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+/**
+ * The 'Special Delivery' payoff seam test (dev tool, run with Node — no
+ * browser):
+ *
+ *   node dev/delivery-launch.test.mjs
+ *
+ * The launch-after-sale beat (data/comms.json → trigger 'deliveredLaunch'
+ * — carol-delivered-1/2/3 → oac-delivered-1, the four ack comms the
+ * player gets when they LAUNCH after selling the special package on the
+ * home world): the scene-side seam is GameScene.onSurfaceDeparture
+ * (SurfaceScene.finishTakeoff → it), which arms the chain when the run's
+ * delivery witness (story.delivered — set by the shop's CONFIRM of the
+ * package's sale, GameScene.onQuestPackageSold) stands. The comms' own
+ * once-ledger (js/comms/CommsHub.js) keeps the chain a one-shot, so the
+ * seam may arm on every post-delivery departure — a later re-arm is a
+ * no-op. Pinned here:
+ *   - a post-delivery departure arms 'deliveredLaunch' exactly once
+ *     (from any world — the sale's world is the home world, not the
+ *     capital);
+ *   - a pre-delivery departure arms nothing;
+ *   - the capital leg still stands alongside the new arm (the departure
+ *     records launchedFromCapital, routes the compass home, and refreshes
+ *     the quest ledger — the pre-existing behavior this beat rides on);
+ *   - the defensive no-op (already at home) still leaves the arm in place.
+ * (The config side of the same beat — the roster, the chain's order, and
+ * the verbatim text — is pinned in dev/comms.test.mjs.)
+ */
+// GameScene.onSurfaceDeparture arms 'deliveredLaunch' when story.delivered
+// stands, keeps the capital leg, and stays quiet otherwise.
+import { pathToFileURL } from 'node:url';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+import { dirname, join } from 'node:path';
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+
+const __dirname = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const root = join(__dirname, '..');
+
+class RectStub {
+  constructor(x = 0, y = 0, w = 0, h = 0) { this.x = x; this.y = y; this.width = w; this.height = h; }
+  contains(px, py) { return px >= this.x && px <= this.x + this.width && py >= this.y && py <= this.y + this.height; }
+  static Contains(r, px, py) { return r.contains(px, py); }
+}
+class ContainerStub {
+  constructor(scene) { this.scene = scene; this.childrenList = []; }
+  add() { return this; } setVisible() { return this; } setAlpha() { return this; }
+  setScale() { return this; } setDepth() { return this; } setScrollFactor() { return this; }
+  setPosition() { return this; } destroy() { return this; }
+}
+const ClassStub = class {};
+const PhaserStub = {
+  Scene: ClassStub,
+  Physics: { Arcade: { Sprite: ClassStub } },
+  GameObjects: { Sprite: ClassStub, Container: ContainerStub, Image: ClassStub, Text: ClassStub },
+  Geom: { Rectangle: RectStub },
+  Display: { Color: { ValueToColor: (v) => ({ color: parseInt(String(v).slice(1), 16) }) } },
+  Filters: { Controller: class {} },
+  Renderer: { WebGL: { RenderNodes: { BaseFilterShader: class {} } } },
+  Math: { Linear: (a, b, t) => a + (b - a) * t, FloatBetween: (a, b) => a, Angle: { Wrap: (a) => a }, Clamp: (v, lo, hi) => Math.min(hi, Math.max(lo, v)) },
+  BlendModes: { ADD: 2 },
+};
+globalThis.window = { Phaser: PhaserStub };
+
+const { config } = await import(pathToFileURL(join(root, 'js/config/Config.js')).href);
+const dataDir = join(root, 'data');
+const configData = {};
+for (const f of fs.readdirSync(dataDir)) {
+  if (!f.endsWith('.json') || f === 'manifest.json') continue;
+  configData[f.replace(/\.json$/i, '')] = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(join(dataDir, f), 'utf8'));
+}
+config.init(configData);
+
+const { GameScene } = await import(pathToFileURL(join(root, 'js/scenes/GameScene.js')).href);
+
+let failures = 0;
+const check = (label, cond) => { console.log(`${cond ? '✔' : '✘ FAIL'}  ${label}`); if (!cond) failures++; };
+
+function makeScene({ delivered, capital = true }) {
+  const scene = Object.create(GameScene.prototype);
+  scene.triggers = [];
+  scene.comms = { trigger: (n) => { scene.triggers.push(n); } };
+  scene.galaxy = capital
+    ? { homeSystemId: 'sys-home', neutralCapitalTarget: () => ({ systemId: 'sys-cap', objectId: 'CapitalWorld' }) }
+    : { homeSystemId: 'sys-home', neutralCapitalTarget: () => ({ systemId: 'sys-cap', objectId: 'CapitalWorld' }) };
+  scene.systemRecord = { id: 'sys-elsewhere' };
+  scene.story = delivered ? { delivered: true, launchedFromCapital: false } : { delivered: false, launchedFromCapital: false };
+  scene.setDestination = (id, via) => { scene.destination = { id, via }; };
+  scene.questRefreshes = 0;
+  scene._questRefresh = () => { scene.questRefreshes++; };
+  return scene;
+}
+
+// 1 — post-delivery departure (any world): the payoff chain arms
+{
+  const s = makeScene({ delivered: true });
+  s.onSurfaceDeparture('SomePlanet');
+  check('delivered departure arms deliveredLaunch', JSON.stringify(s.triggers) === JSON.stringify(['deliveredLaunch']));
+  check('delivered departure (non-capital) does not claim the capital leg', s.story.launchedFromCapital === false);
+}
+
+// 2 — not delivered: no arm
+{
+  const s = makeScene({ delivered: false });
+  s.onSurfaceDeparture('SomePlanet');
+  check('pre-delivery departure arms nothing', s.triggers.length === 0);
+}
+
+// 3 — capital leg still stands (the old behavior, alongside the new arm)
+{
+  const s = makeScene({ delivered: true });
+  s.onSurfaceDeparture('CapitalWorld');
+  check('capital departure still arms deliveredLaunch (once)', JSON.stringify(s.triggers) === JSON.stringify(['deliveredLaunch']));
+  check('capital departure still records the leg', s.story.launchedFromCapital === true);
+  check('capital departure still routes home', JSON.stringify(s.destination) === JSON.stringify({ id: 'sys-home', via: 'home' }));
+  check('capital departure still refreshes the quest ledger', s.questRefreshes === 1);
+}
+
+// 4 — already home: the arm still fires (the player left home), the leg is a no-op
+{
+  const s = makeScene({ delivered: true });
+  s.systemRecord = { id: 'sys-home' };
+  s.onSurfaceDeparture('CapitalWorld');
+  check('home-departure arms deliveredLaunch', JSON.stringify(s.triggers) === JSON.stringify(['deliveredLaunch']));
+  check('home-departure sets no destination (defensive no-op)', s.destination === undefined);
+}
+
+if (failures > 0) { console.error(`\n${failures} delivery-launch check(s) failed`); process.exit(1); }
+console.log('\ndelivery-launch: all checks passed');