OVERALL STATUS
Release surface
198 items are complete or already playable and awaiting polish.
NOW QUEUE
Immediate work
SYSTEM HEALTH
Progress by production area
RECOMMENDED ORDER
Production path to friends & family alpha
Finish the hardened save foundation
Complete Stage 3 catalog reconstruction, then Stage 4 test-save isolation before creating the permanent development pilot.
Run destructive persistence regressions
Prove generations, manifests, backups, catalog rebuild, and no-silent-New-Game recovery on an isolated clean pilot.
Re-run Academy / Contract on clean saves
Verify exact 15 Scrap turn-in, +4,000 Credits, completed Contract state, immediate UI refresh, and Hale advancement.
Complete the Academy campaign
Finish later lessons, missing Instructor Hale voice coverage, UI highlights, and lesson regression.
Resume ambient NPC activity
Add NPC miners first, then civilian/cargo traffic and Organization-v-Organization combat in bounded passes.
Prepare the friends & family alpha
Repeat travel/save/recovery regressions, add audio/readability polish, and profile the major runtime hot spots.