl. Separate Guild Tuek income1
remains. Real readiness draws one private Caid; retired Master stays public.
Refresh retains both versions/outcomes/no overflow.
Full combinations, assurance, strategic AI, public and deployed gates remain.
Final reference10/10, types/lint/build and rebuilt390px E3 guide pass:
351px topic,390px page, no overflow. The final isolated reload retains both
original human v13/Collection andv13/Mentat. Owned temporary drivers/tabs
are removed; rooms/store, private metadata and original captures remain.

## Advanced Stronghold composition — 4 October 2026

Fresh Advanced `leader-skills`, including mandatory normal Banker income, preserves
canonical unused Stronghold Cards with all fourteen skills in classic or
already-supported E1/E2 native two-through-six-seat lobbies. Optional original
Tech Tokens requires three-through-six seats. Original deck/roster restrictions,
Richese cache, wallets, offers and native setup remain; cards acquire owners
only at actual end Mentat. The authorized supplied source physical21
(printed19) permits these variants together. Basic Strongholds, E3/other
overlays, public starts, save conversion and unrelated rulings stay excluded.

Arrakeen reduces the actual force-support invoice by at most two bank spice;
only the remaining payer debit can qualify normal Banker income. Rescue never
refunds committed support. CHOAM's original income includes bank-funded support.
Physical Carthag defenses retain their roles and matching normal discipline;
modified/copied Diplomat defenses keep their existing guard. Habbanya holder
priority, Tabr opposing-dial income and Tuek played-Worthless income compose
original skill scores without replacing printed values or traitor outcomes.
Suk/native substitution, card cleanup and mandatory Tech precede Face Dance;
replacement retains the original winner's earnings and returns a killed skill
once. Hidden-skill/untrained Stone cases do not settle active skill/Stone timing.

New21 cases and affected277/277 pass. Final shared fixture-consumer72/72,
types/lint and build pass. Actual original setup probes cover26 valid
two/three/six-seat module/Banker entries and two below-three Tech rejections.
Twelve actual rule programs cover four support thresholds, HMS typed rescue,
CHOAM support/Auditor exclusion, capped Richese marker, Tabr/Tuek Face Dance
and both cache-acquired Stone modes. Twenty-two genuine Advanced three-seat
paired/triple-module games complete6,672 accepted actions/no rejection and171
JSON continuations on captured unchanged tree
`171ecf79ccdef187ca662ddd00c0e5d3c5bce5231d386ee16566ac062ba5dc21`.
The two sample profiles are `skills-stronghold` and `skills-stronghold-tech`.

Fixture corrections preserve actual rules, not new interpretations: ensure a
physical nonmandatory winner card when stopping before Collection; fund a real
bribe before testing an unaffordable plan; explicitly select original cyborg
loss allocation; mutual traitors still pay original support and earn no spice.
The common no-spend fixture now follows the persisted response pass queue
directly. A bot recommendation is not a complete legal-action menu; an
uncontrolled initial card deal exposed that distinction at Atreides inspection.
No production response policy or legal rule is bypassed.

Original CLI **J5AAWGEQ v8/setup** retains six unowned cards/three unowned Tech;
**NY6Y4J4K v10/setup** retains six unowned cards, printed Ixian Heighliners and
Fremen Production, with Axlotl awaiting original first-Storm assignment.
Human390px **HERCFX3B v20/Mentat** selects trained Staban5/dial6/support6/Shield.
Actual bank2/own4 takes native available6→2; Suk saves3, keeps1 and returns2,
leaving Arrakeen3/reserves14/Tanks3 and retained Shield. Emperor8 go to Tanks.
Only original opposing Production transfers; Guild keeps Axlotl and Atreides
keeps Heighliners. Separate Collection2 makes Guild4. Banker Atreides remains
12 with front1 through Collection; human readiness reaches Mentat13/front0.
Human390px **PG2GR3RC v26/Collection** publicly chooses Arrakeen from two real
HMS copy options, then trained C’tair5/dial5/support1/Shield. Bank covers1,
own payment0; actual4 Suboid+2 cyborg losses precede rescue2 ordinary+1 elite,
keeping ordinary and returning one of each. Original substitution is declined.
HMS3 plus Arrakeen1/Tabr1, reserves12/Tanks3; cyborg reserves6/Tanks1/board0.
Both held defenses remain; sole opposing Axlotl transfers, Fremen Production
stays. Wallet10 remains through battle; original Collection2 makes12 after the
native CHOAM market finish and original phase-opening readiness.
Ix first Mentat controls only HMS/Arrakeen; the second copy's Tabr control is
labeled later Movement staging. No later Ix Mentat victory is suppressed.
Phone cost/copy/rescue/counter controls are readable; refresh preserves both
versions and outcomes. Full combinations, assurance, strategic AI, public and
deployed acceptance remain open.
Final reference10/10, types/lint/build and rebuilt390px combined guide pass
(351px topic,390px page, no overflow). The final isolated reload retains human
v20/Mentat andv26/Collection. Owned temporary drivers and managed tabs are
removed; rooms/store, private metadata and original captures remain.

