Generation never offers gear no hull can mount

Operator ruling, 2026-09-30, on the Autocannon: "Leave the autocannon unsold,
we'll need to author a bunch more hulls before all the gear variety in the game
has a home." The fit rule gets one owner, HardpointData.Takes (the gear's type,
laid in at the hardpoint's rotation, filling every cell); LoadoutGenerator's
hardpoint picks, its reuse of a previous product and `AetherDb hardpoint-fit`
all read it. RandomProducts, which both station stock and NPC loadouts draw
through, offers only gear with a home: Tool gear, hulls, or hardpoint gear some
hull in the catalog takes. The Autocannon keeps its product and price.

Test: the Autocannon is never drawn in 2000 draws of its hardpoint type; after
a scratch hull whose hardpoint takes it is authored, it is.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

tools/AetherDb/Program.cs

@@ -468,10 +468,7 @@ public static class Program
             foreach (var hardpoint in hull.Hardpoints.OrderByDescending(h => h.Shape.Coordinates.Length))
             {
                 var cells = hardpoint.Shape.Coordinates.Length;
-                var matches = gear.Where(g =>
-                    g.HardpointType == hardpoint.Type &&
-                    g.Shape.FitsWithin(hardpoint.Shape, hardpoint.Rotation, out _) &&
-                    g.Shape.Coordinates.Length == cells).ToArray();
+                var matches = gear.Where(hardpoint.Takes).ToArray();
                 var soldMatches = matches.Where(m => sold.Contains(db.Cache.RefOf(m).Key)).ToArray();
                 if (soldMatches.Length == 0) unfillable++;
                 Console.WriteLine($"  {hardpoint.Type,-14} {cells,2} cells: {matches.Length} designs match, {soldMatches.Length} sold" +