Well, once again my self from 5 years ago has outsmarted me. My attempt to allow main menu access has been unsuccessful. It seemed to be going fine, until trying to load a game from a planet, or from a UFO, and the game would crash unexpectedly. I attempted to find the cause, but there were no error messages to learn where to look.



Even when a load was successful, the view screen in the ship stopped working.

After roughly two weeks of vain efforts, I have decided instead to focus on improving other features of the game, and to accept that this issue will not be resolved. I have rolled back the change accordingly. Access to the main menu, after starting a game, will again restart the program. I guess the good news is that this approach works...

All the updates to the star chart remain in place, and should improve ease of navigation.