Aetheria/docs/aetheria-perfect-machine-map.md

Aetheria Perfect Machine Map

Date: 2026-06-13

This is the Proprioception and Imagination pass for turning Aetheria from a Unity project with ancestral cache/network/UI machinery into a coherent GameCult machine: typed CultCache state, CultMesh networking, and Eve CultUI surfaces lowered into Unity without JSON or RethinkDB remaining as live authority.

Objective

Aetheria should persist and replicate game state as typed CultCache documents, publish multiplayer/service state through CultMesh, and render operator/runtime interfaces from Eve CultUI surfaces. The old JSON, RethinkDB, JsonKnownTypes, legacy catalog cache, and legacy UI paths should be migration-only or deleted.

Current Mechanism

• Aetheria.State.Daemon is the first-class local Verse daemon host. It opens AetheriaStateNode with the CultMesh server enabled, serves AetheriaVerseDiscoveryHost, accepts typed Eve command documents, advances authoritative daemon frames through AetheriaRuntimeDaemonTickRunner, and publishes provider advertisements, daemon health, command boundaries, and Eve GUI/TUI witness surfaces. This is the Odin/VoidBot-shaped daemon contract: the daemon owns the provider state and surfaces; Unity, Codex MCP tools, and future clients lower or command that provider through CultMesh rather than becoming state owners.
• Unity client/runtime lives under Assets/. Gameplay now opens the typed runtime catalog from GameData/aetheria-world.cc and projects current ItemData DTOs through ItemManager over the typed runtime catalog snapshot. ActionGameManager no longer owns or opens a legacy catalog cache. GameCult.Aetheria.State.Unity, the embedded Unity package under Packages/org.gamecult.aetheria.state, owns the Unity runtime path to GameData/aetheria-world.cc through AetheriaRuntimeStateBoundary and owns the Unity boot-time state-file existence probe through AetheriaRuntimeStateBoot. ActionGameManager consumes that package-owned boot report and throws if aetheria-world.cc is missing before gameplay boot. When the typed state file exists, ActionGameManager opens a package-owned read-only runtime catalog snapshot from the .cc directory store before constructing the temporary legacy ItemManager. Player settings, loadout edits, shutdown checkpoints, and wormhole transitions now flow as typed Eve or daemon command records observed by the Aetheria Verse daemon. Run checkpoint documents include the current zone plus its runtime entity snapshots. Aetheria.State owns publishing canonical AetheriaPlayerSettings, AetheriaLoadoutTemplate, AetheriaRunState, AetheriaZoneState, and AetheriaEntitySnapshot documents through AetheriaStateNode. The embedded Unity state package can also read typed run, zone, and entity snapshot documents back from the .cc store as read-only runtime DTOs, including action-bar bindings, faction relationships, generation seed, zone entity/orbit/body references, entity session scalars, active consumables, behavior progress, weapon state, behavior state, and stat-grid rows. Local run saves, loadouts, player settings files, zone files, and generated keyboard layout caches no longer write bespoke durable files. The legacy RuntimePlayerSettings runtime object is no longer named or decorated as a MessagePack persistence shape. Aetheria.State.Daemon now observes typed daemon and Eve command records from the Aetheria state graph, accepts them through the provider-owned command bridge, and publishes canonical typed state while hosting the CultMesh state node. The standalone Aetheria.State.DrainCommands applicator is deleted so command acceptance remains daemon behavior.
• Shared item domain state is now built around typed item-key references, typed runtime catalog rows, direct RuntimeBehaviorDefinition behavior construction, and runtime geometry/stat primitives. The old ItemData DTO hierarchy is deleted from live Unity source. Dead user-record and galaxy-map-layer catalog roots have been deleted, and surviving runtime DTOs no longer carry legacy catalog group/table annotations. Newtonsoft, JsonKnownTypes, RethinkDB, LiteNetLib client transport, and the broken Economy.Shared wrapper have been removed from live source. The stale StrategyGameManager.csbak backup file and unused Unity asset MessagePack formatter classes have also been deleted, so the remaining direct MessagePackSerializer calls are no longer present in live gameplay source; renderer/client code now observes typed .cc state records and sends typed command records through CultNet/CultMesh boundaries.
• Local legacy catalog data remains in GameData/AetherDB.msgpack and GameData/NameFile/*.msgpack as migration inputs only. Unity gameplay no longer opens those MessagePack files at runtime. The old PlayerSettings.msgpack, .loadout, .zone, and GameData/KeyboardLayouts/*.msgpack authority paths are disabled or deleted. The old SavedGame/SavedZone DTOs and Galaxy save-loader constructor are deleted. The dead SavedStory JSON DTO is deleted. The unused Unity Localization package and imported Google Sheets localization sample have also been deleted, removing the transitive Unity Newtonsoft package from the manifest/lock. Unity's built-in jsonserialize module and generated InputSystem JSON remain engine/package boundaries, not Aetheria state. ZoneConstructionBlueprint, body/orbit zone runtime data, item-instance runtime data, Ship, and EntitySettings remain as runtime construction/loadout/session projections, but no longer use save-file or serializer vocabulary or declare themselves as MessagePack persistence documents.
• Aetheria.State now expands AetheriaPlayerSettings beyond an active-run pointer into the typed Verse replacement for PlayerSettings.msgpack: player name, tutorial flag, story-file hash cursors, gameplay formatting, graphics preferences, input binding overrides, and action-bar inputs. Unity's menu and input screens route edits through named typed Eve commands accepted by the daemon, which updates the session RuntimePlayerSettings projection as a read model. The in-memory projection is not portable state authority. Aetheria has its own remapping UI that calls Unity's InputSystem at the binding/action layer; Unity's generated AetheriaInput class is the edge consumer of typed binding overrides, not the durable owner. The runtime Eve input screen now owns low-level rebinding and action-bar input toggles, routing them through named runtime input commit methods instead of writing the input collections directly. The action bar also uses typed runtime catalog category rows to reject non-consumable inventory drops and creates consumable bindings around typed catalog rows. Missing typed rows are rejected for consumable binding instead of falling through to legacy DTO classification. Slot-binding drag/drop now routes through typed daemon operations, and rebuilt current-entity binds come from typed action-bar descriptor rows instead of stale slot-local Entity references. Consumable activation, active-duration fill, runtime duration, and effectiveness curves now use typed item rows with neutral defaults for missing optional facets. Gear action-bar bindings read custom icon resource paths from typed item rows, then use typed weapon and hardpoint facets for fallback icon selection, and finally fall back to a generic tool icon when typed facets are incomplete. The current legacy catalog has zero populated custom action-bar icon paths, but the typed field is present and owns that surface when data appears. Player camera articulation grouping now classifies equipped non-launcher weapons through typed behavior kind rows instead of inspecting runtime behavior config classes. Unity boot reads typed player settings back through the package-owned CultCache reader before falling back to defaults. The main-menu settings navigation and input subpages now lower through local Eve/UI Toolkit surfaces instead of repopulating the old PropertiesPanel button shell, and the input page delegates to the live runtime remap screen when that owner exists. The fake audio page has been deleted until audio has a typed owner. Sector-map zone inspection now lowers through a local Eve/UI Toolkit surface as well instead of rebuilding PropertiesPanel rows on each zone click. The runtime in-game menu tab strip now lowers through a local Eve/UI Toolkit surface, with MenuPanel serializing tab metadata directly instead of routing authority through old MenuTabButton components. Inventory background ship tuning now lowers through a local Eve/UI Toolkit surface instead of rebuilding a PropertiesPanel float field. The dead generic PropertiesPanel/DropdownMenu shell is now deleted from the main menu, trade, inventory, and map serialized assets instead of lingering as inert prefab ballast. Trade target-cargo selection now lowers through a local Eve/UI Toolkit surface instead of rebuilding a ContextMenu option list. Inventory entity/bay/loadout dropdown navigation now lowers through a local Eve/UI Toolkit surface instead of rebuilding nested ContextMenu dropdowns/options. Trade filter selection and simple-commodity buy-quantity entry now lower through local Eve/UI Toolkit surfaces instead of rebuilding ContextMenu dropdowns/options in TradeMenu. Trade typed-item inspection now lowers through a local Eve/UI Toolkit surface instead of routing spreadsheet row clicks into PropertiesPanel.Inspect. Inventory cargo-item inspection now lowers through a local Eve/UI Toolkit surface instead of routing cargo clicks into PropertiesPanel.Inspect. Inventory equipped-item inspection now also lowers through a local Eve/UI Toolkit surface, with InventoryMenu owning weapon-group toggles, action-bar group binding, override shutdown, and thermotoggle target temperature controls directly instead of routing them through PropertiesPanel.
• The combat schematic HUD uses typed runtime catalog weapon facets for its static weapon icon strip; missing typed weapon facets no longer fall back to legacy WeaponItemData. Schematic weapon-row selection now uses typed behavior-kind rows instead of inspecting runtime behavior config classes; live weapon behavior instances still own ammo, cooldown, and active firing values until those session facts have typed runtime surfaces. Hull and item durability percentages use typed max durability only; incomplete typed rows use current runtime durability as the generic denominator instead of falling back to legacy ItemData.Durability. Target HUD hitpoint fill also reads target hull max durability from the typed runtime hull row instead of EquippedHull.Data.Durability. Gear heat-fill ranges in the schematic HUD also read typed catalog thermal bounds; rows without typed thermal bounds use a neutral current-temperature range instead of hydrating legacy ItemData. Ship thruster VFX emission scaling also uses typed max durability only. Runtime weapon behavior still owns ammo counts, active range, cooldowns, temperature, and current durability values until those session facts have typed runtime surfaces.
• Aetheria.State now exposes typed node put/get ports for run state, zone state, and entity snapshots. The state smoke writes a run referencing a zone, a zone referencing an entity snapshot, and an entity snapshot carrying generation seed, position, direction, faction, hull, equipment slots, weapon groups, and a stat grid. This proves the .zone replacement graph is durable typed state. Unity now queues current-zone/current-entity-collection snapshots, current action-bar bindings, and current faction relationship rows through the runtime commit log during run checkpoints; ZoneConstructionBlueprint and EntityConstructionBlueprint remain one-shot construction/loadout projections rather than durable file formats. Runtime blueprints no longer capture or restore live temperature, armor, max-armor, or hull-conductivity grids; those grids are typed checkpoint state, not loadout/construction template state. Blueprint price aggregation uses typed runtime item prices through ItemManager instead of hydrating HullData.Shape or ItemData.Price. Runtime blueprints no longer capture or restore behavior-private PersistentBehaviorData blobs; that dead save-shape hook and its IPersistentBehavior interface are deleted.
• Galaxy generation now exposes the actual nonzero seed used to create topology. The main menu passes explicit seeds into normal and tutorial galaxy construction, and run checkpoints persist that seed into AetheriaRunState. Current-zone snapshot restore must attach to a regenerated galaxy with the same seed; restoring zone indices against a fresh random galaxy is forbidden split-brain state, not a Continue feature.
• Run checkpoint zone snapshots include typed orbit and body rows. Orbit IDs, parent IDs, distance, phase, fixed positions, body kind/name/orbit, resources, gravity/body multipliers, asteroid belt entries, and gas/sun visual parameters now survive through the typed pending commit lane into AetheriaZoneState. Asteroid belt runtime damage, respawn timers, and miner accumulators also persist on typed asteroid rows. ZoneConstructionBlueprint feeds one-shot generated geometry into Zone; live zone radius/mass/orbit/body reads come from runtime wrappers and typed checkpoint projection rather than a retained construction payload.
• Run checkpoint entity snapshots include typed simulation stat grids for temperature, thermal mass, armor, max armor, and hull-conductivity axes. They also carry public runtime session state: velocity, target entity reference, active flag, heatsink toggle, shutdown override, tractor power, heatstroke/hypothermia accumulators, aggregate visibility/source-count state, contact rows for gathered information, hostility, and visible classification, and active consumable item/timer rows. Entity equipment, cargo-bay, and docking-bay slot rows preserve item-instance facts needed for restore: item key, quality, durability, quantity, and enabled state. Those facts are no longer discarded when pending checkpoint commands become canonical AetheriaEntitySnapshot documents or package readback DTOs. Cargo bay contents, docking bay contents, and docking bay child assignments also persist as typed snapshot rows, so inventories and docked-child placement do not need a bespoke .zone or runtime-blueprint save payload. Equipped-item and active-consumable behaviors that intentionally expose IProgressBehavior now publish typed progress rows keyed by owner kind, owner index, behavior index, behavior kind, and progress value. Weapon behaviors now also publish typed runtime rows for firing state, ammo, burst timing, cooldown progress, charged-weapon charging/charge state, constant-weapon reload/ammo-interval state, and lock-weapon lock progress plus target entity reference. Sensor, radiator, reactor, and capacitor behaviors publish typed state rows for ping state, radiator temperature/throughput, reactor draw/load, and capacitor charge/capacity/efficiency. Aether drives publish typed axis, thrust, RPM, maximum RPM, and thrust-direction rows, so rotor simulation state is no longer trapped inside live behavior memory. Resource scanners publish target body id, asteroid index, scan timer, range, minimum density, and scan duration rows. Mining tools publish asteroid belt id, asteroid index, and evaluated range rows. Thrusters publish analog axis input, evaluated thrust, and torque rows. Shields publish evaluated efficiency and energy usage, velocity limiters publish evaluated limit, and thermotoggles publish their active target temperature. Switches publish activated state, triggers publish pending pulled state, and stat modifiers publish applied/executed flags plus target-stat count. Turret controllers publish initialized weapon count, shot speed, and predictive-aim flag. Continue restore lowers those typed weapon and behavior rows back into the live equipped-item and active-consumable behavior instances through narrow behavior-owned restore methods; construction/loadout blueprints do not own behavior replay. EntityConstructionBlueprint still exists for construction/loadout projection, but those live hull grids and session scalars are not blueprint fields and cannot be restored by the old blueprint projector path.
• Aetheria.State now defines AetheriaLoadoutTemplate as the typed Verse replacement for bespoke .loadout files. It stores structured hull, equipment, cargo bay, docking bay, child-entity, assignment, and weapon-group state through record-key references and typed value slots instead of opaque runtime blueprint serialization. Unity's save/loadout UI now projects its in-memory EntityConstructionBlueprint into a typed Verse commit command, and gameplay boot reads typed loadout templates back from aetheria-world.cc through AetheriaRuntimeCatalogStore before lowering them into runtime construction blueprints for the restore menu. The in-memory list remains a UI/session cache, not durable authority.
• ActionGameManager opens AetheriaRuntimeCatalogStore over aetheria-world.cc, hands the typed runtime catalog snapshot directly to ItemManager, and gives it explicit item lookup authority. Item instances carry AetheriaRuntimeItemReference, a typed item key, not a process-global catalog resolver, hydrated projection cache, bare GUID owner, or durable item-data owner. The old LegacyItemCatalogBoundary, LegacyItemCatalogCache, and runtime MessagePack deserializer path have been deleted. The old DatabaseEntry/RuntimeCatalogEntry/RuntimeItemProjectionEntry identity base has been deleted from live source, and the old generic DatabaseLink<T>/RuntimeCatalogLink<T> path has collapsed into the item-specific runtime reference.
• ItemManager no longer exposes the raw runtime item catalog reader as public gameplay/UI API, and its old GetData/Hydrate item DTO projection path has been deleted. ItemManager no longer routes through a duplicate AetheriaRuntimeItemCatalog cache; it reads typed item rows from the shared runtime catalog snapshot only. The temporary behavior config bridge has moved under ItemManager behavior construction. The item properties UI no longer uses ItemManager for manufacturer display; it resolves the manufacturer through the package-owned ActionGameManager.RuntimeCatalog typed snapshot. Entity restore and loadout manufacturer-distance weighting no longer use ItemManager for faction lookup; they resolve factions through the Galaxy typed corporation projection. There is no live console item-spawn command; future operator item actions should be typed command documents or Eve/CultUI commands, not in-client catalog hydration shortcuts. LoadoutGenerator also receives the typed runtime catalog and uses typed candidate-kind selectors for item selection and instantiation. Hull type, hardpoint type, shape fit, station bay fit, hull/category, and behavior-kind prefilters run against typed catalog rows. EquippedItem and ConsumableItemEffect now create behavior instances through ItemManager.CreateRuntimeBehaviors, which switches on stable typed behavior kind and constructs live behavior classes directly from RuntimeBehaviorDefinition; layout metadata no longer selects or mutates runtime behavior configs. StatModifier requirement and stat-target lookup now inspects the live equipped behavior instances and asks package-owned typed behavior metadata for kind/family matching, not a freshly rebuilt config list or a behavior-local class taxonomy. Live behaviors no longer expose their construction config object as a public runtime authority; stat targeting now crosses a behavior-owned stat lookup. The unused TradeMenuDebug script has been deleted instead of preserving an old uGUI debug path that turned typed trade rows back into legacy ItemData objects. That hydration now comes from typed state, not AetherDB.msgpack. The surviving trade menu wraps rows in a typed TradeRow: name, mass, price, size, hardpoint type, commodity subtype, hull ownership, and behavior-kind filters read typed catalog rows before any legacy projection is hydrated. Active behavior filters store typed behavior kind keys and match typed behavior payloads through package-owned typed behavior metadata, including parent-kind matching for behavior families. PropertiesPanel and TradeMenu display metadata are now package-owned typed behavior metadata. The obsolete RuntimeInspectable attribute has been deleted from behavior classes and fields. Dynamic behavior columns read typed behavior payload fields by legacy payload key instead of hydrating legacy behavior DTOs. Trade buy decisions for crafted price, ship-hull classification, simple commodity base price, and simple commodity stack size also read typed catalog rows; the existing inventory transfer and ship-construction paths still own the actual runtime mutation. The sector properties UI also resolves station/turret/ship counts only through typed hull classifications from the runtime catalog; missing typed hull rows no longer fall back to legacy HullData. Loot pickup presentation now uses typed catalog category/name rows to choose weapon-vs-gear pickup visuals and scan labels; missing typed rows degrade to generic unknown pickup presentation instead of falling back to legacy item projections. Zone entity scene instantiation also reads typed hull prefab paths and hull classifications from the runtime catalog; missing typed hull prefab rows fail loudly instead of asking legacy HullData to choose the scene prefab. Entity scene instances use typed hull shape cells and typed hardpoint rows for collision damage masks and weapon-barrel presentation setup; behavior effect prefabs still come from behavior DTOs until behavior construction/execution moves to typed payloads. Inventory panel equipment-grid geometry, hull/interior cell drawing, temperature overlay masking, thermal edge toggles, and entity cell tinting now use typed hull shape/interior masks from the runtime catalog. EquippedCargoBay now reads cargo interior shape, item fit shape, simple commodity max stack, cargo bay mass, and cargo bay thermal mass from typed runtime catalog rows; InventoryPanel lowers cargo-grid display from that typed InteriorShape. Final equipment fit/equip acceptance also reads typed item shape, hardpoint type, hull shape, hull interior, hardpoint masks, cargo/docking categories, and mass/thermal mass from runtime catalog rows. Entity.MapEntity, Entity.UnoccupiedSpace, grid-offset placement, and Entity.UpdateTemperature also read typed hull shape/interior, hardpoints, base armor, mass, specific heat, and conductivity from runtime catalog rows. Entity construction now names entities from the typed hull row and no longer keeps a HullData property just to preserve the old naming bridge. LoadoutGenerator candidate weighting, hardpoint/cargo/capacitor fit, selected-item reuse, and hull conductivity setup now use typed runtime catalog rows. Generated loadout item birth also uses a typed-row instance primitive, so selected catalog rows no longer hydrate EquippableItemData just to create equipment. Docking bay max ship size is imported as typed item state and EquippedDockingBay.MaxSize derives from the typed runtime catalog row. EquippedItem.InsetShape now derives from typed hull/item shape