fix(e2e): task-10 review fixes — Nth tick, retry-safe preambles, queue-DTO shape (#44)

e2e/helpers.ts

@@ -72,3 +72,18 @@ export async function jumpToFreshSystem(page: Page): Promise<WorldState> {
   expect(after.systems.find((s) => s.current)?.id).toBe(target.id); // landed, not just queued
   return after;
 }
+
+// Tick the save's task queue until it is empty (free skips are legal 200s; every tick decrements
+// every ACTIVE row and PENDING rows auto-start, so a non-empty queue always shrinks — the bound
+// only fails a pathological state). Every spec that queues actions starts from this on retry:
+// the CI DB persists across attempts, and a failed one may have left a row behind — an in-transit
+// JUMP would 409 every new queue (lib/game/tasks.ts's in-transit rule).
+export async function drainQueue(page: Page): Promise<void> {
+  for (let ticks = 0; ; ticks++) {
+    const body = (await (await page.request.get('/api/crew')).json()) as { crew?: CrewDto[]; tasks?: { id: number }[] } | CrewDto[];
+    const tasks = Array.isArray(body) ? [] : (body.tasks ?? []);
+    if (tasks.length === 0) return;
+    expect(ticks).toBeLessThan(60);
+    expect((await page.request.post('/api/turn')).status()).toBe(200);
+  }
+}