- BUILT rows are now lit — accent fill, glow ring, icon halo, and a
stamped seal — so installed upgrades read as done at a glance.
- The readout now names the world a build was actually installed on
(new BuildState.builtOn): ship upgrades show "SHIP-WIDE · INSTALLED
FROM KEPLER-186F" instead of the planet the console sits on.
- BUILT outranks BUSY, so an installed upgrade no longer reads as
waiting while another build is in flight; its cost line reads PAID.
- Category tabs gain progress pips: filled = built, pulsing = in
progress, hollow = not yet.
- Dev-only headless harness (dev/build-shot.html/.mjs) boots the game
and stages the full row-state matrix for one-frame screenshots.
- Refresh the planet sheet artwork (planets.png/.psd).
Branch sizes are inherently skewed; previously only the cap (median quota)
applied, so a small faction could start with a one-system sliver.
- FLOOR (balance.minTerritory, data/factions.json): a faction below the
floor absorbs the nearest unowned eligible overflow first, then the
richest faction's least-core systems — territory stays contiguous; a
tiny galaxy with too few eligible systems is best-effort.
- Territory is now tracked per faction: g.factions.factionTerritories is
the truth, the branch view is derived; capitals are placed inside the
faction's post-floor territory, so a faction built entirely from
borrowed space still gets its seat in its own territory.
- The galaxy plate rings EVERY star: faction color for territory, neutral
silver for wild space (home included) — the ring color is the
ownership read at a glance.
- dev/factions.test.mjs now checks the floor, cap, disjointness, and
branch-view invariants; new throwaway diagnostics
dev/faction-balance.diag.mjs / dev/faction-sweep.diag.mjs sweep seeds
for the invariants + determinism.
- Key the lane/region colors and draw the faction rings/capital
seat in the GALAXY legend, live from factions.json
- Name a hovered star's standing in the tooltip: territory,
capital, or wild space
- Add a dev screenshot harness to smoke-test the legend and
tooltip
- Play a soft thunder SFX (sfx_thunder_01..04 at volume 0.35) on the
strobe's 0→>0 edge, once per strike; mid-strobe frames stay silent.
- Move `wasOn` latch after the thunder check so it reflects the previous
frame's state (fixes arm-frame and edge detection).
- Add `thunder: false` config to silence the voice while keeping the bolt.
- Cover with tests: arm frame silent, one clap per strike, mute path.
- New NebulaLightning visual: jagged edge-to-edge bolt with branches,
strobed in the gas base/accent colors, plus a soft distant thunder clap
- Pure seeded math (boltStrobe, strikeCycle, boltShape) in SystemEffectsMath,
Node-tested for determinism and shape correctness
- Wired into GameScene create/update/destroy lifecycle
- Config block in data/systems.json types.nebula.effect.lightning; docs
updated with tuning notes and smoke-game probe (?lightning=1&forceStrike=1)
- Add `front` block to game.json: depth-11 clouds above the ship (parallax > 1) that drift past the player, creating a "flying through" feel vs. the back layer at depth 3
- Implement `shiftHue` in Color.js to derive the front accent from the system's base atmosphere color (hue rotation + lightness lift), making every nebula a stable two-tone gas
- Refactor NebulaAtmosphere into a data-driven layer array with per-layer depth/tint/parallax/drift; extract `spawnCloud` helper; scale swirl speed by configurable drift
- Add 21 new test checks covering accent math (hue delta, identity, white/black preservation, all 8 palette shades) and two-layer structure (depths, tints, parallax ranges, wrapping, destroy, revert path)
- Stub `Phaser.Math.Between`/`FloatBetween` in phaser-stub for Node tests
- Update PROJECT_NOTES.md to document the two-layer model, accent derivation, and new tuning knobs
- Branch sizes are inherently skewed and a branch IS its faction's
territory, so without a cap one faction would dominate the start.
- Each branch now keeps only min(eligible, quota) of its eligible
middle systems, closest to the middle band (|d−0.5|, index tiebreak);
quota = the median of the three branches' eligible sizes. The big
branch's overflow stays neutral wild space; a small branch keeps all.
