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Sandmaster movement collection
13 September 2026. Prototyped, with Partial rules coverage. Ordinary ground movement now connects the normal band through explicit routes, optional collection, player controls, all four AI profiles and saved continuation. This does not open public Leader Skills starts or publication.
Flight and concealed-marker routes — 26 October 2026
Sandmaster's physical normal band applies when moving owned forces into or through a territory with spice; it excludes none of the three flight sources. The physical Ornithopter changes range or grants two different normal movements, and Discovery E3p13 changes range for one later movement action. Neither removes route collection. The No-Field contract counts a concealed marker as one force, including0. Compose these effects under existing 14 October authority; no joint publisher FAQ is claimed.
Physical range3 and carried Discovery use a maximum of3. Physical twoGroups uses each group's current normal range. Each accepted movement gets its own one-per-entered-territory opportunity under the existing provisional reset policy, so a second different group can collect there again if spice remains. The source territory grants no bonus without actually re-entering it. Each territory selects one current positive pile or declines, retaining the existing provisional sector-allocation policy. Declining collection does not decline movement or preserve a spent card/token entitlement.
The original chosen route is authoritative, including a legal detour longer than the shortest path. Current route bounds, storm/entry and typed force/marker cohorts still apply. A physical flight fingerprint binds original card, event, mode and completed-group index; Discovery binds token/acquisition turn alongside its original parent receipt. The signed Sandmaster order retains exact source, range, route, pile amounts, trainer and move. Legacy ordinary orders add no new fields. No circular signature or public receipt is required in the action.
Marker-only routes remain concealed and do not materialize or debit reserves. Selected physical counters at the same marker sector share one declared route. Its value supplies no extra range or collection. First-flight arrivals do not enlarge the remaining original cohort, and spice income adds no counters or movement credit. The second movement requotes current piles. Original card/ token disposal and earned allowance occur once through their existing flow.
The form offers ordinary/card/token transport before validating its source route, keeps route editing and selected-pile/decline controls, and guards the actual callback with current transport and signed quote. Minimal policy adds the same deterministic legal route choice while retaining original candidates and destination priority. Other normal-band skills and special relocations retain separate adapters. No saved root field, action kind or module gate opens.
Frozen evidence: v3 passes14 files,130/130, types/lint/build and18 engine/ GameTable SSR/actual selected-props callback paths. Eight genuine public physical paths earn cache card1, four-counter shipment8 and actual produced Spice, using Basic73 / Advanced79 source actions. Four public Discovery paths earn original Collection acquisition and a later real Spice blow, using Basic65 / Advanced71 actions. Two-to-four continuations finish Collection, with45 physical- family or33 classic Treachery,14 Skills and15 Traitors retained. Six explicitly controlled marker paths supplement the12 native paths; no played positions, shipment or blow provenance is claimed for those supplements. Eight physical, seven Discovery, fifteen control and thirteen marker cases cover the slice and minimal policies. Positive source-pile exclusion in the Discovery seam is a controlled supplement; native source spice is preserved at its actual value, including0. Feedback corrects that earlier remainder assumption, projection narrowing and a reserved test variable.
Report/logs: private 20261026-sandmaster-flight-proof-v3/ under
/home/quintine/.local/share/dune/checkpoints/; journeys/HTML: adjacent
20261026-sandmaster-flight-runtime/. No saved-room/D1/server, reset/restart,
deployment or recovery operation. SSR/selected-props callbacks do not certify
DOM/hydration, browser/mobile/deployed acceptance, full combinations or modes.
Owned ground-route pile selection — 9 October 2026
Ordinary ground movement now offers every existing positive pile in each entered territory. The owner selects at most one pile per territory, or declines that territory's collection. Choosing another pile deselects the previous one; clearing the selected checkbox declines the whole territory. The source grants one spice per territory but does not specify the debit sector, so owner selection is explicitly a provisional allocation policy.
The shared sandmasterCollectionPiles quote groups offered keys by entered
territory. Human controls and legal AI start with one deterministic choice
per group; authoritative validation rejects two selected sectors from the
same territory before forces or spice move. Signed original route and pile
receipts retain their existing continuation behavior.
Both mode engine smokes choose South Mesa sector5 instead of sector4, collect once there and once in Cielago East, preserve the unselected pile, and move three physical forces. All four profiles produce legal collected routes. An isolated 390px Chromium control smoke switches the sector, declines/reselects the territory, and commits the same move: personal spice10→12, South Mesa4 remains4, South Mesa5 becomes1, Cielago East3 becomes3, and three forces arrive in Cielago East.
