
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.
Changed depots in testing branch