diff --git a/components/task-strip.tsx b/components/task-strip.tsx
index 92294c2..d64a99d 100644
--- a/components/task-strip.tsx
+++ b/components/task-strip.tsx
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 
 import type { QueueDto } from '@/lib/game/save'
 
-// TASK STRIP — the save's task queue, fixed bottom-left next to the NEXT TURN button (#44).
+// TASK STRIP — the save's task queue, fixed bottom-left (#44); the NEXT TURN button moved into
+// the right pane in #52, so the two can no longer overlap.
 // The array arrives pre-ordered from the snapshot builder (Task 6: ACTIVE block, then PENDING
 // block, each by (queuedAtTurn, id)) — the strip renders it as-is, dimming the PENDING rows,
 // and never fetches or re-sorts. Empty queue → null, no box at all. The shell re-renders it on
diff --git a/e2e/smoke.spec.ts b/e2e/smoke.spec.ts
index 8042a23..e7fce84 100644
--- a/e2e/smoke.spec.ts
+++ b/e2e/smoke.spec.ts
@@ -1054,7 +1054,7 @@ test('NEXT TURN button is full-width in the right pane and not covered by the ta
   const edge = world.edges.find(([a, b]) => a === currentId || b === currentId)!;
   const targetId = edge[0] === currentId ? edge[1] : edge[0];
   const { crew } = (await (await page.request.get('/api/crew')).json()) as { crew: CrewDto[]; tasks: QueueTaskDto[] };
-  expect(crew.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(2);
+  expect(crew.length).toBeGreaterThanOrEqual(1);
 
   // Queue a one-person JUMP and deliberately do not tick it (the #44 jump scenarios' pattern,
   // the in-transit 409 one leaves it that way on purpose): the strip renders from the shell's