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They don't kill you. Dead blood doesn't flow. So they pull you under, keep you alive, and drain you slowly in the dark.

September at the Drive In.

Saturday September 26th 00:00 AM: we screen "Attack of the Giant Leeches" (1959).

The rockets are launching at Cape Canaveral. The runoff pools in the swamp next door, and something down there learns to feed on it.

A Mister Atompunk Production. One human. AI collaborators. Public domain cinema. Free forever.

Astra Agmen — v2.1

Fixed

- Combat screen covered the ship systems panel. Systems were rendering underneath it.

- Map objects below roughly y=540 were unreachable. The map is now scaled to fit instead of cropped.

- Dismissing a crew member who was away on a mission crashed mission resolution.

- Crew killed on a mission could never be dismissed. The mission lock was only released for survivors.

- BOARD ENEMY appeared whenever Security was powered, then refused the action if Security was below level 2.

- Away team and scan options were checked after you clicked them. Both now show the reason up front and are disabled.

- Away team option appeared on hulls with no Security bay at all. It is now absent, not disabled.

- Locations were consumed on arrival rather than on choice. Arriving with the wrong systems powered destroyed the encounter.

- Cargo panel clipped its right-hand column.

- Cargo, crew and loot windows left the colony screen stale.

- Dropped cargo did not appear in an open salvage window. The window's item list and the location's cache were separate collections.

- Boarding pods played a sound file that does not exist.

- No character encoding declared.

- No viewport tag. Phones reported 980px wide and used the desktop layout.

- Decryption vault was unwinnable roughly half the time above difficulty 4. Four symbols from six runes needs a median of six guesses; the attempt limit floored at five.

- Reactor minigame could fire its win and lose handlers into a removed screen.

- Trade multiplier was rerolled on every render.

- Loot window destroyed unclaimed items at half value when closed, with no warning.

Changed

- Expeditions start docked at the colony ship. Crew are stationed and essential systems lit automatically.

- Pre-launch readiness report on the colony screen.

- Nothing leaves the hold without a press. Take All takes what fits and leaves the rest.

- Unclaimed salvage stays at the location for the rest of the expedition. Locations holding cargo are marked on the map.

- Jettison at a location leaves cargo there. Jettison in transit vents it for half value.

- Sell All is Sell All Salvage. Weapons and equipment are excluded.

- Per-item selling at the Trading Post.

- Cargo items no longer stack. Missiles, scrap and fuel remain bulk resources.

- Item footprints are per variant, derived from the sprite artwork. 1×1, 1×2, 1×3, 2×1 and 2×2.

- Cargo items can be rotated. Automatic pickup tries both orientations.

- Picking up an item lights every cell it will fit in. Hovering shows the exact footprint.

- Encounters survive until they are actually chosen. Returning better equipped works.

- Clicking a location you are parked at opens it. No travel, no fuel.

Balance

- Fuel tank 100 to 50. Star refuel 30 to 12. A full tour of the map costs a median of 58; the budget was 130 and is now 62.

- Boarding ammo 30 to 10. The free reload between rooms is replaced by one round per surviving crew member.

- Kills drop ammo canisters. Shoot them to collect five rounds. Guaranteed to drop when you are nearly out.

- Decryption attempts floor raised from five to seven.

Interface

- Rebuilt to a single material system: painted hull, silkscreen legends, phosphor readouts, lamps.

- Three typefaces, one per role, served from the game directory. No CDN.

- Portrait layout.

- Hull is a bar with the numbers on it. Oxygen bar labelled.

- Crew portraits on the colony roster, with the station each person is at.

- Icons on vendor lists, cargo manifest, equipped weapons and equipped avionics.

- Decryption feedback reads "2 exact / 1 moved" alongside the pegs. Ruled-out runes are greyed.

- Colony and wild station panels are glass over the section art.

- Overlays measure the HUD and console rather than assuming their heights.

Audio

- 24 sounds were in use. Now 46.

- Each colony transaction has its own sound. They previously shared one.

- Undocking differs by location. Colony and wild stations sound different.

- Sounds are cached and preloaded on first click instead of fetched per play.

A special presentation by Vmann On the Road & On the Water - with special appearance by Mister Atompunk. Stop in Saturday or Sundays in September and say hello.

Traders World

Lebanon, Ohio

Building 12