rows. EquippedItem and ConsumableItemEffect behavior construction now read typed behavior payloads through RuntimeBehaviorDefinition before instantiating the current behavior classes. The old behavior config bridge is deleted; typed behavior kind and group flow directly into live behavior instances. Base Behavior now captures a runtime performance-stat table during construction and no longer retains the config object for later stat lookup. Heat, EnergyDraw, and Cooldown behavior instances now copy constructor stat/scalar inputs into explicit runtime fields and no longer retain their config subclasses after construction. Wear, Visibility, Reflector, VelocityLimit, VelocityConversion, and ItemUsage now follow the same rule for their constructor stat/key/scalar inputs. Capacitor, Shield, Thruster, MiningTool, ResourceScanner, Thermotoggle, Switch, HeatStorage, and Cockpit have also dropped runtime config retention; Thermotoggle adjustability is now owned by the live behavior instance. Reactor, Radiator, Sensor, and StatModifier now copy constructor performance stats, curves, flags, and target strings into explicit runtime fields instead of retaining config subclasses. AetherDrive now copies rotor geometry, performance stats, torque curve, audio parameters, and prefab path into explicit runtime fields. Weapon, InstantWeapon, ConstantWeapon, ChargedWeapon, and LockWeapon now copy constructor stats, curves, ammo/reload fields, guided projectile profile fields, burst/cooldown fields, charge multipliers, and lock parameters into runtime-owned fields. Behavior instances no longer retain construction config DTOs after construction. Cockpit, HeatStorage, Switch, Trigger, and TurretController read directly from typed runtime behavior definitions. Heat, EnergyDraw, Cooldown, Wear, Visibility, Reflector, VelocityLimit, VelocityConversion, and ItemUsage also bypass the temporary config bridge and read typed behavior fields through RuntimeBehaviorDefinition; stat-bearing behaviors register their runtime performance stats explicitly for StatModifier rather than relying on config reflection. Capacitor, Shield, MiningTool, ResourceScanner, Thermotoggle, and Thruster now follow the same direct-definition path. Reactor, Radiator, Sensor, StatModifier, and AetherDrive also read typed payload fields through RuntimeBehaviorDefinition; their live stat surfaces are registered explicitly rather than recovered through config reflection. Weapon, InstantWeapon, AutoWeapon, ConstantWeapon, ChargedWeapon, LockWeapon, Launcher, and GuidedWeapon payloads also construct directly from RuntimeBehaviorDefinition; the old RuntimeBehaviorConfig, BehaviorPayloadReader, and weapon *Config classes are deleted from live source. StatModifier behavior requirements and behavior-stat targets compare typed behavior kinds on the live equipped behavior instances through AetheriaRuntimeBehaviorMetadataCatalog instead of scanning config subclasses, rebuilding temporary configs, or hydrating EquippableItemData.Behaviors. ConsumableItemData and EquippableItemData no longer expose legacy Behaviors lists at all. The old item-DTO stat branch was deleted after inspection showed no active PerformanceStat fields on the live equippable item DTO hierarchy. Ship drag, combat/turret shot prediction height, and thruster torque geometry now consume typed hull facets and typed shape masks. The item properties panel also reads typed catalog title names, descriptions, manufacturer, base mass, max durability, thermal bounds, and thermal performance curve keys for basic item presentation without hydrating legacy DTOs. Runtime behavior stat display reads typed behavior payload fields through package-owned typed behavior display metadata; stat modifier presentation checks the package-owned typed StatModifier kind instead of a legacy data class name. Damage-range payload selection is keyed by package-owned typed weapon behavior metadata; legacy behavior config ancestry is no longer a fallback for weapon payload selection. The old explicit Inspect(ItemData) DTO inspection overload is deleted; trade row clicks now inspect the typed runtime catalog row directly. Incomplete typed thermal curve rows render a neutral fallback curve instead of hydrating legacy EquippableItemData. Inventory selection highlighting now uses typed item shape cells only for UI tint geometry; incomplete typed rows produce no selected-cell mask instead of falling back to legacy ItemData.Shape. Inventory cargo cell tint now uses typed hardpoint facets only; incomplete typed rows receive the generic tint instead of falling back to legacy EquippableItemData.HardpointType. Inventory HUD durability tint uses typed max durability only, with current runtime durability as the generic denominator for incomplete typed rows. ItemManager.Evaluate also uses typed runtime item max durability and item names when evaluating unequipped performance stats. Weapon group assignment and guided projectile diagnostics report names from equipped typed runtime rows instead of ItemData.Name. ItemManager typed item instantiation primitives create simple commodities, crafted items, and equippable items from runtime catalog rows; old DTO-based item creation is gone from blueprint cloning. EquippedItem also takes conductivity, max durability, thermal bounds, and thermal performance curve keys from the typed runtime item row for heat conduction, durability performance, thermal performance, and wear scaling. Thermal resilience is also typed and feeds wear scaling. Audio parameter stat bindings are typed item rows and feed equipped-item Wwise parameter updates; missing optional thermal/audio facets now degrade to neutral runtime defaults instead of hydrating legacy equippable DTOs. Consumable stackability, duration, and effectiveness curve slots are part of typed item rows, and action-bar consumable activation/fill now command typed item IDs. The current mapped legacy catalog has no consumable item rows, so consumable runtime behavior still needs future typed data coverage, but it no longer hydrates ConsumableItemData as a fallback. Inventory drag preview occupancy now projects typed item shape cells only into the local Shape grid, and final fit/equip acceptance shares the typed runtime catalog geometry path in Entity.ItemFits and TryEquip. Action-bar gear slots now resolve custom icon resource paths from typed runtime item rows before falling back to typed weapon/hardpoint facets; legacy EquippableItemData.ActionBarIcon is no longer a UI owner.
• Galaxy generation no longer accepts a runtime item catalog reader or ItemManager. Sector and tutorial generation receive the package-owned typed runtime catalog. Galaxy projects typed corporation v2 records into temporary legacy Faction DTOs for the existing simulation shape, but allegiance edges are typed-key-only through AllegianceByKey; the old GUID allegiance dictionary and GUID faction lookup helpers are deleted. Galaxy resolves full name arrays from aetheria.name_file.v2 records. The runtime no longer opens the old GameData/NameFile/*.msgpack directory.
• Item instances carry AetheriaRuntimeItemReference, a typed item key resolved by ItemManager against the typed runtime item catalog projected from aetheria-world.cc. Runtime item references no longer carry hydrated DTO projection caches or global link-resolution authority. MessagePack catalog construction no longer grabs global link-resolution authority, and the old generic RuntimeCatalogLink<T> abstraction is gone.
• Aetheria.State.Daemon starts the modern Aetheria.State CultMesh node as the first-class Verse daemon and no longer shares authority with the old RethinkDB/LiteNetLib server.
• Aetheria.State.Import writes a typed quarantine manifest and migration ledger for the legacy catalog files. It also raw-decodes stable old MessagePack union fields into typed item/faction/name-file documents without compiling the old Unity domain model into Aetheria.State. The current checked-in catalog maps to 115 item definitions, 12 factions, and 12 name files. Item definitions now carry legacy manufacturer IDs, price, shape dimensions, occupied cell counts, full typed shape-cell masks, hardpoint type, hull type, interior shape masks for hull/cargo equipment, hull hardpoint definitions, behavior kind fingerprints, typed recursive behavior payloads, stack size, specific heat, conductivity, hull grid offset, hull armor, hull drag, hull towing flag, durability, and weapon range/caliber/type/fire/modifier classifications. Corporation documents now carry the legacy short name, true description from key 3, name-file and boss-hull legacy IDs, influence distance, allegiance count, full allegiance edges, and music bank IDs. Empty legacy GUID references are imported as absent links rather than as Guid.Empty catalog IDs. Name-file documents are now aetheria.name_file.v2 records and carry both sample names for compact surfaces and the full legacy name array for future Galaxy/Markov name generation cutover. Corporation documents are now aetheria.corporation.v2 records because runtime generation needs actual allegiance edges, not only a count. Aetheria.State now owns the canonical legacy-ID record key mapping for migrated item, corporation, and name-file documents.
• AetheriaCatalogSnapshot is the typed catalog read surface over materialized .cc records. It exposes trade-item, typed manufacturer/corporation/name-file key queries, corporation prefix queries, and legacy-ID migration lookup, plus equipment, hardpoint, and behavior queries without touching runtime projection DTOs.
• ItemManager can now ask its typed runtime item reader for the owning AetheriaRuntimeCatalogItem row by item ID. Its generic mass, thermal-mass, and crafted-price helpers read typed mass, specific heat, quantity, quality, and price rather than hydrating ItemData; legacy projection hydration is still used for behavior construction and simulation surfaces that have not been rebuilt yet.
• The embedded GameCult.Aetheria.State.Unity package now owns the Unity-visible immutable catalog read-model contract for trade/equipment/behavior/hardpoint/manufacturer/corporation/name queries, typed item shape masks, typed interior masks, hardpoints, and behavior payloads. It also owns a read-only Unity-compatible CultCache directory-store opener for the known Aetheria catalog schemas, so Unity runtime code can read aetheria-world.cc catalog records without runtime projection DTOs or a MessagePack catalog cache. The SDK-style Aetheria.State.Unity facade includes that package source and owns the full Aetheria.State mapper plus Eve surface read path for .NET smokes. Neither is a simulation owner and neither writes state. Aetheria.Shared.Unity references this package directly so Galaxy can consume typed corporation and name-file keys without loading legacy Faction or NameFile documents. The package also owns Unity's typed daemon/Eve command helpers for settings, loadout-template, and runtime requests. These helpers are transport-only: they cannot decide canonical state, and the Verse daemon accounts accepted command records after publishing typed documents. Run checkpoint documents now carry current-zone and entity snapshots so the old .zone file path has a live typed runtime projection path.
• AetheriaRuntimeEveCommands is the renderer-facing typed command helper. The internal Eve command path persists typed AetheriaRuntimeEveCommandDocument records; AetheriaEveCommandBridge consumes the same shared document type, validates provider/surface/command authority, and deletes accounted command records. The Eve command lane is transport, not renderer-owned state.
• Aetheria.State.Daemon hosts the CultMesh Verse member and owns long-running Eve command acceptance for provider-owned surfaces. --once runs one daemon tick for smoke/operator use without keeping the process alive.
• AetheriaEveCommandAcceptanceStatus and the aetheria.operations Eve surface publish Eve request acceptance health, observed depth, applied counts, failures, and timestamps as typed state. Console logs are notification-only.
• Daemon Verse/service identity now lives in typed aetheria.verse_host_settings.v1, owned by the Aetheria daemon. Provider advertisement and operations telemetry project from that document, so public or private Verse exposure and seed-galaxy Verse routing no longer hide in hardcoded projector strings.
• AetheriaPlayerSettingsSurfaceProjector now emits a provider-owned aetheria.player_settings Eve surface from canonical AetheriaPlayerSettings state. Gameplay and graphics settings are exposed as typed read models plus narrow typed command buttons, not renderer-local fields.
• AetheriaProviderAdvertisementProjector publishes gamecult.eve.provider_advertisement.v1 for the aetheria provider, advertising the catalog, operations, and player-settings surfaces, command boundaries, schemas, and .cc witness path. Its Verse/service identity now comes from typed daemon host settings instead of hardcoded projector fields. This is the discovery map for Odin/Eve, not a health page.
• AetheriaCatalogSurfaceProjector now emits the first provider-owned Eve surface from typed catalog state. The importer materializes a gamecult.eve.surface.v1 catalog operator document at eve:surface:aetheria.catalog.operator with summary, trade-catalog, and corporation views. This is a typed CultCache surface document, not a renderer dashboard or JSON status card.
• The embedded Unity state package can now read gamecult.eve.surface records directly from the CultCache .cc store into the shared Eve surface contract DTOs. This gives Unity the same provider-owned retained tree that the SDK-style state client reads, without JSON fixtures, HTTP dashboard summaries, or renderer-owned state.
• AetheriaEveSurfacePresenter is the first runtime UI Toolkit consumer of those typed surface documents. It owns mounting only: state file resolution, surface lookup, lowering, and command emission into a typed pending queue. Provider command acceptance still belongs to the future CultMesh command bridge.
• AetheriaEveRuntimeBootstrap mounts the first runtime Eve surface after scene load. The default surface is aetheria.operations, hosted in a runtime-created UIDocument; environment variables or a command-line switch can redirect/disable the mount for diagnostics. Batchmode disables the bootstrap so verification runs do not create renderer state.
• GameData/aetheria-world.cc is now materialized from the importer as the project-local typed state file for the checked-in catalog. The importer stores relative provenance in the state document, not machine-local absolute paths. Unity resolves this path through the embedded GameCult.Aetheria.State.Unity runtime package, not through the legacy catalog boundary. Unity also asks the package to inspect whether the typed state file exists during boot; the warning is notification-only and does not make legacy catalog data the typed state owner. Import rebuilds clear the generated .cc, .cc.records, and .cultmesh outputs for the selected state path after capturing legacy inputs, so schema evolution can rematerialize typed state instead of being blocked by stale embedded schema catalogs. Aetheria.State.Verify opens the materialized file and checks that migration ledger counts match actual typed catalog records, that name-file v2 records carry their full name arrays, that the legacy-ID lookup API resolves migrated item, corporation, and name-file documents, and that the expanded typed catalog facts, typed catalog snapshot queries, and typed Eve catalog surface are present in the .cc store. The current verifier sees 52 shaped item masks, 5 interior masks, 3 hardpoint-host hulls, 22 hardpoints, 39 behavior-bearing item definitions, 65 behavior payloads, 661 behavior fields, 18 behavior-side legacy-ID references, 51 hardpoint-tagged equipment items, 3 hull items, 18 weapon-facet item definitions, and 143 corporation allegiance edges. Legacy content includes at least one overhanging hardpoint (LonginusX); migration verification preserves that payload and does not convert content repair into mapper authority.
• .voidbot/state/aetheria.cc is the repo Persona state witness. Aetheria is not registered as a VoidBot Discord identity yet, so mutations use the repo-local void-self-state.mjs apply-operation typed boundary rather than the registered Face MCP path.
• The old IMGUI DB inspector has been deleted. NameTools still clean/generate names, but it now uses a UI Toolkit editor shell, and the legacy NameFile .msgpack export control has been deleted instead of leaving a warning-only writer stub. The remaining Unity helper files formerly under Assets/Scripts/CultCache now live under Assets/Scripts/UnitySupport because they are color/curve helpers, not cache authority.
• Galaxy generation no longer reads legacy Faction or NameFile entries through ItemManager; it requires the typed runtime catalog opened from GameData/aetheria-world.cc.
• The dead Unity NameFile projection class has been deleted. Runtime name generation reads AetheriaRuntimeNameFile records from the typed catalog facade; legacy GameData/NameFile/*.msgpack remains migration input only.
• Pending Unity runtime commit envelopes now carry typed item keys only for loadout items, action-bar targets, body resources, entity hulls, and active consumables. The older ItemDefinitionLegacyId and HullItemDefinitionLegacyId fields have been deleted from the pending commit contract; the applier no longer reconstructs item keys from legacy item GUIDs. Corporation legacy ID fallback fields are also deleted from runtime commit DTOs; current commands must publish typed faction keys directly.
• Entity restore and loadout manufacturer-distance weighting no longer read legacy Faction entries through ItemManager; they use Galaxy.ResolveFaction over the typed corporation projection.
• The give command no longer enumerates legacy item catalog entries; typed catalog selection owned the command match before the command was deleted.
• LoadoutGenerator no longer enumerates legacy item catalog entries for its candidate pool; typed catalog filtering owns the first item selection pass, and typed runtime item rows are passed directly to ItemManager for instantiation. The remaining post-selection bridge is behavior config construction for old behavior constructors, not whole-item DTO hydration.
• TradeMenuDebug no longer enumerates legacy item catalog entries for its table rows; typed trade catalog records own the row set, with legacy DTO hydration kept for the old debug UI callbacks.
• MessagePack is no longer used as a runtime object-cloning shortcut for EntitySettings, and UI/player-settings startup no longer registers the old MessagePack resolver. The custom Unity-side MessagePack resolver and math/type formatter source has been deleted with the old bespoke file format path. Unused Unity asset formatters for GameObject, Material, Sprite, and Texture2D are deleted. Keyboard layout DTOs are plain runtime parse/display models, not MessagePack save shapes. PlayerSettings is a plain session-local runtime object until typed Verse settings are imported into Unity. ZoneData body/orbit DTOs, ItemInstance DTOs, EntitySettings, Ship, Unity inspector game settings, environment/volume settings, exponential curves, Wwise bindings, and enum dictionaries are also plain runtime/session/config projections now, not MessagePack persistence shapes. The global scene-load MessagePack resolver hook is deleted. The slime compute settings path no longer serializes its local parameter struct for change detection. Agent task runtime shapes no longer carry MessagePack object, union, key, or ignore metadata. AgentTask no longer inherits the shared runtime projection identity base; task objects are plain in-memory AI work orders until a typed Verse task document exists.
• Legacy player, faction, name-file, galaxy-map-layer, and narrative helper DTOs no longer carry MessagePack object/key/ignore metadata. Typed corporation/name-file/catalog documents own durable state; these classes are inspector/runtime projections only. Item and behavior DTO field layout for AetheriaRuntimeItemCatalog no longer depends on live Unity field attributes; importer key maps, typed payload fields, and explicit runtime mappers own migrated layout.
• The dead PersonalityAttribute projection DTO and its unused property-panel hook have been deleted; no typed catalog import or runtime caller owned that shape.
• Declaration-only personality fields on Faction/Entity and the unused production personality setting have also been cut; there is no surviving personality-state owner in live Unity source.
• AgentTask has been cut loose from the item projection base; AI tasks are local runtime work orders and no longer participate in the shared projection identity base.
• BodyConstructionData and OrbitConstructionData have also been cut loose from the item projection base; they keep local GUID fields for zone runtime lookup, but no longer inherit shared projection equality.
• Faction has been cut loose from the item projection base; it keeps local GUID equality for galaxy dictionaries while typed corporation records remain the durable catalog owner.
• Aetheria.Shared.Unity no longer references the vendored MessagePack assembly. The embedded GameCult.Aetheria.State.Unity package still depends on MessagePackReader to open CultCache .cc records; that dependency belongs to the typed state package boundary until it can move to a modern CultLib Unity package.
• The dead story compiled-JSON cache sketch and its SHA helper are deleted; story compilation currently reads Ink source directly until a typed Verse story/cache document exists.
• Runtime UI still contains old Unity UI/uGUI prefabs plus MonoBehaviour scripts under Assets/Scripts/UI/ and Assets/Prefabs/UI/, but the old renderer-local debug console and field-tester panel authorities have been deleted. Runtime UI commands must be provider-advertised Eve command documents, not text parsed by a Unity component or a test-scene uGUI panel and invoked directly against gameplay objects.
• Aetheria already has Unity UIElements support available through com.unity.modules.uielements. It now imports org.gamecult.eve.surface and org.gamecult.eve.unity-uitoolkit from the neighboring Eve repository: the first carries no-engine gamecult.eve.surface.v1 contract DTOs, and the second lowers those retained trees into UI Toolkit VisualElement trees. These packages are renderer boundaries, not UI truth owners. org.gamecult.aetheria.eve-runtime now adds the Aetheria-specific UIDocument presenter that reads provider-owned Eve surfaces from GameData/aetheria-world.cc and mounts them through the lowerer. Its command path sends typed gamecult.eve.command.v1 records to the provider-owned command bridge instead of accepting renderer-local command effects. AetheriaEveCommandBridge currently accepts the advertised catalog/operations refresh commands plus the first provider-owned player-settings mutation commands, republishes provider-owned surfaces, rejects unknown/unadvertised commands, and records AetheriaEveCommandAcceptanceStatus as typed state.

