Great River, lately neutral, now wears the Pirate colours after NWO seized it for that nation. No port battle concluded, no defence succeeded, and no fresh attack was queued during the window; the Caribbean's guns, for once, have kept their counsel. CFS remains serenely first with twenty-seven ports, unchanged in rank and count. MORC rises from twenty-third to twenty-first, adding a port to reach three; beneath the summit, even modest gains may still command a paragraph.