[valzargaming]

Frontier's design references currently give competing directions for space survival, civilization and planetary expansion. Establish HELLION as the primary gameplay and mechanics baseline: aim for as faithful an independently implemented remake as practical, then layer mechanics from other games on top.

Add a design baseline and align the project overview, survival contract, research priorities, first-playable handoff and later civilization/planet references. The existing extraction prototype remains a bounded, historically accepted foundation; no HELLION feature parity is claimed. Civ13 remains the primary reference for the later planet-start extension. Record the reviewed public Steam description in the existing provenance manifest.

The baseline requires independently authored implementation and original or rights-cleared assets, and makes no claim of HELLION/Zero Gravity affiliation or permission to reuse proprietary material. Detailed behavior and game versions still require research and separate acceptance evidence. The existing hold on disclosure of additional private research, logs and credentials remains in force.

Validation on head b182bdf:

• Read current repository instructions, existing vision, roadmap/research documents and the public HELLION Steam descriptions.
• In-memory checks passed for 66 relative links, final newlines, conflict markers, and the 24-row/10-column manifest with its existing prefix and one HELLION entry.
• Cloud comparison confirms 11 documentation-only files. No game launch, native benchmark, gameplay change or deployment.
• The manifest CSV selects full CI under the existing policy. CI results are separate and must pass before merge.

Main retains review and merge.

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