Invariants

• Durable game state is typed CultCache state, not JSON documents or ad hoc sidecars.
• Network-visible state is published through CultMesh/CultNet documents, not a RethinkDB changefeed or bespoke status endpoint.
• Record identity belongs to CultCache record keys and typed references, not to mutable domain base classes.
• UI surfaces are provider-owned Eve CultUI documents; Unity is a lowering runtime, not the owner of UI truth.
• Migration code may read old formats, but old stores cannot decide live state after migration.
• The runtime must have one commit path for user action, load/import, server replication, and editor mutation of the same state.

Current Authority Map

• Owner: Aetheria.State owns the new typed state spine for durable state. The embedded GameCult.Aetheria.State.Unity package owns Unity's runtime typed state file path plus the boot-time state-file probe, and is the landing zone for future typed catalog boot. ActionGameManager opens the package-owned typed runtime catalog snapshot and binds item reference resolution directly through ItemManager. Runtime code receives narrow ItemManager projection methods over typed runtime catalog rows and no longer hydrates old ItemData DTOs. Galaxy, entity restore, and faction-distance loadout weighting have been moved off legacy faction catalog reads. The embedded Unity state package owns the read-only runtime catalog model contract and the read-only known-schema .cc catalog opener. ActionGameManager now exposes that typed package snapshot at boot. The SDK-style Aetheria.State.Unity facade maps typed .cc documents into the same contract for full .NET smokes and Eve surface reads. Neither writes state or owns simulation. The runtime no longer has a MessagePack catalog cache or whole-item DTO projection cache. The typed runtime catalog snapshot exposes typed item rows only. ItemManager.CreateRuntimeBehaviors owns the explicit typed behavior-kind switch from typed payloads into live behavior instances. There is no remaining RuntimeBehaviorConfig projection and no reflection over LegacyPayloadKeyAttribute to select or assign config fields; gameplay stat modifiers target live behavior instances and package-owned behavior metadata instead of rebuilding config DTOs for lookup. ItemInstance.Reference stores the typed item key, ItemInstance.ItemKey is the runtime identity surface, and ItemInstance.ItemId is a derived legacy-GUID compatibility projection. EquippedCargoBay.ItemsOfType, consumable activation, action-bar consumable fill/quantity display, item transfer lookup, and trade owned-count rows now use item keys rather than GUID-owned cargo indexes. Weapon ammo and item-use behavior config item references are also item-key-only at the behavior API surface (AmmoItemKey/ItemKey); the derived AmmoType and Item GUID compatibility properties have been deleted. Runtime commit DTOs now publish item and hull identity through ItemKey/HullItemKey, with legacy ID fields demoted to compatibility. The package runtime catalog snapshot now indexes items by canonical item key, and Unity gameplay/UI/zone helper lookups resolve ItemKey directly rather than deriving legacy GUIDs for FindItemByLegacyId. The package snapshot no longer exposes item, corporation, or name-file Find*ByLegacyId indexes, and its runtime item/corporation/name-file DTOs no longer publish legacy relationship fields; legacy-ID lookup remains only on the canonical Aetheria.State migration/catalog inspection boundary. The shared runtime item catalog reader no longer has a GUID index or GetRuntimeItem(Guid) entry point; item-key strings are the only lookup authority; there is no remaining ItemInstance.Data identity/backing field. ItemManager reads typed catalog row lookup. Behavior type selection now uses an explicit runtime catalog map instead of UnionAttribute reflection, and the temporary behavior config constructor map is keyed by typed behavior payload kind rather than legacy union key. Live Behavior instances expose their typed payload kind and group directly, so runtime state projection, stat-modifier matching, and behavior grouping no longer reach back through config objects for behavior identity. Runtime item category classification uses package-owned AetheriaRuntimeItemCategories tokens; gameplay code should not ask C# legacy DTO class names to classify typed catalog rows. Aetheria.State.Import now materializes stable category tokens such as hull, weapon, gear, cargo-bay, and docking-bay into typed item documents, while old union names remain migration provenance. The typed state verifier also consumes those package-owned category tokens for consumable and docking-bay coverage checks and rejects item categories ending in Data. Item/behavior DTO field layout is no longer marked in live Unity source with MessagePack or project-owned payload-key attributes. Importer key maps and typed runtime payload fields own migrated layout; runtime behavior construction does not use field attributes as an authority. Item properties manufacturer display is a typed snapshot consumer; loadout generation uses typed catalog rows for hull type, shape, category, hardpoint type, behavior kind prefilters, and selected-item instantiation. The old trade debug UI and console give command have been deleted. The surviving trade menu also uses typed catalog rows for first-pass size, hardpoint, and behavior filters before hydrating row projections. No live caller can enumerate legacy catalog entries or request catalog-shaped single entries through ItemManager.
• Inputs: Unity gameplay code, legacy catalog files, typed state documents, and CultMesh server state.
• Outputs: Aetheria.State emits .cc state and CultMesh documents. Runtime typed item catalog projection emits in-memory domain objects only; the old local save and editor catalog write paths have been cut. Migrated catalog documents are addressed through AetheriaCatalogKeys and AetheriaStateNode legacy-ID methods, not importer-local string concatenation. Player settings, loadout templates, and run checkpoints have a shared Unity commit-log primitive plus a typed state node applicator. Run checkpoints now carry the current zone and its entity snapshots through that same command/apply spine. Whole-galaxy unloaded-zone projection still needs to be added once lazy generation has a typed state owner. The old SaveState/SaveZone command surface is gone. The catalog operator UI is emitted as a typed Eve surface document derived from the catalog snapshot.
• Derived state: UI panels, generated keyboard layouts, editor rows, typed state boot warnings, and serialized legacy payloads are projections, migration inputs, diagnostics, or disabled session-local DTOs, not durable authority.
• Forbidden writers: old JSON backing stores, JsonKnownTypes converters, Rethink/LiteNet paths, IMGUI database editor exports, local save-file writes, generated keyboard layout caches, server-side DatabaseCache paths, and item DTO projection caches.
• Shared paths: manual gameplay edits, editor edits, server updates, file load, file save, and migration all need to converge on one typed commit primitive.
• Deletion line: no new behavior should recreate old ItemData DTO metadata, whole-item projection caches, or MessagePack catalog paths except bounded migration readers.

