While I’m not going to be able to get the kind of text to lcd responses I wanted in time for the initial upload, I did want to do at least a couple of things to differentiate Hipper from her sisters. Since only the Hipper and the Eugen have fully fledged AIs, they were meant to have more interactivity via scripts and the like. Hipper’s got the easy commands script I was planning to use to ape some of those responses, but I’m still learning how to use it in conjunction with sensors and timer blocks to get the results I want.

In short, it’s not ready.

Still, I should have one or two things ready in time. I at least want Hipper to give a text response any time the ship changes modes. Once I refamiliarize myself with easy commands I can probably handle that in a couple of hours.

Another thing I did was recolor an old sprite I made to act as a visual representation of the AI.

The colors aren’t perfectly matched, but I wanted to make sure the idea was even worth doing, first. I’ll get a more precise match and some extra bits later.

I need to make a few more edits and the interior paint scheme could use some more work, but we’re nearly there.