## Native E1/E2 Tech Tokens composition — 4 October 2026

Fresh three-through-six-seat Basic/Advanced `leader-skills` setups, including
mandatory normal Banker income, preserve canonical unused Tech Tokens for the
already-supported native Ixian, Tleilaxu, CHOAM and Richese skill rosters.
Original family/deck restrictions remain: Basic uses its single supported
family; Advanced admits distinct selected E1/E2 decks and their eligible native
seats. All fourteen skills, ordinary33/35/47 cards, Richese's original ten-card
cache, native setup, wallets and printed Tech owners remain genuine.
An extra selected Ix deck never implies a native Ixian seat.
E3, other overlays, public starts and played-game conversion remain excluded.
Normal Banker and the user-approved normal Mentat step now activate in fresh supported Skills setups.

The authorized supplied Advanced PDF, physical page21 (printed19), permits
variants together irrespective of factions and gives native Tech assignment,
phase-end income and losing-owner token reward. Physical page38 (printed36),
Tleilaxu A.1–3, explicitly retains the original winner's cards, bounty and
appropriate Tech Token before replacement. This composition reuses that
original order; Face Dance neither revokes nor creates another reward.
Tleilaxu-only free revival still excludes Axlotl; CHOAM native initial income
is not poverty Charity and triggers neither Production nor Axlotl.
Actual eligible Charity triggers Production alone.

Ixian paid/free Suboids and cyborgs retain typed payment and loss allocation.
Suk rescue and optional native substitution finish before card cleanup and
mandatory Tech award. Richese's marker-only revelation remains capped by real
reserves. Its optional Smuggler companion is one physical counter, not the
marker value or an extra priced force. Banker action validation now admits
the existing Richese `noField`/`event` invoice fields without bypassing native
marker, funding or ownership checks. Existing mixed No-Field, special-lot
Technology, empty-cache auction and other interpretation guards are unchanged.

New native52/52 and affected shared261/262 initially passed; the sole obsolete
prototype assertion still rejected classic Tech, now admitted by the preceding
checkpoint. Removing that obsolete rejection passes the exact remaining case.
Types/lint/build pass. Nine actual programs cover Basic/Advanced Ixian
invoice/Banker/Heighliners, Advanced Guild/Ix winner Tech before Face Dance,
Basic/Advanced Richese marker companions, CHOAM Charity and both Stone modes.
Seventeen genuine three-seat games (fifteen native, two classic) complete5,733
accepted actions/no rejection and149 JSON continuations on unchanged tree
`14be0172b28a45fcabbf0240da12d6718e4fdc871d9a2b639466e6e90d8a1aca`.
The CLI registry retains existing classic names/ordinals and adds sixty native
samples, sixty-eight total. Natural samples and controlled cases are distinct.