Target Authority Map

• Owner: Aetheria.State, a typed document layer backed by modern GameCult.Caching and opened through a CultMesh node.
• Inputs: typed commands, save/import migration records, CultMesh replication, editor mutations, and deterministic simulation facts.
• Outputs: CultCache .cc state files, CultMesh document streams, Eve surface documents, simulation events, and migration reports.
• Derived state: Unity scene objects, HUD panels, editor inspectors, debug views, server dashboards, and compatibility DTOs.
• Forbidden writers: Unity UI components, RethinkDB, legacy JSON stores, RuntimeCatalogEntry.ID, RuntimeItemProjectionEntry, global cache statics, and any compatibility reader.
• Shared paths: gameplay input, editor edits, import/deep-load, replication, simulation ticks, and tests all call the same typed state service.
• Deletion line: keep old MessagePack/catalog metadata quarantined at import or typed CultCache transport boundaries only. Delete or quarantine any remaining live Unity predicates that still need legacy DTO vocabulary, and replace operator/runtime UI truth with Eve surfaces rather than parallel status widgets.

Intended Change

Create a modern Aetheria state runtime that opens a CultMesh node over a typed CultCache file, registers Aetheria document types, and exposes narrow ports for gameplay, editor tools, migration, and UI projection. The state runtime becomes the only live writer. Everything else becomes a consumer, a command source, or a migration reader.

Use modern CultLib surfaces:

• GameCult.Caching for [CultDocument], record keys, indexes, references, schema catalog, and typed persistence.
• GameCult.Caching.MessagePack for the binary CultCache backing format.
• GameCult.Mesh for node/database illusion, durable shard logs, Verse descriptors, authority leases, replication, and peer discovery.
• Eve CultUI for portable UI documents and command envelopes.

UI Direction

Unity should lower Eve surfaces through UI Toolkit, not through the old uGUI CultUI package as the strategic path.

The package should live in the Eve repo as an importable Unity package, for example org.gamecult.eve.unity-uitoolkit. It should consume gamecult.eve.surface.v1 and gamecult.eve.command.v1, lower retained components into UIDocument/VisualElement trees, and publish commands back to the provider through CultMesh/CultNet.

Aetheria should import that Eve package and provide surfaces. It should not own a bespoke Unity lowering. The existing CultLib Unity uGUI package remains useful as prior art for resolver-backed controls and inspector generation, but it is not the new portable UI authority.

The shared Eve Unity package pair now lives upstream in the neighboring Eve repository, and Aetheria imports it by sibling-repo file path:

• org.gamecult.eve.surface: no-engine DTOs for gamecult.eve.surface.v1.
• org.gamecult.eve.unity-uitoolkit: UI Toolkit lowering from those DTOs to native VisualElement trees.

These are import boundaries, not Aetheria UI authority. The provider-owned surface document in CultCache/CultMesh remains the truth, and the lowerer only projects it.

First Aetheria surfaces to publish:

• runtime HUD
• inventory
• menu shell
• sector/map view
• typed state inspector
• migration report / quarantine viewer
• server/session status

Migration Phases

1. Baseline

   • Record the current compile/test status for Unity and .NET projects.
   • Keep this map current before cutting code.
   • Count old authority references with rg so deletion has a visible target.

2. Modern state spine

   • Add references to modern GameCult.Caching, GameCult.Caching.MessagePack, and GameCult.Mesh.
   • Create Aetheria.State document definitions using [CultDocument], [MessagePackObject], [CultName], [CultIndex], and typed references.
   • Add a smoke that writes, flushes, reopens, and reads typed state from a CultCache .cc file.

3. Legacy quarantine

   • Done: capture old GameData/AetherDB.msgpack and related name files as a typed quarantine manifest without granting them runtime authority.
   • Done: emit typed CultCache records plus a migration ledger for the catalog quarantine preflight.
   • Done: implement a bounded raw payload mapper that converts stable old DatabaseEntry union fields into typed item/faction/name-file catalog documents without making Aetheria.State depend on Unity's legacy model.
   • Done: promote typed name files to aetheria.name_file.v2 with full name arrays, so Galaxy name generation has a Verse-owned replacement for legacy NameFile.Names.
   • Done: promote typed corporations to aetheria.corporation.v2 with full allegiance edges, so temporary Faction DTO projection can preserve loadout generation behavior without reading legacy faction entries.
   • Done: expand the stable item mapper to include equipment facets and behavior kind fingerprints needed by future Unity/Eve catalog consumers.
   • Done: import full item shape-cell masks into typed catalog documents and expose them through the Unity-facing read facade.
   • Done: import typed interior shape masks and hull hardpoint definitions needed by future equipment/cargo layout and fitting consumers.
   • Done: import recursive typed behavior payloads so future behavior factories no longer have to depend on legacy BehaviorData objects just to see authored behavior fields.
   • Done: expand typed AetheriaPlayerSettings so PlayerSettings.msgpack no longer lacks a durable Verse replacement for actual runtime settings values.
   • Done: add typed AetheriaLoadoutTemplate documents and smoke coverage so .loadout no longer lacks a durable Verse replacement.
   • Done: add the Unity runtime read projection for typed loadout templates, so the restore menu can rehydrate saved loadouts from CultCache instead of relying on the in-memory session list after restart.
   • Done: route runtime loadout restore through typed daemon operations. InventoryPanel may list typed loadout templates and display the restored entity, but the daemon owns blueprint instantiation, credit spend, docked-ship assignment, current entity update, and typed run checkpoint.
   • Done: add typed node ports and smoke coverage for run -> zone -> entity snapshots so .zone no longer lacks a durable Verse replacement graph.
   • Done: extend run checkpoint commits and smoke coverage to carry typed action-bar bindings into AetheriaRunState as stable input-control and target references instead of UI or behavior-object payloads.
   • Done: extend run checkpoint commits and smoke coverage to carry typed faction relationship rows into AetheriaRunState as corporation references, relationship tokens, and numeric standings.
   • Done: make AetheriaRuntimeSession a live CultMesh document with state node ports, provider advertisement, server heartbeat publication, and smoke coverage; daemon liveness is no longer only console output or incidental drain status.
   • Done: extend run checkpoint commits and smoke coverage to carry typed zone orbit/body rows into AetheriaZoneState, so generated celestial graph facts no longer live only inside construction blueprints.
   • Done: extend run checkpoint commits and smoke coverage to carry typed entity simulation stat grids into AetheriaEntitySnapshot, so temperature/armor/conductivity no longer live only in runtime blueprints.
   • Done: extend run checkpoint commits and smoke coverage to carry public entity session state into AetheriaEntitySnapshot: velocity, target references, active/toggle scalars, thermal injury accumulators, and active consumable timers.
   • Done: extend run checkpoint commits and smoke coverage to carry typed behavior progress rows for equipped-item and active-consumable behaviors that expose IProgressBehavior.
   • Done: extend run checkpoint commits and smoke coverage to carry typed weapon behavior state rows for instant, charged, and constant weapon runtime internals.
   • Done: extend weapon behavior state rows for lock-weapon progress and target entity references, so lock acquisition state no longer evaporates at the commit boundary.
   • Done: extend run checkpoint commits and smoke coverage to carry typed behavior state rows for sensor ping state plus radiator, reactor, and capacitor runtime internals.
   • Done: extend behavior state rows for AetherDrive axis, thrust, RPM, maximum RPM, and thrust direction, so drive rotor state has a typed snapshot/readback path.
   • Done: extend behavior state rows for ResourceScanner target body key, asteroid index, scan timer, range, minimum density, and duration, so scanner progress and target ownership are typed state instead of live-only behavior memory.
   • Done: extend behavior state rows for MiningTool asteroid belt key, asteroid index, and range, so active mining target state is typed snapshot/readback state.
   • Done: extend behavior state rows for Thruster axis, thrust, and torque, so analog propulsion state is typed snapshot/readback state.
   • Done: extend behavior state rows for Shield efficiency/energy usage, VelocityLimit limit, and Thermotoggle target temperature.
   • Done: extend behavior state rows for Switch activation and Trigger pending pull state.
   • Done: extend behavior state rows for StatModifier applied/executed flags and target-stat count.
   • Done: extend behavior state rows for TurretController initialized weapon count, shot speed, and predictive-aim flag.
   • Done: move TurretController weapon range and shot-speed evaluation behind Weapon runtime methods, so turret AI no longer casts weapon config DTOs to decide firing range or predictive aim.
   • Done: cut live simulation grids out of EntityConstructionBlueprint; loadout and construction templates no longer capture or restore temperature, armor, max-armor, or hull-conductivity state.
   • Done: add Unity package readback for canonical typed run, zone, and entity snapshot documents, so the .zone replacement graph is not only writable through the state node but also inspectable by runtime package consumers.
   • Done: preserve asteroid belt runtime state on typed asteroid rows: damage, respawn timers, and miner accumulator references.
   • Done: persist the actual galaxy generation seed in typed run state, so future Continue/restore work has a reproducible topology body before applying current-zone/entity snapshots.
   • Done: preserve entity snapshot item-instance facts for equipment, cargo-bay, and docking-bay slot rows: item key, quality, durability, and quantity now survive canonical state and Unity package readback.
   • Done: preserve item enabled state on typed loadout items and entity item slots, so disabled equipment is no longer only runtime blueprint state.
   • Done: preserve cargo bay contents, docking bay contents, and docking bay child assignments in typed entity snapshots.
   • Done: preserve aggregate entity visibility and visibility-source count in typed entity snapshots, so Entity.VisibilitySources no longer hides untyped session pressure.
   • Done: preserve entity contact rows for gathered info, hostility, and visible classification, so detection/contact state is typed snapshot data instead of only reactive runtime collections.
   • Done: preserve dropped world-pickup rows in typed zone snapshots. Run checkpoints now carry pickup index, position, velocity, item key, quality, durability, quantity, and package readback through AetheriaRuntimeZoneStateSnapshot.DroppedPickups.
   • Done: lower typed dropped-pickup zone rows back into live scene pickups on zone load. AetheriaRuntimeZoneStateSnapshot.RecordKey preserves the exact typed zone identity, and ActionGameManager restores only the matching RunId + ZoneIndex pickup rows through ZoneRenderer.DropItem.
   • Done: replace the main-menu null Continue button with a typed run-state entry point. MainMenu reads available AetheriaRunState records through AetheriaRuntimeCatalogStore, selects the newest run, regenerates the galaxy from the saved generation seed, and passes the selected run to ActionGameManager so boot enters the saved current zone and lowers typed pickup rows.
   • Done: restore the current zone's entity graph from typed state during Continue boot. Package entity readback preserves AetheriaEntitySnapshot record identity, and ActionGameManager resolves the exact RunId + ZoneIndex entity-record prefix, removes generated zone entities and their agents as Continue authority, lowers all typed entity snapshots through the existing construction blueprint path, restores hull, equipment, cargo, docking contents, weapon groups, position, direction, velocity, shutdown override, heatsink toggle, tractor power, heatstroke/hypothermia exposure, active consumable item/timer rows, typed stat grids for temperature, thermal mass, armor, max armor, and hull-conductivity axes, then reconnects target/contact rows among restored entities, restores child/docking relationships from typed child keys and docking-bay assignments, restores typed weapon and behavior runtime rows into live behavior instances, and binds the saved current entity by AetheriaRunState.CurrentEntityKey so Continue restore follows exact typed entity identity instead of reconstructing the player ship from an integer slot. Canonical run state and package runtime snapshots no longer keep the old current-entity slot field; the package reader only synthesizes the key from older stored runs, and the pending commit reader only synthesizes it from older queued run checkpoints, when those compatibility seams are encountered.
   • Done: project run checkpoint entity snapshots from the flattened live entity graph, not only Zone.Entities, so docked child ships can receive typed entity records and stable child/docking references instead of disappearing from the .zone replacement graph.
   • Done: complete typed runtime behavior factory construction and snapshot coverage for the live mutable behavior families. Articulated weapon kinds restore through typed weapon rows, mutable non-weapon kinds restore through typed behavior rows, and generic progress kinds project through the shared progress path. Remaining work in this lane is catalog-field coverage, not a missing runtime behavior owner.

