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Expand the internal introduction to nine lessons and seven Basic exercises. The four-player Nexus example teaches incoming consent, outgoing accepted and unanswered offers, withdrawal, unilateral breaks and the ordinary three-solo/four-allied stronghold target. Formation shows prospective progress; victory appears only at an explicit later Mentat check on the unchanged teaching board. Fixed responses demonstrate legal choices without refining live AI. Extract ordinary pairing into quoteNexusAlliance used by both practice and engine. Keep phase and Homeworld checks, alliance dates, Nexus-card forfeiture, readiness and history in the authoritative engine. Use production strongholdProgress and quoteVictory for the example; physical forces remain separately owned. No mode, expansion or publication gate changes. Version 4 practice saves migrate all five v1, seven v2 and eight v3 lesson identities and preserve prior auction, movement, combat, Traitor and collection choices. Alliance inputs are whitelisted and semantically replayed, with impossible action sequences and phase order rejected. Nine new regression tests cover helper immutability, live engine side effects, all 24 offered practice combinations, prior-version migration and saved continuation. Existing Nexus-card forfeiture tests also pass. Independent review found no material defect. Required types, lint, 4934 offline tests and production build pass on stable final source. Browser checks confirm old completed-auction migration, keyboard consent, formed and pending refresh restoration, withdrawal/break, closed-Nexus controls, three-stronghold shortfall and four-stronghold joint win with saved result. Controls fit a 390px viewport at 309px wide and at least44px high; viewport reset. No external lesson links. Screenshot capture remains unavailable, so visual screenshot acceptance remains unverified. Fixed lessons do not certify the full curriculum, live AI strength or all rules interactions. The local development server was confirmed stopped by refused localhost connection and no matching processes. Started it once against the existing database without migration/reset. The existing K2V47CSN QA seat restored in setup with owning Atreides private hand/Traitors and rival privacy intact; its Hard Guild and circle6 remained visible. All 1337 rooms, 2805 seats and every original recovery/entry/handover/delegation/migration row are unchanged. SQLite integrity and foreign keys pass. No human play was interrupted, no recurring automation installed and no usage check or AI calibration run. HTTP/auth/schema source did not change; offline checks include recovery tests, and no broad HTTP suite was rerun. Private evidence: 20260921-alliance-practice. Full rules, expansion, multiplayer and presentation goal remains incomplete. Verified source tree: 9c74a3141aca4e049e0734209b96f68ee0e6d0e127a155a2a7562a79ea8a1a6b
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# Interactive introduction
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21 September 2026. **Prototyped; partial teaching coverage.** `/learn` is linked
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from the lobby and rules reference. It adds the previously missing guided
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introduction alongside the reference's existing standalone practice wheel.
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Nine navigable lessons cover public/private table information and the phase
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sequence, ordinary Nexus alliances, bidding, shipment budgets, movement, sealed battle plans, Traitor calls, spice
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collection and joining or recovering a saved table. Seven independent Basic practice positions let a player
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change inputs, commit, inspect results and retry. These positions are deliberately
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separate examples rather than a complete game or an authoritative live room.
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The examples call `reserveShipmentCost`, `quoteBattleResolution`,
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`quoteSpiceCollection` and the shared board distance/occupancy helpers. Battle uses six ordinary forces, real Atreides/Guild
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leaders and canonical base-deck cards. The fixed opponent's dial, leader and
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projectile weapon appear only after the player's seal action. The resulting
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weapon survival, scores, ordinary aggressor tie, force losses and bounty come
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from the production combat quote. There are no Traitor calls or faction powers in the original sealed-plan
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position. A separate Traitor lesson offers call or decline after revealing both
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plans, with an explicitly selected opposing-call scenario. Ordinary, sole-call
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and mutual-call casualties, leader survival, cards and bounty use the same
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production combat quote. The private Traitor has the existing full inspector.
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These fixed teaching scenarios are not AI policy or hidden-information tests
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of the four live difficulty levels.
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The bidding example gives Fremen six spice and a three-card hand, with a full-hand
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variant and two deterministic opponent scripts. Players raise, pass, re-enter on
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a later turn or end an unbid auction. The winner pays once; losing bids spend
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nothing, and only the player's own purchase exposes a card face/inspector.
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Ordinary bid validation and next-seat/all-pass decisions use
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`quoteNormalAuctionBid` and `quoteNormalAuctionNext`, extracted from the existing
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live engine. The engine retains ally funding, Karama, payment, card custody and
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reaction handling. No strategic bot policy changes. Scripted lessons omit those
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special interactions and are checked against actual `applyAction` outcomes.
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Source authority is the [GF9 base rulebook, Bidding](https://www.gf9games.com/dunegame/wp-content/uploads/Dune-Rulebook.pdf)
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and [November 2020 FAQ, p.2](https://www.gf9games.com/dune/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dune-FAQ-Nov-2020.pdf#page=2).
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The publisher-indexed FAQ text was freshly retrieved on 20 September; it confirms
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that a prior passer can bid again. Direct PDF retrieval returned 403, so no new
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binary/visual source inspection is claimed. Links remain developer provenance;
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the player lesson links only to internal rules.
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The Nexus position uses four base factions and two or one Emperor strongholds.