- Expose g.factions.quota and g.factions.territories for the map's
territory-region fill.
- Add tests verifying the quota, kept-set membership, near-equal
faction sizes, and no-faction-outruns-typical-branch invariants.
- Fix landing.json: entry 4 now references ice assets (was mislabeled
lava land with ice clips); entry 5 uses lava-land-02 + lava surface/
takeoff clips.
- Add original art asset lava-shop-02.png and update docs to describe
the balance rule.
- Assign each jump-tree branch a faction (apex/mindweave/zenith) with seeded
shuffle; territory = depth 2..maxDepth-1 per branch, ring + tips stay neutral
- Designate four capital worlds (neutral + one per faction) as the outermost
planet of their system, with fixed frames 18-21 and faction-owned settlements
- Add cross-branch bridge gates in the middle belt so factions can reach each
other without routing through the trunk; Dijkstra picks the shorter route
- Introduce arid planet class (always habitable, settles as colony) across all
system types with rebalanced class weights
- Wire Trestle's last brief to auto-set destination to the neutral capital on
acknowledgment (CommsHub onEnd → GameScene._commEnded)
- Render faction ring layer + capital seat marks on the galaxy plate; style
bridge lanes distinctly from trunk edges
- Populate settlement owner from system faction (reputation seam now live);
SystemReport reads faction label/color
- Add dev/factions.test.mjs covering config, branches, capitals, territory,
arid, bridges, determinism; update existing tests for new invariants
- New second main quest "Leaving the Nest" (data/quests.json) that unlocks when the starter quest's reward is claimed, with four checks: system charted, gates activated, Trestle talked, Trestle met
- Quest unlock chain in QuestState (isUnlockMet / grantUnlocked) and GameScene._grantUnlockedQuests — grants on claim + scene create for loaded saves, announces via SFX, OAC quest-grant voice (new oac-quest-new comm), and NEW QUEST toast
- Trestle story beats: three-brief ACK sequence (trestle-brief-1/2/3, trigger trestleBrief) armed when home jumpgates go online, and arrival beat (trestle-arrive, trigger trestleArrival) on landing in a neighbor system; CommsHub gains onStart hook so the played-ledger marks feed quest checks live
- Quest check types: systemCharted, gatesActivated, trestleTalked, trestleMet — evaluated in GameScene._questCheckEval / _trestleCheck against the comms played-ledger (survives reloads; mid-sequence quit re-arms only unplayed beats)
- System-complete milestone moved from research completion to the chart-completing discovery (celebrateDiscovery), one fire per system via _systemCompleteSeen set
- QuestTrackerHud READY state: completed-unclaimed rows turn amber with breathing tint, percent reads "READY" (bold), one-shot flash + diamond burst on flip, CLAIM REWARD button in row popup claims in place; silent when tracker is slid off (toast + chime carry it)
- New speech clips (trestle q2-01/02/03), lava-takeoff video, updated lava-land video, renamed lava-planet image, new laval-surface image
- Dev: quest-ready.html/mjs capture harness for the READY state shot; tests updated across comms, quests, quest-tracker, and system-hud suites
- data/tether.json: new edgeMargin (512 px) — a no-man's-land band around
every tether rim where NO object sits: discoverable objects are clearly
inside a tether region (d ≤ radius − edgeMargin) or clearly outside
(d ≥ radius + edgeMargin), never at the edge (the 'scan doesn't find it
at the boundary' case)
- SystemGenerator.layoutSystem: the regular N-gon ring (chords put 2- and
3-object systems past level 2, spread 4-/5-object systems too thin) is
replaced by a compact ARC at one orbital radius — consecutive objects a
level-1 tether apart (≤ L1 − edgeMargin — a level-1 chain walks the
whole system), every other pair off both tether rims (the level-2
graph is connected — level 2 DEFINITELY discovers; level 3 never
required); minSpacing now bounds star/home-world→object only,
neighborMin (2048) is the planet↔planet floor; the step angle is a
deterministic scan (safe-α) landing the gap near a seeded target
- home world IS a tether anchor: its orbital radius caps at
L2 − edgeMargin (9728 px); its objects sit 6400–9728 (level-2 zone by
design — the bootstrap tether), chained to each other at level 1
- gates: anchorMaxDistance 4990 → 4608 (= L1 − edgeMargin) so no gate
sits at the level-1 rim either (still < 5000, Rule 1); candidate
ordering is now side > rim-bands > facing tier > order
- Tether.contains: 1 px rim tolerance (a center exactly on the boundary
counts as inside — float safety on top of the layout margin)
- asteroid placement tetherMargin 96 → 512 (aligned with edgeMargin)
- dev/system-layout.test.mjs (new): level-1 chain, level-2 connectivity,
edge margin, orbital band, same-seed determinism — 90-system galaxies,
all green; discovery/jumps/audit tests + PROJECT_NOTES follow the rules
- Replace the fixed level-1 tether radius (5120 px) with a configurable
`anchorMinDistance`/`anchorMaxDistance` band (default 3500–4990), capped by
the tether range, so gate distance from its planet varies per gate while
staying strictly < 5000 px.
