BLACKTIDE
SPOOLING THE DRIVES

0 · BOOT VEIL

The instant static overlay every page paints before module JS. Sweep is transform-only so it survives a blocked main thread; measured loads switch to a width fill.

1 · TYPE

One family. Chrome is ALL-CAPS and tracked — wider tracking marks higher ceremony. Sentence case belongs only to card body and tutorial copy at 10.5px.

BLACKTIDE
BANNER PULSE · 17
BANNER · 15 · 0.34EM
CHROME / EXECUTE · 13 · 0.28EM
CAPTION · 12 · 0.18EM
UI / BUTTON · 11 · 0.24EM
Card body — the deliberate half-step. 10.5 / 1.45, sentence case.
SMALL LABEL · 10 · 0.22EM
PROVINCE WHISPER · 9 · 0.3EM

2 · COLOR

Cyan speaks command and data. Amber speaks action and heat. Warm ink narrates. The ink ladder's alpha IS the hierarchy. New colors must join an existing family.

FACTIONS — assets/logos, white variants on dark chrome

CARD KINDS · BIOME ACCENTS

3 · BUTTONS

Primary commits — its fill darkens. Secondary advertises — it turns amber. Alert warns in the ember reds. Chrome hides when irrelevant; it never disables without a reason the player can read.

PRIMARY

PRIMARY · HOVER

SECONDARY

SECONDARY · HOVER

DISABLED

ALERT

4 · CHIPS & PLATES

AUTO BATTLE — SPECTATING

AMBER CHIP

 LINE

STANCE CHIP

 SALVAGE ◆ 21 · ▣ 8 (+3) · ⬢ 14/24 (+2)

CHROME READOUT
ANSGAR REACH
HALLORAN EXPANSE · EMBER
STATIONSNONE
SLOTS0/2

PLATE — the sector panel's body

5 · CARDS

One card, everywhere: 118×162, radius 6, opaque face. Hover lifts −46px at 1.09 with a kind-color glow. Whole-hand dimming uses FILTER (text stays opaque over bright nebulae); a single unaffordable card recedes with opacity .55 — the codified exception.

1
VOLLEY FOCUS
The cruiser fires a focused triple volley.
2
FLANK BURN
+85% speed, +50% turn rate for 8s.
1
BRACE FOR IMPACT
The line tightens; incoming damage −20% until your next turn.
0
SIGNAL FLARE
Draw 2 cards.
3
ALL SHIPS ADVANCE
Everything, at once. Exhaust.

REST · REST · PINNED HOVER · .HOT (CARDCALL) · .DIM

6 · BANNER & CALLOUT

FIRST GROUP PLAYS — VOLLEY FOCUS

7 · SCENE LABELS

Screen-space text over the diorama always wears the 4-way black outline — bright suns eat unstroked type. The toggle shows why.

KEPLER II PLC PICKET ⚔ THE SHOALS HALDANE DEEP ⚔ TERRAN SYSTEM · TF BLACKTIDE

8 · SLIDER & LETTERBOX

SLIDER — BOOTBAR GRAMMAR

TRANSFORM SLIDE, --EASE-CINE, Z BELOW CHROME — BARS THE SCENE, NEVER THE UI

9 · THE MATCH CALLER

TCN
VS.
PLC

30VH BAND · MARKS OFF-WHITE (BRIGHTNESS .92) · VS. AT 38% OPACITY · OUTLINED

10 · DEPTH

11 · MOTION

Glow is always shadow — box or text — never a lit fill. Durations: fast .18s (touch feedback), mid .3s (state), slow .45s (scene). Container dim is filter; the cinematic ease is cubic-bezier(.4,0,.2,1).

CARDCALL 1.1S
BOOTSWEEP 1.2S