diff --git a/assets/fx/vega-star.mp3 b/assets/fx/vega-star.mp3
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diff --git a/assets/music/vega/audience-kestrelli.mp3 b/assets/music/vega/audience-kestrelli.mp3
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diff --git a/assets/music/vega/audience-kkrix.mp3 b/assets/music/vega/audience-kkrix.mp3
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diff --git a/assets/music/vega/audience-mekhan.mp3 b/assets/music/vega/audience-mekhan.mp3
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diff --git a/assets/music/vega/audience-rrashaa.mp3 b/assets/music/vega/audience-rrashaa.mp3
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diff --git a/assets/music/vega/audience-umbrix.mp3 b/assets/music/vega/audience-umbrix.mp3
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diff --git a/assets/music/vega/audience-ursaal.mp3 b/assets/music/vega/audience-ursaal.mp3
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c067b9
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diff --git a/assets/music/vega/peace-track-04.mp3 b/assets/music/vega/peace-track-04.mp3
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2be8c09
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diff --git a/assets/videos/vega/audience-mekhan-neutral.mp4 b/assets/videos/vega/audience-mekhan-neutral.mp4
index d49611f..55453a3 100644
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diff --git a/data/masterofvega-music.json b/data/masterofvega-music.json
index d2e722c..94dd43c 100644
--- a/data/masterofvega-music.json
+++ b/data/masterofvega-music.json
@@ -51,17 +51,57 @@
     }
   ] },
   "diplomacy": {
-    "default": { "tracks": [] },
+    "default": { "tracks": [{
+      "file": "vega/audience-human.mp3",
+      "artist": "Human",
+      "title": "Meet N Greet"
+    }] },
     "bySpecies": {
-      "kestrelli": { "tracks": [] },
-      "ursaal": { "tracks": [] },
-      "umbrix": { "tracks": [] },
-      "kkrix": { "tracks": [] },
-      "mekhan": { "tracks": [] },
-      "rrashaa": { "tracks": [] },
-      "cerebrai": { "tracks": [] },
-      "ssakar": { "tracks": [] },
-      "lithox": { "tracks": [] }
+      "kestrelli": { "tracks": [{
+        "file": "vega/audience-kestrelli.mp3",
+        "artist": "Kestrelli",
+        "title": "Meet N Greet"
+      }] },
+      "ursaal": { "tracks": [{
+        "file": "vega/audience-ursaal.mp3",
+        "artist": "Ursaal",
+        "title": "Meet N Greet"
+      }] },
+      "umbrix": { "tracks": [{
+        "file": "vega/audience-umbrix.mp3",
+        "artist": "Umbrix",
+        "title": "Meet N Greet"
+      }] },
+      "kkrix": { "tracks": [{
+        "file": "vega/audience-kkrix.mp3",
+        "artist": "Kkrix",
+        "title": "Meet N Greet"
+      }] },
+      "mekhan": { "tracks": [{
+        "file": "vega/audience-mekhan.mp3",
+        "artist": "Mekhan",
+        "title": "Meet N Greet"
+      }] },
+      "rrashaa": { "tracks": [{
+        "file": "vega/audience-rrasha.mp3",
+        "artist": "Ursaal",
+        "title": "Meet N Greet"
+      }] },
+      "cerebrai": { "tracks": [{
+        "file": "vega/audience-cerebrai.mp3",
+        "artist": "Cerebrai",
+        "title": "Meet N Greet"
+      }] },
+      "ssakar": { "tracks": [{
+        "file": "vega/audience-ssakar.mp3",
+        "artist": "Ssakar",
+        "title": "Meet N Greet"
+      }] },
+      "lithox": { "tracks": [{
+        "file": "vega/audience-lithox.mp3",
+        "artist": "Lithox",
+        "title": "Meet N Greet"
+      }] }
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/MasterOfVegaGame.js b/src/games/mastervega/MasterOfVegaGame.js
index 921ad54..ddd0df5 100644
--- a/src/games/mastervega/MasterOfVegaGame.js
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/MasterOfVegaGame.js
@@ -835,10 +835,19 @@ export default class MasterOfVegaGame extends Phaser.Scene {
 
       const canSeek = canNegotiate(this.rules, this.state, this.state.humanIndex, otherIdx);
       const btn = new Button(this, W / 2 - 78, 0, 'Seek Audience', this.uiClick(() => {
-        this.openModal((done) => openAudienceScreen(
-          this, this.rules, this.state, this.state.humanIndex, otherIdx, this.art, done,
-          () => this.refreshAll(),
-        ));
+        this.openModal((done) => {
+          // Same per-race ducking runAudienceQueue does for an AI-initiated
+          // audience — only drop back to peace on close if nothing else is
+          // queued up behind this one.
+          this.music?.setDiplomacy(other.speciesId);
+          openAudienceScreen(
+            this, this.rules, this.state, this.state.humanIndex, otherIdx, this.art, () => {
+              if (!this.pendingAudiences.length) this.music?.setDiplomacy(null);
+              done();
+            },
+            () => this.refreshAll(),
+          );
+        });
       }), { width: 140, height: 40, fontSize: 14 });
       if (!canSeek) btn.setEnabled(false);
       card.add(btn);
@@ -918,6 +927,7 @@ export default class MasterOfVegaGame extends Phaser.Scene {
       return;
     }
 
