{ "_note": "Lane AP (2026-09-09). The rest of the spy program's draw sites, read from the instruction stream of dumps/sots.exe (disassembled to the NEXT FUNCTION START, rule 17 -- no Ghidra size is used below) and then MEASURED live on VM144 under probes=8, build ap-989c692-20260909T0425Z. Evidence: findings/subsystems/spy-program-draws.md. The headline is that SpyManager_Slot13RngCallee 0x008408e0 (already named in lane-h.json, not re-minted here) contains TWO MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE BRANCHES selected by the spy owner's Species, so its three draw sites can never all be reached: 0x00840929 + 0x008409c7 are Morrigi-only and 0x00840a3c is everyone else. NOT minted here because other fragments already have them: SpyManager_Slot13RngCallee 0x008408e0 (lane H), ServerSpyManager_vslot13 0x008877b0 and vslot14 0x0088db80 (lane V2), ServerSpyManager_DeploySpy 0x00887410 and ServerSystem_AddSpy/RemoveSpy (lane AS), Mars_RNG_NextFloat/NextInt/Chance (addresses.json).", "entries": [ { "name": "SpyManager_ShipActionDeploySpyHandler", "addr": "0x0078c930", "convention": "__thiscall", "prototype": "bool (Game::StrategyServer* this, Game::Ship* ship) /* body 0x0078c930..0x0078c9e0 (next function start), `ret 4`. Entry of the STACK-BUILT SHIP-ACTION TABLE (lane B6's indirection class): no direct callers, no vtable slot, invisible to every call-graph sweep this campaign has run. One gate -- a 12-byte stack query object (vtable 0x00a09648) built at 0x0078c93d and asked about the ship at 0x0078c964; false => return with NO DRAW. Past it: `mov ecx,[esi+0x16c]; add ecx,4; call Mars_RNG_NextFloat` at 0x0078c97f -- ONE STRATEGIC-GENERATOR WORD PER APPLIED Deploy Spy ORDER, inside ApplyAllTurnCommands, i.e. the ProcessTurn bracket and NOT the tail's. The angle is lerp(0.0, 2*pi, r) computed through a FLOAT32 temp at [ebp+8] (fldz supplies LO; HI is the double 6.2831854820251465 at 0x009e21b0), stored to the stack slot pushed at 0x0078c998, which is DeploySpy's SECOND argument. 0x0080c860 is then called ACROSS that half-built frame and does not touch it. MEASURED lane AP 2026-09-09: 1 call / 1 word / no_draw_calls=0 / strategic=true at ret_rva 0x0078c984, and spy.cbh came out 5.033599376678467 -- BIT-IDENTICAL to lane AS's value from a different process, build and session, so this draw is reproducible from the save. ITS PREDICATE IS ON THE COMMAND STREAM, not on save fields: `a SHIPACTION_DEPLOYSPY command in this turn's command stream`. The gate-indexed audit has no column for that and should grow one */", "status": "verified", "source": "findings/subsystems/spy-program-draws.md (lane AP 2026-09-09)" }, { "name": "Ship_GetAttachedSpyId", "addr": "0x0080c860", "convention": "__thiscall", "prototype": "int (Game::Ship* this) /* 7 bytes, complete: `mov eax,[ecx+0xa8]; ret`. A zero-argument getter for the ship's attached-spy id -- the same field ServerSpyManager_DeploySpy clears when it detaches the craft from its tender. Recorded because at its ONE call site (0x0078c9ac, in the SHIPACTION_DEPLOYSPY handler) it looks like it takes a float: the caller has already pushed DeploySpy's second argument and stored the deploy angle into it, and this call runs across that half-built frame without disturbing it. An eye following eax there misses where the angle goes */", "status": "verified", "source": "findings/subsystems/spy-program-draws.md (lane AP 