Dune/docs/MORITANI_TERROR_RULES.md

Moritani terror rules and components

Audit: 2026-09-06. Scope: the six Terror tokens, setup, placement, entry reactions and continuing effects. Initial audit made no runtime edits; see the implementation checkpoint below. This is an implementation contract with explicit evidence limits, not certification that the faction is playable.

Evidence and revision boundary

• E3: GF9 Ecaz & Moritani rulebook, printed pp. 3–6, 14, 16. Publisher-indexed text verified setup/placement/Assassination/Atomics on p. 5 and the official built-in FAQ/Karama answers on pp. 14 and 16. Direct download currently returns 403.
• E3-M: Readable publisher-authored rulebook mirror, same printed anchors. The existing local PDF was extracted and its printed pp. 3 and 6 rendered and visually inspected. This supplies the full p. 6 effects and printed disc evidence. It is primary publisher-authored content hosted by a retailer, not retailer-written rules.

E3 and E3-M agree on the Moritani passages compared in this pass. A known Ecaz Occupy example differs between these files, so this audit does not assume identical revisions globally. No fan amendments, video reconstructions or purported extra FAQ rulings were used. Page anchors below refer to printed pages.

Setup and inventory

Moritani sets up after all other factions: place 6 forces in an unoccupied territory, keep 14 in reserves, start with 12 spice and 2 free force revivals. Keep all 6 Terror tokens hidden initially; none is prescribed on the map at setup. E3, p. 5

The component list specifies 5 ordinary leader discs, 20 forces, 6 Terror tokens and 1 Atomics Aftermath token for Moritani. Six distinct named effects and token illustrations appear on pp. 5–6: Assassination, Atomics, Extortion, Robbery, Sabotage, Sneak Attack. Six total plus those six illustrated identities supports one of each; no separate punchboard was inspected to certify physical backs or printing layout. Duke Prad Vidal is a separate additional disc, not a sixth ordinary Moritani leader. E3-M, pp. 3–6

Placement and entry lifecycle

During Mentat Pause, Moritani may place one hidden token from supply or relocate one already placed. The destination must be a stronghold without a Terror token; storm is permitted. The Hidden Mobile Stronghold is excluded. Homeworlds are explicitly excluded by the p. 16 FAQ. No spice cost is stated. The singular place-or-move opportunity does not authorize repeatedly deploying the whole supply in one phase. E3, pp. 5, 16

When another faction enters that stronghold by shipment or movement, Moritani may reveal and resolve the token against the entrant. An ally does not qualify; Bene Gesserit advisors do. Ordinary revelation removes the token from the game, with Extortion's express recovery exception below. Declining the optional trigger does not reveal or spend it. Existing occupation alone is not an entry event. E3-M, pp. 5–6

The built-in FAQ gives three concrete event distinctions: Terror tokens survive storm and Lasgun/Shield explosions; placing a Richese No-Field can trigger one, including a zero token; revealing a No-Field or replacing forces with Face Dancers does not trigger one. Keep placement and revelation separate in any eventual No-Field implementation. E3, p. 14

Enemy of My Enemy

Before revealing a would-trigger token, Moritani can instead offer an alliance to the entrant, except Ecaz. Acceptance breaks both parties' existing alliances, forms the new one, and returns the token to supply without revealing it. Refusal requires revelation: do not offer and then silently fall back to declining the trigger. This is a special alliance opportunity, independent of a Nexus. E3-M, p. 6

The Karama table specifically prevents placing/moving a Terror token; it does not list cancellation of its revelation/effect. Separately, Karama can prevent Enemy of My Enemy from forming an alliance, while leaving token revelation available. Do not apply a generic faction response indiscriminately to every Terror effect. E3, p. 16

Effect contracts

The following paraphrases preserve the mechanically necessary conditions from the publisher-authored text and token illustrations. E3-M, pp. 5–6

Token	Resolution and continuing state
Assassination	Randomly select an entrant's leader, send it to the Tanks, and award Moritani spice for its value; Zoal pays 3. This is not a player-selected victim. The exact exceptional custody pool is not specified here; see gaps.
Atomics	Send all forces in the territory to the Tanks. Place Aftermath there, permanently prohibiting shipment into that territory, expressly including Fremen. Starting this turn, Moritani's hand limit and its ally's are each reduced by 1; an excessive hand loses a random card. The passage does not prohibit ordinary movement into the territory.
Extortion	Set aside 5 bank spice in front of Moritani's shield, to collect during Mentat Pause. Then return Extortion to supply unless one player, approached in storm order, pays Moritani 3 spice. A payment prevents recovery; it does not replace or cancel the bank's 5. Treat the deferred 5 separately from currently spendable spice.
Robbery	Moritani chooses either half the entrant's spice, rounded up, or the top Treachery card. For the card option, draw first; if over the hand limit, Moritani chooses a card to discard. The printed option is not restricted to a non-full hand.
Sabotage	Randomly draw and discard a Treachery card from the entrant if possible. Afterward Moritani may give that entrant a chosen card from its own hand. The giveaway is optional, not an exchange or payment requirement.
Sneak Attack	Bring up to 5 Moritani reserve forces into that territory for free, respecting storm and occupancy. This explicitly works despite Aftermath. It grants this reserve entry, not a second ordinary movement or a global shipment exemption.