+    playSound(this, SFX.VEGA_STAR);
     this.map.setSelectedStar(idx);
     this.selectedFleet = null;
     this.panel.showStar(idx);
@@ -1054,6 +1064,11 @@ export default class MasterOfVegaGame extends Phaser.Scene {
       if (this.state.over) { this.finishGame(); return; }
       if (this.state.current === this.state.humanIndex) {
         Logic.beginEmpireTurn(this.rules, this.state, this.state.humanIndex);
+        // Colony Focus autopilot: same relative placement as runAITurn is for
+        // an AI empire below — right after this turn's production has been
+        // spent, so whatever it queues here is what NEXT turn's
+        // beginEmpireTurn will consume.
+        Logic.autoQueueColonies(this.rules, this.state, this.state.humanIndex);
         // Contact discovered during an AI empire's turn surfaces the moment
         // control returns to the human — before the routine turn report, so
         // "contact made" always reads as the bigger beat.
diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/VegaColonyView.js b/src/games/mastervega/VegaColonyView.js
index cd510b9..ee13b3a 100644
--- a/src/games/mastervega/VegaColonyView.js
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/VegaColonyView.js
@@ -34,11 +34,13 @@ import * as Phaser from 'phaser';
 
 import { GAME_HEIGHT, GAME_WIDTH } from '../../config.js';
 import { Button } from '../../ui/Button.js';
+import { Tooltip } from '../../ui/Tooltip.js';
 import { FONT, D, ORBIT, slider, uiClick } from './VegaScreens.js';
 import { playSound, SFX } from '../../ui/Sounds.js';
 import { worldBackground, buildingFrame } from './VegaArt.js';
 import { createShipMediaPool, makeShipIcon } from './VegaShipMedia.js';
 import { openShipDetail } from './VegaShipDetail.js';
+import { describeBuildingTooltip } from './VegaTooltips.js';
 import {
   CHANNELS, colonyMaxPop, colonyProduction, colonyFactoryCap, effectiveFactories,
   colonyDefenseCap, colonyTrade, colonyBuildRate, setSlider, enqueue, enqueueMany,
@@ -58,11 +60,43 @@ const PAD = 22;
 const FLY_W = 760;
 const FLY_X = PANEL_X - FLY_W - 16;
 
+// Built-building icon row, bottom-left over the world art. Kept inside
+// roughly x=48..600 so it never reaches the flyout's column (FLY_X=640) even
+// with every building in the game built here, wrapping upward into a second
+// row rather than running off the right edge.
+const ICON = 52;
+const ICON_GAP = 10;
+const ICON_ROW_X = 48;
+const ICON_ROW_MAX_W = 552;
+const ICON_ROW_BOTTOM = 50;
+
 /** Matches the read-only allocation bars in the system view. */
 export const CHANNEL_COLOUR = {
   ships: 0x6fc4ff, defense: 0xe08a8a, industry: 0xffd88a, ecology: 0x7fd8a0, research: 0xb89cff,
 };
 
+// Colony Focus — see autoQueueColonies (VegaLogic.js) for what each value
+// actually does; this is just the picker's label/description copy.
+const COLONY_FOCUS_OPTIONS = [
+  { value: 'manual', label: 'Manual', desc: 'No automation — you queue everything yourself.' },
+  { value: 'improvement', label: 'Colony Improvement', desc: 'Industry buildings first, then any other building not yet built.' },
+  { value: 'research', label: 'Research Focus', desc: 'Only queues research buildings. Once none are left, the queue stays empty and construction spills into research.' },
+  { value: 'fleet', label: 'Fleet Production', desc: 'Builds a diversified warship fleet, favouring whichever hull you have the fewest of at this system.' },
+  { value: 'growth', label: 'Population Growth', desc: 'Queues buildings that raise your population ceiling or growth rate.' },
+  { value: 'trade', label: 'Trade & Commerce', desc: 'Queues buildings that raise trade income.' },
+  { value: 'defense', label: 'Homeworld Defense', desc: 'Queues planetary defense buildings.' },
+];
+
+// Allocation Focus — one-time slider presets (see buildAllocationFocusFlyout).
+// Every row sums to 1.0.
+const ALLOCATION_FOCUS_OPTIONS = [
+  { key: 'default', label: 'Default', sliders: { ships: 0.20, defense: 0.10, industry: 0.40, ecology: 0.10, research: 0.20 } },
+  { key: 'research', label: 'Research Focus', sliders: { ships: 0.10, defense: 0.05, industry: 0.20, ecology: 0.15, research: 0.50 } },
+  { key: 'growth', label: 'Population Growth', sliders: { ships: 0.15, defense: 0.10, industry: 0.30, ecology: 0.35, research: 0.10 } },
+  { key: 'production', label: 'Production', sliders: { ships: 0.20, defense: 0.05, industry: 0.55, ecology: 0.10, research: 0.10 } },
+  { key: 'military', label: 'Military Buildup', sliders: { ships: 0.45, defense: 0.25, industry: 0.15, ecology: 0.10, research: 0.05 } },
+];
+
 export const etaText = (turns) => (Number.isFinite(turns)
   ? `${turns} turn${turns === 1 ? '' : 's'}`
   : 'stalled — no construction budget');
@@ -161,6 +195,7 @@ export function openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, opts = {}) {
   const emp = state.empires[colony.empireIdx];
 
   const root = scene.add.container(0, 0).setDepth(D.colony);
+  const tooltip = new Tooltip(scene, { depth: D.colony + 5 });
 
