Cleaned up all the lateral thrusters. The main engine outlets seems to be intact. Lot of progress today. Metaphoris isn’t that bad after all.
I tried to reach out to Ostraflex today, no response. Either Radakee is already in cryo-sleep for the next push, or she doesn’t want to respond back. That’s respectable. I guess I shouldn’t ask Radakee to turn her ship back anyway. That kind of turn is a fuel monster. She would need to do a obtuse retro-thrust to get back into Metaphoris’ orbit. And I am getting a feeling Ostraflex isn’t a ship made to pair up with a second generation explorer for a long haul. Loads of differences in tight course correction capabilities.
I think I should remove Ostraflex’s XOR encoding from my servers. I don’t need it anymore, at least not now. I spent some with the simulator today, made it to work. After the crash, it was borked. Had to re-instantiate the whole subsystem. Works again. Flew a couple of short take offs in it. Flight school training helps, but I am “out in the wild” already. What can go wrong anymore?
Anyway, back to preparing for my excursion to the polar region.