2026-09-09)" }, { "name": "SpyManager_DestroySpyById", "addr": "0x00838480", "convention": "__thiscall", "prototype": "void (Game::ServerSpyManager* this, int sid) /* Game::ServerSpyManager vftable 0x00a3073c SLOT 10. Looks the SpyCraft up by id through vtable slot 5, then: if spy->deat(+0x10) != 0, registry_lookup(server+0x84, deat) and ServerSystem_RemoveSpy 0x0074f550 on that system (which clears deat and erases sid from spies2); if spy->atto(+0xc) != 0, clear the tender's ship->[+0xa8] and spy->atto; erase the craft from the manager's vector at this+0x10 via 0x0059ec00; then the scalar deleting destructor with flag 1. CALLED FROM ServerSpyManager_vslot13's drain loop at 0x00887eb0, back to front over the local vector of sids collected at 0x008878a1 -- so a spy detected on turn T is DESTROYED at the end of phase 23 on turn T+3, BEFORE vslot14 runs at phase 33. MEASURED lane AP 2026-09-09: nspy 1 -> 0 and spies2 emptied between the Frame-24 and Frame-25 autosaves, and 0x0088dc43 cost 0 on Frame 25 although vslot14 was still entered */", "status": "verified", "source": "findings/subsystems/spy-program-draws.md (lane AP 2026-09-09)" }, { "name": "SpyManager_AttributionRoll_MorrigiBranch", "addr": "0x00840929", "convention": "site", "prototype": "/* NOT A FUNCTION -- the `call Mars_RNG_Chance 0x008e6dd0` at 0x00840929 inside SpyManager_Slot13RngCallee 0x008408e0, return address 0x0084092e. Reached ONLY when the destroyed spy's owner has ServerPlayer.Species (+0x5c) == 6, i.e. MORRIGI (species table read from the save's own ISsp list: 0 Human, 1 Hiver, 2 Tarkas, 3 Liir, 4 _NPC, 5 Zuul, 6 Morrigi). Probability is the WIDENED FLOAT at 0x009e5ac4 = 0.75f -- the same four bytes SpyCraft_AccumulateDetectionOdds uses as its species-5 multiplier. Generator: `mov ecx,[eax+0x16c]` -- the STRATEGIC generator OBJECT (not the +4 sub-object). One word at 0 < p < 1. On success the function walks StrategyServer+0x54..+0x58 collecting every player with [+0xfb]==0 and [+0xf8]==0 that is neither the spy's owner nor the target system's owner, and picks one -- a FALSE FLAG; the true owner is never returned for a Morrigi spy. UNFIRED: lane AP measured twelve turns including the one turn the function ran and this branch was never taken, because its Species was 0. THE WORKLOAD THAT CLOSES IT is a Morrigi empire, not a different save of a Human one */", "status": "verified", "source": "findings/subsystems/spy-program-draws.md (lane AP 2026-09-09)" }, { "name": "SpyManager_AttributionRoll_MorrigiPick", "addr": "0x008409c7", "convention": "site", "prototype": "/* NOT A FUNCTION -- the `call Mars_RNG_NextInt 0x004271c0` at 0x008409c7 inside SpyManager_Slot13RngCallee 0x008408e0, return address 0x008409cc. Generator: `mov ecx,[...+0x16c]; add ecx,4` -- the +4 SUB-OBJECT. Bound is `count - 1` passed BY POINTER at [ebp+8] (inclusive), so the index is uniform over the candidate list. TWO conditions past the Morrigi branch: the 0.75f roll at 0x00840929 must SUCCEED, and the candidate list must be NON-EMPTY -- `cmp ecx,eax; je 0x840a07` at 0x008409ac returns NULL with no draw when it is empty, which needs a third non-eliminated empire that is neither the spy's owner nor the target's. UNFIRED for the same reason as 0x00840929 */", "status": "verified", "source": "findings/subsystems/spy-program-draws.md (lane AP 2026-09-09)" }, { "name": "SpyManager_AttributionRoll_DefaultBranch", "addr": "0x00840a3c", "convention": "site", "prototype": "/* NOT A FUNCTION -- the `call Mars_RNG_Chance 0x008e6dd0` at 0x00840a3c inside SpyManager_Slot13RngCallee 0x008408e0, return address 0x00840a41. Taken for EVERY species except 6 (Morrigi), i.e. the `jne 0x840a29` at 0x00840910. Probability is the WIDENED FLOAT at 0x009e5ac0 = 0.25f. Generator: `mov ecx,[edx+0x16c]` -- the STRATEGIC generator object. One word. On success the function returns arg1, the spy's OWN owner: the victim correctly identifies who sent the spy, 25% of the time; otherwise NULL and the event names no empire. FIRED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS CAMPAIGN, lane AP 2026-09-09: 1 call / 1 word / no_draw_calls=0 / strategic=true at ret_rva 0x00840a41, on the End Turn producing Frame sdet+3 (sdet=22, so Frame 25), from verify/results/saves/as-turn15-spydeployed.sav after seven End Turns. On that same turn the ENTRY PROBE on SpyManager_Slot13RngCallee 0x008408e0 read 1 -- its first non-zero ever, the complement of lane AS's demonstration that its zero said nothing about the subtree */", "status": "verified", "source": "findings/subsystems/spy-program-draws.md (lane AP 2026-09-09)" }, { "name": "SpyManager_CounterMissionRollSite", "addr": "0x0088dc43", "convention": "site", "prototype": "/* NOT A FUNCTION -- the `call Mars_RNG_Chance 0x008e6dd0` at 0x0088dc43 inside ServerSpyManager_vslot14 0x0088db80 (phase 33), return address 0x0088dc48. Decoded statically by lane AG (gate-indexed-rng-audit.md 3.2) with CORPUS COUNT 0 OF 22; FIRED FOR THE FIRST TIME lane AP 2026-09-09, 1 call / 1 word / strategic=true on each of Frames 19..24. Probability is spy.cmo (+0x28). MEASURED BEHAVIOUR: the bootstrap turn (Frame == tdep + 3, here Frame 18) sets spyon, runs the stage machine cm 0 -> 1 and cmo := 0.2f and DOES NOT DRAW; from the next turn the site costs one word until cmo reaches 1.0. cmo steps +0.2f per failure and resets to 0.2f on success. TWO CORRECTIONS TO LANE AG 3.2: (a) the CnTrd (+0xff) the stage machine consults at cm 1 -> 2/3 is the TARGET SYSTEM OWNER's, not the spy owner's -- measured, my player has CnTrd=False and the machine still took 1 -> 2 because Kepler's owner has CnTrd=True; (b) `ncp` is a scalar int counter of COMPLETED counter-mission stages (measured 0,0,1,1,2,2,3 in lock-step with cm), so the cm==0 branch's `ncp non-empty` test is `ncp != 0` -- and that branch was never reached, because vslot13 destroyed the spy at cm==4 */", "status": "verified", "source": "findings/subsystems/spy-program-draws.md (lane AP 2026-09-09)" }, { "name": "SpyManager_DeploySpyDrawSite", "addr": "0x0078c97f", "convention": "site", "prototype": "/* NOT A FUNCTION -- the `call Mars_RNG_NextFloat 0x0047d830` at 0x0078c97f inside SpyManager_ShipActionDeploySpyHandler 0x0078c930, return address 0x0078c984, ECX = GetGame()->RNG(+0x16c) + 4. ONE STRATEGIC-GENERATOR WORD PER APPLIED Deploy Spy ORDER, in the ProcessTurn bracket. Decoded but not measured by lane AS; MEASURED lane AP 2026-09-09 (1 call / 1 word / no_draw_calls=0 / strategic=true) and the resulting spy.cbh reproduced lane AS's 5.033599376678467 bit for bit across processes, builds and sessions. IN NO EARLIER INVENTORY -- not lane V2's eight, not lane I's 22, not lane AG's audit -- because it hangs off the stack-built ship-action table and leaves no static call edge. Its predicate is on the COMMAND STREAM, not on save fields */", "status": "verified", "source": "findings/subsystems/spy-program-draws.md (lane AP 2026-09-09)" } ] }