Terror Assassination and advanced Assassinate Leaders are different abilities. The latter depends on a lost battle, a different traitor identity and per-faction usage; it must not supply the Terror token's random-selection rules. The Karama table saying Assassinate Leaders has no effect refers to that named advanced ability. E3-M, pp. 6, 16

Direct printed leader evidence

All five Moritani discs are readable in the p. 3 leader illustration of E3-M. The adjacent Viscount portrait is the faction portrait, not another valued leader disc.

Printed name	Strength
Lupino Ord	5
Grieu Kronos	4
Hiih Resser	4
Trin Kronos	2
Vando Terboli	1
Duke Prad Vidal — separate shared disc	6

The same page explicitly gives Duke Vidal no traitor card. His acquisition, revival and end-turn custody require the separate pp. 6, 8–9 rules before enabling him; printing strength 6 alone does not implement that lifecycle. Local inspection artifact: /tmp/dune-rules/ecaz-p3-audit.png, rendered from /tmp/dune-rules/ecaz-mirror.pdf. No inferred names or values were substituted.

Concrete integration boundary

At the initial audit, Moritani had catalog metadata but no Terror state or effects. The subsequent checkpoints below record implemented slices. Keep expansion starts gated until the complete faction and its interactions are verified.

• Persist physical token custody: private supply, hidden map placement, revealed/removed, and Extortion awaiting Mentat resolution. Public map projection needs presence and location, not the unrevealed identity. Stable public tokens should not encode their secret effect in IDs.
• Add an explicit Mentat opportunity and once-per-phase placement marker before advancing. Coordinate with advancePhase, completePhase and existing CHOAM Mentat handling; reloading must not offer another placement or collect Extortion twice.
• Capture entry cause, actual entrant, territory, original action and suspended follow-ups. completeMove and commitShipment already invoke Intrusion/advisor and income/storm responses. A new Terror response must suspend these safely rather than overwrite g.response or g.decision. Include future No-Field placement, not its reveal, and exclude Face Dancer replacement.
• Resolve effect choices and random results transactionally. Retrying an accepted action must not reroll a victim/card. Use the engine's supplied random-selection facility and private card projection; a public opportunity must not reveal the hidden token merely by its response kind or available choices.
• Aftermath requires territory-level shipment validation and a hand-limit function that can see continuing game state. Current handLimit(p) only derives the faction's fixed limit, so acquisition, auctions and private handLimit projection must share the new modifier.
• Use the existing force-to-Tanks accounting for Atomics, preserving elite/advisor counts, and separate Extortion's bank award from any player's payment. Enemy of My Enemy needs an atomic symmetric alliance change, clearing former partners without losing suspended entry custody.

These are software integration recommendations, not newly asserted publisher timing rules.

Material gaps and ordinary compositions

Question	Status and implementation consequence
Terror vs. Intrusion, spiritual advisors, ambassadors, Guild income or storm casualties from the same arrival	No complete priority table retrieved. Entry creates the opportunity, but the exact ordering of simultaneous reactions remains material. Do not claim the Ecaz-only interruption FAQ settles every Terror interaction.
Assassination victim pool	Ordinary live owned leaders are the straightforward case. The short paragraph does not resolve captured leaders, foreign Gholas, Duke Vidal custody or unavailable/already-dead discs. Do not silently pool every printed leader identity.
Atomics and future allies	The retrieved passage does not identify future-ally treatment. Under the choose-recommended-option priority, the prototype now keeps the permanent penalty on Moritani and the ally at detonation, allowing later Nexus and Enemy of My Enemy alliances without transferring it to an uninvolved new ally. Original target history is retained. This is a provisional implementation interpretation, not publisher clarification.
Extortion and other Mentat events	Collection precedes recovery/payment by the printed sequence. Relative order against the turn's placement opportunity and other factions' Mentat effects is not explicit. Returning Extortion and immediately placing it again must not emerge accidentally from handler order.
Sabotage recipient hand overflow	The normal case frees a slot before the gift. If there was no discardable card or another exceptional capacity change, this paragraph supplies no additional forced-discard procedure.
One placement; unrevealed token retained on decline; no normal movement ban from Aftermath	Ordinary composition of the singular option, optional trigger and shipment-specific prohibition. These do not need invented restrictions or a hypothetical FAQ before implementation.

