Planning, committing and flying journeys.
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The camera from dev.33 swung around the spire as you walked, and the controls turned with it. dev.35 fixes that at the root. The ship now travels toward its bow, along the deck. One fixed view looks forward, slides with the captain and never turns. The bridge has been rearranged so every console faces the way you're going. Far from any star, the ship's spire lights the deck.
Two review builds in three days. A long crossing now ends in a review you read at your own pace. Talking to the crew happens on an internal videocom that shows whose move it is. And the camera has left your head: you now see the captain from fixed third-person views that turn to the sky when the ship is under way.
Callisto was a smooth grey ball because its surface map was missing. It now has its own crater mosaic, and nine other moons gain source imagery too. Dust impacts leave short curved marks across the bubble wall, the gas chart gains density shading, and the guided voyage reaches its distant highlights once each.
Two new videos show recent work in motion: a stable orbit around Sagittarius A* and the guided voyage arriving beside Saturn. Both are captures of the game, with the AILANG simulation supplying the motion, clocks and arrival state.
Clocks, speed and distance stay visible as you travel. Course plotting and journey commitments now live at the bridge consoles, while M opens a read-only star chart wherever you are.
Wherever you stop, the size of what you see now tells you how big it really is. Sol is back on the map, and you can hop between the bodies of a system yourself.
Until now only the Sun and α Centauri had a size; every other star you visited was a point seen from 1,000 AU away. Now each star in the voyage is a real disc with its measured radius and temperature, and you arrive where its size means something.
The voyage now reaches a real planetary system, the ship is lit by whichever star it is near, and the sky holds six times more stars, each in exactly one place.
Every Solar System leg now has the same rhythm, about 2¼ minutes in real time: 30 seconds accelerating, about a minute cruising, then braking into a 25-second final approach. The longer legs simply go faster, above 0.999c to Jupiter and Saturn, so the planets now ease into view instead of appearing in the last few seconds.
The guided tour no longer fast-forwards. Every boost and every braking plays at one ship second per wall second, and special relativity, not a time-lapse, is what makes the trips short. Earth to Jupiter takes six minutes aboard while 39 pass on Earth. Then the voyage leaves the Sun behind: α Centauri, TRAPPIST-1 and Aldebaran, 120 Earth years later.