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vote and Fremen reserve ride, destructive Discovery blows, private faction
peeks and Collection inspection/reveal, stash rewards and mandatory saved
card overflow, and revealed nested board locations. Share private legal
choices with human controls and all four AI profiles. Preserve normal gates.

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backed-up local prototype starter with a Discovery profile; preserve seats.

Still missing: next-turn free entry, five special location benefits and
Ornithopter movement spending. Current prototype playthroughs do not certify
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Rule decision index

Updated 13 September 2026. This is the authoritative navigation index for existing decisions, not a replacement rulebook or a new ruling. Detailed linked contracts retain their source citations and exact supported boundaries. Runtime follow-ups supersede historical absence claims; passing tests establish software behavior, not publisher authority.

Recorded contracts and implementation boundaries

Topic Decision to preserve Detailed authority and evidence
Source and readiness Separate published rules, explicit implementation choices and unfinished interpretations; Advanced/expansion gates stay closed. Base/Advanced audit, checklist
Setup and Fremen movement Preserve source-ordered setup and the distinct declared-movement cancellation; do not recreate fixed historical gaps. Setup contract, Fremen Karama
Guild payment Rate, transport permission and income are distinct; power owner, shipper, contributors and independent rate-card beneficiary remain distinct. Rate/cancellation sources, implemented payment routing
Truthtrance Current facts are boolean disclosures, not promises to preserve resources. Structured Basic and base Advanced active-opportunity shipment promises bind within their documented scope (Advanced excludes Guild and optional modules); prose is not automatically enforced. Spice facts, card facts, shipment promises, remaining audit
Truthtrance hand categories Count current physical hand custody by explicitly named primary role; alternate battle slots and faction powers do not reclassify cards. Only an aggregate answer is disclosed. Hand inventory
Nexus lifecycle Twelve physical cards, phase draw/replacement and alliance forfeiture; native Cunning, absent-faction Secret Ally and Betrayal have separate effects. No blanket Karama immunity. Common source contract, lifecycle runtime
Nexus faction effects Preserve physical custody, original faction identity and durable effect receipts; use each printed family instead of borrowing another faction's rules by analogy. Atreides, Harkonnen, BG, Emperor, Fremen, Guild
Expansion Nexus families Source audit coverage does not imply every panel is playable; consult later runtime records in the status log. Ixian Cunning, Ixian replacement, Tleilaxu, CHOAM, Richese, Ecaz, Moritani
CHOAM Secret Ally Absent-faction Collection trade spends one actual Worthless card and the Nexus for two bank spice. It is separate from native Cunning and Auditor; the battle inspection alternative remains missing. Prototype contract
Discoveries Preserve seven sourced Spice Cards and eight physical tokens, private faction peeks and Collection choices. Revealed locations are separate territories; only Jacurutu counts toward stronghold victory. First actions are prototyped; free entry, special location benefits and Ornithopter spending remain missing. Component authority, prototype boundary
Guild Secret Ally One explicit Guild-priced ordinary shipment; borrowed prices/routes preserve native identity. Free Fremen reinforcement remains a separate choice. Route contract, verified runtime
Homeworld custody and mobility Physical home/visitor groups, population thresholds, tariffs and transport permissions retain distinct sources; Homeworld immunity is not universal immunity. Homeworld rules, benefits, mobility, invasion, Guild transport
Homeworld effects Keep original payment/revival/placement identities and qualification observations; observations alone do not choose an occupied-benefit owner. Payments, card economy, Collection, revival deployment, victory reinforcement, replacement, Tupile

Pending interpretations: preserve existing questions

These are unresolved in the cited records. Do not infer an answer from elapsed time, a fixture, a related card or this index. Check subsequent recorded user/source decisions before proceeding; do not send duplicate questions.

Boundary Still unresolved Existing record
Ordinary Guild cancellation Unaffordable repricing, replacement/retry/decline, consumed opportunity, contributor adjustment and ordering with special shipment-stop. The affordability question was already sent. Material timing
Base special Karama Unfunded auction recovery, stopped-shipment settlement and Atreides full-plan commitment order remain provisional. Native full-plan/Voice/Prescience/Truthtrance/Ghola interactions now have genuine-setup focused evidence, but the source audit does not settle the special offer/deadline or target-first interpretation. Explicit base interpretations, full-plan interaction audit
Guild Secret Ally/Homeworlds Whether the reserve-return grant overrides the Homeworld return restriction. The question was already sent; that route stays guarded. Homeworld return, checkpoint
Occupied Homeworlds Entitlement/expiry after departure, replacement or contest; unique powers and shared income. The first-occupier/current-occupier question was already sent. Occupation questions, lifecycle audit
Nexus responses and composition Betrayal private-response timing, partial revival/payment choices, Emperor fewer-than-five, fresh advisor/storm cases, Duke restoration and remaining faction-specific combinations. Common boundaries and the individual faction source/runtime documents above
Discovery prototype inferences Great Maker currently follows ordinary first-turn worm skipping and Sandtrout suppression; an exhausted token type creates no replacement token. These preserve current source interpretation and physical inventory but are not separately confirmed rulings or complete combined-module certification. Interpretations for refinement
Other Homeworld combinations Population/force splitting, removal custody, replacement shortages, income accounting and placement ordering remain local to their detailed contracts. Homeworld rules, occupation and the effect documents above

When a decision changes, record the exact source or user ruling in its detailed feature document, update affected implementation guidance/tests, and adjust this index and current status. Retain historical evidence without presenting a superseded proposal as current behavior.