I've got a little distracted by two things.
1) Adding a major alien empire called The Imperium. Example ship spoilered below:
Lunar class Cruiser 32,000 tons 966 Crew 7641.68 BP TCS 640 TH 4000 EM 2700
6250 km/s Armour 8-89 Shields 90-300 Sensors 22/28/0/0 Damage Control Rating 21 PPV 193.12
Maint Life 2.04 Years MSP 3134 AFR 390% IFR 5.4% 1YR 1009 5YR 15135 Max Repair 500 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Spare Berths 1
Magazine 792
Vulkan-Gavinus VG-1000 Internal Fusion Drive (4) Power 1000 Fuel Use 25% Signature 1000 Exp 10%
Fuel Capacity 1,030,000 Litres Range 23.2 billion km (42 days at full power)
Void Shields (30) Total Fuel Cost 450 Litres per hour (10,800 per day)
Particle Lance (4) Range 320,000km TS: 6250 km/s Power 55-5 ROF 55 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18 18
Defence Turret (2x8) Range 40,000km TS: 25000 km/s Power 0-0 RM 4 ROF 5 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
25cm Weapon Battery (2x4) Range 250,000km TS: 6250 km/s Power 15-5 RM 5 ROF 15 5 5 5 5 5 4 3 3 2 2
Defence Turret Fire Control (1) Max Range: 96,000 km TS: 25000 km/s 90 79 69 58 48 38 27 17 6 0
Energy Weapon Fire Control (2) Max Range: 384,000 km TS: 6250 km/s 97 95 92 90 87 84 82 79 77 74
Fusion Reactor (4) Total Power Output 32 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Torpedo Launcher (6) Missile Size 12 Rate of Fire 75
Torpedo Fire Control (1) Range 128.8m km Resolution 120
Vortex Torpedo (18) Speed: 50,000 km/s End: 22.7m Range: 68m km WH: 36 Size: 12 TH: 166/100/50
Maelstrom Torpedo (30) Speed: 70,000 km/s End: 12.7m Range: 53.3m km WH: 24 Size: 12 TH: 233/140/70
Tempest MWH Torpedo (18) Speed: 7,500 km/s End: 103.4m Range: 58.5m km WH: 0 Size: 12 TH: 25/15/7
Torpedo Detection Augur Array (1) GPS 28 Range 3.9m km MCR 427k km Resolution 1
Cruiser Active Augur Array (1) GPS 20160 Range 257.6m km Resolution 120
Thermal Augur Array (1) Sensitivity 22 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 22m km
Electromagnetic Augur Array (1) Sensitivity 28 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 28m km
ECCM-2 (1) ECM 202) I finally started C# Aurora
. This is a very long-term project but it occurred to me that rather than reading while the turns were processing, I could be programming. The problem has always been that I didn't think I could maintain enthusiasm for such a large project, especially when I could be playing or working on VB6 Aurora instead. However, doing it this way allows me to rewrite in C# without actually giving up playing time. The downside is that is will take a long time and I might never get there
but at least I finally started.