- Add ~25 new steps: nearby stars, pan/zoom lesson, star info, fleet movement, home star/system view, colony management (allocation, focus), end turn, and the full Empire menu tour (Research, Diplomacy, Leaders, Colonies)
- Introduce hotspotAction, starPick, advanceOn modes (starPick/fleetInFlight/external), and advanceAction fields in tutorial data schema with validation
- Add VegaStarMap.fitToWorldBounds and extend pickFitZoomIndex to support a narrowed viewport area so the reachable-stars frame avoids the docked panel
- Bypass openModal gating for System View, Colony View, and Empire screens by calling their open functions directly from VegaTutorial; wire onClose/onColonyOpen callbacks to advance()
- Add tutorialFreePan flag so pan/zoom work during the free-pan step while all other map interactions stay frozen
- Add multi-target resolution (nearbyStars returns an array), invisible-shape holes, and per-star click hotspots in the tutorial overlay
- Update verification script to allow buttonless modal steps that advance via external callbacks
- New data-driven script (data/mastervega-tutorial.json) with intro modal and three callout steps over the fleet marker and side-panel ship rows/count controls.
- Split into Phaser-free VegaTutorialData.js (schema validation, interpolation, target-id registry) and Phaser VegaTutorial.js (darken overlay, accent rings, callouts, hotspot, skip confirm, state machine).
- Tutorial auto-opens on every brand-new game and is re-triggerable from the menu when the starting fleet is still in orbit; malformed JSON disables the feature with a warning instead of crashing.
- Add D.tutorial depth (just below detail) so an invited ship-detail window layers above the overlay, and expose VegaSidePanel.tutorialRegion() for screen-space panel regions.
- Register the tutorial asset in the manifest and add verifier section 12 covering schema, targets, voice clips, placeholders, and interpolation.
Brian Fertig