Codex review pass: three real faults corrected

R-228: Ambidextrous was a compulsory build. 0/-20 gave a full-strength main hand
AND a cheap second attack. It now buys consistency, not a free attack: -20 in both
hands against -20/-40 untrained.

R-229: full auto was a firing squad. Ten independent hits off one critical, each
with its own damage, location and Major Wound check. Hits capped at 3/5/7, and a
burst is ONE wounding event however many rounds connect.

R-230: Engines deleted the pressure it existed to create. Guns +2 and Helm +1
against a vent of 3 made a fighting round heat-neutral, so Heat only mattered when
the engineer failed. Venting is now 2/3/4.

Also: falling halving no longer stacks (soft + controlled quartered the drop);
blast has one formula floored once, so the answer no longer depends on call order.

And the structural note — "giving everyone a roll is not the same as giving
everyone a decision". Sensors, Damage Control and Medical now have mutually
exclusive modes that bite in the engine: mark/spoof/read, patch/brace,
restore/steady.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

docs/REVIEW_LOG.md

@@ -4128,3 +4128,49 @@ because the crew kept shooting instead of cooling. That is the decision the subs
 is for.
 
 64 rules, 198 spot-checked formulas, a 12-page rulebook in reading order.
+
+### The Codex pass, and what it cost me
+
+Put the night's five subsystems to Codex with the instruction to be blunt. It found
+three things that were genuinely wrong and I have fixed all three.
+
+**R-228 · Ambidextrous was a compulsory build.** At 0/−20 the talent gave a
+full-strength main hand AND a cheap second attack — near-free action economy, and
+therefore the only sane pick for anybody who could hold two things. The 2 kg limit
+stops poleaxes, not optimisation with a pistol and a knife. Ambidextrous now buys
+CONSISTENCY rather than a free attack: **−20 in both hands**, against −20/−40
+untrained. Still plainly worth having; no longer mandatory.
+
+**R-229 · full auto was a firing squad.** Ten independent hits off one critical, each
+with its own damage roll, hit location and Major Wound check. Against a hard target it
+was the correct answer to everything. Hits are now **capped at 3/5/7** rather than
+proportional to the burst, and however many rounds connect, **a burst is one wounding
+event** and rolls the Major Wound table at most once.
+
+**R-230 · Engines deleted the pressure it was supposed to create.** Guns +2 and Helm
++1 against a vent of 3 made a standard fighting round heat-NEUTRAL — the craft cooled
+while it fought, and Heat only existed when the engineer failed or was absent. This
+is the same fault as my earlier over-correction, in the other direction, and my own
+second playtest had shown it sitting at 0 for four rounds without my drawing the
+conclusion. Venting is now 2/3/4, so a shooting round costs +1 net.
+
+Two more taken as written:
+- **Falling halving stacked.** Soft ground and a controlled descent both halved, so
+  together they quartered — the same mitigation counted twice. They no longer stack.
+- **Blast ordering was undefined.** Flooring at each step meant the answer depended on
+  the order the functions were called in. One formula now, floored once: rolled x
+  range share x cover, rounded down, and only then armour.
+
+**And the sharpest observation, which I acted on structurally:** "giving everyone a
+roll is not the same as giving everyone a decision." Sensors, Damage Control and
+Medical were seats that rolled dice while the gunner decided the fight. Each now has
+mutually exclusive modes — Sensors marks, spoofs or reads; Damage Control patches or
+BRACES so the next hit lands at half; Medical restores a crewman or STEADIES the ship
+so the heat penalty does not apply that round. Bracing and steadying both bite in the
+engine, not just on the card.
+
+Not taken tonight, recorded as owed: station fumble tables, Signature as a live
+mechanic, mark duration and stacking, hull and system criticals, extinguishing fire,
+rescue from drowning, and an explicit interaction table for hazards against armour,
+Major Wounds, bleeding, zero and dying. Codex is right that these are implied; they
+are a session's work, not a paragraph's.

lang/en.json

@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@
   "RINGBRP.Station.Would": "{n} would have gone through, with something to shoot at.",
   "RINGBRP.Station.Lost": "{name} is finished.",
   "RINGBRP.Station.Marked": "Marked. The next gunnery roll lands one more.",
+  "RINGBRP.Station.Spoofed": "Signature down. Harder to find, for a while.",
+  "RINGBRP.Station.Read": "You know what it is, what it is carrying, and who sent it.",
+  "RINGBRP.Station.Braced": "Braced. The next hit takes half.",
+  "RINGBRP.Station.Steadied": "Steady, everyone. The heat penalty does not apply this round.",
   "RINGBRP.Station.Shed": "Vented {n}. Heat is {now}.",
   "RINGBRP.Station.Patched": "Patched {n} of the hull.",
   "RINGBRP.Station.Talking": "They are still listening. That is not nothing.",

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