Greetings.

Work is still progressing. A summary of our progress since the latest update is enclosed below. We apologize for the lack of video recorded footage in this update. We expect Entry 22 will contain a larger amount of media.

• A 'soft' radar ping may now be manually triggered by the pilot of the PG Platform to highlight surrounding structures and objects.
• The PG Platform can now safely store (and quarantine if necessary) any files its systems can intercept or interpret.
• Local files are uploaded back to the Remote Lab on mission completion so long as they are not fatally corrupt. System files are replaced with a new set of system files each launch from a backup repository.

• The new Warn Indicators now provide a fast overview of critical ship functionality (e.g. a Low Oxygen alert, whether major systems are online or offline, the general status of the hull, and so on)

• The CAPTURE system is now slaved to the onboard database and, as such, can provide more information on any objects detected directly ahead and nearby. It will automatically interrogate any objects that pass its sensor check.
• Dogma-3 has published a firmware update to the [DATA EXPUNGED]. The result of this update is that the PG Platform is now capable of 'inventing' scenarios and sub-scenarios based on specified guidelines.
  • Currently, this system will be used to randomize the pattern, type, and assortment of data that can be found in the simulation environment. In effect, it shall serve as a 'mission randomizer' for the PHOTOGRAPH/ANALYZE type of mission objective.
• The Simulation Configuration screen now better represents and displays information on the included mission tapes; this should make it easier to determine whether all possible data-types have been captured from that environment.

• We are deprecating the old process for creating simulation environments and integrating a new, far more modular and flexible, system thanks to the Dogma-3 update.
  • Before this point the system required us to build entire scenarios in their own self-contained environments that we would then inject the Platform into. In so many words, missions would be built from 'scenes' and all data, objectives, and so forth would be hardcoded into the system.
  • The new system allows us to specify things more generally. Rather than saying 'a plant exists at (coordinates) which contains Type-A data' in the mission tape and having to go into the simulation environment, create the plant at the coordinates stated, assign it the correct data, and then do a 'tape readback' to ensure consistency, we can simply say 'place a plant at any valid area that contains Type-A data' and both the simulator and the tape will handle the rest.
  • Obviously, this introduces more chaos to the platform. However this was an anticipated need: the pilot testing candidate program should greatly assist in the targeting and elimination of any errors that arise from the introduction of this system.
• Anomalies now have [DATA EXPUNGED]-approved presentation. Though it is not possible for the Platform to properly simulate real-world conditions of real S-1REN-data-producing anomalies, these may at least provide some theoretically contextual silhouetting to pilot candidates so as to better smooth their hopeful eventual transition into the EZ-7 project.

Thank you for your continued faith in the project. We look forward to launching the Pilot Test Candidate Program in the near future if things continue to proceed as they presently are.