   // --- the world itself
   const bgKey = worldBackground(scene, planet.typeId);
@@ -208,15 +243,18 @@ export function openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, opts = {}) {
   // --- layers
   //
   // panelLayer sits at the origin FOREVER (see the header note on slider()).
-  // flyLayer is the one that moves, and it holds no sliders.
+  // flyLayer is the one that moves, and it holds no sliders. iconLayer sits
+  // over the world art at the bottom-left, well clear of both.
   const flyLayer = scene.add.container(0, 0).setVisible(false);
   root.add(flyLayer);
   const panelLayer = scene.add.container(0, 0);
   root.add(panelLayer);
+  const iconLayer = scene.add.container(0, 0);
+  root.add(iconLayer);
 
   const FLY_HIDDEN = PANEL_X - FLY_X; // parked exactly behind the panel
   flyLayer.x = FLY_HIDDEN;
-  let flyOpen = false;
+  let flyMode = null; // null | 'queue' | 'colonyFocus' | 'allocFocus'
   // Both of the flyout's lists can grow without limit — the queue as well as
   // the catalogue — so both scroll and both have a mask to keep in step.
   let scrollers = [];
@@ -234,7 +272,7 @@ export function openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, opts = {}) {
     pool.setPaused(true);
     detail = openShipDetail(scene, rules, state, art,
       { empireIdx: colony.empireIdx, hullId },
-      () => { detail = null; if (flyOpen) pool.setPaused(false); });
+      () => { detail = null; if (flyMode === 'queue') pool.setPaused(false); });
   };
   /** Take the pool out of whatever is about to be destroyed. */
   const detachPool = () => pool.layer.parentContainer?.remove(pool.layer);
@@ -252,19 +290,48 @@ export function openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, opts = {}) {
     // then runs against a corpse.
     detachPool();
     pool.destroy();
+    tooltip.destroy();
     scene.input.keyboard?.off('keydown-ESC', onEsc);
     root.destroy();
     onClose?.();
   }
   function onEsc() {
-    if (flyOpen) { toggleFlyout(); return; }
+    if (flyMode) { toggleFlyout(flyMode); return; }
     close();
   }
   scene.input.keyboard?.on('keydown-ESC', onEsc);
 
+  // -------------------------------------------------------- built buildings
+  //
+  // A hoverable icon row over the world art, bottom-left — replaces the old
+  // "Built here" text line in the panel, which had no room to say what each
+  // building actually does. Rebuilt every time buildPanel() is, so it never
+  // drifts out of sync with what just finished.
+  function buildIconRow() {
+    iconLayer.removeAll(true);
+    tooltip.hide(); // the object under the cursor may be about to be destroyed
+    // colony.buildings also carries the synthetic 'starbase' completion-flag
+    // id (see VegaLogic.js's completeQueueItem) — it has no rules.buildings
+    // entry, so it is filtered out here the same way the old text line did.
+    const realBuildings = colony.buildings.filter((b) => rules.buildings[b]);
+    const perRow = Math.max(1, Math.floor((ICON_ROW_MAX_W + ICON_GAP) / (ICON + ICON_GAP)));
+    realBuildings.forEach((id, i) => {
+      const row = Math.floor(i / perRow);
+      const col = i % perRow;
+      const cx = ICON_ROW_X + col * (ICON + ICON_GAP) + ICON / 2;
+      const cy = GAME_HEIGHT - ICON_ROW_BOTTOM - ICON / 2 - row * (ICON + ICON_GAP);
+      const icon = scene.add.image(cx, cy, art.buildings, buildingFrame(rules, id))
+        .setDisplaySize(ICON, ICON)
+        .setInteractive({ useHandCursor: true });
+      iconLayer.add(icon);
+      tooltip.attachTo(icon, () => describeBuildingTooltip(rules, id));
+    });
+  }
+
   // ------------------------------------------------------------- the panel
 
   function buildPanel() {
+    buildIconRow();
     panelLayer.removeAll(true);
     frame(scene, panelLayer, PANEL_X, PANEL_Y, PANEL_W, PANEL_H, 0.82);
 
@@ -369,6 +436,18 @@ export function openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, opts = {}) {
       + 'A locked channel holds its share while the rest renormalise.',
     13, '#6f8aa3', 4);
 
+    // --- focus pickers, in normal vertical flow (not pinned like the pair below)
+    {
+      const half = (w - 12) / 2;
+      add(new Button(scene, x + half / 2, y + 24,
+        flyMode === 'colonyFocus' ? 'Close Colony Focus' : 'Colony Focus',
+        uiClick(scene, () => toggleFlyout('colonyFocus')), { width: half, height: 44, fontSize: 16 }));
+      add(new Button(scene, x + half * 1.5 + 12, y + 24,
+        flyMode === 'allocFocus' ? 'Close Allocation Focus' : 'Allocation Focus',
+        uiClick(scene, () => toggleFlyout('allocFocus')), { width: half, height: 44, fontSize: 16 }));
+      y += 60;
+    }
+
     // The button is PINNED to the bottom of the column, and everything below
     // here is length-variable — a long queue, a colony with a dozen buildings.
     // So the two lists below give way rather than spilling past the frame, the
@@ -407,22 +486,6 @@ export function openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, opts = {}) {
       }
     }
 
