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diff --git a/assets/music/vega/intro-theme.mp3 b/assets/music/vega/intro-theme.mp3
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diff --git a/assets/videos/vega/mov-intro.mp4 b/assets/videos/vega/mov-intro.mp4
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diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/MasterOfVegaGame.js b/src/games/mastervega/MasterOfVegaGame.js
index d798f82..aecc7db 100644
--- a/src/games/mastervega/MasterOfVegaGame.js
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/MasterOfVegaGame.js
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import { openResearchChoiceScreen } from './VegaResearchChoiceScreen.js';
 import { openTurnReportScreen } from './VegaTurnReportScreen.js';
 import { NOTABLE_TYPES, isRelevantToHuman } from './VegaTurnReport.js';
 import { openAudienceScreen } from './VegaAudience.js';
+import { playIntroVideo } from './VegaIntroVideo.js';
 import { claimAudienceContacts, claimFleetComplaints, canNegotiate } from './VegaDiplomacy.js';
 
 const SAVE_KEY = 'mastervega-save';
@@ -91,13 +92,25 @@ export default class MasterOfVegaGame extends Phaser.Scene {
 
     try {
       this.music = new VegaMusic(this, this.cache.json.get('masterofvega-music'));
-      this.music.setCategory('menu');
     } catch (err) { /* music is optional */ }
 
     this.events.once('shutdown', () => this.teardown());
 
-    if (this.pendingSavedState) this.beginGame(null, this.pendingSavedState);
-    else this.showLanding();
+    // A Load-slot resume drops straight into a running game and never sees a
+    // landing screen at all, so it skips the intro too — only a fresh entry
+    // plays it, right before showLanding(). The menu track waits until
+    // whichever of those actually runs: the intro clip carries its own
+    // soundtrack, and starting the menu theme underneath it would just be two
+    // tracks fighting for the same speakers.
+    if (this.pendingSavedState) {
+      this.music?.setCategory('menu');
+      this.beginGame(null, this.pendingSavedState);
+    } else {
+      playIntroVideo(this, () => {
+        this.music?.setCategory('menu');
+        this.showLanding();
+      });
+    }
   }
 