4. Runtime cutover

   • Done: add a Unity-facing typed catalog read facade and smoke proving it can read the materialized .cc catalog plus Eve surface without the legacy catalog reader.
   • Done: move Galaxy faction selection and name generation to the typed runtime catalog; legacy Faction/NameFile catalog entries no longer decide generated sector factions or zone names.
   • Done: move entity faction restore to Galaxy.ResolveFactionByKey through EntityConstructionBlueprint.FactionKey, so typed loadout readback and entity construction resolve corporation identity by typed key only. The old blueprint Faction GUID compatibility field is deleted, and runtime entity/faction-relationship commits no longer rebuild faction keys from legacy Faction.ID GUIDs.
   • Done: delete Faction.Allegiance, Galaxy.ContainsFaction(Guid), and Galaxy.ResolveFaction(Guid); galaxy/loadout faction relationship logic now uses AllegianceByKey, ContainsFaction(string), and ResolveFactionByKey only.
   • Done: delete the temporary Faction shell's GeonameFile and BossHull GUID link fields; galaxy name generation and boss-zone eligibility use GeonameFileKey and BossHullItemKey.
   • Done: move temporary Faction equality, hashing, narrative constraints, sector display filtering, sector-map link/influence rendering, zone security ownership checks, and runtime faction-relationship ordering to FactionKey. The legacy Faction.ID projection field is deleted from the temporary simulation shell.
   • Done: move package and canonical manufacturer/corporation/name-file lookup to typed keys (ManufacturerKey, CorporationKey, GeonameFileKey, and NameFileKey), and move loadout manufacturer-distance weighting to Galaxy.ResolveFactionByKey, so loadout code no longer parses manufacturer legacy GUIDs to find faction influence.
   • Done: move LoadoutGenerator weighted candidate selection, hardpoint fit, station bay fit, cargo/capacitor fit, selected-item reuse, hull/category, hull type, hull conductivity setup, and behavior-kind prefilters onto typed runtime catalog rows; selected item instantiation now receives typed rows directly.
   • Done: replace LoadoutGenerator's legacy DTO generic selectors with private typed candidate-kind selectors, so loadout code no longer asks for HullData, GearData, CargoBayData, or EquippableItemData as candidate-selection authority.
   • Done: add package-owned AetheriaRuntimeItemCategories tokens and move runtime category checks off nameof(ConsumableItemData), nameof(HullData), nameof(WeaponItemData), and scattered raw category strings in gameplay/loadout/docking classification.
   • Done: remap imported item definition Category values from legacy union class names to stable typed tokens, regenerate GameData/aetheria-world.cc, and add a verifier guard that fails if item categories contain old *Data DTO names.
   • Done: delete unused TradeMenuDebug; the old debug uGUI trade path no longer hydrates typed trade rows back into legacy ItemData objects.
   • Done: move surviving trade menu size, hardpoint, and behavior filters onto typed catalog row prefilters before row-level ItemData hydration.
   • Done: move trade menu row presentation for name, mass, price, size, hardpoint type, commodity subtype, hull-owned counts, and behavior-kind filtering onto typed TradeRow fields.
   • Done: demote TradeMenu behavior filters from BehaviorData Type authority to typed behavior kind keys matched against typed payloads; BehaviorData reflection remains only for temporary filter labels and dynamic column metadata.
   • Done: move trade menu buy price, ship-hull classification, and simple commodity stack-size decisions onto typed catalog rows; inventory transfer and ship construction are daemon-owned runtime mutations.
   • Done: route trade purchase mutation through typed daemon operations. TradeMenu still presents typed trade rows and calculates display prices, but no longer subtracts credits, transfers purchased cargo, or constructs purchased ships directly. The daemon owns the purchase mutation and typed run checkpoint.
   • Done: move TradeMenu dynamic behavior columns onto typed behavior payload fields; the menu no longer hydrates ItemData or BehaviorData for row display, filtering, sorting, or buy decisions.
   • Done: move action-bar consumable drop binding, activation command, and active-duration fill onto typed catalog item IDs; legacy ConsumableItemData is now only a compatibility fallback because the current mapped legacy catalog contains no consumable item rows.
   • Done: move player camera articulation grouping for equipped non-launcher weapons onto typed behavior-kind rows instead of runtime BehaviorData type inspection.
   • Done: import typed thermal bounds and move schematic HUD heat-fill ranges onto typed catalog rows.
   • Done: move schematic HUD weapon-row classification onto typed behavior-kind rows; runtime Weapon instances remain the owner for live ammo/cooldown display values.
   • Done: move target HUD hitpoint fill denominator onto typed hull durability; live hull item durability remains the numerator/runtime damage owner.
   • Done: import typed item specific heat and move ItemManager generic mass, thermal-mass, and crafted-price helpers onto typed runtime catalog rows.
   • Done: import typed thermal performance curve keys and move PropertiesPanel thermal curve presentation onto typed catalog rows; incomplete typed rows use a neutral fallback curve instead of hydrating legacy thermal DTOs.
   • Done: move PropertiesPanel runtime behavior stat display and damage-range curves onto typed behavior payload fields, and delete the explicit Inspect(ItemData) projection inspector after moving trade row inspection onto typed runtime catalog rows.
   • Done: replace the PropertiesPanel stat modifier class-name check with the package-owned typed StatModifier behavior kind.
   • Done: demote PropertiesPanel weapon damage-range payload matching from BehaviorData Type authority to package-owned typed weapon behavior metadata.
   • Done: move PropertiesPanel generic behavior stat display off BehaviorData reflection and onto package-owned typed behavior display metadata keyed by behavior kind and payload field key.
   • Done: complete package-owned typed behavior metadata coverage for live Heat, MiningTool, and Thermotoggle payload fields plus Switch and Trigger shell kinds. PropertiesPanel and TradeMenu no longer silently drop those typed behavior families, and temperature-bearing payload values format through the runtime temperature unit.
   • Done: move TradeMenu behavior filter options, behavior family matching, and dynamic behavior columns off BehaviorData reflection and onto package-owned typed behavior metadata.
   • Done: delete the dead RuntimeInspectable attribute and annotations after the UI behavior metadata owner moved into the typed runtime package.
   • Done: remove the loot pickup presentation fallback to legacy ItemData; typed category/name rows now decide pickup visuals and scan labels, and missing typed rows render generic unknown gear pickup presentation.
   • Done: import typed hull prefab paths and move ZoneRenderer entity scene instantiation onto typed hull rows; legacy HullData no longer chooses zone entity prefabs or station compass classification.
   • Done: move EntityInstance hull shape and hardpoint presentation/damage masks onto typed catalog rows; legacy HullData no longer supplies hull shape or hardpoint lists to scene entity instances.
   • Done: move InventoryPanel entity-grid hull shape/interior rendering and thermal overlay masking onto typed catalog rows; legacy HullData no longer supplies equipment-grid display geometry.
   • Done: move EquippedCargoBay cargo geometry, item fit shape, simple stack limits, cargo mass, cargo thermal mass, and InventoryPanel cargo-grid lowering onto typed catalog rows; legacy CargoBayData remains only in later simulation projections such as behavior construction.
   • Done: import docking bay max ship size into typed item rows and move EquippedDockingBay.MaxSize onto the typed runtime catalog row; legacy DockingBayData.MaxSize is no longer the runtime docking-limit owner.
   • Done: move EquippedItem.InsetShape construction onto typed hull and item shape rows; legacy HullData.Shape/EquippableItemData.Shape no longer decide equipped-item temperature footprint geometry.
   • Done: move EquippedItem and ConsumableItemEffect behavior construction off Data.Behaviors and onto typed runtime behavior payload construction.
   • Done: route EquippedItem and ConsumableItemEffect behavior instance creation through ItemManager.CreateRuntimeBehaviors; behavior reads now go through RuntimeBehaviorDefinition.
   • Done: move the temporary behavior config constructor map from legacy union keys to typed behavior payload kind strings; union keys remain migration provenance only for this runtime path.
   • Done: move StatModifier behavior requirements and behavior-stat targets off EquippableItemData.Behaviors and old BehaviorData subclass identity checks. Live behaviors carry typed payload kinds, and StatModifier matches those kind strings for target and requirement selection. The obsolete item-DTO stat target branch is deleted because the live equippable item DTO hierarchy has no active PerformanceStat fields.
   • Done: move StatModifier target and requirement lookup onto the live equipped behavior instances. It now modifies the PerformanceStat objects actually held by runtime behaviors instead of rebuilding temporary config DTOs from the catalog.
   • Done: delete the generic BehaviorPayloadReader.Guid(...) helper from ItemManager; migrated behavior payload legacy-ID fields now cross the runtime bridge only through the explicit ItemKey(...) projection.
   • Done: move StatModifier behavior kind/family matching onto AetheriaRuntimeBehaviorMetadataCatalog; the behavior only normalizes migrated *Data tokens before asking the package-owned metadata owner.
   • Done: move live behavior identity reads onto Behavior.Kind and Behavior.Group, so state snapshots, weapon snapshots, progress rows, stat-modifier matching, and behavior grouping use runtime instance identity.
   • Done: move TurretController's weapon range/velocity reads off weapon config casts and onto Weapon.EvaluateRange/EvaluateVelocity; copied weapon range and velocity fields are owned by the weapon runtime.
   • Done: move projectile, hitscan, beam, lightning, and mine effect damage type reads off weapon configs and onto Weapon.DamageType; effect managers consume live weapon metadata instead of config DTO fields.
   • Done: move weapon effect prefab lookup and constant weapon visual startup off InstantWeaponData/ConstantWeaponData; EntityInstance caches managers by Weapon.EffectPrefab, and constant effect managers consume live ConstantWeapon stats.
   • Done: move thruster particle prefab lookup off ThrusterData; ShipInstance now consumes Thruster.ParticlesPrefab, so the renderer reads live behavior metadata instead of the temporary config bridge.
   • Done: move AetherDrive particle prefab lookup off AetherDriveData; ShipInstance now consumes AetherDrive.Particles, and the public DriveData escape hatch has been removed.
   • Done: move guided missile profile reads off LauncherData and GuidedWeaponData; GuidedProjectileManager now consumes Weapon-owned target mode, curve keys, dodge frequency, and evaluated thrust/top-speed values.
   • Done: move HUD ammo display reads off WeaponData; SchematicDisplay consumes Weapon.AmmoItemKey, Weapon.MagazineSize, and Weapon.UsesAmmo, and the public WeaponData escape hatch has been removed.
   • Done: stop Weapon, InstantWeapon, ConstantWeapon, ChargedWeapon, and LockWeapon from retaining runtime config subclasses; weapon-family constructors now copy stats, curves, ammo/reload data, guided projectile profile fields, burst/cooldown fields, charge multipliers, and lock parameters into runtime-owned fields.
   • Done: delete dormant legacy item audio reads in EntityInstance and stale commented thruster sound-trigger code; those paths had no live output and therefore earned deletion rather than a new runtime metadata owner.
   • Done: move runtime orbit parent/phase/distance/fixed-position reads off OrbitConstructionData; Zone, ActionGameManager, and ZoneRenderer consume Orbit runtime properties, and the old Orbit.ToData() construction capture bridge is deleted.
   • Done: move orbit phase evaluation off OrbitConstructionData; runtime zone updates, asteroid transforms, and generator rosette spacing now use Orbit.Evaluate, leaving OrbitConstructionData as a construction input only.
   • Done: move orbital runtime entity ownership from the old DTO-shaped OrbitData scar all the way onto OrbitKey; the obsolete OrbitId intermediate field is gone, and runtime entities now resolve through Zone instead of exposing wrapper orbit GUID authority.
   • Done: move patrol/tow orbit targets onto typed orbit keys: PatrolOrbitsTask, MoveToOrbitState, and StationTowing now retain keyed orbit references, and Zone owns orbit-key parsing/resolution for agent orbit movement.
   • Done: move live asteroid-belt simulation, scanning, and mesh setup reads off AsteroidBeltConstructionData; Zone, ResourceScanner, and AsteroidBeltUI consume AsteroidBelt runtime asteroid/resource/orbit properties, and the old AsteroidBelt.ToData() construction capture bridge is deleted.
   • Done: move live planet mass/orbit/gravity reads off BodyConstructionData; Zone gravity evaluation and ZoneRenderer consume Planet runtime properties, and the old Planet.ToData() construction capture bridge is deleted.
   • Done: move typed zone orbit snapshot projection off construction-blueprint orbit rows; run checkpoint commits now project current Zone.Orbits runtime wrappers into typed orbit snapshot rows.
   • Done: move typed zone body snapshot projection off BodyConstructionData and AsteroidBeltConstructionData; run checkpoint commits now project Planet and AsteroidBelt runtime wrappers, including body resources, asteroid runtime damage/respawn/miner accumulators, and gas/sun visual fields.
   • Done: move visited-sector summary counts off construction-blueprint body/entity DTOs; SectorRenderer now counts planets, belts, gas giants, stars, stations, turrets, and ships from GalaxyZone.Contents runtime wrappers and live entities.
   • Done: delete GalaxyZone.RuntimeBlueprint as a persistent zone-side cache; unvisited zone generation now feeds the Zone constructor directly, and visited zone state is owned by GalaxyZone.Contents/Zone.CaptureBlueprint.
   • Done: delete the Zone.Planets BodyConstructionData shadow dictionary; orbit targeting, resource scanning, and zone capture now read PlanetInstances and AsteroidBelts runtime wrappers, with DTOs retained only as construction/capture payloads.
   • Done: move ZoneRenderer body classification off BodyConstructionData subclasses; zone rendering now walks runtime orbits and lowers Planet, GasGiant, Sun, and AsteroidBelt wrappers directly.
   • Done: remove public GasGiantConstructionData/SunConstructionData handles from runtime wrappers; wave and light calculations now use copied wrapper fields after construction.
   • Done: move saved loadout template ownership off EntityConstructionBlueprint; ActionGameManager keeps typed AetheriaRuntimeLoadoutTemplateSnapshot documents and projects blueprints only for pricing, instantiation, and commit boundaries.
   • Done: rename RuntimeZoneBlueprint to ZoneConstructionBlueprint, delete retained construction-payload state from Zone, and delete the unused construction-capture bridge; Zone now keeps radius/mass as copied runtime facts after construction.
   • Done: delete the legacy Behaviors lists from ConsumableItemData and EquippableItemData; item DTOs can no longer carry behavior config state.
   • Done: move runtime blueprint price aggregation and conductivity restore geometry onto typed runtime item price and hull shape rows; legacy ItemData.Price and HullData.Shape no longer own those blueprint paths.
   • Done: move runtime blueprint item cloning off ItemData hydration and onto typed runtime item rows; ItemManager.Instantiate now clones simple commodities, crafted items, consumables, and equippables from AetheriaRuntimeCatalogItem identity and facets.
   • Done: delete dead runtime blueprint behavior-private persistence: PersistedBehaviors, IPersistentBehavior, and PersistentBehaviorData no longer exist, so behavior state cannot smuggle itself through the blueprint projection path.
   • Done: delete the runtime item DTO hydration bridge; ItemManager.GetData, ItemManager.Hydrate, the old projection reader item DTO API, the redundant AetheriaRuntimeItemCatalog cache wrapper, and RuntimeItemReference.Projection are gone.
   • Done: move final Entity.ItemFits, TryFindSpace, TryEquip, and TryUnequip gear occupancy/mass deltas onto typed catalog rows for item shape, hull shape/interior, hardpoint masks, cargo/docking category, and mass/thermal mass.
   • Done: move LoadoutGenerator selected item birth onto typed runtime item rows via ItemManager.CreateEquippableInstance; generated hulls, cargo, docking bays, controllers, capacitors, reused gear, and station inventory no longer hydrate EquippableItemData projections merely to instantiate.
   • Done: import typed conductivity and hull physical facets, regenerate the checked-in .cc catalog, and move Entity.MapEntity, Entity.UnoccupiedSpace, grid-offset placement, and Entity.UpdateTemperature onto typed runtime hull rows.
   • Done: move entity default naming onto typed hull rows and delete the entity-level HullData property that only preserved legacy name hydration.
   • Done: move unequipped ItemManager.Evaluate durability/name inputs onto typed runtime item rows; legacy EquippableItemData.Durability no longer owns that stat-evaluation path.
   • Done: move new equippable instance durability initialization onto typed runtime item rows.
   • Done: move EquippedItem conductivity and max-durability performance/wear inputs onto typed runtime item rows.
   • Done: move EquippedItem thermal performance evaluation onto typed runtime item thermal bounds and curve keys; missing typed curve/range data uses a neutral runtime default.
   • Done: import typed thermal resilience and move equipped-item wear scaling off EquippableItemData.ThermalResilience; missing typed resilience uses a neutral runtime default.
   • Done: import typed audio parameter stat bindings and move equipped-item Wwise parameter updates off EquippableItemData.AudioStats; missing typed audio stat bindings produce no parameter updates.
   • Done: add typed consumable stackability, duration, and effectiveness curve fields and route action-bar consumable activation/runtime evaluation through typed item rows; verifier records that the current mapped catalog has 0 consumable item rows, so future consumable content still needs typed coverage.
   • Done: delete Entity consumable activation overloads that accepted ConsumableItemData; active lookup uses item keys and activation commands accept typed runtime catalog rows only.
   • Done: delete dead Entity.GetBehaviorData<T>() and stale commented switch/trigger/axis behavior-query helpers; entity-level behavior queries expose live behavior instances, not DTO config.
   • Done: import action-bar icon resource paths into typed item definitions and move ActionBarSlot custom gear icon lookup onto typed runtime item rows.
   • Done: move Ship drag, combat/turret predicted shot height, and thruster torque geometry onto typed hull facets and typed shape masks.
   • Done: delete the console give command instead of preserving a debug operator path that hydrated typed item rows back into legacy item DTOs.
   • Done: delete ItemManager.GetCatalogEntries<T> after all live callers moved to typed catalog selection.
   • Done: delete ILegacyItemCatalogReader.GetAll<T> and the type/global indexes inside LegacyItemCatalogCache; the legacy cache is now only a pull-fed GUID lookup bridge.
   • Done: remove GameData/NameFile/*.msgpack from Unity runtime legacy catalog boot; typed name files now own runtime names, and old name files remain migration inputs only.
   • Done: narrow ILegacyItemCatalogReader and DatabaseLink<T> to ItemData; LegacyItemCatalogCache ignores non-item entries from AetherDB.msgpack.
   • Done: replace ActionGameManager cache bootstrap with the typed AetheriaRuntimeCatalogSnapshot; delete LegacyItemCatalogBoundary, LegacyItemCatalogCache, and the runtime MessagePack deserializer path.
   • Done: demote DatabaseEntry and DatabaseLink<T> from MessagePack union/object shapes to plain runtime identity/link helpers.
   • Done: rename live Unity projection helpers from DatabaseEntry, DatabaseLink<T>, and InspectableDatabaseLinkAttribute to runtime projection names, and move the old ServerShared/CultCache folder to ServerShared/RuntimeProjection.
   • Done: rename the surviving runtime DTO identity base from RuntimeCatalogEntry to RuntimeItemProjectionEntry.
   • Done: delete the RuntimeItemProjectionEntry base after item DTO hydration was removed; surviving ItemData DTOs own only their local legacy GUID.
   • Done: delete unused InspectableRuntimeCatalogLinkAttribute metadata from runtime DTOs; link inspection no longer masquerades as catalog authority.
   • Done: delete the empty RuntimeProjection/Serialization folder marker and unused projection-era attributes (GlobalSettings, RangedFloat, Tooltip, Name, and the commented ExternalEntry) from live Unity source.
   • Done: replace behavior union reflection with an explicit runtime catalog behavior map and remove all live Union(...) annotations.
   • Done: demote agent task runtime shapes from MessagePack object/key/union metadata to plain in-memory DTOs.
   • Done: demote legacy player, faction, name-file, galaxy-map-layer, and narrative helper DTOs from MessagePack metadata to plain runtime/inspector shapes.
   • Done: delete remaining item/behavior DTO MessagePack field metadata and the follow-on LegacyPayloadKeyAttribute; no live Assets/Scripts source depends on Newtonsoft, RethinkDB, bespoke save-file serializer symbols, or legacy payload-key annotations. Remaining package-level MessagePack usage is the typed CultCache .cc transport boundary, not a gameplay save format.
   • Done: delete dead PlayerData and GalaxyMapLayerData catalog roots, and remove legacy catalog group/table annotations from surviving runtime DTOs.
   • Done: move loadout generation's selected-item instantiation onto typed runtime item rows; typed catalog filtering remains the selection owner.
   • Done: remove stale main-menu/editor database vocabulary from Unity UI surfaces; galaxy generation now reports typed catalog loading.
   • Done: remove the stale MessagePack assembly reference from Aetheria.Shared.Unity; the remaining MessagePack reference is contained in the typed state package's .cc reader.
   • Done: convert domain references from GUID/base-class patterns to typed record refs. Item instances, cargo inventory indexes, weapon ammo references, item-use behavior references, and runtime commit item/hull surfaces now carry typed item keys. Runtime behavior resource-scanner and mining-tool body references are named and serialized as typed body keys through commit/readback state, with the behaviors retaining keyed runtime state directly and Zone owning key-indexed runtime lookup. Patrol/tow orbit task targets now also retain typed orbit keys with Zone owning orbit-key resolution. Orbital runtime entities and runtime construction blueprints now also retain typed OrbitKey values, with Zone owning orbital movement and dock-camera parent-orbit resolution for that seam. Renderer, intro-cutscene, and ResourceScanner orbit readers now also consume the wrapper OrbitKey edge instead of wrapper GUID orbit fields. Planet, AsteroidBelt, and Orbit runtime wrappers no longer retain GUID identity sidecars; they keep BodyKey/OrbitKey/ParentOrbitKey plus their runtime object links. Zone no longer keeps GUID-to-body lookup dictionaries or the GetBodyKey(Guid) bridge. Zone construction data and generator handoff now carry typed orbit/body keys directly, and the remaining agent-task shell placeholders also retain typed string keys rather than raw GUID fields. The only surviving GUID use in this lane is local key minting during zone generation, not runtime reference authority.
   • Done: delete the ItemInstance.ItemId legacy-GUID projection; diagnostics now report ItemKey so item instances expose only typed item-key identity.
   • Done: delete Entity/EquippedCargoBay cargo and consumable GUID lookup overloads; transfer, count, active-consumable, and first-item APIs now expose item-key contracts only.
   • Done: delete the runtime catalog raw-GUID string fallback and unused reverse legacy-GUID projections from AetheriaRuntimeItemReference; catalog lookup accepts canonical item keys only.
   • Done: move action-bar consumable bindings off Target.LegacyId parsing; they read the typed runtime row ItemKey directly for HUD fill/count and runtime commit projection.
   • Done: move zone body resource dictionaries from legacy item GUID keys to typed item-key strings; runtime body resource commit projection no longer calls FromLegacyId.
   • Done: move resource scanner targets and mining tool asteroid belts to typed body-key runtime commit fields; raw body ID command-document fields are deleted.
   • Done: delete the old ItemData/EquippableItemData/HullData/ WeaponItemData DTO hierarchy from live Unity source; shared runtime geometry/stat primitives now live in RuntimeGeometry.cs.

