The ship flies itself, and the pilot decides where (docs/TODO/205 to 208) - #51

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Commits on Sep 10, 2026

docs/TODO/204 is planned: the ship flies by touch

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docs/TODO/204 M1: the input takes a wanted speed and a held button

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docs/TODO/204 M2: the touch overlay: drag to steer, hold to fire, slide to set speed

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docs/TODO/204 M3: the command row and the tappable prompts

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docs/TODO/204 M4: the flight menu

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docs/TODO/204 M5: fullscreen on the first touch, and the manual says how to fly by touch

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docs/TODO/204: the touch checks move to their own test files

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docs/TODO/204 lands, and the queue is empty

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docs/TODO/204: the whole screen steers, and a drag up raises the nose

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docs/TODO/205 to 208 are planned: the pilot picks a course, and the ship flies it

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docs/TODO/205 M1: the touch controls leave, and the held button stays

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docs/TODO/205 M2: the course list says what the ship can do next

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docs/TODO/205 and 206: Chris's answers of 2026-09-11

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docs/TODO/205 M3: the station course flies the ship into the slot

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docs/TODO/205 M3: the derelict, hermit and star courses, and no ship inside the planet

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docs/TODO/205 M4: the LAUNCH row asks where the ship goes

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docs/TODO/205 M5: the course list flies with the ship, as buttons over the view

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docs/TODO/205 M7: the fast forward button shortens the wait

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docs/TODO/205 M6 lands 205: the manual and the briefing teach the buttons

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docs/TODO/206 M1: the target list says what the ship can fight

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docs/TODO/206 M2 and M4: every pilot gets the aim, and the bought computer the trigger

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docs/TODO/206 M3: the pilot's hands are buttons: laser, missile, E.C.M. and targets

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docs/TODO/206 M5: the ways out of a fight are buttons

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docs/TODO/206 M6: collect everything, and mine the asteroids

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docs/TODO/206 lands: the manual and the briefing teach the fight

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docs/TODO/207 M1 and M3: the pilot flies the last stretch, and the slot checks the speed

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docs/TODO/207 M2: the roll strip and the throttle buttons fly the slot

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docs/TODO/207 M4: the guide teaches the last stretch, and the course brakes for it

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docs/TODO/207 lands: the pilot flies the slot, and the slot checks the speed

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docs/TODO/208 M1 and M2: a mission is the first button over the view

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docs/TODO/208 M3: the scoop rows cannot trap a pilot, and a hunt cannot stall

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docs/TODO/208 M4: a smuggling run slips past the police

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docs/TODO/208 M5: a derelict tells what the scan finds

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docs/TODO/208 lands: every kind of mission has a way to fly it

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Commits on Sep 12, 2026

The destination is picked on the local chart, not the galactic one

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docs/TODO/209: the torus drive says what stopped it

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docs/TODO/210: the ship does not roll all the way there

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docs/TODO/211: the ship stops short of the rock

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docs/TODO/212: the computer lines up, and the pilot plays the slot

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docs/TODO/212: the ship stops on the line, and the pilot thrusts in

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The co-pilot aims ahead of a ship, and it stops chasing one that circles

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The computer finishes the line-up before the pilot gets the slot

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The docking computer flies the last turn onto the slot axis

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Every commander gets the same line-up, and the cone is five times tighter

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A course can be stopped, and a fight stops it for you

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The slot is hard for a hand, and kind to a bought computer

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The record: a review of the combat computer, and its probes

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The co-pilot banks before it pulls, and the tracking tests say so

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The computer shoots what it aimed at, and answers a warhead with no ship

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One handover contract: the rates are the ship's, and the memory is the fight's

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A commitment has to be going somewhere, and the lead survives re-measurement

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A fight starts on two soft pings, not one hard beep

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The fight cue is a couple of beeps

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The fight cue is soft, and the voice was always the problem

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The fight cue whoops twice

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The computer engages once, and it was engaging sixty times a second

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A course goes round what it would hit

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The collect course holds one canister, and leads it

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The docking computer is a button, not an automatic

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The collect course flies slowly enough to correct

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Commits on Sep 13, 2026

Two reviews read the missions, and two plans answer them

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docs/TODO/213 M1: a hit trader goes back to work, and the escort ends

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docs/TODO/213 M2: a side job comes back, the goods leave, the arcs stay home

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docs/TODO/213 M3: the gun warning speaks for the Constrictor, and a board does not silence a lead

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docs/TODO/213 M4: the save, the journal, the standing and the restore hold

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docs/TODO/213 M5: the lint holds every trigger a verb can emit, and six comments say what the code does

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docs/TODO/213 lands: the mission rules hold, and a hit trader goes back to work

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docs/TODO/214 M1: pirates wait at the jump-in

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docs/TODO/214 M2: a scoop springs an ambush

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docs/TODO/214 M3: an escort is the commander's to keep

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docs/TODO/214: the flight probe after the three surprises, and the index says where 214 stands

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The target list is its own column, on the left

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docs/TODO/215 M1: the gun row lives in the console

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docs/TODO/215 M2: a list folds to a header, and opens as one row that runs sideways

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docs/TODO/215 M3: the manual says where the guns are

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docs/TODO/215 lands: the gun row lives in the console, and a list runs sideways

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A key grid types a name on a phone

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The charts find and estimate by a button

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The levers and the trainer step by a button

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The chart search has its own file

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Plan 216 lands: every docked screen carries a button for each key it reads

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The hunt is a chase, and the side hunt fails when its target runs

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The hunt counts a gang, and the side hunt is one

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The board gates the hard jobs by kills

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The gang is the Asp, the Krait and the Mamba

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Plans 214 and 217 land: a job has a surprise in it, and the side hunt is a gang

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The commander is they, not she

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Plan 218 lands: the commander is they, not she

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