docs: player-facing factual fixes + voice-rewrite teardown for ship (Pip review)

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Ship-hygiene pass over player-facing docs (README top priority). Two kinds of change, kept deliberately separate.

The core truth (verified in code)

game_state.gd check_win_lose() (L518-523) only ever sets victory=false, on doom>=100 or reputation<=0. There is no doom<=0 victory branch and victory is never set true anywhere. The game is unwinnable by design (ADR-0002 / DQ-1 victory-removal, RESOLVED). All fixes below use the true thesis: you can't win — you can only buy time; survival duration is the score; every run ends in loss; a good run beats your own baseline. (An earlier revision of this PR wrongly described a doom→0 "apex victory," following stale prose in the ADR-0002 document — that has been purged everywhere; see the audit report's correction note.)

Factual fixes — safe to merge

• README — removed the advertised "Survive 100 turns with P(Doom) at 0%" win condition AND the About-para "…whether P(Doom) reaches 0% or humanity faces extinction" win-lie → buy-time framing. Fixed dead docs/CONTRIBUTORS.md link.
• STEAM_INTEGRATION_ROADMAP — version v0.10.5 → v0.11.0 (×2); purged both win-lies in the store copy (short description + gameplay bullet).
• PLAYERGUIDE — corrected false "Python/Pygame version" note; dropped dead CONFIG_SYSTEM.md link.
• docs/README (index) — removed two all-dead link sections (8 dead links) + literal CLIPBOARD/MICROSCOPE emoji-token garbage + dead Dev Tools link.
• CONTRIBUTING — removed dead docs/CONTRIBUTORS.md link.
• QUICK_REFERENCE — version v0.4.1 → v0.11.0.

12 factual fixes total. No .import churn; settings.local.json excluded.

Voice teardowns — your worklist, not done here

docs/qa/PLAYER_FACING_AUDIT_2026-07-16.md is the primary deliverable: verdict table + per-doc skeletons (README pitch, PLAYERGUIDE full rewrite — it documents the pygame-era game, DEMO_GUIDE archive, Steam store copy, PRIVACY, CHANGELOG L1-wave entries).

Findings for other lanes (NOT fixed here)

• In-game HUD center string "Win: P(Doom) = 0% or beat baseline | Lose: P(Doom) = 100%" is the same stale win-lie, live in the game — owned by the HUD/code lane.
• ADR-0002 doc prose is itself stale (claims a doom<=0 code victory that doesn't exist) — reconcile to DQ-1.
• Steam achievement table ("First Victory: Win your first game", "Safety Champion: Win with 0% doom", …) is win-based and invalid for an unwinnable game — must be redesigned around survival milestones by the achievements lane (also references deleted legacy python).

Note: AP → Attention wording was deliberately flagged, not rewritten — AP still co-exists in the shipped build (L2/#613 not built yet).

Please don't merge blind: the factual half is safe; the teardown half is for you.

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Reconciled against current origin/main (reconciliation lane)

This PR was based on a main from before yesterday's big merges (#725/#726 rivals + attribution, #736 living-roadmap). Reconciled today:

Rebased onto current origin/main -- clean, zero conflicts.

• README.md: the win-condition fixes (no-win / buy-time framing + [Contributor Rewards] link) reapplied cleanly on top of docs: living roadmap (milestones + quarterly pins to v0.15), stale roadmaps retired #736's README edit. Main did NOT already fix the win-lie; it's still needed.
• docs/STEAM_INTEGRATION_ROADMAP.md: docs: living roadmap (milestones + quarterly pins to v0.15), stale roadmaps retired #736 moved this file to docs/archive/STEAM_INTEGRATION_ROADMAP.md. The rebase followed the rename, so the v0.10.5 -> v0.11.0 version fixes now land on the archived copy. Harmless factual correction; flagging since the doc is no longer a live roadmap.
• CONTRIBUTING.md, docs/QUICK_REFERENCE.md, docs/README.md, and the new docs/qa/PLAYER_FACING_AUDIT_2026-07-16.md applied unchanged.

Dropped docs/PLAYERGUIDE.md -- handed to the #719 truth-pass lane.
Per the reconciliation scope (in-game strings + non-PLAYERGUIDE docs only), PLAYERGUIDE.md was restored to origin/main and the two factual fixes it carried are now flagged for #719 instead of applied here:

• "The Python/Pygame version is for development only" -> stale (pure GDScript now).
• dead [CONFIG_SYSTEM.md] link -> file absent.

The audit doc's verdict table now marks both as HANDED TO #719 and the fix count is corrected 12 -> 10.

Relationship to #715: file sets are completely disjoint -- #650 is markdown docs, #715 is in-game strings/code. No overlap, so both stay as separate PRs (no combined branch needed).

Tests: docs-only PR (no code). The sibling code branch (#715) passed the fast gate green (533 tests, 0 fail) after its own rebase.

Note: the audit doc + README carry a few em-dashes / the pre-existing coffee emoji. enforce-standards treats Unicode as non-blocking (auto-fixer warning only), so this does not block the commit -- left as-authored for your review.