- Generate candidate positions on 8 discrete radius steps spanning the band;
a seeded preferred step orders them and clearance/gap pressure only pushes
the gate outward from its preference.
- Update the tether check in `dev/jumps.test.mjs` to assert the gate sits
within the anchor band rather than merely under the tether radius, and use
the band max for facing-side calculations.
- Update `dev/tether-rules.audit.mjs` Rule 1 to verify < 5000 px and report
the distribution of gate→anchor distances across the band.
- Refresh comments in `data/gates.json`, `docs/PROJECT_NOTES.md`, and
`SystemGenerator.js` to describe the new band-based placement.
- Introduce the oac-system-complete visual comm that fires on the
'systemComplete' trigger when a system's jumpgate research unlocks,
arming before the generic researchComplete sign-off so the FIFO plays
specific -> generic.
- Support an optional audioPool list of speech clips in CommsModel; the
hub picks one at random per arm so only the chosen clip is fetched and
cached, with validation that audio comms need a clip or pool.
- Wire GameScene to trigger systemComplete on activateGates when the
system nav chart is complete.
- Update comms tests for the new comm, pool normalization/asset rolling,
roster counts, and add a tether-rules audit script plus station shop
video references and lava assets.
- New js/galaxy/TypeSystems.js: parseTypeSpec + pickPreviewSystem rank the seeded galaxy richest-first, exact face always beats a reskin fallback, optional ?fx= type filter.
- GameScene reads ?type=<class>[-NN] / ss[-NN], spawns the ship beside the target world/station, anchors its landing tether, and reskins the sheet frame when no world wears it so landing clips + surface loop follow.
- dev/type-preview.test.mjs exercises parsing, real-galaxy picks (exact/reskin/determinism/filter), crafted ranking, and bad inputs in bare Node.
- Smoke boot registers SurfaceScene alongside GameScene since the landing flow launches it on top of the flight scene.
- Play thunder claps on habitable storm strikes, solar-flare SFX on red
dwarf flare onset, and solar-buzz on binary light-trade midpoint
crossings, all via the shared Sfx voice (new playSfxOneOfOn helper)
- Add per-context music volume overrides (music.volumes) so each context
can deviate from the global mix; menu ships at full volume
- Expand surface music frames to cover rocky and ice worlds (frames 6-11)
- Teardown per-system effect layers on scene restart (jump) so a previous
system's storm doesn't keep striking and playing thunder in the new one
- Update planets.png sheet, add gasgiant-03/rocky-01/rocky-02 tracks, and
register the new SFX assets in GameScene preload
- Slot cards: fit content lines to card width (wrap, shrink, ellipsize)
and stack them by measured height so long names no longer spill into
neighbouring slots; bump fill opacity to reduce bleed-through.
- SavePanel open choreography now lands only after every card stagger
and footer rise complete — the old state-gated loop dropped row 2.