The requested source search also found no publisher/designer ruling for a later alliance change. The printed expansion rulebook, p. 5 says “From this turn forward, your hand limit is reduced by 1 (as well as your ally’s), discarding a random card if a hand exceeds the limit”; it does not identify which ally after a change. Do not infer a current-ally or original-ally policy from search summaries.

Verification commands: pdftotext -layout /tmp/dune-rules/ecaz-mirror.pdf /tmp/dune-rules/ecaz-audit.txt; pdftoppm -f 3 -singlefile -scale-to 2400 -png /tmp/dune-rules/ecaz-mirror.pdf /tmp/dune-rules/ecaz-p3-audit; equivalent p. 6 render; node_modules/.bin/oxfmt --check docs/MORITANI_TERROR_RULES.md. Source inspection and document formatting only; no runtime behavior tests or live-room actions were performed.

Additional visual verification: Ecaz native leader discs

On 2026-09-06, a second implementation pass directly inspected the complete rendered printed p. 3 at /tmp/dune-rules/ecaz-p3-audit.png, from the same publisher-authored E3-M rulebook. Both the Moritani discs above and the five Ecaz discs below the Duke Vidal paragraph are legible. This independently confirms the five Moritani names/values recorded above and supplies the following Ecaz native roster:

Printed name	Strength	Stable application ID
Sanya Ecaz	4	ecaz-0
Whitmore Bludd	4	ecaz-1
Ilesa Ecaz	3	ecaz-2
Rivvy Dinari	3	ecaz-3
Bindikk Narvi	2	ecaz-4

The adjacent Archduke Armand Ecaz image is the faction portrait, not an additional valued native disc. The separate Duke Prad Vidal disc is strength 6 and the same page explicitly excludes him from traitor cards. He remains outside both generic five-leader rosters until his separate custody/revival lifecycle is implemented. Stable application IDs in this table are implementation identifiers, not printed component text.

game/cards.ts now contains the five verified native discs for each faction. Focused roster tests cover names, values, fresh state, stable IDs, selected-faction traitor inventories and Duke Vidal exclusion; the existing base/Ix roster regression remains separate. This component addition does not implement either faction's setup or powers and does not enable expansion starts.

Setup and placement implementation checkpoint

The engine now initializes six hidden tokens, waits until other setup choices finish and then lets Moritani deploy six forces to a legal unoccupied printed territory. During Mentat it opens one optional placement/relocation decision, preserving the existing bribe/inflation initialization and deferring the no-CHOAM victory check until the opportunity resolves. This ordering is an isolated placement contract; it does not settle the unresolved Extortion/combined-event questions above.

An accepted private declaration opens a generic Karama window. The pending token/destination are server-only, and the public state remains identical for different secret declarations. Allowing commits custody once; cancellation leaves custody unchanged and consumes this turn’s placement opportunity; decline also consumes the opportunity. Ordinary strongholds in storm remain valid targets. Engine and pure-model tests cover JSON restoration, private projections, stale/invalid actions, setup conservation, CHOAM continuation and all four bot profiles.

No entry hook, reveal effect, Enemy of My Enemy, Aftermath or Extortion recovery transition is active. Future entry coverage must include Guild transport, worm rides and spiritual-advisor arrivals as well as ordinary shipment/movement; generic force placement must not trigger Terror. Continuations must reconcile surviving entrant forces before restoring storm casualty obligations after destructive effects. Previously revealed Extortion must receive a fresh public identity when returning to hidden supply, so redeployment does not expose its face through a remembered ID.

Entry/effect implementation checkpoint

The earlier no-entry checkpoint is superseded by persistent hooks for ordinary shipment/movement, Guild transport, spiritual advisors and worm rides. Optional decline preserves the placed face. Robbery and Sabotage can now reveal, leave the board, resolve their choices and resume the committed arrival without a second payment or transfer. Turn/phase stamps reject stale requests; public opportunities do not identify an unrevealed face. Three overlay regressions verify that a Fremen summoned worm preserves the Nexus owed before later rides, including a Truthtrance that clears a Robbery overflow.

Competing arrival reactions remain deliberately unsupported: the entire attempted entry rejects atomically, instead of choosing an unverified order or overwriting a pending obligation. A concise user clarification is pending after the bounded source review in MORITANI_ENTRY_TIMING.md. The other four effects, Enemy of My Enemy, Aftermath and actual Extortion settlement remain unimplemented. The pure return helper now rotates and shuffles all available supply IDs; it has not been activated as a game effect.

Additional effect checkpoint — 2026-09-06

Ordinary native Assassination and bounded Sneak Attack now join Robbery and Sabotage as partial runtime effects. See MORITANI_ASSASSINATION_SNEAK.md for precise leader-pool and shipment-classification boundaries, pre-reveal disclosure, independent review and verification. Atomics/Aftermath, Extortion and Enemy of My Enemy remain unimplemented; no full expansion start was enabled.