Original fresh CLI **VQ3AVFTC**, **M7HPHNTN** and **PQ6U2X4S v7/setup**
preserve native Ixian/Tleilaxu/Richese setup through the existing entries.
Human390px **7RPHJN87 v15/Collection** seals C’tair5/dial5/support1/Shield,
chooses actual4 Suboids+2 cyborg casualties and saves2 ordinary+1 elite,
keeping the cyborg and returning2 ordinary. Original substitution is declined,
Shield retained, then sole opposing Axlotl auto-transfers. Native wallet10→9,
Wind Pass3 (one cyborg), reserves14/Tanks3 (one cyborg); Emperor8 Tanks.
Human390px **F244P8DT v8/Collection** replaces the original Guild's five
survivors using one actual reserve and two Habbanya Erg counters. Guild keeps
Axlotl/Heighliners, wallet2, held weapon and the original win; its trainer dies
without another bounty and returns Suk once. Guild reserves19/Tanks1, Tleilaxu
reserves8/Tanks8 with original-source1/replacement3.
Human390px **YWVH5XQF v8/movement** ships concealed5 plus one free companion
at original price1: wallet6→5, reserves20→19, real board1. Atreides retains
its actual prior Revival Banker-front1 and accrues independent Heighliners1;
neither funds this shipment. The native marker/cost and typed rescue/source
controls are readable. Refresh retains the original versions and outcomes.
Full combinations, assurance, strategic AI, public and deployed acceptance
remain open; this is bounded Development Verified, not full-module completion.
Final reference10/10, types/lint/build and the rebuilt390px native guide pass:
topic351px, page390px, no horizontal overflow. The final isolated QA reload
retains original human v15/Collection, v8/Collection and v8/movement.
Owned temporary drivers and managed tabs are removed; rooms/store, private
metadata and original game captures remain.

## Classic Tech Tokens composition — 4 October 2026

Fresh `leader-skills`, including mandatory normal Banker income, preserves canonical unused
Tech Tokens selected in a three-through-six-seat classic Basic/Advanced lobby.
Original base33/all14 setup, first-Storm token assignment and native wallets
remain; no token owner, income, phase or battle receipt is fabricated.
Native E1/E2 rosters compose Tech in the section above; other overlays retain
their own admission. The user-approved normal Mentat step and mandatory normal
Banker income preserve their existing disclosure, custody and payment policies.

Tech piles collect at their original phase end; Banker front-shield grants wait
for actual Mentat. A Tech credit is not another player's bank-payment producer.
Smuggler's free companion changes the original priced count and therefore the
actual Banker threshold; Guild player income and Guild's own Heighliners
exclusion remain distinct. Winning Suk rescue and Sandmaster board spice finish
before original played-card cleanup and mandatory Tech reward. A sole token
auto-transfers, several require the original winner selection, none auto-skips.
No optional reward decline is added.

New25 rule cases and affected shared/CLI146/146, types/lint/build pass.
Seven actual native programs cover both-band paid Smuggler/Banker/Tech through
Mentat, both-band Suk before two-token selection, Advanced Sandmaster board
spice, the private opted-in Mentat fallback, and a normal single-payer
Bureaucrat bribe fork. The last reads the original QA state without writing it:
actual paid5 leaves recipient bribe3 unavailable, redirects2 to Bank, stamps
one use and leaves all Tech Tokens unchanged.
The payment helper was corrected for the native phase5→7 empty-Battle skip:
the same transition can collect the ordinary board. Its expected currency
uses the separate original Collection quote, not new incidental wallet pins.
Eight genuine Basic/Advanced3..6-seat games complete2,712 accepted actions,
no rejection and69 JSON continuations on an unchanged source tree. Natural
samples and controlled programs are distinct, not full-module acceptance.

Original CLI **WHTKGXEJ v7** retains real Banker skill setup; **5YMNGCCT v7**
retains original Bene Gesserit prediction before Skills. Three tokens remain
unowned until the original first Storm in both rooms.
Human390px **63LV57W2** uses native Harkonnen Smuggler: physical5 cost4,
wallet10→6, reserves10→5 and actual5 at empty Habbanya17. Original Heighliners
accrues1 for Emperor and Banker fronts1 for Atreides; both owned wallets stay10.
Native movement auto-skips empty Battle into Collection (v10): Emperor collects
Tech1 to11, Atreides collects ordinary city2 to12 while Banker1 stays unavailable.
Original human readiness reaches **v13/Mentat**, Banker13/front pile0. Refresh
retains those original amounts.
Human390px **HC35JG8P** follows a real preliminary token capture, then chooses
the remaining Hagga battle and hides skilled Staban5. Actual dial4/support4/
Crysknife/Shield wins9–0 after the opponent declines its original optional
Diplomat copy. Wallet5−support4+printed Bashar2 bounty=3 before Collection.
Original Suk choice saves3: one stays, two return, one current casualty goes
to Tanks. The preserved earlier two casualties make total Tanks3/reserves12/
Hagga5. Winner keeps both cards, then chooses Axlotl from two genuinely held
opposing tokens; production stays Emperor. Refresh retains **v18/Collection**,
Guild wallet9 after separately collecting6 board spice, one token transfer,
physical20 and both cards. The phone rescue explanation and token choice are
readable. The hydrated guide is351px within390px with no page overflow.
Owned temporary drivers and managed tabs are removed; original rooms/store,
private metadata and game captures remain. Full combinations, source questions,
assurance, strategic AI, public activation and deployed acceptance stay open.
Final guide10/10, types/lint/build and the final rebuilt390px reference pass
(351px topic, no page overflow). The final isolated QA reload retains the
original human v13/Mentat and v18/Collection.