-    // Lowest priority: it is reference, and the flyout's catalogue already
-    // hides anything already built here.
-    //
-    // `colony.buildings` also doubles as a completion flag for a finished Star
-    // Base (VegaLogic.js's completeQueueItem pushes the HULL id 'starbase' in
-    // there so the fuel-range and AI checks have a cheap `.includes()` test) —
-    // that id has no entry in `rules.buildings`, so it is filtered out here
-    // rather than crashing on `rules.buildings[b].name`. The Star Base itself
-    // still shows up in orbit like any other ship.
-    const realBuildings = colony.buildings.filter((b) => rules.buildings[b]);
-    if (realBuildings.length && room(60)) {
-      heading('Built here');
-      text(realBuildings.map((b) => rules.buildings[b].name).join('  ·  '),
-        13, '#ffd88a', 2, w);
-    }
-
     y = buttonY;
     const sendBtn = add(new Button(scene, PANEL_X + PANEL_W / 2, y + 22,
       'Send Population', uiClick(scene, openTransportPicker), { width: w, height: 44, fontSize: 18 }));
@@ -431,29 +494,38 @@ export function openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, opts = {}) {
     }
     y += 56;
     add(new Button(scene, PANEL_X + PANEL_W / 2, y + 24,
-      flyOpen ? 'Close Build Queue' : 'Build Queue', uiClick(scene, toggleFlyout),
+      flyMode === 'queue' ? 'Close Build Queue' : 'Build Queue', uiClick(scene, () => toggleFlyout('queue')),
       { width: w, height: 48, fontSize: 20 }));
   }
 
   // ------------------------------------------------------------- the flyout
+  //
+  // A single sliding drawer shared by three modes (Build Queue / Colony Focus
+  // / Allocation Focus) rather than three independent panels — clicking a
+  // different mode's button while the drawer is already open swaps its
+  // content in place with no re-tween (flyLayer.x is already 0); clicking the
+  // OPEN mode's own button tweens it closed; clicking from closed tweens it
+  // open. Every content builder starts with resetFlyLayer(), since switching
+  // modes mid-open still has to tear down whatever the PREVIOUS mode left
+  // behind (scroll masks, the ship-media pool) before building fresh content.
 
-  function toggleFlyout() {
-    flyOpen = !flyOpen;
+  function resetFlyLayer() {
+    dropScrollers();
+    detachPool();
+    flyLayer.removeAll(true);
+  }
+
+  function buildFlyoutContent() {
+    if (flyMode === 'queue') buildQueueFlyout();
+    else if (flyMode === 'colonyFocus') buildColonyFocusFlyout();
+    else if (flyMode === 'allocFocus') buildAllocationFocusFlyout();
+  }
+
+  function toggleFlyout(mode) {
     scene.tweens.killTweensOf(flyLayer);
-    if (flyOpen) {
-      flyLayer.setVisible(true);
-      buildFlyout();
-      scene.tweens.add({
-        targets: flyLayer,
-        x: 0,
-        duration: 220,
-        ease: 'Cubic.easeOut',
-        // A scroll mask is a Graphics with its own world transform and does
-        // not follow a moving parent, so it has to be dragged along by hand.
-        onUpdate: () => syncMasks(flyLayer.x),
-        onComplete: () => syncMasks(0),
-      });
-    } else {
+    if (flyMode === mode) {
+      // The open drawer's own button, clicked again: close it.
+      flyMode = null;
       scene.tweens.add({
         targets: flyLayer,
         x: FLY_HIDDEN,
@@ -468,25 +540,42 @@ export function openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, opts = {}) {
           flyLayer.removeAll(true);
         },
       });
+    } else if (flyMode === null) {
+      // Closed -> open with `mode`, tweening in.
+      flyMode = mode;
+      flyLayer.setVisible(true);
+      buildFlyoutContent();
+      scene.tweens.add({
+        targets: flyLayer,
+        x: 0,
+        duration: 220,
+        ease: 'Cubic.easeOut',
+        // A scroll mask is a Graphics with its own world transform and does
+        // not follow a moving parent, so it has to be dragged along by hand.
+        onUpdate: () => syncMasks(flyLayer.x),
+        onComplete: () => syncMasks(0),
+      });
+    } else {
+      // Already open on a DIFFERENT mode: swap content in place, no tween.
+      flyMode = mode;
+      buildFlyoutContent();
     }
     buildPanel();
   }
 
   function rebuildFlyout() {
-    buildFlyout();
+    buildFlyoutContent();
     buildPanel();
     onChanged?.();
   }
 
-  function buildFlyout() {
+  function buildQueueFlyout() {
     // Queueing something rebuilds the whole flyout, so both lists would jump
     // back to the top under the player's cursor. Put them back where they were.
     const keep = scrollers.map((s) => s.offset);
-    dropScrollers();
-    detachPool();
+    resetFlyLayer();
     pool.beginFrame();
     if (!detail) pool.setPaused(false);
-    flyLayer.removeAll(true);
     frame(scene, flyLayer, FLY_X, PANEL_Y, FLY_W, PANEL_H, 0.9);
 
     const x = FLY_X + PAD;
@@ -657,6 +746,86 @@ export function openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, opts = {}) {
     scroller.setOffset(keep[1] ?? 0);
   }
 