   // Wrap a menu handler so it clicks. Every button and card on the front-end
diff --git a/src/games/mastervega/VegaIntroVideo.js b/src/games/mastervega/VegaIntroVideo.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0240057
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/games/mastervega/VegaIntroVideo.js
@@ -0,0 +1,136 @@
+// Master of Vega — the full-screen studio intro that plays once, ahead of the
+// landing screen, on every fresh entry into the game (never on a Load-slot
+// resume, which drops straight into a running game and has no landing screen
+// to precede).
+//
+// Unlike every other video in this game (colonyVideos, audienceVideos, the
+// commander portrait loops — see VegaColonyIntro.js and VegaShipMedia.js),
+// this one is loaded with `noAudio: false`: the clip carries its own
+// soundtrack and there is no separate track to layer under it. It is safe to
+// autoplay with sound here specifically because reaching this scene already
+// required a user gesture (clicking the game's icon in the arcade), which is
+// what the browser's autoplay gate actually checks for.
+
+import * as Phaser from 'phaser';
+import { GAME_HEIGHT, GAME_WIDTH } from '../../config.js';
+import { FONT } from './VegaScreens.js';
+
+const INTRO_KEY = 'vega-mov-intro';
+const INTRO_PATH = 'assets/videos/vega/mov-intro.mp4';
+// Source resolution, used until the real texture decodes — see VegaArt.js's
+// sourceWidth() for why a Video's own width/height lie (a square placeholder)
+// before its first frame.
+const INTRO_SRC_W = 854;
+const INTRO_SRC_H = 480;
+
+// How long "Press any key to skip" stays up after the first press before it
+// quietly stands down (rather than skipping on its own) and waits for the
+// next one.
+const SKIP_HOLD_MS = 5000;
+
+/**
+ * Play the intro clip full-screen, then call `onDone`. The first key press or
+ * click surfaces a skip prompt; a second one inside SKIP_HOLD_MS jumps
+ * straight to `onDone`. A load failure or playback error also falls straight
+ * through to `onDone` — a missing intro is never allowed to strand the player
+ * in front of a black screen.
+ */
+export function playIntroVideo(scene, onDone) {
+  let done = false;
+  let video = null;
+  let skipArmed = false;
+  let skipTimer = null;
+  let skipText = null;
+
+  const root = scene.add.container(0, 0).setDepth(1000);
+  root.add(scene.add.rectangle(0, 0, GAME_WIDTH, GAME_HEIGHT, 0x000000, 1).setOrigin(0, 0));
+
+  const clearPrompt = () => {
+    skipTimer?.remove(false);
+    skipTimer = null;
+    skipText?.destroy();
+    skipText = null;
+    skipArmed = false;
+  };
+
+  const cleanup = () => {
+    scene.input.keyboard?.off('keydown', onInput);
+    scene.input.off('pointerdown', onInput);
+    clearPrompt();
+    video?.destroy();
+    root.destroy();
+  };
+
+  const finish = () => {
+    if (done) return;
+    done = true;
+    cleanup();
+    onDone();
+  };
+
+  // Belt-and-braces: if the scene tears down mid-clip (e.g. a hot reload),
+  // drop our own listeners and the video element without firing onDone a
+  // second time behind whatever else shutdown is already doing.
+  scene.events.once('shutdown', () => { if (!done) { done = true; cleanup(); } });
+
+  const armSkipPrompt = () => {
+    skipArmed = true;
+    skipText = scene.add.text(GAME_WIDTH / 2, GAME_HEIGHT - 96, 'Press any key to skip', {
+      fontFamily: FONT, fontSize: '28px', color: '#e8f4ff',
+    }).setOrigin(0.5).setAlpha(0);
+    root.add(skipText);
+    scene.tweens.add({ targets: skipText, alpha: 1, duration: 200 });
+    skipTimer = scene.time.delayedCall(SKIP_HOLD_MS, clearPrompt);
+  };
+
+  function onInput() {
+    if (done) return;
+    if (skipArmed) { finish(); return; }
+    armSkipPrompt();
+  }
+
+  scene.input.keyboard?.on('keydown', onInput);
+  scene.input.on('pointerdown', onInput);
+
+  const startVideo = () => {
+    video = scene.add.video(GAME_WIDTH / 2, GAME_HEIGHT / 2, INTRO_KEY);
+    video.setLoop(false);
+    video.setMute(false);
+    video.setVolume(1);
+
+    // Cover, not contain: this is meant to fill the screen edge-to-edge, and
+    // the clip's own aspect (854x480) is within a hair of the game's
+    // (1920x1080) anyway, so the crop is imperceptible.
+    const fit = () => {
+      const real = !!video.videoTexture;
+      const w = real ? video.width : INTRO_SRC_W;
+      const h = real ? video.height : INTRO_SRC_H;
+      video.setScale(Math.max(GAME_WIDTH / w, GAME_HEIGHT / h));
+    };
+    fit();
+    video.on('created', fit);
+    video.on('playing', fit);
+
+    video.once('complete', finish);
+    video.once('error', finish);
+    // Same as every other audio-bearing clip in this game (see
+    // VegaColonyIntro.js's startVideo): a browser that refuses to autoplay
+    // sound fires 'locked' and keeps retrying muted from preUpdate.
+    video.once('locked', () => { if (video?.scene) video.setMute(true); });
+
+    video.play(false);
+    root.add(video);
+  };
+
+  if (scene.cache.video?.exists(INTRO_KEY)) {
+    startVideo();
+    return;
+  }
+
+  scene.load.video(INTRO_KEY, INTRO_PATH, false);
+  scene.load.once(`filecomplete-video-${INTRO_KEY}`, () => { if (!done) startVideo(); });
+  scene.load.once(Phaser.Loader.Events.FILE_LOAD_ERROR, (file) => {
+    if (file?.key === INTRO_KEY) finish();
+  });
+  if (!scene.load.isLoading()) scene.load.start();
+}