- Move feedback toast inside the panel on the subtitle line, hiding the
header while it shows (old spot collided with the O.A.C. comms box).
- ConfirmOverlay: reset to base size each show, fit title/body text into
the plate before laying out, and make the body fully opaque so card
text no longer bleeds through.
- Add dev screenshot harness (save-shot.html/mjs) and extend the saves
UI test with overflow, stagger-completion, and toast-position checks.
- Update planet sprites and add/refresh SFX + music assets.
- ensureLandingTether runs before SurfaceScene launch so the surface HUD
already reads Tether Level 1; free + instant, no console step
- Extend tether lookups (_applyBuildEffects, tetherLevelFor,
_rematerializeBuiltTethers, applyRestore) to include systemStations so
station tethers anchor, level up, and re-anchor like planets'
- Idempotent: home seed, existing build record, or an already-hosted
tether all short-circuit; adopt rather than double-anchor
- tether-l1 targets now ["planet", "station"]; update descriptions in
builds.json, README, PROJECT_NOTES
- Reorder MapWindow tabs to CURRENT SYSTEM / GALAXY / SYSTEM (galaxy is
the live middle tab) and keep SYSTEM as the armed standby target
- The Trestle intro comm now fires on the first discovered world (the
starter quest's own witness, `discoveredWorldCount`) instead of the
first planet in a foreign system, so the comm and the quest can never
drift; delayMs drops to 0 so it lands at the moment of discovery.
- The scene's `busy()` contract is now comm-type-aware: audio-only comms
(voice, no box, no pause) ride over in-progress actions like mining or
a scan sweep, while ack/visual comms still wait; modal windows and a
jump in flight block every type.
- Add the `comms-mine` dev harness that walks the type-aware busy
contract (free scene → real mining → audio comm mid-mining → jump) and
update the trestle dev scripts/tests to the new trigger and witness.
- Arm the pair on scene-create for loaded saves that already hold
discovered worlds, and widen the cdp-shot ready dump.
- Add ice-shop art/video assets.
- Introduce the `firstForeignPlanet` trigger: when the player discovers a planet in a non-home system, Trestle (new out-of-system mentor character) delivers a two-part ack comm pair (meetup + quest claim), with dedicated video and speech assets.
- Make audio cache keys folder-scoped so characters with identically-named clips (e.g. both having `intro-01.mp3`) don't collide in the loader.
- Add an amber pulsing attention cue (halo + staggered sonar rings) on the ACKNOWLEDGE button for ack comms, driven per-frame from CommsBox.update().
- Put the ActionBar deck into a standby state while an ack comm holds: slots go inert (no hover/press), dimmed visually; re-arms when the comm ends. GameScene wires this via `actionBar.setEnabled()` each frame based on `comms.paused`.
- Extend MenuButton to accept a custom border color so the ACK button can wear the box's amber against the cyan UI.
- Add dev self-check harnesses (`comms-trestle.mjs`, `comms-trestle-hold.mjs`) and update existing tests to cover the new pair, folder-scoped keys, deck standby behavior, and pulse animation.
- Disable browser module caching in CDP probe/shot scripts to avoid stale ES modules shadowing on-disk changes during dev testing.
