Rewrite README as a narrative cyberpunk tactics introduction

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What changed

• Reframed the README around HexWire as a turn-based cyberpunk strategy tactics game rather than leading with repository architecture.
• Added a narrative opening centered on a privatized surveillance city, contract work, small-team infiltration, tactical competence, and extraction under pressure.
• Expanded the four-runner crew into clear battlefield identities: street samurai, mage, decker, and face.
• Explained the Street / Signal / Trace / Lay Low loop in player-facing language while preserving the actual implemented mechanics.
• Added a narrative run structure covering contracts, room-by-room combat, objectives, extraction, nuyen, faction attention, cyberware, and persistent consequences.
• Grounded the campaign section in the repo’s six certified story missions, interstitial operations, seeded replay model, twenty arenas, side contracts, endless gauntlet, and New Game+.
• Retained badges, the pressure-loop art, architecture diagram, build instructions, CI evidence, documentation links, and repository atlas below the narrative layer.

Narrative direction

The README now presents HexWire as a game about a capable but vulnerable crew operating inside a city-scale surveillance machine. Power is available through the Signal layer, but using it raises Trace and forces the player to trade tempo against survival. Combat is framed as objective-driven infiltration rather than simple enemy elimination: the job is not finished until a runner reaches extraction.

Source grounding

Claims were checked against:

• docs/TraceSystem.md
• docs/audit/MissionCertificationMatrix.md
• plans.md
• project.yml
• .github/workflows/hexwire-ci.yml
• the existing repository README and stabilization documentation

No unsupported lore, named corporations, mission plots, or unimplemented systems were presented as canonical.

Validation

Documentation-only change. Hosted CI remains the authoritative validation surface for project drift, tests, iPhone/iPad builds, hygiene, resources, and archive generation.

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Run the app in the autostart example

When this block is pasted into a shell, it only assigns a shell variable; it neither launches HexWire nor passes the value into a simulator process. Because HexwireApp.swift reads the app process environment, the documented “Launch directly” flow does nothing. Use the simulator-launch form, such as SIMCTL_CHILD_SR_AUTOSTART_MISSION_ID=Mission003 xcrun simctl launch <udid> com.hexwireaaron.game, instead.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L34-L35

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