Dune/docs/TRUTHTRANCE_MOVEMENT_PROMISES.md

Truthtrance ground-movement promises

Basic prototype — 24 October 2026

Prototyped / Partial. The structured question asks whether the respondent will make one ground movement of at least N physical forces to a printed territory before their current Shipment and Movement turn ends. It concerns future events after the answer, not earlier moves or sums of smaller groups. Shipment, HMS relocation, free accompaniment and Ambassador relocation do not count. A concealed No-Field marker itself is not a physical on-board force; ordinary counters moving with it retain their actual count.

The general binding-while-possible/current-turn authority is the GF9 November 2020 FAQ printed p8, recorded in the shipment source contract. Its worked example concerns shipment. Applying that rule to this existential movement statement, the owned-action witness and accepted-order release policy below are explicit software compositions, not a publisher movement-specific FAQ or Basic adoption of the unofficial Advanced revision.

Fresh or existing Basic native tables can ask at a clean active post-shipment turn, including selected E1/E2/E3 factions. No optional modules or Advanced inherit this entry. The actual native roster, physical inventory and route validation remain authoritative; no mode or publication gate opens. Earlier phase/waiting-turn movement questions, compound movement/fact questions and wider owned preparations/interactions remain unfinished. Existing saves are not reconfigured and absent promise fields remain absent until a real answer binds.

Behavior and controls

• Yes stays pending across nonmatching moves while a legal owned completion remains. One matching physical commitment fulfills it permanently, before card disposal, Intrusion, Ambassador/Terror or other later arrival effects. It is not a promise to keep those forces alive afterward.
• No forbids every matching ordinary/card ground movement until the actual turn ends, including later Hajr and both Ornithopter groups. A first nonmatch or card-disposal pause does not fulfill it. Ending early cannot evade Yes.
• Feasible answers use actual board/typed groups and the shared human movement declaration validator, not the strategic bot shortlist. The finite search considers ordinary moves, held Hajr, both held/active Ornithopter modes and their original cohort, current city access and current native bonuses such as CHOAM Kulon. Preparations use private detached execution; actual cards retain their ordinary effects, counters, discard/response and arrival continuations. Unknown future draws/gifts and unresolved opposing outcomes are not invented.
• Voluntary moves/actions cannot remove the last legal completion. A declared native movement waits for its real counter response before fulfillment or impossibility. Opposing impossibility releases only the answers that cannot remain compatible: retain every No and still-feasible Yes in accepted order. An impossible large promise does not erase an independent smaller one.
• Authoring has dedicated movement labels, an exact public preview and a one-to-twenty input. Only the respondent sees feasible answers and the next owned completion action. Persistent promise/answer controls have no timer; busy controls submit nothing. Four existing profiles follow those same legal views without strategy changes or calibration.

This is bounded reachability, not complete arbitrary Truthtrance enforcement. Other owned preparation families (including Box recovery and native relocation preparation), earlier timing, optional/Advanced profiles and comprehensive combination/recovery/privacy/custody acceptance remain due.

Source programmes and current verification

tests/fixture-truth-movement.ts uses genuine public Basic Atreides/Emperor setup, original33-card inventory and actual dealt Truthtrance/Hajr. Only unopened deal/Spice positions and native scalar lotteries are selected. Actual readiness, setup, phases and a two-spice one-force Polar Sink shipment precede the question; ten original Arrakeen forces, wallets and allowances are unchanged.

The original public Ecaz/CHOAM/Richese/Guild source also buys physical Ornithopter for one in the native cache auction, deals original Truthtrance to Ecaz, buys one normal card, pays for placement and Guild shipment, then finishes an actual empty CHOAM Ambassador grant. Two-group Yes/No and range-three paths use those real cards/forces. Its existing native Ecaz final-move Semuta boundary remains; ending disposal and the earlier Truthtrance cost still use their actual neutral continuation. No force, wallet, clock, bonus or played card is installed.

tests/fixture-truth-movement-choam.ts uses public native CHOAM/Emperor setup, actual dealt Kulon/Truthtrance, one-spice Arrakeen shipment and actual allowed Kulon. City access plus its current bonus proves a four-territory route.

Separate multiple-question and impossibility edges explicitly stage a conserved second original Truthtrance acquisition and conserved force-loss outcomes. They are not natural second-purchase or native Atomics/Terror source evidence.

The seventeen-file affected union passes 218/218, with types/lint and the production build passing. Seven actual gameplay/control/table-rendering programmes cover direct Yes, later Hajr Yes, No surviving Hajr, both actual Ornithopter groups, its range-three option and native current-Kulon route4. Source programmes use20/58/26 accepted actions. Actual persistent promise handlers execute the private witness and submit nothing when busy; actual GameTable rendering covers question, answer, remaining promise, Truthtrance/ ending-disposal pauses and original turn completion. Authoring/answer states are rendered and submitted as real actions, not browser clicks. Four existing profiles make12 legal answer/move/end actions, without tuning or calibration.

Bounded review found current CHOAM range must include Kulon rather than a three-territory cap, and an opposing loss must release only incompatible answers. Both have regressions, including genuine Kulon play. Multiple-promise feedback keeps detached settlement coherent; deterministic owned preparation does not invent extra fresh-discard events while a real cost is suspended. Initial fixture feedback corrected the actual two-spice Polar Sink tariff and automatically allowed Kulon. Three representative older failures reproduced against the prior committed engine: shared native fixtures now acknowledge neutral Semuta, two battle fixtures acknowledge the actual result, and the broad pre-movement Hajr case correctly uses Basic. Native Advanced Hajr still requires its genuine post-movement opportunity. A notice-label scalar lint issue was repaired.

Frozen base b4a556d5d345c9ff3056b01af0076ae86bdf5579, tree 990c92fd368f07e1be91dcc0c677a7c029ecfcd6f747b99943e07cae28f8cfc3, 2631 files. Private logs, original-state/control HTML and receipts: /home/quintine/.local/share/dune/checkpoints/20261024-truth-movement/, frozen-integrated-3/report.json. Final checkpoint/reference prose overlays are separately recorded; engine, controls, helpers and tests match the proof. Framework aliases/CSS stubbing make this server-rendered evidence, not browser, visual or deployed acceptance. Full modes, wider preparations/timing/modules, comprehensive assurance and deployed acceptance remain open. No saved-room/D1 operation, reset, restart or deployment.