0042 — Police Engagement Spawn-Delay Mechanism

Status

Folded into FEATURES/gameplay/police-forces.md.

Context

When a Federation Police engagement trigger fires, the squad must arrive on a 2-turn delay measured in the offending player's own turn consumption rather than synchronously or on a wall-clock timer. This ADR decided how that delay is enforced (a turn-counter watch with a durable PendingEngagement row), the per-player offense cooldown, the jurisdiction-exit / disconnect / expiry behaviour, and the relationship to the regional fallback. The canon now lives in FEATURES/gameplay/police-forces.md — see Engagement dispatch and the 2-turn spawn delay and Engagement outcomes.

Related docs

• FEATURES/gameplay/police-forces.md — engagement triggers, squad composition, "arrives within 2 turns" spec.
• SYSTEMS/npc-scheduler.md — engagement-routing handler, regional response fallback, durable scheduler state.
• SYSTEMS/npc-lifecycle.md — LAW_ENFORCEMENT archetype lifecycle, named-officer single-presence rule.
• DATA_MODELS/npcs.md — NPCCharacter status enum (target update — add engaged_pending_arrival).
• SYSTEMS/combat-resolver.md — combat resolution that runs once the squad arrives.