- Wire 10 new comm beats (oac-tether, oac-scan, oac-upgrade, oac-minerals,
oac-fly-mine, oac-first-cluster, oac-research-complete, oac-tether2,
oac-relaunch, oac-explore) into data/comms.json with their triggers,
speech clips, and FIFO ordering
- Add trigger arming in GameScene (firstScan, tetherResearch, firstCluster,
minerals200, researchComplete) and SurfaceScene (tetherL2Launch)
- Make CommsHub.trigger idempotent so a double-click can't queue the same
comm twice
- Fix landing.json to use ice-surface-02/03.mp4 instead of rocky variants;
add the two new ice-surface videos and an ice-shop image
- Add speech clips intro-05 through intro-10 and research-complete
- Expand dev/comms-intro.mjs into a full 10-step walkthrough self-check,
add dev/comms-upgrade-hold page for screenshotting the longest comm, and
update dev/comms.test.mjs to cover the new roster
- Use fixed short button copy for the gates tech ("Unlock Jumpgates") and mining nodes (drop "Mining" prefix) since the tree node has no room for system names or category words
- Raise detail panel height and widen node/button plates so long descriptions and status labels stop bleeding past plate edges
- Add word-wrap to the unlocks line and trim redundant status prefixes ("RESEARCH CONSOLE STANDBY", "PROJECT COMPLETE")
- Fix ice-surface-01 video reference in landing.json (was pointing at rocky-surface)
- Add OAC speech clips and ice surface video asset; update planets.psd
- Tighten tether research descriptions to match the new short-copy style
- Fire a one-shot ignition (expanding rings, edge pulse, child flares) when a project completes; queue it if the console is closed or on another tab, dropping stale events after 15s
- Add per-tech progress pips on each category tab showing done/in-progress/not-yet states, with a pulse on the active one
- Light up unlocked nodes with an accent glow ring, icon halo, and a stamped seal glyph replacing the plain checkmark
- Add dev harnesses for screenshotting the live completion treatment and verifying the queued-celebration path
- Add `startingSystem.type` config (default "main") that overrides the zone-mixed roll at roster build in Galaxy.js
- Update SystemGenerator doc comment to note the home star class now rolls from the main-sequence table (G/K/M)
- Add tests asserting the starting system is always type "main" across all policies
- Update data/galaxy.json comment and PROJECT_NOTES.md to document the new rule
- New StormLayer renders purple cloud clusters with a seeded charge → strike → afterglow envelope in the upper sky, using sprite compositing (back/flash/front trios) rather than shaders
- Add `stormEnvelope` + `sstep01` to SystemEffectsMath.js; refactor NebulaAtmosphere's cloud shape into a shared `cloudAlpha` used by both `drawCloud` and the storm's flash texture
- Extend EmberField with optional per-spark twinkle (rate/depth) so habitable fireflies pulse while redDwarf embers stay steady
- Wire StormLayer create/update/destroy into GameScene alongside the other content effects
- Populate `types.habitable.effect` in systems.json with grade, void, particles, and storm blocks; update landing.json to use ice land/takeoff videos for slots 02 and 03
- Add 7 new test checks covering the storm envelope math, habitable data contract, bundle sanity, and facade apply(); bump live types from three to four
- Add VoidBase content layer (neutral dark+grit surface at depth -1) so the
grade shader's two-light shadow lift can paint amber/azure onto the void
(the clear color bypasses filters)
- Extend grade shader with uLift2* and uBreath uniforms: side A glows color 1,
side B glows color 2 across the seeded axis, with a slow sinusoidal trade
- Wire breath period/depth from config into per-frame update()
- Rework WandererStar to anchor to the camera view each frame (wrap-in +
parallax trail) so it stays visible in the sky regardless of ship travel;
increase default core/halo sizes for a more present companion star
- Update systems.json binary effect with lift, breath, void config and larger
wanderer sizes
- Add test coverage for the new two-light lift, breath animation, and shader
uniform declarations (59 checks total)
- Replace the single `kind: ripple|none` effect with optional per-type blocks (ripple, grade, flare, haze, particles, wanderer) so each archetype wears exactly what it lists
- Add redDwarf visual identity: super-subtle star-anchored ripple that surges on a seeded flare, warm color grade with shadow lift + grain, a gritty red haze behind the stars, and drifting ember dust
- Add binary visual identity: two-color directional split grade plus a wandering companion star (no ripple)
- Generalize the ripple shader/filter to up to two orbiting centers and drive both the ripple amplitude and the grade flash from one shared flare signal
- Stamp per-system fx variation (phase/angle/drift) in SystemGenerator so each system's flare rhythm, split axis, and wanderer path are stable but distinct
- Add EmberField, RedHaze, WandererStar content layers wired into GameScene create/update/shutdown
- Update the data contract, 57-check test suite, project notes, and landing/systems JSON; add ice landing/takeoff video assets
- Nebula gas layer: soft coloured cloud sprites at depth 3, tinted with a
per-system palette color assigned deterministically at galaxy generation
(SystemGenerator stamps content.atmosphere.color). Only nebula-type
systems render it; all other types are untouched.