5. Mesh host

   • Replace the old RethinkDB/LiteNetLib database authority with a CultMesh node.
   • Keep any transport bridge only if it delegates to CultMesh and protects a named external compatibility contract.
   • Publish Verse descriptors and state subscriptions through CultMesh.

6. Eve UI

   • Done: publish the typed catalog operator surface from Aetheria.State.
   • Done: stage the Eve surface contract DTO package and UI Toolkit lowering package as importable Unity packages, then move their shared home into the neighboring Eve repo once that worktree was clean.
   • Done: teach the embedded Unity state package to read gamecult.eve.surface records from the .cc store into that shared contract.
   • Done: add org.gamecult.aetheria.eve-runtime with a UIDocument presenter that mounts typed Eve surfaces from GameData/aetheria-world.cc through UI Toolkit without giving the renderer state authority.
   • Done: publish renderer-emitted Eve commands as typed gamecult.eve.command.v1 records, separate from runtime state commits so only the daemon-owned provider bridge accepts commands it owns.
   • Done: add the provider-owned Eve command bridge that accepts observed Eve commands, validates provider/surface/command templates, invokes the current refresh handlers, republishes accepted surfaces, rejects unknown commands, and records typed command acceptance status.
   • Done: delete provider-side Eve command emission from AetheriaEveCommandBridge; renderer/runtime requests submit through AetheriaRuntimeEveCommands, while the provider bridge only validates, applies, reports, and deletes accounted commands.
   • Done: replace the old pending-lane private raw MessagePack payload files with CultCache-shaped command documents. AetheriaRuntimeCultCacheDocumentStore owns the temporary envelope writer/reader until the Unity package can use generated CultCache serializers directly.
   • Done: extend the command bridge beyond refresh commands for the first mutating settings surface; player-settings Eve commands now mutate canonical AetheriaPlayerSettings and republish the provider-owned aetheria.player_settings surface.
   • Done: wire the presenter into runtime through AetheriaEveRuntimeBootstrap so the operations surface mounts as a UI Toolkit surface after scene load.
   • Done: delete the concrete uGUI debug console path: ConsoleView, ConsoleController, the ARPG.unity script binding, and ActionGameManager debug command registrations. Refresh commands now use the Eve command bridge; future gameplay/editor commands must add provider-owned Eve handlers instead of reintroducing renderer-local text command execution.
   • Done: delete the uGUI FieldTester debug panel and its FieldShieldTest.unity script binding. Future field prototype controls should be provider-owned Eve/prototype commands or local simulation code, not a PropertiesPanel mutating FieldDriver directly.
   • Done: delete PropertiesPanel reflection write authority. The legacy inspector can still project object fields for display, but readWrite mode and FieldInfo.SetValue mutation are gone; renderer-local object edits must become provider-owned typed commands or local simulation code.
   • Done: route runtime simulation tuning controls through typed daemon operations. UI fields for entity override shutdown, per-item override shutdown, thermotoggle target temperature, and entity shutdown performance now send daemon requests instead of writing simulation objects directly. The item override-shutdown bit is part of the typed loadout/entity item-slot state so the daemon checkpoint spine can see what the simulation sees.
   • Done: route hull conductivity toggles through typed daemon operations. InventoryPanel requests conductivity edge toggles; the daemon mutates Entity.HullConductivity and publishes the typed run checkpoint that projects hull_conductivity_x and hull_conductivity_y grids.
   • Done: route inventory entity renames through typed daemon operations. InventoryPanel may collect the name in a dialog, but the daemon owns the entity Name mutation and typed entity snapshot checkpoint.
   • Done: route weapon group membership changes through typed daemon operations. The old WeaponGroupAssignment uGUI shell and its prefab chain have been deleted; the daemon owns the membership mutation and typed checkpoint outright.
   • Done: route action-bar drag/drop bindings through typed daemon operations, and restore them from typed run-state descriptors when the current entity changes or a typed continue run rehydrates the session. Runtime UI may still lower the action bar, but the daemon owns both the binding mutation and the rebind path back onto the live current entity.
   • Done: route inventory double-click transfer and drag/drop placement through typed daemon operations. InventoryMenu and InventoryPanel no longer drop items, remove cargo, unequip gear, equip gear, or store cargo directly for those UI paths; they ask the daemon to commit cargo-to-cargo, cargo-to-equipment, equipment-to-cargo, or equipment-to-equipment movement and then refresh display. uGUI still owns the presentation shell for now, not the inventory mutation.
   • Done: route docked current-ship selection through typed daemon operations. InventoryPanel may request a selected docked player ship and update the button color, but the daemon owns CurrentEntity, DockingBay.DockedShip, and the typed checkpoint.
   • Done: route loot pickup through typed daemon operations. ShieldManager may detect the collision and destroy the world pickup after a successful commit, but it no longer stores items into cargo bays directly; the daemon owns the cargo mutation and typed run checkpoint.
   • Done: route entity destruction through typed daemon operations. EntityInstance observes hull death and may spawn the local destruction effect, but the daemon owns equipment/cargo drop decisions, zone entity removal, and the typed run checkpoint. Dropped world pickups are now projected into typed zone snapshot state and lowered back into live scene pickups by exact typed zone record key during zone load.
   • Done: replace the main-menu gameplay/graphics settings screen with a locally lowered UI Toolkit projection of the shared aetheria.player_settings Eve surface contract. The menu shell still owns entry/exit flow, but the daemon now owns surface command semantics through typed Eve player-settings commands.
   • Done: move the main-menu player-name field into the shared aetheria.player_settings Eve surface contract. MainMenu no longer owns a special-case text field; UI Toolkit lowers the shared Eve text control and the daemon owns the typed player-settings command.
   • Done: replace the whole main-menu shell with Eve-owned UI Toolkit surfaces. Root navigation and settings/input pages now lower through a single Eve host instead of the old PropertiesPanel/fade shell. The menu remains a client-side projection: the Aetheria daemon owns Verse state and Unity renders and submits commands. The input page now reports typed state and opens the live runtime Eve input screen in the in-game overlay instead of the old drag/drop uGUI remap shell. The fake audio page is deleted until audio has a typed state owner.
   • Done: replace the live runtime input remap screen with an Eve-owned UI Toolkit surface that still calls into Aetheria's low-level InputSystem remapping layer through typed player-settings commands.
   • Done: replace the sector-map zone details panel with an Eve-owned UI Toolkit surface. SectorRenderer still owns reveal/camera behavior, but zone inspection no longer rebuilds PropertiesPanel rows when the player clicks a zone.