+  // Autopilot picker: what VegaLogic.js's autoQueueColonies will build here
+  // once a turn, when this colony's queue is empty. Short enough (7 rows) to
+  // fit without a scrollColumn.
+  function buildColonyFocusFlyout() {
+    resetFlyLayer();
+    pool.setPaused(true); // no ship media in this mode
+    frame(scene, flyLayer, FLY_X, PANEL_Y, FLY_W, PANEL_H, 0.9);
+    const x = FLY_X + PAD;
+    const w = FLY_W - PAD * 2;
+
+    flyLayer.add(scene.add.text(x, PANEL_Y + 24, 'COLONY FOCUS', {
+      fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '26px', color: '#cfe8ff',
+    }));
+    flyLayer.add(scene.add.text(x, PANEL_Y + 60,
+      'Automatically queues one thing per turn when the queue is empty. Never touches the allocation sliders.', {
+        fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '15px', color: '#9fd8ff', wordWrap: { width: w },
+      }));
+
+    let y = PANEL_Y + 110;
+    const rowH = 78;
+    for (const opt of COLONY_FOCUS_OPTIONS) {
+      const selected = (colony.focus ?? 'manual') === opt.value;
+      const row = scene.add.rectangle(x, y, w, rowH - 8, selected ? 0x22405f : 0x0f1a2c, selected ? 0.9 : 0.5)
+        .setOrigin(0, 0).setStrokeStyle(1, ACCENT, selected ? 0.7 : 0.2).setInteractive({ useHandCursor: true });
+      row.on('pointerup', () => { colony.focus = opt.value; buildColonyFocusFlyout(); });
+      flyLayer.add(row);
+      flyLayer.add(scene.add.text(x + 14, y + 8, opt.label, {
+        fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '18px', color: selected ? '#ffd88a' : '#e8f4ff',
+      }));
+      flyLayer.add(scene.add.text(x + 14, y + 32, opt.desc, {
+        fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '13px', color: '#8fa8c0', wordWrap: { width: w - 28 },
+      }));
+      y += rowH;
+    }
+  }
+
+  // One-time slider presets. Picking one overwrites colony.sliders directly —
+  // a deliberate bulk overwrite that BYPASSES colony.locked (unlike
+  // setSlider, which honours it): this is an explicit "reset everything"
+  // action, not a nudge to one channel, and the sliders stay freely
+  // adjustable afterward exactly as if the player had dragged them there.
+  function buildAllocationFocusFlyout() {
+    resetFlyLayer();
+    pool.setPaused(true);
+    frame(scene, flyLayer, FLY_X, PANEL_Y, FLY_W, PANEL_H, 0.9);
+    const x = FLY_X + PAD;
+    const w = FLY_W - PAD * 2;
+
+    flyLayer.add(scene.add.text(x, PANEL_Y + 24, 'ALLOCATION FOCUS', {
+      fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '26px', color: '#cfe8ff',
+    }));
+    flyLayer.add(scene.add.text(x, PANEL_Y + 60,
+      'A one-time preset for the five sliders above — picking one does not lock the allocation.', {
+        fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '15px', color: '#9fd8ff', wordWrap: { width: w },
+      }));
+
+    let y = PANEL_Y + 110;
+    const rowH = 84;
+    for (const opt of ALLOCATION_FOCUS_OPTIONS) {
+      const matches = CHANNELS.every((ch) => Math.abs((colony.sliders[ch] ?? 0) - opt.sliders[ch]) < 1e-6);
+      const row = scene.add.rectangle(x, y, w, rowH - 8, matches ? 0x22405f : 0x0f1a2c, matches ? 0.9 : 0.5)
+        .setOrigin(0, 0).setStrokeStyle(1, ACCENT, matches ? 0.7 : 0.2).setInteractive({ useHandCursor: true });
+      row.on('pointerup', () => {
+        colony.sliders = { ...opt.sliders };
+        onChanged?.();
+        buildPanel(); // redraws the five sliders with their new values
+        buildAllocationFocusFlyout(); // refreshes which row is highlighted
+      });
+      flyLayer.add(row);
+      flyLayer.add(scene.add.text(x + 14, y + 8, opt.label, {
+        fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '18px', color: matches ? '#ffd88a' : '#e8f4ff',
+      }));
+      const breakdown = CHANNELS.map((ch) => `${rules.economy.channelNames[ch] ?? ch} ${Math.round(opt.sliders[ch] * 100)}%`).join('  ·  ');
+      flyLayer.add(scene.add.text(x + 14, y + 34, breakdown, {
+        fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '13px', color: '#8fa8c0', wordWrap: { width: w - 28 },
+      }));
+      y += rowH;
+    }
+  }
+
   const moveRun = (rows, ri, dir) => {
     moveQueueRun(rules, state, colony, rows, ri, dir);
     rebuildFlyout();
diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/VegaLogic.js b/src/games/mastervega/VegaLogic.js
index 5f2c5c9..ea508ed 100644
--- a/src/games/mastervega/VegaLogic.js
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/VegaLogic.js
@@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ export function foundColony(rules, state, e, starIdx, orbit, pop, name = null) {
     capital: false,
     sliders: { ships: 0.2, defense: 0.1, industry: 0.4, ecology: 0.1, research: 0.2 },
     locked: {},
+    focus: 'manual', // 'manual' | 'improvement' | 'research' | 'fleet' | 'growth' | 'trade' | 'defense'
     founded: state.turn,
   };
   state.colonies.push(colony);
@@ -1892,6 +1893,130 @@ export function enqueueMany(rules, state, colony, kind, id, n) {
   return added;
 }
 
+// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Colony Focus — the colony screen's per-colony autopilot (VegaColonyView.js).
+// Runs once per human turn, right after that empire's own beginEmpireTurn
+// (MasterOfVegaGame.js's runToHumanTurn), and mirrors the shape of VegaAI.js's
+// manageColony building ladder / preferredWarship. Deliberately reimplemented
+// rather than imported: VegaAI.js already imports FROM this file, so pulling
+// AI helpers in here would cycle, and duplicating a dozen lines of scoring
+// logic is cheaper than restructuring either file around a shared surface.
+
+/**
+ * First candidate in `ids` that clears enqueue's own guards (already-built,
+ * already-queued, prereq) plus an affordability guard mirroring VegaAI.js's
+ * `if (b.cost > prod * 25) continue;` — so a small colony is never saddled
+ * with upkeep it cannot carry. Returns whether something was queued.
+ */
+function enqueueFirstAffordableBuilding(rules, state, colony, ids) {
+  const prod = colonyProduction(rules, state, colony);
+  const emp = state.empires[colony.empireIdx];
+  for (const id of ids) {
+    const b = rules.buildings[id];
+    if (!b) continue;
+    if (colony.buildings.includes(id)) continue;
+    if (colony.queue.some((q) => q.kind === 'building' && q.id === id)) continue;
+    if (b.prereq && !emp.known[b.prereq]) continue;
+    if (b.cost > prod * 25) continue;
+    if (enqueue(rules, state, colony, 'building', id)) return true;
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+const byCostAsc = (a, b) => a.cost - b.cost;
+
+function pickImprovement(rules, state, colony) {
+  const industry = rules.buildingList.filter((b) => b.channel === 'industry').sort(byCostAsc).map((b) => b.id);
+  const rest = rules.buildingList.filter((b) => b.channel !== 'industry').sort(byCostAsc).map((b) => b.id);
+  enqueueFirstAffordableBuilding(rules, state, colony, [...industry, ...rest]);
+}
+
+// No fallback if nothing qualifies — an empty queue is correct here, since
+// processColony already spills unspent construction BC into research.
+function pickResearchOnly(rules, state, colony) {
+  const ids = rules.buildingList.filter((b) => b.channel === 'research').sort(byCostAsc).map((b) => b.id);
+  enqueueFirstAffordableBuilding(rules, state, colony, ids);
+}
+
+function pickGrowth(rules, state, colony) {
+  const ids = rules.buildingList
+    .filter((b) => b.effects?.maxPopBonus || b.effects?.growthMult)
+    .sort(byCostAsc).map((b) => b.id);
+  enqueueFirstAffordableBuilding(rules, state, colony, ids);
+}
+
+function pickTrade(rules, state, colony) {
+  const ids = rules.buildingList
+    .filter((b) => b.effects?.tradeBonus || b.effects?.tradeMult)
+    .sort(byCostAsc).map((b) => b.id);
+  enqueueFirstAffordableBuilding(rules, state, colony, ids);
+}
+
+function pickDefense(rules, state, colony) {
+  const ids = rules.buildingList.filter((b) => b.channel === 'defense').sort(byCostAsc).map((b) => b.id);
+  enqueueFirstAffordableBuilding(rules, state, colony, ids);
+}
+
+// Independently-implemented twin of VegaAI.js's preferredWarship (same
+// (hp + damage*4) / cost scoring, same ~15-turns-of-budget affordability
+// cutoff — see the header note above for why this is duplicated rather than
+// shared), plus a diversity pass: rather than always maxing out the single
+// best-value hull, it counts what's already docked at this colony's star and
+// favours whichever warship role is least represented, ties broken by score.
+function pickFleet(rules, state, colony) {
+  const e = colony.empireIdx;
+  const budget = colonyBuildRate(rules, state, colony);
+  const hullIds = rules.hullList.filter((h) => h.role === 'warship').map((h) => h.id);
+  const present = {};
+  for (const f of fleetsAt(state, colony.starIdx)) {
+    if (f.empireIdx !== e) continue;
+    for (const s of f.ships) {
+      if (hullIds.includes(s.hullId)) present[s.hullId] = (present[s.hullId] ?? 0) + s.count;
+    }
+  }
+  let best = null;
+  let bestCount = Infinity;
+  let bestScore = -Infinity;
+  for (const hullId of hullIds) {
+    const d = empireDesign(rules, state, e, hullId);
+    if (d.damage <= 0) continue;
+    if (d.cost > budget * 15) continue;
+    const count = present[hullId] ?? 0;
+    const score = (d.hp + d.damage * 4) / d.cost;
+    if (count < bestCount || (count === bestCount && score > bestScore)) {
+      best = hullId; bestCount = count; bestScore = score;
+    }
+  }
+  // Before any weapon tech is known every hull scores damage=0 and `best`
+  // stays null — VegaAI.js's preferredWarship falls back to a bare frigate
+  // in that same situation rather than building nothing, and Fleet
+  // Production mirrors it: an empty queue every turn until the first weapon
+  // is researched would read as the focus doing nothing at all.
+  enqueue(rules, state, colony, 'ship', best ?? 'frigate');
+}
+
+const FOCUS_PICKERS = {
+  improvement: pickImprovement,
+  research: pickResearchOnly,
+  fleet: pickFleet,
+  growth: pickGrowth,
+  trade: pickTrade,
+  defense: pickDefense,
+};
+
+/**
+ * For every colony of empire `e` with a non-manual focus and an empty queue,
+ * enqueue at most one thing. Called once per human turn — see
+ * MasterOfVegaGame.js's runToHumanTurn for the exact hook point.
+ */
+export function autoQueueColonies(rules, state, e) {
+  for (const colony of empireColonies(state, e)) {
+    if (!colony.focus || colony.focus === 'manual') continue;
+    if (colony.queue.length > 0) continue;
+    FOCUS_PICKERS[colony.focus]?.(rules, state, colony);
+  }
+}
+
 export function dequeue(rules, state, colony, index) {
   if (index < 0 || index >= colony.queue.length) return false;
   colony.queue.splice(index, 1);
@@ -2047,6 +2172,8 @@ export function deserialize(json) {
     emp.fleetIntrusions ??= {};
     emp.espionageMission ??= {};
   }
+  // Same convention for a save from before Colony Focus existed.
+  for (const c of state.colonies) c.focus ??= 'manual';
   return state;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/VegaScreens.js b/src/games/mastervega/VegaScreens.js
index d611e69..fef36d7 100644
--- a/src/games/mastervega/VegaScreens.js
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/VegaScreens.js
@@ -201,7 +201,14 @@ export function openDiplomacyScreen(scene, rules, state, e, art, onClose, onChan
     const canSeek = canNegotiate(rules, state, e, other.idx);
     const b = new Button(scene, bx, y + rowH / 2 - 20, 'Seek Audience', uiClick(scene, () => {
       shell.destroy();
-      openAudienceScreen(scene, rules, state, e, other.idx, art, onClose, onChanged);
+      // Same per-race ducking runAudienceQueue does for an AI-initiated
+      // audience (MasterOfVegaGame.js) — only drop back to peace on close if
+      // nothing else is queued up behind this one.
+      scene.music?.setDiplomacy(other.speciesId);
+      openAudienceScreen(scene, rules, state, e, other.idx, art, () => {
+        if (!scene.pendingAudiences?.length) scene.music?.setDiplomacy(null);
+        onClose?.();
+      }, onChanged);
     }), { width: 200, height: 40 });
     if (!canSeek) b.setEnabled(false);
     shell.add(b);
diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/VegaStarMap.js b/src/games/mastervega/VegaStarMap.js
index 65fd516..5f06112 100644
--- a/src/games/mastervega/VegaStarMap.js
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/VegaStarMap.js
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 import * as Phaser from 'phaser';
 import { GAME_HEIGHT, GAME_WIDTH } from '../../config.js';
 import { Tooltip } from '../../ui/Tooltip.js';
+import { playSound, SFX } from '../../ui/Sounds.js';
 import { makeNebula } from './VegaNebula.js';
 import { PARSEC_PX, parsecs, mulberry32 } from './VegaGalaxyGen.js';
 import {
@@ -840,6 +841,7 @@ export default class VegaStarMap {
   applyZoom(newIndex, focusX = GAME_WIDTH / 2, focusY = GAME_HEIGHT / 2) {
     const idx = Phaser.Math.Clamp(newIndex, 0, this.zooms.length - 1);
     if (idx === this.zoomIndex) return;
+    playSound(this.scene, idx > this.zoomIndex ? SFX.VEGA_ZOOMIN : SFX.VEGA_ZOOMOUT);
     const old = this.zoom;
     const next = this.zooms[idx];
     // Keep whatever is under the cursor under the cursor.
diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/VegaSystemView.js b/src/games/mastervega/VegaSystemView.js
index ebc3d69..b918016 100644
--- a/src/games/mastervega/VegaSystemView.js
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/VegaSystemView.js
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 import * as Phaser from 'phaser';
 
