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