## Native Ecaz ordinary-disc composition — 4 October 2026

Fresh local `leader-skills` now admits Basic/Advanced native Ecaz with classic
opponents, the exact `ecaz` family and all fourteen physical skills. Basic
Harkonnen remains permitted; Advanced Harkonnen keeps the original shared-Duke
capture boundary. Public starts, other factions/modules and combined Occupy
skill battles are not opened. Skill assignment uses the five native discs,
never the separately controlled Duke. Source-ordered starting cards, public
skills, Loyalty/Traitors and original six-force placement remain genuine.

Ordinary native role scores, physical Suk rescue and trained-disc death compose
with original handlers. Eligible own normal-disc revival through paid first
cohort or a physical Ghola retains optional decline/draw/assignment. Native
Ambassador placement, bank grants and original entrant continuation preserve
training. Normal Mentat and mandatory normal Banker retain their source boundaries;
an Ambassador bank grant is not another player's bank payment.

Real Ecaz Ambassador acquisition gives one temporary Duke6. A separate living
face-up native Warmaster adds only its normal1 with a physical Worthless card,
never trained-disc3. Surviving release and actual poison death preserve native
trainer/card; bounty is printed6. Ecaz's original paid5 revival returns the
same living set-aside disc under the user's earlier ruling. These cases retain
an existing native skill and do not settle shared-Duke skill assignment.

Focused9/9 and twenty actual controlled programs pass: Basic/Advanced Duke
normal/hidden/stronger-opponent/death, manual/four-policy native Suk, and separate
actual native Banker payment. Ten genuine Basic/Advanced two-through-six-seat
games complete4,264 accepted actions/no rejection,110 JSON continuations and
59 battles, including50 Ambassador decisions and one Suk rescue. Natural and
explicitly controlled evidence are distinct; full combinations/assurance,
strategic AI, public activation and deployment remain unfinished.

Affected67/67, types/lint/build pass. Original CLI **24HGMJCD v4** retains setup.
Human390px **LQWE8TZM v18** uses original token placement/paid entrant/acquisition,
then a conserved controlled Wind Pass/Baliset position retaining the acquired
disc. Actual Sanya Ecaz/Warmaster normal1 plus Duke6/dial0 ties Captain5/dial2/
support2 at7–7 and wins as aggressor. Normal cleanup/refresh retains native
training, Collection/wallet11/eight counters/Tanks0 and living set-aside Duke;
opponent's owned wallet is7. Original enlarged Duke inspection is readable.

## Native Richese composition — 4 October 2026

Fresh local `leader-skills` now composes original native Richese setup and all
fourteen skills in Basic or Advanced with the required `choam` family, its
separate ten-card cache, classic opponents and optional native CHOAM. Advanced
Ix/Tleilaxu/CHOAM/Richese families keep distinct required decks and their current
rule boundaries. Extra decks do not manufacture factions; native Ixian Technology
on Richese lots remains guarded. Ordinary forces and marker-only0/3/5 battles
retain original private pools, both-plan reveal and physically capped casualties.
Suk rescues only those actual casualties. Original own mixed No-Field and
whole-plan disclosure guards remain; voluntary reveal must precede Battle.

Canonical printed Richese `Special` and `Special - Movement` cards can substitute
for a selected Planetologist's weapon. Exact physical id/name/kind/effect remain
required; Stone/Mirror weapons and Portable Snooper defense do not qualify.
The surviving trainer gains2; the green card is disposed once without its native
effect, fee or search. Original preleader acknowledgments stay separate controls.
Normal Smuggler's own companion remains one physical force beside the priced
marker; ordinary allied shipments retain their separate native cancellation
and Guild continuations without inventing an allied free companion.

