diff --git a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ConsumableAiTests.cs b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ConsumableAiTests.cs
index de982bf86..6ad889fda 100644
--- a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ConsumableAiTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ConsumableAiTests.cs
@@ -339,6 +339,20 @@ public sealed class ConsumableAiTests : IDisposable
         Assert.True(s.Zone.Agents.Last(a => ReferenceEquals(a.Ship, s.Agent)).Id > first, "a re-admitted pilot is a new id");
     }
 
+    // Admitting a pilot takes nothing from the item stream: its patrol circuit is its own draw, so how pilots are chosen never
+    // moves what is minted next. Kills: the circuit drawn from ItemManager.Random.
+    [Fact]
+    public void AdmittingAPilotDrawsNothingFromTheItemStream()
+    {
+        var s = Build(carryOverdrive: true);
+        Assert.True(s.Zone.Remove(s.Agent));
+        s.Agent.Deactivate();
+        var items = s.Agent.ItemManager;
+        var before = items.Random;
+        s.Zone.Admit(s.Agent, piloted: true);
+        Assert.Equal(before.NextFloat(), items.Random.NextFloat());
+    }
+
     // The production path for the optimum: a ship the zone admits as piloted derives it from its gun's live stats
     // before it needs it, and re-derives it when its loadout changes. The gun's effective range is 500 and the
     // heavy gun's is 800, so the optimum moves with the weapons it has now.
diff --git a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/FireControlPerWeaponTests.cs b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/FireControlPerWeaponTests.cs
index 90e142b3c..bbd57c7ac 100644
--- a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/FireControlPerWeaponTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/FireControlPerWeaponTests.cs
@@ -811,6 +811,13 @@ public sealed class FireControlPerWeaponTests : IDisposable
             var cells = (Optimum(id, 0) - offset - min) / step;
             Assert.True(MathF.Abs(cells - MathF.Round(cells)) < .01f, $"id {id}: optimum is {cells} steps from the pilot's own offset");
         }
+
+        // The other direction: sampling the optimum takes nothing from the item stream, so how a pilot fights never moves
+        // what is minted next. Kills: an AI draw from ItemManager.Random.
+        var items = r.Shooter.ItemManager;
+        var before = items.Random;
+        Optimum(5, 0);
+        Assert.Equal(before.NextFloat(), items.Random.NextFloat());
     }
 
     // A round refused on a Range that fell between the trigger and the round is still free: the burst is paid
diff --git a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ScenarioTests.cs b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ScenarioTests.cs
index fe457bbd6..314132459 100644
--- a/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ScenarioTests.cs
+++ b/tests/Aetheria.Shared.Tests/ScenarioTests.cs
@@ -319,6 +319,23 @@ public sealed partial class RunStartTests
         Assert.Equal(Places(plain), Places(disturbed));
     }
 
+    // Each pilot's circuit is keyed by its own id: three pilots admitted into one zone do not all patrol the same orbits.
+    // Kills: the circuit keyed by a constant.
+    [Fact]
+    public void EachPilotsPatrolCircuitIsItsOwn()
+    {
+        var (_, arena, _, failures) = Launch(new Scripted(false, stage =>
+        {
+            stage.Player(stage.Bare("Djinni"), float2(0, 0));
+            for (var i = 0; i < 3; i++)
+                stage.Place(stage.Generated("Longinus"), float2(300 + 40 * i, 0), stance: ScenarioStance.Hostile, piloted: true);
+        }));
+        Assert.True(failures.Count == 0, string.Join("; ", failures));
+        var circuits = arena.Agents.Select(agent => string.Join(",", ((PatrolOrbitsTask) agent.Task).Circuit.Select(key => arena.Orbits.Keys.ToList().IndexOf(key)))).ToArray();
+        Assert.Equal(3, circuits.Length);
+        Assert.True(circuits.Distinct().Count() > 1, "every pilot patrols the same orbits: " + string.Join(" | ", circuits));
+    }
+
     // A fit that states its quality mints every lot it builds at it, assembly and role fills alike; the same fit without one
     // draws them from the item stream, so some lot comes out otherwise. A scenario's checks rest on the first.
     [Fact]