 import { Button } from '../../ui/Button.js';
+import { playSound, SFX } from '../../ui/Sounds.js';
 import { modalShell, FONT, ORBIT, uiClick } from './VegaScreens.js';
 import { planetFrame, starFrame } from './VegaArt.js';
 import { openColonyView, CHANNEL_COLOUR, itemName, etaText } from './VegaColonyView.js';
@@ -303,7 +304,10 @@ export function openSystemView(scene, rules, state, starIdx, art, opts = {}) {
     // second modal while one is up — and this one has to stay up, because it is
     // what is keeping the star map behind it inert.
     y = Math.max(y + 20, shell.y + shell.height - 96);
-    console_.add(new Button(scene, panelX + panelW / 2, y + 24, 'View Colony', uiClick(scene, () => {
+    console_.add(new Button(scene, panelX + panelW / 2, y + 24, 'View Colony', () => {
+      // Not uiClick — this gets its own dedicated cue instead of the generic
+      // button click.
+      playSound(scene, SFX.VEGA_VIEWCOLONY);
       shell.layer.setVisible(false);
       tick.paused = true;
       openColonyView(scene, rules, state, colony, art, {
@@ -314,7 +318,7 @@ export function openSystemView(scene, rules, state, starIdx, art, opts = {}) {
           rebuild();
         },
       });
-    }), { width: panelW, height: 50, fontSize: 21 }));
+    }, { width: panelW, height: 50, fontSize: 21 }));
   }
 
   function select(i) {
diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/VegaTooltips.js b/src/games/mastervega/VegaTooltips.js
index 082ce7d..4996c5d 100644
--- a/src/games/mastervega/VegaTooltips.js
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/VegaTooltips.js
@@ -92,3 +92,18 @@ export function describeTechTooltip(rules, state, emp, tech) {
     ],
   };
 }
+
+// Hover tooltip for a building icon on the colony screen's icon row. `desc`
+// already reads as prose for the building's effect, so the body reuses it
+// verbatim instead of re-deriving the same numbers from the `effects` bag.
+export function describeBuildingTooltip(rules, buildingId) {
+  const b = rules.buildings[buildingId];
+  return {
+    title: b.name,
+    titleColor: COLORS.goldHex,
+    lines: [
+      { text: `${b.upkeep} BC upkeep`, color: COLORS.goldHex },
+      { text: b.desc },
+    ],
+  };
+}
diff --git a/src/scenes/PreloadScene.js b/src/scenes/PreloadScene.js
index 7409942..bb31f67 100644
--- a/src/scenes/PreloadScene.js
+++ b/src/scenes/PreloadScene.js
@@ -190,6 +190,10 @@ export default class PreloadScene extends Phaser.Scene {
     this.load.audio('sfx-vega-unit',    'assets/fx/vega-unit.mp3');
     this.load.audio('sfx-vega-view',    'assets/fx/vega-view.mp3');
     this.load.audio('sfx-vega-warp',    'assets/fx/vega-warp.mp3');
+    this.load.audio('sfx-vega-star',       'assets/fx/vega-star.mp3');
+    this.load.audio('sfx-vega-zoomin',     'assets/fx/vega-zoomin.mp3');
+    this.load.audio('sfx-vega-zoomout',    'assets/fx/vega-zoomout.mp3');
+    this.load.audio('sfx-vega-viewcolony', 'assets/fx/vega-viewcolony.mp3');
   }
 
