S12 · Companions, mounts and personal pursuits

Current implementation: Six species, acquisition, training, deployed behaviors, conserved conditioning and bounded inheritance exist.

Outstanding acceptance: Full prestige, collection, mount/logistics balance and husbandry careers need long-lived tests.

The four requirements below preserve the original release target. Their historic baseline is not used as a current completion score. This page does not mark the entire stream complete merely because related components are installed.

Reference

Requirement	Required deliverable	Acceptance standard
S12.01 · Implement acquisition and training	Define species eligibility, capture/raising alternatives, training progress, bond choices, equipment and recovery.	Every released companion can be acquired and used through real gameplay; decorative rarity is not secretly greater combat power.
S12.02 · Implement companion action and logistics rules	Specify deployment limits, commands, role interactions, mount transport and no-companion alternatives.	Pets cannot become free parallel labor or unbounded additional turns; mount differences have useful tradeoffs.
S12.03 · Build husbandry and breeding	Implement trait bounds, care, productive input requirements and alternative training routes.	Progress does not depend solely on rare lineage luck; pets do not die from ordinary absence; breeding output has accounted sources and demand.
S12.04 · Ship prestige and collection uses	Implement intended displays, titles, collections, maker records, personal spaces and equivalent noncombat accomplishments.	Each visible pursuit works end to end without becoming mandatory hidden statistical power or an empty collection category.