Enemy of My Enemy integration checkpoint

Acceptance/refusal, cancellation, hidden return custody, former-alliance cleanup, unused escrow refunds and AI/UI decisions are now implemented in an isolated draft. Mandatory unsupported effects still prevent an offer before announcement. MORITANI_ENEMY_ALLIANCE.md records source precedence and the pending clarification of Karama-before-reply timing. Full expansion starts remain disabled. The added alliance-formation turn also corrects the base next-turn departure deadline for newly allied co-occupants. Complete validation now includes873 unit and45 persisted/API tests.

Extortion Mentat continuation — 28 September 2026

The earlier Extortion absence and unresolved-order checkpoints above are historical. The user chose normal Terror placement first (including any Karama response), then Extortion bank collection and storm-order payment choices. Revealing Extortion now reserves five bank spice without making it spendable; the placement opportunity closes before the five is credited. A first non-Moritani player's three-spice payment permanently removes the token. If every player declines, the existing return operation rotates all hidden supply IDs before Extortion can be placed on a later turn. The original triggering entry does not replay on reload, and CHOAM/victory continuations wait until the payment window settles. This placement-relative timing is a user interpretation, not a located publisher ruling; see the exact source sequence and selected boundary. Atomics/Aftermath and complete Moritani expansion starts remain gated.

Independent review repaired current-payer affordability disclosure and continuation custody for Nullentropy Box and Richese gifts. A real Advanced Homeworld Fremen Ghola return during Mentat triggered a Guild Ambassador shipment into Extortion after Moritani's placement; the bank award and payment window settled before the next turn. The late path does not justify opening full Homeworld/expansion combination gates.

Bounded Atomics/Aftermath checkpoint — 29 September 2026

The printed Atomics contract above is connected for a bounded classic-plus-Moritani prototype without Guild, Ecaz or optional modules and with Moritani's alliance stable after activation. On an eligible entry the owner may leave Atomics hidden or reveal it; revealing kills every faction's forces in the territory and records public Aftermath there. The public map and Terror notice identify the territory and lasting shipment ban without identifying a still-placed hidden token's face. The owner sees the consequences before choosing to reveal. Ordinary movement and Sneak Attack are not prohibited by Aftermath, but shipments into that territory, including Fremen reinforcements, are.

From activation turn forward, Moritani and the ally at activation each have a hand limit reduced by one. Each discards one random card per excess card on resolution, and their projected hand limits reflect the lasting penalty. The Aftermath record includes the territory, turn, Moritani seat and original ally seat; it is not a second secret Terror face. The publisher paragraph (E3-M, p. 5) does not resolve what happens on later alliance change, so that transition remains gated rather than assigning the penalty to a new ally by inference. This checkpoint does not enable complete Moritani games or public expansion starts; other reactions and module combinations retain their own gates. Earlier absence statements above describe their dated checkpoints, not current behavior.

Recommended persistent activation targets — 14 October 2026

The earlier stable-alliance gate is superseded. Moritani and its ally at activation keep their one-card hand-limit penalties after a break, a later Nexus pact or Enemy of My Enemy acceptance. No later ally inherits a penalty; an originally unallied detonation never creates an ally target afterward. Original Aftermath territory/turn/seat identities and hand-limit custody stay authoritative. The publisher ambiguity above remains; this is the conservative recommended prototype choice, not a separately answered numerical user ruling.

Fresh receipts use alliancePolicy: 'activation-targets'. Old active 'unresolved' receipts adopt the same stored original targets immutably in action, automatic-continuation and view entry paths, without replaying casualties or random discards. The unused alliance-status, alliance-block and test-only hand-limit helpers were removed. Existing Homeworld alliance restrictions, Karama timing and the bounded Atomics mode gate remain intact.

Genuine Basic/Advanced four-seat fixtures use original faction setup, Moritani placement, real worms, a reciprocal pact, paid Emperor entry and detonation, then a later real Nexus. Only original unplayed Spice Card order is staged. The original Moritani6/Emperor1 casualties stay in Tanks; after a new Moritani/Emperor pact, hand limits remain Moritani3, former Atreides3, Emperor4. An unallied activation leaves the later ally at4. A real later Robbery arrival also forms Enemy of My Enemy and returns the hidden token without moving the penalty. Migration, corrupted target custody and all four legal acceptance policies are exercised.

Final six-file union112/112, types/lint and app build pass. Actual390×844 table break/offer/accept controls form the later pact while preserving the original Aftermath and public provisional notice. Former Atreides still shows hand capacity3; new Emperor remains4. No overflow or browser errors. Owned hosts, tabs and scaffolding were removed; proof stays outside Git. Full Moritani, other Atomics module combinations and deployed acceptance remain open.