Add Hegemony unit corps release

ASSET-LICENSES.md

@@ -195,3 +195,20 @@ Public archival/release distribution of the named supplied sound was authorized
 - **License status:** public archival and GitHub Release distribution authorized; no separate open-license grant asserted
 
 This authorization covers publication and distribution of the named privacy-sanitized library package, its optimized Git-tracked previews, and its archive metadata. It does not license third-party tools or services, third-party rights, Warpkeep trademarks or canonical identity, or unrelated Warpkeep material by implication. Runtime designation and repository presence do not by themselves assert current live-game integration.
+
+## Warpkeep Hegemony Unit Corps
+
+- **Set:** twelve Hegemony infantry, ranged, and cavalry units; 48 four-LOD runtime GLBs; 15 editable Blender sources; official-crest textures; previews; manifests; QA; and checksums
+- **Release:** `hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03`
+- **Snapshot date:** 2026-08-03
+- **Deposit authority:** Ael explicitly authorized publishing all three unit packages to Warpkeep-Assets.
+- **Creation disclosure:** the assets were substantially authored, prepared, or refined with Codex under Ael's direction and review; supplied comparison sheets informed broad role and silhouette study only and are not part of the release
+- **License status:** public archival and GitHub Release distribution authorized; no separate open-license grant asserted
+
+This authorization covers publication and distribution of the named
+privacy-sanitized unit packages, their optimized Git-tracked previews, and
+their archive metadata. It does not license third-party tools or services,
+third-party reference material, Warpkeep or Hegemony trademarks and canonical
+identity, or unrelated Warpkeep material by implication. Runtime designation
+and repository presence do not by themselves assert current live-game
+integration.

README.md

@@ -12,6 +12,30 @@ Integration notes below describe what each asset release itself authorized or
 asserted when it was published. See the [Warpkeep repository](https://github.com/ael-dev3/Warpkeep)
 for the current live runtime.
 
+[![Warpkeep Hegemony Unit Corps](previews/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03/00-corps-overview.jpg)](https://github.com/ael-dev3/Warpkeep-Assets/releases/tag/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03)
+
+## Hegemony unit corps
+
+The 2026-08-03 unit release adds a complete first Hegemony field force: **12
+game-ready units** across infantry, ranged, and cavalry families. Every unit
+ships with four mobile-first LODs, close LOD rigging, editable Blender source,
+runtime manifests, previews, and package checksums. The supplied QA reports
+record **173/173 checks passed**.
+
+| Corps | Units | Production GLBs | Rig and actions |
+| --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
+| Infantry — Bulwark, Legionary, Vanguard, Honor Guard | 4 | 16 | 21 joints; Idle, Walk, Attack |
+| Ranged — Longbow Warden, Dusk Ranger, Astral Magister, Rift Battlemage | 4 | 16 | 21 joints; Idle, Walk, Attack, Special |
+| Cavalry — Dusk Outrider, Astral Lancer, Horseguard, Imperial Cataphract | 4 | 16 | 49 joints; Idle, Walk, Attack, Special |
+
+**[Download the Hegemony unit corps](https://github.com/ael-dev3/Warpkeep-Assets/releases/tag/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03)** · [manifest](releases/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03/manifest.json) · [provenance](provenance/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03.md) · [sanitization audit](reports/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03/public-sanitization.json)
+
+### Unit gallery
+
+| Infantry | Ranged | Cavalry |
+| --- | --- | --- |
+| ![Hegemony infantry lineup](previews/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03/01-infantry-lineup.jpg) | ![Hegemony ranged lineup](previews/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03/02-ranged-lineup.jpg) | ![Hegemony cavalry lineup](previews/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03/03-cavalry-lineup.jpg) |
+
 [![Warpkeep 3D Asset Library](previews/inner-keep-3d-library-2026-08-02/00-library-overview.jpg)](https://github.com/ael-dev3/Warpkeep-Assets/releases/tag/inner-keep-3d-asset-library-2026-08-02)
 
 ## Current 3D production library
@@ -81,6 +105,7 @@ Large masters do not live in normal Git history. They are published as immutable
 
 ## Asset releases
 
+- [`hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03`](https://github.com/ael-dev3/Warpkeep-Assets/releases/tag/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03) — twelve game-ready Hegemony infantry, ranged, and cavalry units with 48 four-LOD runtime GLBs, 15 privacy-sanitized editable Blender sources, 39 PNGs, package manifests, nested checksums and license notices, [public provenance](provenance/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03.md), and a Git-tracked four-image gallery
 - [`inner-keep-3d-asset-library-2026-08-02`](https://github.com/ael-dev3/Warpkeep-Assets/releases/tag/inner-keep-3d-asset-library-2026-08-02) — complete privacy-sanitized inner-keep production snapshot: 152 assets, 610 total GLBs, 74 Blender containers, 364 PNGs, checksums, [public provenance](provenance/inner-keep-3d-asset-library-2026-08-02.md), and a 12-image Git-tracked production gallery
 - [`title-stone-letters-2026-07-12`](https://github.com/ael-dev3/Warpkeep-Assets/releases/tag/title-stone-letters-2026-07-12) — six source stone-letter GLBs and the optimized high/compact WARPKEEP title assemblies
 - [`hegemony-mark-2026-07-13`](https://github.com/ael-dev3/Warpkeep-Assets/releases/tag/hegemony-mark-2026-07-13) — **A Mark — the Hegemony’s main in-game currency.** Includes presentation and transparent source PNGs, Git-tracked previews, checksums, [public provenance](provenance/hegemony-mark-2026-07-13.md), and CC BY 4.0 licensing effective from Warpkeep v0.3.0.

