I only meant to spend a couple of hours reprogramming the carousel, but somehow the hangar AND the maintenance bay are nearly finished.

I can’t say the day hasn’t been productive, but it was just as frustrating. Easy Automation gives me trouble sometimes, but trying to make a MArmOS crane (rather a twin linked pair of them) was an absolute nightmare for most of it. They still don’t quite work like I imagined, but they’re functional and don’t take up too much space in the maintenance bay, so that’s a win.

A few things to note are that the carousel has had all of its functions reversed and slightly refined. The centrifuge now rotates clockwise (according to the ship’s facing), and the docking plates rotate counter-clockwise. Docks 2 and 4 have had their positions swapped accordingly.

I also added magnetic plates and manual release buttons to the face of each docking plate. This helps me get around the problem of the Cosmo Messer E having its magnetic plate in a different spot. Trying to accommodate both E and F+ models would require two different docking guides overlapping each other. I figured it was just better to add some locks on the plates themselves and see if I can’t automate them later. Either way, the manual releases are there if needed, and both versions of the Messer can dock using their own magnetic plates. There’s just no precision guide for the ventral camera right now.

I can already tell I’m going to be coming up on the PCU limit I set for this ship right around the time I start trying to iron out the crew quarters, but I’ll figure something out. For now I’m just glad that the ship’s most important areas are coming together so well.