• Done: replace the runtime in-game menu tab strip with an Eve-owned UI Toolkit surface. MenuPanel now owns tab-content activation and tab metadata directly; the old MenuTabButton component shell is gone.
• Done: replace inventory background ship tuning with an Eve-owned UI Toolkit surface. InventoryMenu still owns click routing and the typed daemon operation owns mutation, but the old PropertiesPanel.AddField("Shutdown Threshold", ...) path no longer owns that settings shell.
• Done: replace the trade target-cargo selector popup with an Eve-owned UI Toolkit surface. TradeMenu still owns local target-cargo presentation state, but the old ContextMenu.AddOption(...) popup path no longer owns that selector shell.
• Done: replace the inventory entity/bay/loadout dropdown popup with an Eve-owned UI Toolkit surface. InventoryPanel still owns local display projection while daemon operations own entity/cargo selection plus loadout restore/save effects, but the old ContextMenu dropdown tree no longer owns that shell.
• Done: replace the remaining TradeMenu filter-selector and row-action popups with Eve-owned UI Toolkit surfaces. TradeMenu still owns local filter state and the quantity dialog delegates to typed daemon purchase operations, but the old ContextMenu dropdown/option tree no longer owns any live trade-menu shell.
• Done: replace TradeMenu typed-item inspection with an Eve-owned UI Toolkit surface. The surface still projects typed catalog facts from local trade rows, but spreadsheet row clicks no longer route through the old PropertiesPanel shell.
• Done: replace InventoryMenu cargo-item inspection with an Eve-owned UI Toolkit surface. Inventory still owns selected-cell highlighting, but cargo clicks no longer route through PropertiesPanel.Inspect.
• Done: replace InventoryMenu equipped-item inspection with an Eve-owned Toolkit surface. InventoryMenu now owns weapon-group toggles, action-bar group binding, override shutdown, and thermotoggle controls directly; the old live-control PropertiesPanel shell is gone from the inventory path.
• Done: move the shared org.gamecult.eve.surface and org.gamecult.eve.unity-uitoolkit packages into the Eve repo and retarget Aetheria to import them from there instead of carrying local staged copies.
• Done: delete the old IMGUI DB inspector; it is no longer a blocker on the live UI migration path.
• Done: cut ConfirmationDialog loose from generic PropertiesPanel inheritance. Runtime prompts still use local uGUI content prefabs for now, but the dialog only owns prompt text and text/integer entry instead of serializing the whole dead inspector field zoo.
• Done: delete the dead generic PropertiesPanel / PropertiesList / DropdownMenu shell from live source plus serialized scene/prefab assets.
• Then replace runtime HUD/menu/inventory/map screens.

7. Purge
   • Done: delete vendored RethinkDB.
   • Done: delete root-level RethinkDB operator query notes; no old Rethink runbook remains as a live operational surface.
   • Done: delete JsonKnownTypes.
   • Done: delete Newtonsoft dependencies and attributes from live code.
   • Done: delete the unused Unity Localization package and imported localization sample, removing the transitive Unity Newtonsoft package from the package lock.
   • Done: delete old JSON backing stores.
   • Done: delete the broken Economy.Shared wrapper and tracked build output.
   • Done: disable legacy local save, loadout, zone, player-settings, and keyboard layout writers; delete the DB inspector and NameFile export control instead of preserving warning-only editor surfaces.
   • Done: delete the old SavedGame/SavedZone runtime save DTO and loader.
   • Done: remove the stale Unity SaveState/SaveZone command names after their bespoke serializers were deleted.
   • Done: replace warning-only player settings, loadout, shutdown, and wormhole save paths with typed Eve/daemon command records accepted by the Verse daemon.
   • Done: delete the .cc.pending runtime commit lane and its private raw MessagePack array protocol; canonical writes now happen behind daemon command acceptance.
   • Done: extend run checkpoint commands to carry current-zone and entity snapshots into canonical AetheriaZoneState and AetheriaEntitySnapshot documents.
   • Done: delete Aetheria.State.DrainCommands; bounded acceptance now uses Aetheria.State.Daemon --once so the Verse daemon remains the only command owner.
   • Done: move Eve request acceptance into Aetheria.State.Daemon startup and daemon ticking.
   • Done: publish Eve request acceptance health as typed CultCache state and an Eve operations surface.
   • Done: publish Eve command acceptance health as typed CultCache state and include it in the operations surface.
   • Done: move daemon Verse/service identity into typed aetheria.verse_host_settings.v1, with provider advertisement and operations telemetry deriving from that daemon-owned host document.
   • Done: publish provider-owned player-settings controls as a typed Eve surface and advertise their command boundary through the provider ad.
   • Done: publish an Eve provider advertisement so Odin/Eve can discover Aetheria surfaces and command boundaries through typed state.
   • Done: stop legacy catalog pull/read paths from writing entries back to their source backing store.
   • Done: delete legacy catalog backing-store write/realtime APIs.
   • Done: delete public legacy catalog cache mutation APIs.
   • Done: delete the stale StrategyGameManager.csbak backup source and unused Unity asset MessagePack formatters.
   • Done: demote keyboard layout DTOs from MessagePack shapes, delete the global scene-load MessagePack resolver hook, and remove the now-unused Unity-side custom MessagePack resolver/formatter source.
   • Done: demote PlayerSettings and nested settings from MessagePack shapes after the legacy settings writer was disabled.
   • Done: delete the process-global runtime catalog resolver from RuntimeCatalogLink<T>; item instances now carry item-definition identifiers and ItemManager owns hydration through the typed runtime catalog reader.
   • Done: collapse the old generic RuntimeCatalogLink<T> abstraction into RuntimeItemReference, an item-specific runtime projection reference owned by ItemManager.
   • Done: demote RuntimeItemReference.Value to an item-definition id, then delete RuntimeItemReference.Projection; item references no longer carry hydrated ItemData DTOs.
   • Done: add ItemInstance.ItemId as an intermediate runtime identity surface and move live runtime/UI/catalog lookup call sites off .Data.ItemId. The old Data field became compatibility backing state before it was deleted.
   • Done: add ItemInstance.Reference as the explicit item-reference API and move factories/cargo stacking off direct .Data comparisons and assignments.
   • Done: rename RuntimeItemReference to RuntimeItemDefinitionReference and delete the ItemInstance.Data compatibility field; this was the intermediate reference shape before typed item keys became the owner.
   • Done: rename RuntimeItemDefinitionReference to AetheriaRuntimeItemReference and make the reference typed-key-first. ItemInstance.ItemKey is now the primary identity surface; ItemId is derived legacy compatibility for unfinished cargo and simulation paths.
   • Done: move EquippedCargoBay.ItemsOfType, consumable activation lookup, action-bar consumable quantity/fill, item transfer lookup, and trade owned counts from derived Guid ItemId keys to typed ItemKey strings.
   • Done: move weapon ammo and ItemUsage config references from GUID fields to typed item-key fields. The derived AmmoType and Item compatibility properties have been deleted; runtime ammo consumption, item use, and HUD ammo counts use AmmoItemKey/ItemKey.
   • Done: make runtime commit item surfaces item-key-only through ItemKey/HullItemKey; stale legacy-ID commit fields were deleted. Loadout items, action-bar targets, body resources, entity hulls, cargo contents, and active consumables now prove typed-key ownership in the Unity smoke without any item legacy-ID commit fields.
   • Done: add package runtime catalog lookup by canonical item key and move Unity gameplay, HUD, inventory, trade, ship, and zone helper lookups off ItemId/FindItemByLegacyId detours. The Unity runtime package catalog snapshot no longer exposes item/corporation/name-file legacy-ID lookup; legacy lookup remains only as a canonical Aetheria.State catalog/migration inspection API.
   • Done: move server-shared weapon grouping, generated loadout previous-item reuse, and hauling task item target identity off derived item GUIDs and onto typed ItemKey strings.
   • Done: delete the shared runtime item catalog GUID index, GetRuntimeItem(Guid) reader path, ItemManager item-ID fallback, and unused AetheriaRuntimeItemReference(Guid) constructor. Runtime item lookup is item-key-only outside explicit compatibility projection helpers.
   • Done: delete the dead ItemManager.GetRuntimeItemProjection<T> bridge after loadout generation stopped hydrating selected typed rows into EquippableItemData merely to instantiate equipment.
   • Done: rename the surviving runtime item read port from IRuntimeItemProjectionReader to an item-key-only typed catalog lookup, and rename behavior config methods to temporary behavior config construction so old projection vocabulary no longer implies item DTO authority.
   • Done: delete the temporary behavior-config reader path; the runtime catalog lookup now exposes typed item rows only.
   • Done: rename the temporary behavior construction DTO family from BehaviorData/*Data to RuntimeBehaviorConfig/*Config; live Behavior instances expose typed kind/group values while typed behavior kind strings such as Cockpit, TurretController, and Capacitor remain stable catalog facts rather than class-name-derived selectors.
   • Done: remove the public Behavior.Config runtime API; stat modifiers ask behavior instances for target performance stats instead of reflecting over exposed construction config objects.
   • Done: replace ItemManager behavior config reflection with an explicit typed behavior-kind mapper.
   • Done: remove runtime config retention from the remaining weapon family; all behavior subclasses now copy constructor config inputs into explicit runtime fields instead of keeping RuntimeBehaviorConfig subclass instances alive as state.
   • Done: delete the no-payload CockpitConfig, HeatStorageConfig, SwitchConfig, TriggerConfig, and TurretControllerConfig classes. ItemManager now constructs those behavior kinds directly from typed runtime behavior definitions rather than routing them through the temporary config bridge.
   • Done: delete the simple field-bearing HeatConfig, EnergyDrawConfig, CooldownConfig, WearConfig, VisibilityConfig, ReflectorConfig, VelocityLimitConfig, VelocityConversionConfig, and ItemUsageConfig classes. RuntimeBehaviorDefinition now owns the typed field reads for those behavior kinds, and the live behaviors explicitly register their performance stats for StatModifier.
   • Done: delete CapacitorConfig, ShieldConfig, MiningToolConfig, ResourceScannerConfig, ThermotoggleConfig, and ThrusterConfig. RuntimeBehaviorDefinition reads their typed stats, scalar flags, and prefab path directly, and live stat-bearing behavior instances explicitly register the performance-stat names used by StatModifier.
   • Done: delete ReactorConfig, RadiatorConfig, SensorConfig, and StatModifierConfig. RuntimeBehaviorDefinition now reads their typed stats, curves, enum, scalar, and stat-reference fields directly, and live behavior instances explicitly expose the stat names used by StatModifier.
   • Done: delete AetherDriveConfig. RuntimeBehaviorDefinition now reads rotor geometry, RPM/coupling/torque/energy/passive-coupling stats, torque curve, audio parameters, and particle prefab path directly.
   • Done: delete the weapon config hierarchy and the last RuntimeBehaviorConfig bridge. Weapon-family behavior construction now reads common stats, instant/constant/charged/lock fields, and guided projectile profiles directly through RuntimeBehaviorDefinition; BehaviorPayloadReader, BuildBehaviorConfig, and config reflection are gone from live Unity source.
   • Done: delete LegacyPayloadKeyAttribute from live Unity source after importer constants and explicit typed mappers became the only migrated field-key authorities.
   • Done: quarantine the vendored Unity MessagePack assembly by disabling asmdef auto-reference; only explicit state-spine assemblies should see it while the Unity CultCache bridge still needs a low-level .cc codec.
   • Done: demote ZonePack/EntityPack save-payload names to construction blueprint vocabulary, and rename loadout collections away from save-payload vocabulary. These are now explicitly construction projections, not portable state authority.
   • Done: continue the zone demotion by renaming RuntimeZoneBlueprint to ZoneConstructionBlueprint; the old intermediate name no longer appears in live Unity source.
   • Done: rename the old EntitySerializer helper to EntityConstructionBlueprintProjector; it captures/instantiates construction blueprint projections and no longer presents itself as a serializer or runtime-state owner.
   • Done: delete the unused Zone.AddOrbit(OrbitConstructionData) construction-row writer; zone orbit construction flows through ZoneConstructionBlueprint only.
   • Done: rename zone body/orbit construction DTOs to BodyConstructionData/OrbitConstructionData and move ZoneData.cs to ZoneConstructionData.cs; the construction blueprint now exposes Bodies rather than a planet list that also contained belts, gas giants, and suns.
   • Done: demote Unity's live PlayerSettings runtime object to RuntimePlayerSettings; AetheriaPlayerSettings remains the typed Verse state document owner, while Unity only keeps a session projection and sends typed player-settings commands.
   • Done: route input-screen binding/action-bar edits through named typed player-settings commands on the Unity runtime boundary, so the UI is no longer a direct writer of input binding or action-bar collections.
   • Done: route main-menu graphics settings returns through the same typed player-settings command path as gameplay settings, so graphics edits no longer survive only as session-local RuntimePlayerSettings.
   • Done: route main-menu player name, gameplay formatting, and graphics preference edits through typed Eve player-settings commands. MainMenu reads the RuntimePlayerSettings projection for display, but no longer assigns its player/gameplay/graphics fields directly.
   • Done: lower the shared aetheria.player_settings Eve surface contract directly inside MainMenu through UI Toolkit. The menu no longer owns a second bespoke gameplay/graphics widget tree for those settings; it lowers the shared document and dispatches command ids through typed Eve commands.
   • Done: delete ItemManager's unused zone dictionary, commented corporation controller/galaxy-zone GUID caches, force-load GUID sketch, and dead time property sketch. ItemManager no longer pretends to own a zone/time cache while the runtime state spine owns durable state.
   • Done: delete the redundant AetheriaRuntimeItemCatalog/IRuntimeItemCatalogReader adapter layer. ItemManager now reads item rows straight from the shared typed runtime catalog snapshot instead of rebuilding a duplicate lookup cache over the same item-key index.
   • Done: delete the dead runtime-projection reflection caches. ReflectionExtensions now keeps only the live string-formatting helpers used by the surviving typed UI surfaces; it no longer scans loaded assemblies or keeps static type-cache dictionaries for the old inspector/projection path.
   • Done: delete the dead inspector-specialization metadata. Unused header/order/preferred-inspector attribute types and their stale annotations are gone.
   • Done: delete the generic PropertiesPanel reflection inspector fallback and the last Inspectable/EntityTypeRestriction attribute cargo cult. Live item inspection stays on the typed item/property paths; there is no remaining runtime object walker generating UI from reflection metadata.