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Players accept an incoming offer, make an offer to a fixed accepting/waiting
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partner, stay unallied, withdraw an unanswered offer or break a formed alliance.
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Closing the Nexus locks these decisions. A separate explicit teaching step
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checks the unchanged board at a later Mentat Pause; it does not simulate the
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intervening phases or award a victory at the moment of alliance formation.
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Three shared strongholds fall short; four qualify for both allies.
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`quoteNexusAlliance` extracts existing ordinary offer/pairing behavior into a
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shared pure quote. The live engine retains phase authorization, Homeworld
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restrictions, alliance dates, Nexus Card forfeiture, readiness and history.
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`strongholdProgress` and `quoteVictory` supply the teaching result. Physical
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forces stay with their original owner. The response scripts are local teaching
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scenarios, not changes to live AI. Funding, alliance powers, movement restrictions,
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special victory and expansion exceptions are not simulated in this example.
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The base rulebook's Alliances (Nexus) and Mentat Pause sections remain the rule
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authority; fresh publisher-indexed rulebook/quick-start results confirm the
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ordinary two-member/four-stronghold contract. No new ambiguous ruling is inferred.
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The version 4 save whitelists alliance choices and validates the bounded
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opening/offer/withdraw/break sequence and phase order. Prior lesson identities,
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auction history and every other accepted practice choice remain intact.
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`tests/introduction-alliance.test.ts` compares all 24 offered scenario/holding/
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action combinations with actual engine alliance transitions, checks later victory,
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JSON continuation, closed-Nexus rejection and every version 3 lesson migration.
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`tests/nexus-alliance.test.ts` checks pure immutability and live-engine integration;
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existing Nexus Card forfeiture tests cover the retained expansion side effects.
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Final independent review, browser, source-bound checks and saved-game preservation
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are recorded in the private checkpoint and Git message.
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The movement position starts with five ordinary forces in Red Chasm. It compares
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range one with range three from a separate Arrakeen occupant, exact sectors,
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storm exclusion and a stronghold already occupied by two other factions. Accepted
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moves preserve the source remainder and city force and spend no spice. Choices
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reset that practice position, rather than granting multiple moves in a turn. All
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96 offered destination/range/storm/force combinations are cross-checked against
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actual authoritative `applyAction` transitions; no live movement rule changed.
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The existing wheel, keyboard controls and card inspectors remain available.
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Lesson changes focus the heading; responsive columns stack on small screens.
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Browser storage contains only a versioned, validated set of lesson choices under
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`dune-introduction-v1`. Version 4 payloads explicitly migrate all five version 1,
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seven version 2 and eight version 3 lesson positions to the same lesson after insertion,
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preserving prior choices and committed outcomes. New alliance fields start at their defaults for every older version.
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Versions 1 and 2 receive bidding defaults; version 1 also receives movement/Traitor defaults. Hot updates
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remount the lesson state to apply this migration. Only the player's bid/pass
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history is saved; deterministic replay validates the complete auction and rejects
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underbids, overspending, full-hand actions and actions after the auction ends.
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Future lesson insertions must update the schema and mapping again. The save
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includes movement commitments and the before-reveal, revealed and resolved
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Traitor stages. Unknown versions,
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out-of-range values and impossible saved shipments fall back to the first lesson.
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Unknown fields are dropped. Storage failure leaves the exercise usable in memory
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and displays that refresh may reset it. Separate tabs may save different progress;
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the last write is restored on the next visit. No multiplayer API or seat token is
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used, and no server restart or database migration is required.
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`tests/introduction.test.ts` checks unaffordable shipping, protected ties, wrong
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defense and leader death, every offered dial/defense pair, collection capacity,
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save round trips and malformed state. `tests/introduction-practice.test.ts` adds
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authoritative movement comparisons, single/mutual/declined Traitor outcomes, all
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five legacy lesson migrations and impossible-new-save rejection. Browser interaction checks for the initial prototype confirmed the
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unaffordable-shipment explanation, a legal shipment, card inspection, a protected
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8–8 tie, the wrong defense causing leader death, saved reveal after refresh,
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city collection and lobby return/re-entry. At a 390px viewport the battle controls
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and new lobby link stayed within the page bounds. Screenshot capture timed out,
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so visual screenshot acceptance remains open; DOM bounds are narrower evidence.
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Final source-bound reports and Git delivery record required check/build results.
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`tests/introduction-bidding.test.ts` compares offered openings and re-entry with
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actual engine payment and physical card custody, checks all-pass/full-hand paths,
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all seven version 2 lesson migrations and exact saved bidding continuation.
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`tests/normal-auction.test.ts` exercises shared turn order, eligibility, pass
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re-entry, finite termination and integer/funding limits. Final source-bound
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browser/check/build and preservation evidence for bidding belongs to its private
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checkpoint and Git message.
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This does not replace a full interactive curriculum. Alliance powers, broader movement/arrival powers, faction lessons, Advanced
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support and expansion lessons remain future work. The expanded lessons retain
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Partial/Prototyped coverage. Final browser/check/build, preservation and Git
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evidence for this follow-up belong to its source-bound private checkpoint. No rules mode, expansion or publication gate is opened.
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