Add the absent-Emperor Secret Ally alternative returning exactly three eligible forces free in Basic/Advanced base-faction Nexus games. Preserve ordinary force/free-revival allowances and the shared Advanced Fedaykin cap. Keep the action optional and private, consume the physical Nexus once, and validate durable source receipts through later ordinary revival and Ghola. Purchase timing remains pending the earlier uniform winner-payment UX question; partial returns and combined-module interactions remain guarded. No mode or publication gate opens. Connect private controls, explicit physical elite selection, all four legal AI profiles and a dedicated rules checklist entry. Extend the reusable local prototype writer with genuine twelve-card Nexus setup. Independent review covers rules timing, private projection, physical custody, JSON and production SQLite restore, lost-response replay and competing requests. Seventeen focused effect cases and four prototype-writer cases pass. Validation: typecheck, lint, 4649 offline tests, production build and 43 HTTP tests passed with unchanged source. Genuine-start Basic and Advanced samples completed in 715 and 263 actions with 19 and 7 periodic JSON restores, respectively, and no Emperor uses. Two explicitly staged continuations completed in 18 and 17 actions with one normal-force Emperor return each. All four had zero rejections and preserved exact Treachery, force, elite and Nexus custody; all fourteen final seat views restored unchanged. They are bounded continuation evidence, not natural full-game acceptance of the effect or AI calibration. In the conserved staged browser scenario, Advanced Fremen returned three forces including one Fedaykin using the Nexus, then three normal forces using the ordinary allowance. Reserves rose from three to nine, Tanks fell from seven to one, spice stayed three and the physical Nexus was spent once. The inspector was readable, the action notice displayed, and pending/resolved refresh restoration, physical custody and private projection passed. After the reported power outage, all 733 opening games and original seat/recovery records were preserved (767 after HTTP checks); database integrity and foreign keys passed. All 734 rooms immediately before broad verification remained unchanged. Reused the healthy server without restart, reset or recurring automation. Verified source tree: fd09a4bc71018cb7ef98c7e25c25dacc495ffed304dbd0cdfa223e539e8fa5e1
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Current development status
Updated 14 September 2026. The full twelve-faction goal is unfinished. Basic is playable; public Advanced and unfinished expansion/module starts remain gated. Prototypes do not open completion or publication gates.
Current checkpoint and work
Previous verified checkpoint: d0dc700, Bureaucrat payment redirection.
Types, lint, 4,631 offline tests, build and 43 HTTP tests passed.
All 699 opening rooms and original seat/recovery records were preserved
(733 after HTTP checks). All 700 rooms present immediately before verification
also remained unchanged. The healthy server was reused after the outage.
Mentat connects private naming/disclosure before posture and faction powers, all four AI profiles and saved continuation in explicitly opted-in previews. Two controlled-shuffle genuine-setup samples finish. Ordinary activation still awaits the uniform private response UX decision.
Bureaucrat payments connect ordinary auctions, shipment income, Richese sale proceeds and actual bribe transfers, with a once-per-phase optional redirection and preserved continuation. Qualifying allied funding, other payment families and combined-module acceptance stay explicit. Independent review and focused controls/AI/recovery checks pass. Four genuine-setup games finish without rejected candidates, but contain no payment choice; a separate staged browser exercise verifies both choices and refresh. All 699 opening rooms and original seat/recovery records survived the reported outage. The healthy server was reused. The completed checkpoint's Git record contains final broad verification and post-HTTP preservation totals.
Current checkpoint: Emperor Nexus Secret Ally revival. Exactly three free returns, independent ordinary allowances, shared Fedaykin caps, private controls, four AI profiles and saved continuation are connected. Independent review and 17 focused effect tests pass. Two genuine-start and two explicitly staged samples finish with zero rejections; only the staged pair uses this effect. A staged browser exercise verifies a Fedaykin return, three ordinary returns and refresh. Final broad checks, preservation counts and Git delivery are recorded in the checkpoint commit and private report before handoff.
The purchase alternative still needs a private post-win payment choice. The earlier question asks whether to allow a uniform winner payment step, including otherwise forced spice payments. No answer or purchase policy is assumed. All 733 opening rooms and seat/recovery records survived the latest outage unchanged; a new snapshot protects all 734 rooms before final verification. The healthy server is reused.
Authoritative navigation
- Rules checklist, topic
implementation-checklistand each feature's entries: track implementation, controls, AI, documentation and verification, plus Missing, Prototyped, Integrated, Verified and Polished stages. - Rule decision index: settled contracts, source precedence and pending material interpretations. Consult it before reopening research.