Destination relocation choices are separate from these ground-route controls; physical Fremen Ambassador allocation is recorded below and worm collection in its own contract. Native HMS relocation now has the owned-pile control described below. No public start or broader source adjudication is opened by this ground-route change.
Owned native HMS pile allocation — 9 October 2026
Storm relocation and Advanced Ixian special Karama now offer one Sandmaster
debit pile per entered territory, or an independent decline of that bonus.
The global collection opt-out still declines all collection. The shared
quote requires a living native Ixian trainer and actual interior passengers.
Explicit sandmasterPiles declarations preserve the exact chosen keys
through native cancellation and special-Karama preparation/reconstruction.
Ambiguous undeclared or duplicate-territory selections reject before cost.
Sandmaster debits first, then the unchanged native collection uses the traversed sectors and two-spice-per-passenger cap. The route preview follows the same order, including repeated sector visits. With six passengers, Arsunt11 holding12 and Arsunt12 holding5, choosing11 earns12 total; choosing12 earns13, leaves Arsunt12 at4 and drains Arsunt11. Native cancellation moves neither pointer nor spice. Older queued moves without the new selection retain their original unambiguous-pile behavior.
Owner sector allocation is provisional, not publisher adjudication; the 7 October user eligibility/order ruling is unchanged. Basic/Advanced native smoke, selected-key JSON continuation, cancellation, all four legal policies and a labelled Advanced special-Karama seam pass. At390px, the real control changes the preview12→13, declines/reselects the bonus and completes the native route with personal spice10→23.
Physical Ambassador owned-destination allocation — 9 October 2026
Physical Fremen Ambassador relocation now offers every existing positive destination-territory pile and collects at most one spice from exactly one chosen sector before physical arrival and its reactions. The checkbox remains optional. With multiple legal piles, the real relocation control shows their sector quantities as before→before−1, defaults to the first legal pile, and allows another sector. Changing source or destination resets the selection; an unavailable selection cannot strand the draft. Declining sends no pile key and transfers no spice.
sandmasterCollect: true with multiple positive piles requires an explicit
sandmasterPile key. A single-pile boolean declaration remains valid. Native
validation rejects missing, malformed, foreign, unknown or exhausted selections
before force or spice mutation. The shared sandmasterDestinationCollection
quote supplies the legal piles and the selected quantity; ambassadorSandmaster
retains the exact native trainer, key and original quantity as its frozen proof.
Stored continuation revalidates that same key, not a fresh default; a committed
arrival interruption resumes without collecting twice.
Choosing the debit sector is provisional owner allocation, not a publisher ruling: the source grants one spice for entering the territory but does not name its sector. Same-territory moves, living-native skill eligibility, concealed-marker restrictions, typed forces, ordinary allowances and the original Ambassador event remain unchanged. This does not change ground-route or native HMS eligibility, add spice or invent intervening sectors.
Focused native-engine cases now cover Basic/Advanced alternate-pile allocation, decline, invalid declarations without mutation, living-trainer restrictions and collection before a JSON-restored Intrusion continuation. Integrated native smoke in both modes chooses South Mesa5 (2→1), preserves Mesa4 at4, lands two forces in Mesa4 and credits spice20→21 without ordinary shipment/movement use. At390px, the actual control changes destination, resets the pile selection, opts out/reselects and commits the same result. The 8 October rejection evidence below remains a dated checkpoint, not the current multi-pile policy.
Physical Fremen Ambassador relocation — 8 October 2026
The Ambassador expressly relocates a board force group. The normal Sandmaster movement band now optionally collects one spice at its entered destination, before arrival reactions. No intervening route is implied. Moving between sectors of the same territory earns none. The existing living native trainer, supported-profile and unique positive pile rules remain; concealed-marker relocation is still separate.
sandmasterDestinationCollection is shared by this direct relocation and
the existing worm adapter. Human controls expose a checked, optional
destination collection choice; bots attach it only to an eligible physical
relocation. Native quoting records the trainer and exact pile in
ambassadorSandmaster, distinct from ordinary ground-route receipts.
Suspended CHOAM movement revalidates that receipt through the original
Ambassador event. Cancellation collects nothing; commit transfers one
board spice once before the original arrival continuation.
Basic and Advanced direct smokes cover collection, decline, same-territory and multiple-pile rejection. A bounded owned-destination Easy candidate reaches the real relocation engine. The adjacent native Advanced worm still transfers one spice and moves four forces. In Chromium, live React controls ran against the native engine: Basic collection produced spice21/board1, Advanced opt-out spice20/board2, both with destination2 forces, unchanged ordinary allowances and completed Ambassador events. This is an isolated component/engine smoke, not HTTP or deployed acceptance. No broad suite or recovery campaign was run.
