- New "Escort" contract type on neutral job boards (minLevel 3): the player
links a persistent transport + 1-2 escort fighters at a local waypoint,
flies them through a seeded 1-2 hop gate route to a planet/station, and
delivers with the sky clear.
- TransportShip extends NeutralShip with a lapsed break-off window and a
`persistent` flag so CombatSystem's active/neutralOnly gates skip it; the
convoy never holds the jump gate or landing door open.
- Dedicated escort EncounterDirector (9-18s rolls, 85-100% chance) fires
mixed-fighter waves ~5x more frequently than normal encounters; one wave at
a time via the patrol contact's law.
- Transport loss fails the contract; landing on a planet resets it with a
fresh rendezvous in the current system and full-armor transport, same
destination.
- 20 unique escort dossier descriptions, reward band raised to 120-175 CR.
- Three new test suites: escort.test.mjs (model), escort-flow.test.mjs
(scene flow), escort-browser.test.mjs (real browser boot + board render).
- Board postings now derive from (seed, system, world key) so two worlds in one system stand different boards; count range drops to 1–3 per world
- Posting ids gain a world segment (`sq-<sys>-<world>-<cat>-<slot>`); add `parseSideQuestId` and use it for scene lookups and claim reward reads
- `allSideQuestJobIds` now builds the job space from each system's surface worlds (planets + free-space stations) via `galaxy.ensureContent`; old per-system ids no longer stand, so in-flight contracts in pre-per-world saves drop on load (documented Path A trade)
- Surface scene passes its world name/isStation through to postings, accept, and activate; window copy updated to say "world" not "system"
- Tests updated for the new signature, per-world determinism, id parsing, and job-space guards
- Raiders now roll an attack comm on-screen (50%) or on rolling-wave arrival (20%), and a defeat comm on kill (20%), driven by per-type config in combat.json
- New bounty-attack comm fires when the wanted leader's fight stands up in GameScene._fireBountyEngagements
- Ship 12 pirate speech clips, 3 enemy video clips, and register three new senders (pirate, pirate_defeat, pirate_bounty) in comms.json
- Wire onComm seam through CombatSystem so the scene can arm CommsHub triggers; rolls are no-ops when the seam is absent
- Add combat, bounty-hunt, and comms test coverage for the new roll logic, trigger arming, asset presence, and roster count
- Include the quest's complete bit in the tracker row fingerprint so a later frame that only flips `complete` (with no check change) still triggers a repaint to READY.
- Update bounty-hunt and quest-tracker tests to pin the ordering: all legs checked while contract is still out, then COMPLETE landing on a subsequent frame with checks unchanged.
- Add station surface music tracks for spacestation variants 0 and 1 in data/music.json.
- Enable the `bounty` category in data/sidequests.json with level-2 gate,
Neutral-only contexts, encounter chain odds, and 20 written leader dossiers
- Add pure bounty model to SideQuests.js: plan derivation, wave scripts, XP,
sequential waypoint rule, and completion only via the mark's kill
- Extend combat seam (Waves/CombatSystem/EnemyShip) for a named elite unit
deployed with the opening group at scaled hull/damage, plus haltWaves() so
killing the mark stops deployments while survivors stay hostile
- Wire GameScene/SurfaceScene/JobBoardWindow for locked rows, dossier readout,
sequential check-ins, engagement chain, and single idempotent claim
- Add dev/bounty-hunts.test.mjs (591 checks) and in-browser probe with JSON/PNG
evidence; update patrol/sidequests tests for the new live category
Brian Fertig