- Development guide and verification tools: architecture, focused checks, source-bound reports, reusable faction samples, private backup and saved-seat restoration.
- Implementation history: newest first. Historical evidence and outage records stay there and in feature documents; read bounded relevant sections and verify old absence claims against current code/tests.
- Efficiency pilot: the first three milestones are pushed; measurement limits remain explicit. Reuse tools and checks, without promising an unmeasured savings percentage.
Connected development capabilities
These links define bounded working behavior, not complete module certification.
| Area | Current connected work and evidence |
|---|---|
| Base/Advanced setup | Genuine setup, Advanced study, Fremen cancellation, Atreides full-plan audit. Earlier Basic-then-flip fixtures do not establish current setup coverage. |
| Expansion factions | Ixians/Tleilaxu and all seven faction selections: genuine setup, Ecaz six-force placement, separate optional card variants, private controls and saved per-lot Ixian/Richese decline. Actual special-lot exchange remains pending. |
| Leader Skills | Common lifecycle, known skilled capture, Mentat question preview, Bureaucrat payments, five battle disciplines, Planetologist, Suk Graduate, Rihani and other battle effects, Smuggler shipment and No-Field, Sandmaster routes, Banker spending, Diplomat defense. Remaining bands and combinations are explicit in those contracts. |
| Discoveries | Prototype: genuine setup, Great Maker, seven cards/eight tokens, inspection and stash rewards, nested sites, signed later free entry, carried Ornithopter, sole Cistern, bounded Jacurutu income, Testing Station and Shrine. Orgiz and contested/mixed cases remain pending. |
| Nexus/Homeworlds | Decision index links each integrated faction family, native/borrowed effects, physical custody, private choices, payments and transport. CHOAM Collection trade and Emperor extra revival are connected; CHOAM inspection and Emperor purchase remain pending. A source audit or helper alone is not a completed effect. |
| Truthtrance | Spice facts, card counts, hand inventory, and Basic/no-Guild Advanced reserve-shipment promises use authoritative private state. Earlier readiness audits do not supersede these follow-ups. |
| Other cards | Sapho runtime includes first among remaining unstarted movement turns after Advanced Guild has finished. Richese card contracts and the checklist identify the other connected effects and explicit gaps. |
| Multiplayer | Saved rooms/seats, recovery, uncertain-request retry, own-seat AI, and voluntary seat handover have connected controls and recovery evidence. |
Remaining readiness
| Area | Remaining gate |
|---|---|
| Basic core | Ordinary Guild repricing/transport settlement, broader truthful commitments, unresolved special timing and integrated rules/human/AI acceptance. |
| Six-faction Advanced | Base gaps, provisional special-Karama outcomes, remaining timing audits and authentic multiplayer/browser acceptance. Setup matrices and complete samples do not open public starts. |
| Twelve factions and all optional modules | Every missing effect, remaining skill bands, Ecaz card variant, Kull Wahad, unfinished Richese cards, Terror effects, occupation entitlement, Nexus interactions, contested Discoveries and complete games across valid combinations. Detailed boundaries remain in the checklist/decision index. |
| AI | Legal continuation for every supported function and distinct Easy/Medium/Hard/Brutal strategy; consistent upper-level strength ordering remains unproven. Defer broad calibration until functional coverage warrants it. |
| Multiplayer | Broader disconnected/abandoned-seat recovery, unattended continuation and network-failure acceptance, while preserving authoritative versioning, custody, privacy and saves. |
| Components and experience | Full component inventory/text verification, all readable inspectors, original artwork, animation/sound/accessibility/mobile polish, complete internal guidance and end-to-end human play. |
AI calibration, multiplayer audit, component inventory and visual playtest record their measured scope. README retains publication gates.
Working sequence and preservation
Prototype every remaining function in dependency order, using existing controls, legal AI and the saved-state model. Continue independent functions while material rulings are pending. Then run integrated games, repair failures, deepen combination and recovery coverage, calibrate AI and polish. Keep focused checks for crashes, deadlocks, legality, custody and privacy; complete required broad checkpoint checks. Use selective subagents and independent review for complex rules/privacy/persistence. Commit and push verified checkpoints under “Push all from now on”, verify push success, and stop pursuit at 80% weekly usage consumed with the goal unfinished.
The user-authorized 13 September reset happened once; preserve all games created
since it. Keep .wrangler/state, credentials and private backup artifacts out of
Git. Reuse a healthy server; restart only for a relevant change or observed problem,
with a fresh backup, safe human-play boundary and verified restoration. No hourly
restart or recurring maintenance automation is installed; do not recreate one.