   async create() {
diff --git a/src/ui/Sounds.js b/src/ui/Sounds.js
index fca0813..314402b 100644
--- a/src/ui/Sounds.js
+++ b/src/ui/Sounds.js
@@ -106,6 +106,10 @@ export const SFX = {
   VEGA_UNIT:             'sfx-vega-unit',
   VEGA_VIEW:             'sfx-vega-view',
   VEGA_WARP:             'sfx-vega-warp',
+  VEGA_STAR:             'sfx-vega-star',
+  VEGA_ZOOMIN:           'sfx-vega-zoomin',
+  VEGA_ZOOMOUT:          'sfx-vega-zoomout',
+  VEGA_VIEWCOLONY:       'sfx-vega-viewcolony',
 };
 
 export function playSound(scene, key) {
diff --git a/tools/verifyMasterOfVega.js b/tools/verifyMasterOfVega.js
index 94a8913..9a5206e 100644
--- a/tools/verifyMasterOfVega.js
+++ b/tools/verifyMasterOfVega.js
@@ -1501,6 +1501,50 @@ section('6. Colony economy');
       Logic.queueItemEta(RULES, st, idle, c.queue[0]) === Infinity);
   }
 
+  // --- Colony Focus autopilot: exercised directly, each focus in isolation
+  // on an empty queue. Runs before the restore below, so nothing here needs
+  // to worry about leaving the colony as it was found.
+  {
+    const c = st.colonies[0];
+    check('a freshly-founded colony defaults to manual focus',
+      st.colonies.every((col) => col.focus === 'manual'));
+
+    c.queue.length = 0;
+    c.focus = 'manual';
+    Logic.autoQueueColonies(RULES, st, c.empireIdx);
+    check('manual focus never auto-queues anything', c.queue.length === 0);
+
+    c.queue.length = 0;
+    c.focus = 'improvement';
+    Logic.autoQueueColonies(RULES, st, c.empireIdx);
+    check('colony improvement queues a building when the queue is empty',
+      c.queue.length === 1 && c.queue[0].kind === 'building', JSON.stringify(c.queue[0]));
+
+    c.queue.length = 0;
+    c.focus = 'fleet';
+    Logic.autoQueueColonies(RULES, st, c.empireIdx);
+    check('fleet production queues a warship hull',
+      c.queue.length === 1 && c.queue[0].kind === 'ship' && RULES.hulls[c.queue[0].id]?.role === 'warship',
+      c.queue[0]?.id);
+
+    // With every research building's prereq stripped, Research Focus has
+    // nothing it is allowed to queue — the queue must stay empty rather than
+    // queuing something else or throwing.
+    c.queue.length = 0;
+    c.focus = 'research';
+    const emp = st.empires[c.empireIdx];
+    const savedKnown = { ...emp.known };
+    for (const b of RULES.buildingList.filter((bb) => bb.channel === 'research')) {
+      if (b.prereq) delete emp.known[b.prereq];
+    }
+    Logic.autoQueueColonies(RULES, st, c.empireIdx);
+    check('research focus leaves the queue empty when no research buildings are available',
+      c.queue.length === 0);
+    emp.known = savedKnown;
+
+    c.focus = 'manual';
+  }
+
   colony.sliders = restore.sliders;
   colony.locked = restore.locked;
   colony.queue = restore.queue;
@@ -2294,6 +2338,9 @@ section('9. Serialisation');
   for (const emp of oldSave.empires) {
     delete emp.tradeAgreements; delete emp.lastGiftTurn; delete emp.fleetIntrusions;
   }
+  // Colony Focus follows the same convention: an old save has no `focus` at
+  // all on any colony.
+  for (const c of oldSave.colonies) delete c.focus;
   const backOld = Logic.deserialize(JSON.stringify(oldSave));
   check('an old save missing the new diplomacy fields deserializes without throwing', !!backOld);
   check('tradeAgreements is back-filled to {} on an old save',
@@ -2302,6 +2349,8 @@ section('9. Serialisation');
     backOld.empires.every((e) => JSON.stringify(e.lastGiftTurn) === '{}'));
   check('fleetIntrusions is back-filled to {} on an old save',
     backOld.empires.every((e) => JSON.stringify(e.fleetIntrusions) === '{}'));
+  check('focus is back-filled to manual on an old save',
+    backOld.colonies.every((c) => c.focus === 'manual'));
   backOld.rules = RULES;
   check('the freshly-backfilled state tolerates a full galaxy diplomacy pass', (() => {
     Diplo.runGalaxyDiplomacyPass(RULES, backOld);