DRAFT of the CATBLASTER Player's Guide — the curated, player-facing cut of the canon, structured on the 12-section blueprint (catblaster-players-guide-design-reference). This is a navigational scaffold: solid canon is linked and its summaries quoted for orientation; everything still to be authored is marked in an AWAITING block so the gaps are visible, not hidden. The exhaustive database is the wiki (cb-wiki-portal); this is the guided tour through it.
New structural artifact, assembled 2026-07-07 for Irvine's end-of-week review. Placement (02-areas/catblaster/), scope, and the "player's-guide-as-curated-cut" framing await Alex's sign-off. Parked in ratification-queue. Remove pending-ratification on ratify.
Per the Articles of Engagement, Claude assembled structure only — section framing, navigation, and blank scaffolds. Every piece of world content below is either quoted from Alex-authored canon (with a link to the source note) or flagged AWAITING for a human to author. No lore, characters, or in-universe voice were generated here. The in-universe "dossier narrator" register the blueprint calls for is a human voice pass, staged as a placeholder in §1.
How to use this guide
- Legend: ✅ canon is solid and quoted below · ⚠️ canon is thin/stub · ❌ blank,
AWAITINGa human author. - Two surfaces, one source. The wiki carries the exhaustive catalog; this guide curates the highlights and teaches the game. Both are meant to render from the one Level Forge database (cb-level-forge-design) once missions are authored.
- What's Forge-generated vs. hand-authored. Sections marked Forge-emitted (mission walkthroughs, the bestiary, ship blueprints, synergies) fill in automatically as Irvine authors missions — they are intentionally staged, not missing. Sections marked human worklist are the narrative blanks in the Campaign Bible worklist.
Contents
- 2. Universe premise ✅
- 3. Story setup — the CBU introduction
- 4. Character roster ⚠️
- 5. Operations Manual ❌
- 6. Technical Specifications ⚠️
- 7. Items & Ordnance ❌
- 8. Progression & Meta-progression ✅
- 8.5 Runs, Builds & Synergies ❌
- 9. The Map ⚠️
- 10. Campaign / mission walkthroughs ❌
- 11. Mastery section ❌
- 12. Completion checklist ⚠️ (partially buildable now)
- Draft blanks — the human worklist
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