I know the ration replicator is broken. I will fix it later, but I finds the starvation somewhat comforting.
I've reached the Abuss outer edge of the frontier! It's a pleasant change of tone (from orange-ish yellow to blue) which inspires me to keep going. I quickly found a quiet and dark place and started a scouting sweep. It eventually came back with an all clear and some interesting discoveries. some of the asteroids in the belt showed signs of ore harvesting. There's no way of telling when, Could be millions of Terran years ago for all I know. What are they using all these resources for? The incredible thing is how indiscriminate it appears their harvesting tech is. From my speculations, it doesn't appear like they are isolating and extracting specific elements or ore, they simply scrape entire sections of the rock off.
I found a spot to power down. I've been losing fuel from the long trip, so I spent the past few hours digging through the asteroid. The power draining culprit turned out to be a full powered gravity generator. I thought I've changed it to 0.4 times the Terra's grav, but there's seem to be a minor setback in the system. I think I'll be okay until next week
I'm about to crack open some reserve ration and put the ship on watch.