Verification

• rg "Newtonsoft|JsonObject|JsonProperty|JsonConvert|JsonKnownTypes|RethinkDb|RethinkTable|DatabaseCache" is zero outside migration quarantine and docs.
• rg "DatabaseEntry|DatabaseLink|InspectableDatabaseLink|ServerShared\\\\CultCache" Assets Economy.* shows no live runtime ownership path.
• dotnet list package --vulnerable --include-transitive is clean for active maintained projects.
• CultCache smoke proves write, flush, reopen, query, and typed reference resolution, including full player settings as the PlayerSettings.msgpack replacement, loadout templates as the .loadout replacement, and a run -> zone -> entity snapshot graph as the .zone replacement. The zone smoke includes orbit/body rows for generated celestial state, and the entity smoke includes typed simulation stat grids, public entity session scalars, and active consumable timer rows, plus typed behavior progress rows for IProgressBehavior surfaces, typed weapon runtime rows, and typed sensor/radiator/reactor/capacitor behavior state rows. The Unity runtime smoke also proves package-owned readback of typed loadout templates from .cc records. It also proves aetheria.runtime_session.v1 is advertised and survives reopen as the typed daemon-session signal.
• CultMesh smoke proves node start, typed put/get, subscription, flush, and reopen.
• Eve surface smoke proves provider-owned surface documents are generated from typed state and survive .cc store reopen before any renderer owns them.
• Quarantine import smoke proves old catalog file facts can be captured into typed state without old readers remaining on the live runtime path.
• Migration smoke proves stable old catalog payload fields can be read once and converted without old readers remaining on the live runtime path.
• Unity runtime catalog smoke proves read-only catalog consumers can open the typed .cc store through both the SDK-style Aetheria.State.Unity opener and the embedded package-owned read-only catalog opener, receiving the same package-owned runtime catalog read models without a MessagePack catalog cache, including typed item masks, interior masks, hardpoint definitions, corporation/name-file links, typed behavior payloads, and dropped world pickup rows in zone snapshots. It also proves the embedded package can read provider-owned Eve surface documents from the same CultCache store. The smoke proves legacy runtime snapshots can be imported into canonical typed settings/run/zone/entity state and cleared afterward, while renderer-emitted Eve commands stay typed command documents outside that legacy import lane. The smoke now inspects pending mailbox bytes directly and verifies each pending file is a CultCache store snapshot with a schema catalog and exactly one typed record.
• Unity batchmode compile with Editor 6000.4.2f1 is currently available and should be rerun after package/runtime C# edits; Unity may leave generated package metadata and project files that must be cleaned before commit.
• Direct dotnet build .\Assembly-CSharp.csproj --no-restore is not currently a valid gameplay compile substitute: the generated Unity project references a missing root-level GameCult.Aetheria.State.Unity.csproj instead of the live package/state project path, so it fails before reaching the gameplay rename checks.
• Unity batchmode compile with Editor 6000.4.2f1 returned cleanly after the runtime catalog resolver cut; Logs/codex-unity-compile.log has no compiler error hits.
• rg ".Data.Value|SetValue|GetCatalogEntry|IRuntimeItemCatalogReader|AetheriaRuntimeItemCatalog|BindRuntimeItemCatalog|ResolveRuntimeItemCatalog|private static IRuntimeItemCatalogReader" in Assets/Scripts is zero for the old item value/catalog-entry/resolver path.
• Live Unity source has no RuntimeCatalogLink<T> or RuntimeCatalogLinkBase; item instances expose ItemId and Reference; the old ItemInstance.Data identity field is deleted.
• Live Unity source has no RuntimeCatalogEntry or RuntimeItemProjectionEntry.
• Live Unity source has no InspectableRuntimeCatalogLinkAttribute or LegacyPayloadKeyAttribute.
• Unity batchmode compile also returned cleanly after disabling MessagePack auto-reference; Assets/Scripts and Assets/Editor have no using MessagePack, MessagePackSerializer, [MessagePackObject], or IMessagePackFormatter hits.
• Aetheria.State.Verify now enforces the gameplay-source purity invariant: live Assets/Scripts cannot contain MessagePack, Newtonsoft, JsonKnownTypes, RethinkDB, old database-link symbols, or serializer metadata. Package/import MessagePack usage remains explicitly bounded to CultCache transport and migration.
• Aetheria.State.Verify also fences the Unity package serializer boundary: MessagePack symbols may appear only in typed CultCache transport and document shapes until CultLib generated serializers become the Unity runtime owner.
• Aetheria.State.Verify also guards runtime faction identity ownership: construction blueprints cannot carry a legacy faction GUID, and runtime entity/faction commits cannot rebuild FactionKey from Faction.ID.
• Aetheria.State.Verify guards galaxy faction relationships as typed-key-only: no Faction.Allegiance GUID dictionary, GUID faction containment, GUID faction resolver, or CorporationLegacyId relationship read may return to the live Galaxy/LoadoutGenerator path.
• Aetheria.State.Verify guards Unity runtime catalog lookup authority: package snapshots may expose typed-key lookup only, and runtime item/corporation/name-file DTOs may not publish legacy relationship fields; legacy-ID lookup remains quarantined in canonical migration/catalog inspection APIs.
• Aetheria.State.Verify guards behavior body reference naming: resource-scanner and mining-tool runtime state surfaces use BodyKey fields; old *BodyId readback names and generic legacy reference parsers may not return. Zone, Planet, AsteroidBelt, and Orbit now own the runtime body/orbit key surfaces consumed by ActionGameManager projection, so local body/orbit key formatters may not return there either.
• Aetheria.State.Verify guards orbit-targeting agent runtime naming: patrol/tow task orbit references and move-state orbit targets use OrbitKey fields, and Zone owns orbit-key parsing/resolution instead of agent-local raw GUID targets.
• Aetheria.State.Verify guards temporary Faction shell links: geoname and boss-hull relationships use typed keys, not legacy GUID projection fields.
• Aetheria.State.Verify guards temporary Faction identity: equality, hashing, ordering, narrative checks, sector filtering/rendering, and zone security checks must use FactionKey; the legacy Faction.ID projection field may not return.
• Unity batchmode compile returned cleanly after the runtime blueprint rename; live Unity source has no EntityPack, ShipPack, OrbitalEntityPack, ZonePack, PackedContents, PackZone, EntitySerializer.Pack, or EntitySerializer.Unpack hits.
• Entity construction blueprint projection no longer uses the EntitySerializer or runtime-state authority names; live Unity source calls EntityConstructionBlueprintProjector.
• Vendored Unity MessagePack remains a low-level codec boundary only; its typeless contractless resolver now follows the same NET_STANDARD_2_0 dynamic-resolver guards as StandardResolver, so Unity batchmode cannot resurrect unsupported typeless dynamic code while compiling the quarantined assembly.
• Vendored Unity MSAGL debug timing remains diagnostic-only; TimeMeasurer now requires the same REPORTING symbol that defines Microsoft.Msagl.DebugHelpers.Timer, so TEST_MSAGL cannot accidentally summon a missing debug dependency during Unity compilation.
• Unity runtime settings projection is now RuntimePlayerSettings; live Unity source has no standalone PlayerSettings class/property/method symbols.
• Input binding and action-bar edits now send the same typed player-settings command path as menu settings changes; the old SaveLayout runtime-only warning is gone. The generated AetheriaInput class still calls Unity's InputActionAsset.FromJson, but that JSON belongs to Unity's generated input action lowering under Aetheria's remapping system. It is not durable Aetheria state and does not own remapping authority.
• Action-bar slot binding drag/drop now queues its own action-bar-binding typed run checkpoint immediately, and typed continue-run restore rebuilds slot bindings onto the live current entity instead of leaving stale ActionBarBinding instances pointed at the previous entity body.
• Main-menu settings navigation, input, and audio pages now lower through a shared UI Toolkit UIDocument host and local Eve surface documents instead of rebuilding those pages through PropertiesPanel.AddButton(...) calls.
• Sector-map zone inspection now lowers through a shared UI Toolkit UIDocument host and a local Eve surface document instead of rebuilding PropertiesPanel.AddProperty(...) rows on each zone click.
• Runtime in-game menu tab navigation now lowers through a shared UI Toolkit UIDocument host and a local Eve surface document, with MenuPanel owning tab metadata directly instead of MenuTabButton components.
• Inventory background ship tuning now lowers through a shared UI Toolkit UIDocument host and a local Eve surface document instead of rebuilding a mutable PropertiesPanel.AddField(...) control for shutdown threshold.
• Trade target-cargo selection now lowers through a shared UI Toolkit UIDocument host and a local Eve surface document instead of rebuilding a ContextMenu.AddOption(...) popup for docking-bay and ship-bay choices.
• Inventory entity/bay/loadout dropdown navigation now lowers through a shared UI Toolkit UIDocument host and a local Eve surface document instead of rebuilding nested ContextMenu.AddDropdown(...) and ContextMenu.AddOption(...) menus.
• The dead ContextMenu popup shell, its prefab assets, and orphan scene/prefab references are deleted outright; InventoryPanel, ActionGameManager, TradeMenu, and SectorRenderer no longer keep serialized hooks into dead popup or properties-panel shells.
• Trade filter selection and simple-commodity buy-quantity entry now lower through shared UI Toolkit UIDocument hosts and local Eve surface documents instead of rebuilding ContextMenu.AddDropdown(...), ContextMenu.AddOption(...), and ContextMenu.Show() shells in TradeMenu.
• Trade typed-item inspection now lowers through a shared UI Toolkit UIDocument host and a local Eve surface document instead of routing spreadsheet row clicks into PropertiesPanel.Inspect(...).
• Inventory cargo-item inspection now lowers through a shared UI Toolkit UIDocument host and a local Eve surface document instead of routing cargo clicks into PropertiesPanel.Inspect(...).
• Inventory equipped-item inspection now lowers through a shared UI Toolkit UIDocument host and a local Eve surface document, with InventoryMenu owning weapon-group toggles, action-bar group binding, override shutdown, and thermotoggle controls directly instead of PropertiesPanel.Inspect(...).
• Keyboard display layout parsing is no longer JSON-backed: the runtime input screen builds its action-bar candidates and rebinding UI from typed input paths, and InputLayout remains the typed ANSI-104 keyboard geometry helper instead of a JSON text asset. The dead commented Ink ToJson write path and checked-in ansi104.json display file have been removed from live source.
• Aetheria.State.Smoke proves the provider-owned Eve command bridge accepts gamecult.eve.command.v1 envelopes, accepts advertised refresh commands plus player-settings mutation commands, rejects unknown commands, persists AetheriaEveCommandAcceptanceStatus, and exposes Eve command acceptance through the operations surface while preserving the aetheria.player_settings surface.
• Unity play smoke proves runtime UI reads from Eve surfaces and sends commands through the shared state service.
• UI Toolkit lowering parity compares Aetheria surfaces against the Eve browser renderer for component tree, state bindings, command envelopes, disabled/stale states, and visible error surfaces.

Immediate Cut Line

Do not add behavior to ItemData or resurrect RuntimeItemProjectionEntry. The typed state spine, direct behavior factories, and migration quarantine exist; the next cuts should remove remaining live predicates that still need legacy DTO vocabulary, keep package-level MessagePack/JSON at explicit boundaries, and replace runtime/operator UI truth with Eve surfaces. The old Do not restore the deleted generic PropertiesPanel reflection inspector as a shortcut around typed command/state ownership. Runtime simulation tuning controls may remain temporarily on uGUI only when they delegate to typed daemon operations; direct UI mutation of entity/item/behavior settings is obsolete authority. Hull conductivity changes follow the same rule: UI requests the toggle, and the daemon owns the grid mutation and checkpoint. Entity renames follow the same rule: UI collects text, and the daemon owns the name mutation and checkpoint. Weapon group assignment follows the same rule: UI requests membership, and the daemon owns the group mutation and checkpoint. Inventory double-click transfer follows the same rule, and drag/drop placement now shares that commit family: UI requests cargo/equipment movement, and the daemon owns the move and checkpoint. Trade purchases follow the same rule: UI requests the purchase, and the daemon owns credit changes, cargo transfer, ship creation, and checkpoint. Runtime loadout restore follows the same rule: UI requests restoration, and the daemon owns instantiation, credits, dock assignment, current entity, and checkpoint. Docked current-ship selection follows the same rule: UI requests selection, and the daemon owns CurrentEntity, DockingBay.DockedShip, and checkpoint. Loot pickup follows the same rule: collision code reports the pickup opportunity, and the daemon owns cargo storage and checkpoint. Entity destruction follows the same rule: instance code observes death, and the daemon owns drop decisions, zone removal, and checkpoint. Dropped world pickups are typed zone-snapshot state, not only renderer-local objects; live lowering consumes the exact typed zone record key instead of rehydrating a parallel presentation list. Any predicate that still needs legacy DTO objects must earn that dependency by using behavior objects or simulation-only methods that typed facets do not yet expose.