[Advanced contribution recipients](RICHESE_AUCTION_RULES.md#authorized-advanced-contribution-recipients--4-october-2026)
now preserve original buyer-to-Richese versus Richese-to-Emperor/bank payer
shares. Basic keeps the publisher's earlier receipt. Separate normal Banker
counts only actual bank legs and collects at real Mentat; allowed Emperor
income is not bank income. Fourteen-card custody, private entitlements and
pending Bureaucrat split, earned-custody and ordinary Mentat questions remain.

Final affected rule/CLI union151/151 and types/lint/build pass.
Eleven actual controlled cases cover inert Basic Box/Advanced Residual Poison
substitution, five capped-marker manual/policy rescues and four original
bank/Emperor/cancellation/buyer paths. The original29-table batch completes28
with11,788 accepted actions,303 JSON continuations and130 battles, but is
**not green**: six-seat Advanced seed20261267 is captured after1,523 accepted
actions at the existing exhausted-cache ruling guard. Native selected-deck
marker eligibility now shares the profile; separate two/three-seat follow-ups
finish without rejection. The captured game is not rerun or bypassed.

Human390px **358WLPYA v16** retains original admitted seats followed by a
conserved controlled zero-marker battle. Ein Calimar5/Residual Poison/+2
Planetologist/dial0 wins7–7 on the original aggressor tie. The green card is
discarded through normal cleanup without killing an opposing leader or
creating a physical force; reserves20/Tanks0 remain at Collection after refresh.
Human **E2K2U5ZW v26** uses actual allied funding controls: original buyer4 plus
Richese4 buys one Ornithopter for8, Richese receives only buyer4, and absent
Emperor routes donor4 to bank. Guild Banker earns one unavailable front-shield
spice; real native Revival, movement and Collection retain that pile. Native
Mentat collects it once (wallet6→7), and refresh retains an empty pile.
The detailed green/recipient guide is visually readable at390px (351px topic).
Original CLI **FXK6Z8BW v6** retains native setup. No full assurance,
strategic calibration, public activation or deployed evidence.

## Advanced Moritani assassination composition — 4 October 2026

The [bounded native Moritani contract](MORITANI_LEADER_SKILLS.md#advanced-assassination-composition--4-october-2026)
composes all fourteen skills with the original classic/non-Harkonnen Advanced
assassination roster and exact `ecaz` deck. Five native assignment discs and
original setup remain; Basic/Harkonnen starts are unchanged.
Winner Suk rescue and Rihani choice finish before post-loss assassination.
A saved unspent receipt advances only after those skills, preserving the actual
winner, original excluded battle disc, printed bounty, card return and one
private native Mentat replacement without repeating casualties.
Normal Mentat and mandatory normal Banker retain their source boundaries; shared-Duke assignment, further
native rosters, public activation and unrelated optional modules stay guarded.

## Advanced Tleilaxu foreign-ghola composition — 4 October 2026

The [native Tleilaxu contract](TLEILAXU_LEADER_SKILLS.md#advanced-native-composition--4-october-2026)
extends the Advanced native subset to Tleilaxu, optionally with Ixians and/or
CHOAM and classic opponents, preserving distinct required decks and all fourteen
skills. Actual foreign revival gives control of the original physical disc but
never a new skill. Own revival, native trainer normal roles, foreign death and
negotiated return, Harkonnen capture/revelation/use-return/execution and native
Face Dance compose through their original handlers. Explicit Mentat/Banker
opt-ins retain their boundaries; Advanced Atreides Suk/KH,
unrelated overlays and public starts remain guarded.

## Advanced native Ixian and CHOAM composition — 4 October 2026

The fresh local `leader-skills` profile now admits two through six unique
Advanced seats with native Ixians and/or CHOAM and otherwise classic factions.
Select distinct `ix` and/or `choam` decks, including each native faction's
required family. All fourteen physical skills and original native setup choices
remain: Ixian starting-card selection and HMS, genuine traitor offers, CHOAM's
unskilled Auditor, posture before faction powers and optional own revival.
Basic entries and public activation are unchanged. Foreign gholas, Advanced
Atreides Suk/Kwisatz Haderach, Richese mixed planning and
unrelated optional overlays retain their explicit guards.