- Ripple effect: a full-screen WebGL composite on the world camera that
displaces the starfield and world objects while the HUD stays crisp via
a new UI/world camera split (UiCameras.js). Data-driven per archetype in
data/systems.json (nebula = ripple, all others = none). Canvas fallback
degrades to no effect.
- Demo mode: ?fx=<type> URL param retargets the run to the richest system
of that archetype, fully charted with all gates active, for judging the
effect in isolation.
- New ice and lava planet art (slots 9–14 in planets.png) replacing the
placeholder terran/rocky/gas reuse.
- Node test suites for the nebula palette/determinism/cloud texture and
the ripple math/data contract/shader/facade (50+ checks, bare Node).
- Replace the square star field with a wide (width × height) field whose
aspect matches the map plate, so the fully-zoomed-out galaxy fills the
plate instead of letterboxing; recompute zone edges for equal-area thirds
under the new diagonal CDF.
- Add fitPadded() in SystemChart.js and use it in GalaxyView.js to frame
the galaxy as a true rectangle fit with a plate-pixel margin, replacing
the old world-unit padding that left stars on the plate edge.
- Rework the JumpNetwork spanning-tree heuristic to "save the stranded
first" (attach the candidate with the fewest unvisited non-barren
neighbors) and strengthen the repair pass: never attach to barren nodes,
guard swaps against cycles via inSubtree(), and add a last-resort
fallback that preserves strong connectivity.
- Update tests (galaxy.test.mjs, system-chart.test.mjs) for the field
bounds and the new fitPadded behavior; refresh README, PROJECT_NOTES,
and data comments to document the 2:1 field and platePadding knob.
- Replace the sparse disk (radius, flatten, spiral arms, per-type radiusBand)
with a seeded square domain placed by Bridson Poisson-disk sampling for
even, organic star spacing (no clumps/voids).
- Add a home→far difficulty axis: each record now carries `d` (0 at the home
corner, 1 at the opposite corner) and a named zone; type distribution is
mixed per zone via `distribution.zoneMix` instead of radial bands.
- Move the starting system to the star nearest the configured corner
(`startingSystem.policy: "corner"`, default SE / lower right), with
`center` and `random` policies still supported.
- Increase default system count from 60 to 90 and retune settlement density
gradient, landing video slots, and test expectations to the new layout.
- Mining now fires `onDepleted` when a cluster's last rock is consumed; GameScene splices the depleted cluster out of world entities, solids, content record, and map chart, then records its id for persistence
- SaveData captures/restores `depletedClusters` so mined-out fields stay gone across save/load (legacy saves default to empty set)
- Change station compass color from red (#ff4d5e) to bright purple (#c84dff) in data and all UI references
- ResearchWindow: thicken tech-tree edges to 3px core + wide glow, add crawling dash animation on unpowered links, endpoint socket dots, and a comet-trail pulse on powered edges
- New QuestTrackerHud component slides in below the system dossier once it folds, showing active quests (main story first) with a live progress checklist under the priority quest
- Priority quest: player can set/clear via row popup or console; auto-assigns to first active story quest; cleared state sticks until a grant or claim re-arms it
- QuestWindow gains SET PRIORITY / CLEAR PRIORITY controls and openAt() to land on a specific quest (used by SHOW MORE / VIEW QUEST)
- GameScene wires the tracker into the dossier lifecycle: hidden while expanded, slides out before expand, slides in on collapse; pointerdown contract prevents world clicks from leaking through rows and popups
- SurfaceScene delegates priority changes to the sleeping GameScene's ledger
- QuestState serializes/deserializes priority + cleared flag for save round-trips
- quests.json gains a tracker section (title, maxVisible, slideMs, toast configs)
- New dev/quest-tracker.test.mjs pins the full contract; dev/quests.test.mjs extended with priority and tracker-knob checks; system-hud test updated for the extra tracker elements
- SystemReport now returns a tight {title, subtitle, faction, population, status} shape instead of per-settlement/gate line lists; the HUD shows only the name, "<Type> system · star <class>", and "Faction: Neutral · Pop ~X" (or "Unclaimed").
