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  SVERA DEFENSE — FIELD LAUNCHER
  Form 91-A · supply & deployment
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WHAT THIS IS
  The desk that keeps your field kit current. It raises HQ, compares the
  issue you carry against the one posted, pulls down whatever is missing,
  checks the seal, unpacks the crate and puts you on the wall.

HOW TO USE IT
  1. Unzip this whole folder somewhere with room for the game
     (about 4 GB free — the crate is ~1.7 GB and it unpacks bigger).
  2. Double-click  SveraLauncher.bat
  3. Press INSTALL. The game lands in the SveraDefense folder next to
     the launcher. After that the button says PLAY, and only says
     UPDATE when HQ posts a new issue.

WHAT THE BUTTONS MEAN
  INSTALL       no kit on hand — pull the whole crate down once.
  UPDATE        a newer issue is posted. Small changes swap just the
                game exe; content changes bring a fresh crate.
  PLAY          you carry the current issue. Deploy.
  VERIFY FILES  re-hash the game exe against the record and tell you
                whether it still matches.
  HOLD TRANSFER parks a download. Nothing is lost — it picks up from
                where it stopped the next time you run the launcher.

WHAT THE LIST IS SHOWING
  Every line is something that actually happened: the URLs fetched, the
  real byte counts off the transfer, the SHA-256 it computed against the
  one HQ published, and then every single file as it is written to disk
  during the unpack. No progress is invented — if a number is on screen,
  it was measured.

IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG
  - "SUPPLY LINE CUT" means the launcher could not reach HQ. Check your
    connection and press RETRY.
  - "FIELD KIT NOT FOUND" means the install is missing its game exe.
    Press REINSTALL to re-issue the whole crate.
  - launcher.log sits next to the launcher and records every run. Send
    it along with any bug report.

WHAT IT TALKS TO
  sveradefense.online, and nothing else. No accounts, no telemetry, no
  background service. Downloads run through Windows BITS when the server
  supports resuming, so a dropped connection is not a lost download.

FILES IN HERE
  SveraLauncher.bat            double-click this
  SveraDefenseLauncher.exe     the launcher (if the exe shipped)
  SveraDefenseLauncher.ps1     the same launcher as a script
  assets\                      the paper, tape and seal it draws with
  SveraLauncher.ps1            the old console launcher, no GUI

  — hold the wall. we keep the kit fresh.
