Black Road Sky #4: Electrical System (First Pass) Complete

Here's a huge and probably incomprehensible GIF showing the current startup procedure, followed by a death-defying orbital maneuver and a quick shutdown:

I feel like things are coming together pretty well. I had to sketch out half-ass versions of a few other systems, as you can see above, just to get the electrical system running & tested, and in the process I was able to generalize a lot of the code base; adding new systems (as well as their UI panels) should be quite a bit easier from here on out.

Next up is the temperature management system. I'm not sure how deep I'll dig in on this first pass, but the plan is for the system to eventually consist of a number of freon (or something)-fed cooling loops with deployable radiators. I need to do some research on current and experimental industrial cooling technologies first, though, to get an idea of what's going to make sense here. Pretty much everything in the ship will produce heat, and overheating damage will eventually be a thing, so temperature management will be an important system that I'd like to get sketched out sooner than later.

I want the pressure dynamics in the pipes to make sense, and I don't really know anything about pressure dynamics, so this update may take a while as I dig into some research. But I'm hoping to have something to show & to be able to move on within a few weeks.