- Drop the settlements/gates/summary/seed lines from the GameScene HUD render and update the decode/collapse docs to the new two-line layout.
- Fix planet kindLabel lookup to key on rec.class instead of rec.name so the comms/surface panels don't repeat the proper name.
- Update asteroid, galaxy, and system-hud tests plus PROJECT_NOTES to match the compact report shape.
- Treat k <= -1 as "other zone contains this rim" so a level-1 gate
tether at exactly the level-2 anchor's range no longer draws a spurious
full circle inside the union.
- Update doc comment to clarify external vs internal tangency cases.
- Add regression tests covering the d + rInner = rOuter boundary case.
- Add spacestation music and surface video assets.
- Use `video.resume()` instead of `video.play()` in Build, Map, Quest,
and Research windows: Phaser v4's `play()` is a no-op after `pause()`
because the `_playCalled` flag stays true, leaving the feed frozen
after close → reopen. `resume()` handles both first open and re-open.
- Play the 'construct' SFX when the planet HUD lines start their
scramble-decode animation in SurfaceScene.
- Drop the empty "reserved" slot from both the flight and surface decks so every slot is a live button
- Update GameScene docstring to list the actual six slots (Research, Scan, Ship, Quests, Map, Menu)
- Add original screenshot assets for scene 01 interiors
- Introduce QuestState ledger (granted/claimed ids) persisted via SaveData, with safe fromJSON validation that drops unknown ids and enforces claimed ⊆ granted
- Define the starter quest "Start Your Journey" in data/quests.json with four live checks: research node, lifetime asteroid mining, home tether level, and discovered world count
- Add totalMined counter tracked on each ore event to support the mining requirement independently of cargo hold
- Build QuestWindow (full-screen console at depth 80) with video feed, category tabs (Main Story live, Side Quests standby), quest list, detail plate with checklist and CLAIM REWARD action
- Wire QUESTS slot into both flight and surface command decks right of SHIP; SurfaceScene delegates snapshot/claim to the sleeping GameScene while rendering its own console notes
- Grant starter quest on first boot with delayed toast; announce "QUEST READY" once per quest when all checks complete
- Update research-builds tests for seven-slot deck layout; add dev/quests.test.mjs covering data contract, ledger behavior, save round-trip, and deck slot placement
- Introduce StationFrames.js galaxy-wide pass that spreads spacestations.png
variant frames across the galaxy, avoiding collisions among neighbor stars
- Stamp settlement.stationFrame in SystemGenerator so content carries the
assigned variant (lazy === eager)
- Render deep-space stations from the spritesheet when available; keep
procedural fallback for waypoints and missing textures
- Extend comms target with isStation/frame and allow REQUEST LANDING on
deep-space stations, passing station flag into SurfaceScene
- Add landing.stationVideos entries and music.stationFrames slots keyed by
variant frame; surface/shop clips degrade gracefully until authored
- Add dev tooling: station-shot page/runner for world/panel/land/deck states
and a Node test asserting variant spread beats naive random assignment
- Draw the active SET DESTINATION path in orange on galaxy lanes and circle the destination star with a breathing ring
- On the current-system chart, circle the destination object when it is in this system, or show the route exit gate plus a dashed ship-to-gate line when the destination is elsewhere
- Carry `route` edge keys and `destinationId` through `buildGalaxySnapshot`, `mapChartSnapshot`, and `systemChartSnapshotFor` so views can render the course
- Add dev screenshot harnesses (route-shot, exit-gate-shot) and extend galaxy-map tests to cover route/destination flags
- Document the new visualization in PROJECT_NOTES.md and add a takeoff video asset
- In the destination system, the orange compass arrow now points at the
destination OBJECT (not just the next gate), so the "where to fly next"
marker persists across the last hop into the system.