Advanced cyborg support and casualties feed the existing skilled Suk rescue,
then native Suboid substitution without paying twice or creating counters.
CHOAM keeps its original support payer/income distinction and unmodified
Smuggler collection before ordinary Collection. Existing Planetologist,
Sandmaster, Mentat, Bureaucrat and Banker helpers share this admitted native
profile rather than independently accepting a different roster.
The 11 October user-approved normal Mentat question now shares this admitted
skill envelope; the obsolete timing opt-in is removed. Empty-hand
interpretation remains separate. Mandatory normal Banker income retains its
deferred front-shield custody and actual-Mentat spendability in fresh ordinary setups.

Bounded Development Verified: affected122/122, types/lint/build, ten actual
controlled native programs (five Ixian rescue/policy cases, one CHOAM collection,
two private Mentat and two original-payment-to-Mentat Banker cases), and three
genuine unstaged CLI games pass. Those games accept511 actions without rejection
and twelve JSON continuations, but contain no battle: battle evidence comes
from the controlled programs and human controls, not those natural histories.
Fresh CLI **KFW75TCB v6** preserves original setup. Human390px **ARRHUS7Z v20**
uses original admitted seats and an explicitly staged conserved Wind Pass
position, then real plans, typed losses, mixed Suk rescue, native substitution
and phase opening. Actual Collection after refresh retains wallet9, three board
forces including one cyborg, four Tanks counters and zero cyborg Tanks.
No full assurance campaign, public release or deployed claim.



## Connected boundary

The [Basic Tleilaxu follow-up](TLEILAXU_LEADER_SKILLS.md) adds the full-deck
Tleilaxu/base profile, response-driven own revival, native Rihani Face Dancer
exchanges and later Face Dance custody. Advanced foreign gholas stay gated.

The [Basic Moritani follow-up](MORITANI_LEADER_SKILLS.md) now connects Moritani
with base opponents and no other optional modules. It preserves all fourteen
cards and existing unfinished-effect boundaries. The older base-only scope
descriptions below are extended only by that explicit integration contract.

Genuine Basic or Advanced setup supports two through six base factions. Starting
Treachery Cards, including Harkonnen's extra card, precede simultaneous private
two-card skill offers. Every faction selects one physical skill and an eligible
own leader, returns the other card to the shuffled deck, and publicly assigns
the selected card before traitor choices. No reduced or duplicate skill deck is
substituted. The [No-Field follow-up](SMUGGLER_NO_FIELD.md) adds genuine CHOAM &
Richese setup for its bounded combination; remaining expansion/skill acceptance
and other optional modules remain separate work.

Human controls show each permitted card's normal and battle text, select its
leader, choose battle posture, and handle an optional own-leader revival draw.
An undrawn revival offer shows no preview; drawing obliges a selection. All four
AI profiles follow the same private offers and legal actions, prioritizing the
five battle disciplines during skill selection and hiding the assigned leader for battle. This
simple policy is not calibrated skill strategy.

Warmaster, Master of Assassins, Swordmaster of Ginaz, Killer Medic and
Prana-Bindu Adept apply +1 to another selected leader from a face-up native
trainer, or +3 to the surviving assigned leader. They use the physical card's
actual weapon or defense role, including a legally supplied Portable Snooper.
They do not grant +4 or change printed strength, leader bounty or Zoal's source
value. Existing traitor, explosion and Stone Burner precedence is preserved.
Cheap Hero receives the normal +1 through ordinary leader substitution; this
is a general-rule inference, without a separately located explicit skill FAQ.

A face-up assigned disc cannot enter a plan. Concealing it while selecting
another leader gives no skill bonus. Later Voice or card use can remove the
last alternative: the mandatory remaining skilled disc then moves behind the
shield automatically, without replaying battle powers. A surviving assignment
returns face up after battle. Death returns its physical card exactly once.
An own Ghola revival during unfinished battle preparation retains that stage
through the new private draw and public posture choice.