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provenance/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03.md

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+# Warpkeep Hegemony Unit Corps
+
+- **Release tag:** `hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03`
+- **Snapshot date:** 2026-08-03
+- **Supplied by:** Ael
+- **Deposit authority:** Ael explicitly authorized publishing all current Hegemony infantry, ranged, and cavalry packages in `ael-dev3/Warpkeep-Assets`.
+- **Designation:** game-ready production asset archive and runtime handoff; this deposit does not by itself assert current live-game integration.
+
+## Scope
+
+The release contains three separately downloadable packages with twelve units:
+
+- **Shieldwall infantry:** Bulwark, Legionary, Vanguard, and Honor Guard;
+- **Astral ranged:** Longbow Warden, Dusk Ranger, Astral Magister, and Rift Battlemage; and
+- **Astral cavalry:** Dusk Outrider, Astral Lancer, Horseguard, and Imperial Cataphract.
+
+Together they provide 48 runtime GLBs, four mobile-first LODs per unit, 15
+editable Blender sources, 39 PNGs, runtime manifests, individual and lineup
+previews, QA reports, and checksum sidecars. LOD0 and LOD1 are rigged; LOD2
+and LOD3 are static placement and map-distance variants. Infantry uses a
+21-joint rig with Idle, Walk, and Attack actions. Ranged uses a 21-joint rig,
+and cavalry uses a combined 49-joint horse-and-rider rig; both add a Special
+action.
+
+## Production history and references
+
+The geometry, materials, rigs, actions, LODs, renders, and package metadata
+were substantially authored, prepared, or refined with Codex under Ael's
+direction and review. Supplied historical-strategy comparison sheets were
+used only for broad role, equipment, and silhouette study. Those sheets are
+not included in this release, and the package manifests identify the geometry
+as original project-authored work.
+
+The unit art direction uses Warpkeep's blackened-steel, deep-purple, and
+antique-gold Hegemony palette. Official crest artwork is retained in each
+package as the exact source texture plus a mobile runtime derivative and is
+placed on restrained equipment fields according to each family manifest.
+
+## Public-copy preparation
+
+The 48 runtime GLBs remain byte-identical to the validated source packages.
+Each of the 15 Blender sources stored an absolute local render-output path;
+the public copies normalize those paths to package-relative `Previews/`
+locations and neutralize serialized local-path fragments. Every public Blend
+then reopened in Blender 5.2 with the same path-insensitive semantic
+fingerprint as its private source.
+
+Extended attributes were removed, files and directories were normalized to
+portable modes, all 39 PNGs and 18 JSON documents parsed successfully, all 48
+GLBs retained valid embedded glTF 2.0 payloads with no external URI, and all
+126 package checksum entries passed after sanitization. No credential,
+private path, symlink, executable, or hidden operating-system metadata remains
+in the public packages. The detailed audit is recorded in
+[`reports/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03/public-sanitization.json`](../reports/hegemony-unit-corps-2026-08-03/public-sanitization.json).
+
+The supplied runtime QA reports record 173 of 173 checks passed. The ranged
+GLBs retain a harmless source metadata label that says “infantry runtime
+asset”; the validated bytes were deliberately preserved rather than silently
+rewritten. The 256px runtime crest also retains inherited 1254px XMP source
+dimensions while its decoded image dimensions are correctly 256×256.
+
+## Distribution shape
+
+The binary hierarchy is published as three deterministic GitHub Release ZIPs,
+one each for infantry, ranged, and cavalry. Lightweight optimized gallery
+images, manifests, provenance, license boundaries, sanitization results, and
+verification metadata are tracked directly in Git. Large Blend and GLB files
+are intentionally excluded from normal Git history under this repository's
+archive policy.
+
+Each detached ZIP also carries `PACKAGE-NOTICE.md` at its package root. The
+notice preserves the no-separate-open-license, trademark, and runtime-status
+boundaries when an archive is downloaded without the surrounding repository.
+
+## License boundary
+
+Public archival and GitHub Release distribution of this named unit set were
+authorized by Ael. No separate open-license grant is asserted or inferred.
+Repository presence does not license third-party tools or services,
+third-party reference material, Warpkeep or Hegemony trademarks and canonical
+identity, or unrelated Warpkeep material.