- Add `_checkDestinationReached` per-frame check: clears the destination and
fires REACHED only when the ship is within the object's keep-out rim,
replacing the old jump-time clear for destinations with a specific object.
- Route compass entries (`route:`/`dest:` ids) are now resolvable by
`autopilotTo`, fixing the ship aiming at the star instead of the gate.
- New `alwaysFull` flag on compass targets keeps route waypoints at full
readout (arrow + type + name) regardless of distance; add tests.
- Add `route.destTypeLabel` config key and update docs/PROJECT_NOTES.md.
- New `js/galaxy/Route.js` derives the unique path between systems over the spanning-tree jump network (Dijkstra), exposing `planRoute` / `nextSystem`; pure and Node-tested in `dev/route.test.mjs`.
- Persist only the destination (`systemId`, `objectId`) in save data; the route itself is recomputed from the current system, so following it shortens automatically and a detour re-plots.
- Compass marks the route's next gate in orange (shown even while undiscovered) and suppresses that gate's ordinary cyan entry.
- On jump, resolve arrival / on-course / detour before `captureState` and queue REACHED / RE-PLOTTED notices to surface after the destination scene spawns.
- Map console SYSTEM tab now charts a charted star's system; confirming an object sets the destination and closes the map.
- Fix galaxy stars bleeding through the system chart: plate culling respects overall visibility, fog skips when no tethers anchor it, and the boot reveal finalizes to full alpha on tab switch.
- Add `assets/videos/ss-land-03.mp4` and document the route feature in PROJECT_NOTES.
- Add per-show width/height overrides so the SYSTEM tab's longer
"SET DESTINATION" label gets a wider dialog than AUTOPILOT's ENGAGE
- Grow each button panel to fit its label (_fitBtn) and re-flow title,
body and buttons into the bottom band (_layout) instead of using fixed
positions that let long text run past the panel edge
- Record baseWidth so a grown button never stays wide for the next dialog
- Wire map.json systemConfirm/confirm size config through MapWindow
- Add ss-takeoff-02.mp4 asset
- New "System" socket in MapWindow: a charted star's chart drawn by the
same painter as Current System (no ship/tethers), armed until the player
picks that star on the Galaxy tab, then wakes with its map.
- Galaxy tab click flow changes: a visited star opens its chart in the
System tab (onStarOpen) instead of confirming a jump; uncharted stars
are readouts only and a lit lane to an uncharted star pops nothing.
- Zoom-bloom star art (GalaxyChart.starArtSpec + GalaxyView blit):
diffraction spikes, per-type crowns (granulation, prominences, binary
companion, habitable rings, nebula disc, void horizon) and a surface
wobble fade in as you zoom; all angles/phases seeded per system.
- Star hit-testing now scales with the dot size and includes a crowded
cluster dead band so lanes/empty space between stars no longer trigger
hover.
- New systemChartSnapshot() in SystemChart.js plus tests covering shape,
coverage, discovery flags, stats and determinism.
- Set Destination dialog (System tab) acknowledges the pick via
onSetDestination; destination model is still being defined.
- Added spacestation image/video assets for future use.
- New `GalaxyView` renders glowing stars per archetype (pulsing heartbeat),
the jump-lane web (traveled/frontier/unexplored), the charted region's
convex hull, HOME/SHIP markers, hover readouts, and CONFIRM JUMP on a
live lane (reuses the existing gate transport).
- `GalaxyChart.js` provides the pure model + geometry: edgeKey, snapshot
builder, convex hull / padded polygon, star pulse/color, and plate
clipping (Liang-Barsky + Sutherland-Hodgman) — all Node-testable.
- Run's footprint (`visitedSystems`, `usedGates`) is captured/restored/
reset in SaveData; legacy saves default to "current system charted,
nothing traveled".
- MapWindow gains tab switching between the system chart and the galaxy
view, with shared stats/legend/status chrome per mode.
- Two dev tests cover the galaxy model, save round-trip, hull geometry,
plate clipping, and a regression for the star-label blink bug.
Brian Fertig
Brian Fertig