Harkonnen capture keeps the card attached to its original leader and publicly
shows the current captor. Only the captive's lower battle effect can apply;
neither faction receives its normal effect while captured. A surviving used
captive returns with the same card. Execution returns the card to the deck;
that unique formerly public card makes this skilled leader's identity inferable.
Other captures retain the existing privacy behavior. This narrow publicity
interpretation follows the physical component procedure, not an express
publisher instruction to announce a name.

## Missing and guarded work

[Battle-effects follow-up](LEADER_BATTLE_EFFECTS.md) connects both Rihani bands
and the lower Mentat, Bureaucrat and Sandmaster effects.
[Normal Mentat questions](MENTAT_QUESTION.md) use the 11 October user-approved
uniform private card-show step in new supported battles; already-opened older
battles retain their original continuation.
[Bureaucrat payment redirection](BUREAUCRAT_PAYMENTS.md) connects auction,
shipment, revival, Richese sale, paid bribes, individual allied payer legs and
ruled gross-first World/Betrayal receipts within their existing profile bounds.
[Banker normal income](SPICE_BANKER_RUNTIME.md#normal-income-local-contract--2-october-2026)
is automatic in fresh supported ordinary all-fourteen Skills setups, without
a separate profile or toggle. Existing games and public start gates stay unchanged.
[Banker battle spending](SPICE_BANKER_RUNTIME.md) retains its separate
sealed funds and survivor strength. [Smuggler shipping](SMUGGLER_SHIPMENT.md)
connects its optional normal reserve bonus and the [owned No-Field companion](SMUGGLER_NO_FIELD.md).
[Diplomat defense](DIPLOMAT_DEFENSE.md#used-defense-contexts--17-october-2026)
connects a physical committed Worthless to the canonical printed role actually
used, including current late Portable and original World/held-card contexts.
The separate [retreat](LEADER_SKILLS_RULES.md#bounded-diplomat-retreat-interpretation) now moves
selected undialed normal/elite counters to an empty adjacent non-stronghold
after a surviving trained leader loses. Modified-defense inheritance remains
guarded. [Smuggler battle collection](SMUGGLER_BATTLE.md)
now connects reveal-bound collection after survival, including losers/captives.
The [17 October modifier policy](SMUGGLER_BATTLE.md#provisional-modifier-policy--17-october-2026)
includes declared bonuses/KH and actual Artillery zeroing; other combinations stay guarded.
Planetologist and Suk Graduate have the connected
prototypes described below.

Captured-card replacement entitlement is resolved by the 13 October 2026
[ruling](LEADER_SKILLS_CAPTURE.md#user-ruling--13-october-2026): the original
faction keeps its assignment, and reviving a different own leader now proceeds
for its paid/Ghola/special cost without drawing a replacement while that card
exists. The earlier prototype rejected that revival as an explicit unsupported
boundary; that veto is removed.
Other expansion rosters and combined optional modules remain gated. Native
Advanced foreign gholas now follow the bounded Tleilaxu contract above; the
recorded source-contract timing questions remain open. Planetologist has bounded
movement and battle controls as described below.
The earlier missing normal-payment, ordinary Mentat and modified Smuggler
claims are superseded by their connected current contracts above and the
26 October independent-band inventory. Guarded interactions still require
integration and acceptance. Diplomat retreat remains a bounded prototype,
not a complete simultaneous-effect ruling.

## Planetologist follow-up

[Planetologist](PLANETOLOGIST_RULES.md) connects the explicit capped range bonus,
two-origin movement to one destination, Fremen cancellation/replacement and a
surviving skilled leader's +2 green-Special substitution with mandatory discard.
The movement panel and weapon selector expose those choices; all four AI profiles
can use the same physical action paths. Pending movement receipts survive JSON
continuation and revalidate source custody before a response is spent.

Six base factions remain the supported roster. Mixed BG origins are supported
where ordinary rules determine the destination stance. Enemy-only mixed arrival
still needs a combined flip response. Expansion faction/card/module combinations
and full integrated acceptance remain unfinished. This dated roster/arrival
boundary is superseded by current native and flight contracts above; all
independent bands now have connected first versions, with partial coverage.

## Suk Graduate follow-up

[Suk Graduate](SUK_GRADUATE_RULES.md) connects the mandatory one-counter
normal rescue and the surviving selected leader’s optional rescue of up to three
physical casualties. Normal and elite identity, original sector, paid support,
private hands and captured-leader return survive the saved continuation. Human
controls and all four AI profiles use the same server-projected legal choices.
Advanced Atreides awaits the loss-count ruling; expansion factions and combined
optional modules remain guarded.

