AFTERLIGHT 1.0.0-rc.3

Release Scope

Opens every optional side branch without requiring progress in another side branch or the main story.
Adds 17 free Briefing quests that introduce each branch and provide its verified guide item or a requisition chit.
Keeps the four cross-mod capstones gated by their intended multi-branch requirements.
Fixes Power Draw by giving every Forge Energy task a positive transfer limit and explaining the FTB Quests Task Screen transfer mechanic.
Adds Botany Pots, Mystical Agriculture compatibility for Botany Pots, Leaves Be Gone, and TrashSlot with their required libraries.
Updates JEI to 19.44.0.405, exposes Malum recipes to recipe viewers, and excludes Create iron sheets from unification.

Existing quest, task, and reward IDs remain unchanged.
The 17 new Briefing quests use new deterministic IDs.
Existing player progress remains mapped to the same identities after the update.
The production update still requires zero players, a verified backup, and an offline protected-progress archive before the server restarts.

Existing Prism profiles on the stable Packwiz channel update automatically before launch after RC3 reaches main.
New Prism users import AFTERLIGHT-prism-instance.zip once.
CurseForge users import AFTERLIGHT-curseforge.zip as a replacement profile.
The release portal remains https://rl-labs.org/afterlight/.

Quest generation: BUILD QUESTS: OK (46 compiler-managed chapters written).
Static quest validation: VALIDATE QUESTS: OK (55 chapters, 413 quests, 454 tasks, 545 rewards).
Pack integrity, dedicated-server boot, exact-head CI, artifact checksums, and production health evidence are recorded during RC3 publication and deployment.

This remains a release candidate while friends exercise the expanded quest paths in normal multiplayer play.
Existing worlds remain unpregenerated.
CurseForge and generic .mrpack launchers require a replacement import for this release.