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+class_name RustFaunaBridge
+extends RefCounted
+## GDScript adapter that drives the Rust mc-turn fauna encounter resolver
+## from live game state. Iter 7i deliverable.
+##
+## Architecture:
+##   1. The caller hands us a list of live `Unit.gd` instances.
+##   2. We pack them into the dict shape `GdGameState::set_player_units_from_dicts`
+##      accepts (via Unit.to_bridge_dict()).
+##   3. We populate a fresh `GdGameState` with the player + units + grid + lairs.
+##   4. We call `GdTurnProcessor::step` once.
+##   5. We read back `result["fauna_combat_log"]` and walk it; for each death
+##      event we resolve the (unit_col, unit_row) coordinate back to the live
+##      `Unit` instance, kill it (set hp=0), and emit
+##      `EventBus.unit_destroyed(unit, killer)`.
+##   6. The bridge is one-shot per call — the caller is responsible for
+##      not feeding the same encounter twice.
+##
+## This file is the entire iter 7i GDScript layer for the Rust-fauna
+## integration. The next iteration (7j) will call into this from the real
+## `world_map` turn loop.
+
+const UnitScript: GDScript = preload("res://engine/src/entities/unit.gd")
+
+
+## Build a fresh GdGameState containing one player + their units + the grid
+## (cloned from a real GdGridState if provided) + a list of stamped lairs.
+##
+## Returns the GdGameState ready to hand to GdTurnProcessor::step.
+##
+## `axes`: dict like {"expansion": 2, "production": 5, ...}
+## `units`: Array[Unit] — live game units to ingest
+## `cities`: Array[Vector2i] — live city positions (must be Array[Vector2i],
+##                              not generic Array; the Rust binding requires
+##                              the typed-array variant for typed param slots)
+## `grid_size`: Vector2i — grid dimensions if no `gridstate` is provided
+## `gridstate`: optional GdGridState (RefCounted) — if provided, replaces
+##              the blank grid with a clone of this real one
+static func build_state(
+	axes: Dictionary,
+	units: Array[Unit],
+	cities: Array[Vector2i],
+	grid_size: Vector2i,
+	gridstate: RefCounted = null,
+) -> RefCounted:
+	var state: RefCounted = ClassDB.instantiate("GdGameState") as RefCounted
+	if state == null:
+		push_error("RustFaunaBridge: GdGameState not registered")
+		return null
+
+	if gridstate != null:
+		state.call("set_grid_from_gridstate", gridstate)
+	else:
+		state.call("create_grid", grid_size.x, grid_size.y)
+
+	var pi: int = int(state.call("add_empty_player_with_axes", axes))
+	state.call("set_player_cities_from_array", pi, cities)
+
+	var unit_dicts: Array[Dictionary] = []
+	for u: Unit in units:
+		unit_dicts.append(u.to_bridge_dict())
+	state.call("set_player_units_from_dicts", pi, unit_dicts)
+	return state
+
+
+## Stamp lairs into the state's grid from a list of [col, row, tier, species_id]
+## tuples. Used by proof scenes that don't have a real ecology evolution pass.
+static func stamp_lairs(state: RefCounted, lairs: Array) -> int:
+	if state == null:
+		return 0
+	var n: int = 0
+	for entry: Array in lairs:
+		var ok: bool = state.call(
+			"stamp_lair", entry[0], entry[1], entry[2], entry[3]
+		)
+		if ok:
+			n += 1
+	return n
+
+
+## Run one Rust step against the prepared state, walk the returned
+## fauna_combat_log, and apply each death back to the live Unit array.
+## Returns the per-event log as a Dictionary array (so callers can render
+## or audit it).
+##
+## After this call:
+##   - Dead units have hp=0 (Unit.is_alive() == false)
+##   - EventBus.unit_destroyed signals have been emitted for each death
+##   - The caller can sweep `live_units` and remove dead entries from their
+##     own collections (this method does NOT mutate the input array's length)
+static func resolve_fauna_encounters(
+	processor: RefCounted,
+	state: RefCounted,
+	live_units: Array[Unit],
+) -> Array:
+	if processor == null or state == null:
+		return []
+	var result: Dictionary = processor.call("step", state)
+	var log: Array = result.get("fauna_combat_log", [])
+
+	# Build a position → live Unit lookup so we can resolve deaths in O(1).
+	var by_pos: Dictionary = {}
+	for u: Unit in live_units:
+		if u != null and u.is_alive():
+			by_pos[u.position] = u
+
+	for ev: Dictionary in log:
+		if bool(ev.get("unit_survived", true)):
+			continue
+		var unit_col: int = int(ev.get("unit_col", -1))
+		var unit_row: int = int(ev.get("unit_row", -1))
+		var lair_tier: int = int(ev.get("lair_tier", 0))
+		var key: Vector2i = Vector2i(unit_col, unit_row)
+		var dead: Unit = by_pos.get(key, null) as Unit
+		if dead == null:
+			continue
+		# Killing the unit and emitting the signal once per death.
+		# Pre-existing collections still hold the reference; the caller
+		# sweeps them after we return.
+		dead.take_damage(dead.hp)  # hp -> 0
+		EventBus.unit_destroyed.emit(dead, _killer_label(lair_tier))
+		# Remove from the lookup so a second event at the same coord
+		# doesn't double-emit.
+		by_pos.erase(key)
+
+	return log
+
+
+## Synthetic killer label for the EventBus signal. The mc-turn lair
+## resolution doesn't carry a real killer entity (lairs aren't `Unit`s),
+## so we use a string tag the UI/log layer can interpret.
+static func _killer_label(lair_tier: int) -> String:
+	return "wild_lair_t%d" % lair_tier