## Local prototype entry and evidence

Create a new base-faction local lobby, select its seats and mark them ready.
Keep its browser cookie. Use the existing backup and atomic version-check tool:

```sh
node --import tsx tools/start-prototype.ts --profile leader-skills \
  --db PATH_TO_LOCAL_D1_SQLITE --room EIGHT_CHARACTER_CODE \
  --version CURRENT_LOBBY_VERSION --out /private/new-prototype-checkpoint
```

Only that fresh named lobby is initialized; every other room and all seats stay
intact. Refresh to continue through ordinary authenticated actions. No HTTP
endpoint dispatches the initializer; do not restart or reset the database.

Focused tests cover physical inventory, setup ordering, private views, all five
bonuses, Voice legality, capture and return, death, revival and JSON restoration.
SQLite tests use production room actions across restarted stores and concurrent
selection: one choice commits, the selected card has one owner, the rejected
card returns once, and private offers remain owner-only. The local prototype
writer is separately checked for stale/redeal rejection and preserved seats.

Two seeded four-player simulations (20260913 Basic; 20260914 Advanced) completed
through genuine setup in 265 and 211 accepted actions with no rejected bot
candidates. They used Easy, Medium, Hard and Brutal, checked physical skills and
forces, and restored JSON views at fourteen sampled boundaries in total.
These were first-batch runs before the later capture and Voice review fixes;
their private report fingerprints the exact files exercised. They do not prove
all fourteen effects, Harkonnen capture or every interaction was played.

A later Advanced run including Harkonnen (seed 20260915) completed in 360
accepted actions, four turns and ten sampled JSON restores, with no rejected
bot candidates. It exercised the current controller/Voice integration. Exact
captured-card outcomes are proved by the focused capture scenarios, rather
than inferred from this sample game's completion.

Browser room `REF6YHN7` was created normally with a human Atreides and Medium
Harkonnen, then initialized through the backed-up local tool. The human inspected
both effect bands, assigned Master of Assassins to Thufir Hawat, selected a
private traitor and reached Storm. Refresh retained that assignment, the AI's
Swordmaster on Feyd-Rautha, the same Snooper hand and the pending Storm dial.
Visual inspection caught two squeezed columns in the table sidebar; single-column
cards restore readable text. This was a focused desktop setup/recovery journey,
not a complete human game or mobile acceptance.

The second reported power outage stopped the development server. All 292 rooms
were present with a clean SQLite integrity/foreign-key check; the 291 opening
rooms matched their hashes. A new online backup preceded the necessary server
start. The same browser seat then restored both skills, Snooper, private Thufir
traitor, ten spice and its pending Storm decision. No database reset or old
game restoration was performed.

Checkpoint-wide check/build/HTTP results and the final source fingerprint are
recorded in the commit and private verification report. Full module and combined
game acceptance remain unfinished.

The [Sandmaster ground-movement follow-up](SANDMASTER_MOVEMENT.md) adds explicit
routes, optional collection, human/AI controls and saved cancellation. The
[worm-ride follow-up](SANDMASTER_WORM.md) adds native Fremen destination collection
and saved arrival reactions. Other special relocation and combined modules
remain unfinished.

## Basic Ixian integration

[Basic Ixians with Leader Skills](IX_LEADER_SKILLS.md) adds genuine starting-card
setup, per-origin cyborg range, Sandmaster HMS entry/exit, explicit Suk cyborg
rescue origins, Rihani-before-substitution and mandatory green-Special disposal.
Tleilaxu/base opponents are supported through the complete deck; Advanced and
other combinations remain separate. This supersedes earlier Ix admission gaps,
not the documented missing skill bands or unresolved Sandmaster eligibility
during native HMS relocation.

## Basic CHOAM ordinary action integration

[Basic CHOAM with Leader Skills](CHOAM_LEADER_SKILLS.md) connects ordinary
skill actions to the already available genuine setup. It retains the complete
fourteen-card skill and 35-card Treachery inventories, native card sales and
private own-revival replacement through interrupted market timing. Existing
Advanced/Richese setup admission remains, without extending this action profile
or certifying its separate effects.