Source contract
The physical card and Jack Reda's designer walkthrough, 15:48–16:08 allow immediate collection of one spice when forces move into or through a territory containing spice, once per territory. The GF9 CHOAM & Richese rules, pages 8–9 and 12 require a living native trainer for this normal band; a captive supplies only the lower battle band. Common skill resolution precedes faction abilities. The existing source archive contains the checked physical face and timestamped designer transcript.
The route's initial territory earns nothing merely for being the source. Crossing into an intermediate or final territory qualifies, independently of the number of moving forces. A later legal re-entry into the source can qualify; each distinct entered territory still grants at most one collection. Moving between sectors without leaving the source territory earns nothing. The card says territory, so the route need not touch the spice pile's particular sector. Storm and stronghold passage restrictions still apply.
Recorded scope inference: the once-per-territory limit belongs to the movement that triggers it. A distinct Hajr movement starts another collection opportunity. No publisher or designer clarification specifically discussing Hajr was located; this follows the card's movement-triggered grammar rather than introducing a once-per-phase limit that the card does not state.
Collection commits when the legal move completes, before arrival reactions. Canceled or rejected declarations move neither forces nor spice. With several positive sector piles, ordinary ground routes now use the provisional owner selection above. The once-per-entered-territory limit does not become one collection per pile.
Implementation and verification boundary
The optional movement choice declares a connected sector route from every selected source sector and the individual territories to collect from. The engine validates the exact paths against actual range, storm and occupancy. It records the native skilled leader, original movement and pile quantities. The same shared helper supplies default routes and collection choices to humans and bots. Players may edit each route and decline any or all collection; ordinary Move retains its existing behavior with no Sandmaster collection.
A Fremen route using its two-territory advantage keeps the choice in the saved movement response, even when a shorter direct route reaches the same endpoint. The response is bound to the original choice across interruptions. Changing or removing the commitment, response or original board spice fails validation. Internal proofs are excluded from player projections. Existing versioned writes settle the physical board-to-player transfer once, with automatic explanatory history. Legacy declarations without a choice continue as ordinary movements.
Focused tests cover Basic/Advanced collection, per-territory opt-out, malformed and blocked routes, custody, Fremen cancellation and recovery, saved corruption, private views and legal candidates across four AI profiles. SQLite checks include concurrent final allowance, exact payment, canceled declarations and legacy movement. Two genuine four-profile Basic/Advanced samples finished in 196/89 actions with 6/3 JSON restorations and no rejected candidates; neither encountered Sandmaster collection. Targeted tests establish that effect. A fresh browser room assigned the offered skill through genuine setup, then used a conserved staged movement. The player edited the route from Red Chasm through South Mesa to Pasty Mesa, exercised per-pile opt-out and moved three forces. Both selected piles lost one spice; own spice rose from five to seven. Refresh retained three Pasty Mesa forces, one Arrakeen force, sixteen reserves, no Tanks and the same private Crysknife and Caid. Movement completion awaited the human. This is targeted browser evidence, not a complete human game. Broad checkpoint results are recorded with the checkpoint. These checks do not certify every skill or combined module.
The worm-ride follow-up connects native Fremen destination collection, including saved arrival reactions. Physical Fremen Ambassador relocation is connected above. Other nonordinary relocations, special cards, concealed-marker collection and wider interaction/strategy acceptance remain. The lower battle band is in the battle-effects contract.
21 September: native HMS relocation eligibility
The Basic Ixian integration connects ordinary force entry and exit through the current HMS pointer. Native relocation is a different event: it changes the stronghold's pointing sector while its forces remain in the separate interior territory. Calling a further Sandmaster collection a known missing bonus was too strong; eligibility is unresolved.
The publisher-authored Ix rules, pages 9 and 11 give native collection of two spice per force from traversed spice-containing sectors, including departure, and prohibit movement into, out of or through the storm. Sandmaster instead requires forces moving into or through a territory and grants one total spice per entered territory. The official November FAQ, page 7 allows Karama to prevent HMS relocation and collection together.
The checked card, designer walkthrough and available official rules did not clarify whether passengers staying in the interior count as entering outside territories. Resolved 7 October 2026 by user ruling: interior passengers do count as entering the outside territories the stronghold points into, so the Sandmaster skill collects one spice per entered territory before the faction's own traversed-sector collection. The 9 October owner-allocation prototype above extends the earlier unambiguous-pile path; it does not change the user ruling. Full combined compliance remains unverified.