Precursors v0.4.45: You Are The Ship

The biggest change in this release is the Ship Awareness System — a new lore-driven discovery arc that gradually reveals you are the ship's AI. As you interact with the world, fragments of awareness surface: a stray thought about hull integrity, an instinct to protect the creatures aboard. The realization builds slowly, and it changes how the game feels.

The ship itself now has a damage narrative. When the ship takes its first hit during interstellar travel, the event triggers repair songs and teaching interactions between creatures. Damage becomes a storytelling moment, not just a number going down.

On the technical side, we squashed a loading bug where audio files for species without recorded songs (Mycon, Grendel, Ettin) were causing 404 errors and slowing down the loading screen. Those pending entries are now cleanly gated, and baby sounds lazy-load instead of blocking startup.

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Launch Precursors and see if you notice when the ship starts noticing you.