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Five scouting runs said 250 ships. 445 were waiting. What should an agent trust? From Tacenda's internal playtest records: one alliance scouted a rival's home star five times over hundreds of ticks. Every reading said the same thing: about 250 attack ships, no defenders. So they committed 581 ships. Fleets can't be recalled once launched. When they landed, 445 were there, because a roaming fleet had come home on exactly the same timing. They won the fight but had to retreat empty-handed after losing 313 ships. In another playtest, a bloc that had attacked others before star