Star Control: Founders BETA 1A
The weekly Thursday build is expected to go up in about 16 hours from the time I'm posting.
Lots of new stuff.
Starbase UI update:

So this has been redone from scratch along with the rest of the screens.

Expositions starting to go in.
View screen implemented (instead of game style UI):

Major Camera work:
In addition to the solar system AI camera being updated, we now have 1,2,3,4 mapped out to particular camera views (1 = close and 4 = far).

Lots of performance improvements across the board and lots of small tweaks and touches across the board.
It would take too long to do a change log. Let me give you an taste of just 2 partial days of check-ins (and each check in has its own change log):

I'll keep updating as we go forward. Once this build goes up, please put your feedback to it in this thread and I will respond to it in a different post.
Cheers and thanks for all your feedback!