Space Fleet: Space Battles

## 2.8: Fleet Operations, Base Shipyards & Procedural Content **Strategic fleet & war operations** - `FleetOrganizations` preserve ordered rosters, loadouts, and organizational identity across refits. - Fleet funding is demand-driven; refits are identity-preserving, with coordinated sorties, responsible patrols, and safe refits. - Tested operation gates and tactical duty policies added; patrol response and per-fleet dossiers introduced. - Restored capital shipyard assault fleet production. **Bases, stations & world differentiation** - 18 base ship types with editable weapon mounts wired in; station targeting and independent fire control activated. - Station dimensions halved and weapon mounts rescaled; main background bound across image scales. - Differentiated planets, ship bases, and dedicated defense fleets; node base config reference table synced and its maintenance rules documented. - Human-faction station sprite, six-arm and four human station variants, and asymmetric king orbital nest sprite added. **Procedural content & narrative** - Phrase grammar added so authored fragments amplify; job boards, cantina, and ports generated from grammar. - 152 grammars and ship hails with a content register; patrons who remember the player, 241 grammars, and 41 wreck scenes. - Patron system recorded in the mission register; haul contracts whose fee scales with fleet's hold; richer contract encounters and narrative feedback; stabilized same-contract pricing. - Deadline, ability-gated missions on a persistent game clock; filled the empty MARKET and INTEL tabs. - Audits comparing every system against Endless Sky and recording mission quality assessment. **Combat & UI polish** - Combat made more legible with weight added to ambushes; stopped three panels from overlapping their own text. **Diagnostics** - Trace guard hull damage and verify full-health spawns; trace war decisions and copy bounded reports. - Fleet architecture verification and known smoke findings recorded.