Nerospace

Version bumped to 1.3.0 in gradle.properties — a new feature with an additive public API. Nothing below has been published yet; the owner decides when it ships.

Added

• Cargo rockets and Cargo Pads (docs/CARGO-ROCKETS.md). A Cargo Pad is a launch-pad plate with a 27-slot hold (18 usable by default), a pipe-fed rocket-fuel buffer and a route selector; it is a cell of an ordinary 3×3 pad, so the existing tier validation, Fuel Tank pumping and Launch Controller layout all apply unchanged. An uncrewed Cargo Rocket (new Cargo Hull intermediate; recipes on the Greenxertz ladder behind the Tier 2 rocket) carries the hold to another Cargo Pad or a founded station in any Nerospace dimension. Flights are server-side timers derived from the planet registry (time from the gravity of both ends and whether a dimension boundary is crossed; fuel from payload mass and origin gravity — one class, unit-tested), consume rocket fuel, survive a server restart, never load a chunk to deliver, hold and retry when the destination is missing or occupied, and after a timeout drop the remaining manifest as a Cargo Crate item rather than losing it. Schedules: manual, launch-when-full, launch every N minutes; per-route Return empty flies the hull home. Universal Pipes and their filters work on every face of the pad through Core's side configuration.
• Public route API za.co.neroland.nerospace.api.route (semver-stable, additive; the existing NerospaceRoutes facade is untouched): RouteApi (pads visible to a player, quotes, flight requests, flight queries, cancel), PadHandle/RouteHandle/FlightHandle snapshots, FlightState, ScheduleMode, RouteQuote, FlightRequest/FlightRequestResult, and the RouteEvents bus (PadRegistered, PadUnregistered, FlightDeparted, FlightArrived, FlightHeld, FlightDropped). Shaped for NeroLogistics' RouteProvider/ShipmentManager seams — see docs/NEROLOGISTICS-HANDOVER.md.
• Star Guide chapter "Freight" (Cargo Pad → Cargo Rocket → first unattended delivery, code-granted).
• NeroLink module section route: the requester's own Cargo Pads and cargo flights, by owner UUID only.
• Config (Core-managed, server-authoritative): cargoPadSlots, cargoFuelCapacity, cargoTravelTimeMultiplier, cargoHoldRetrySeconds, cargoHoldTimeoutMinutes, cargoFlightRetentionDays, cargoMaxFlightsPerOwner, cargoMaxPads.
• en_za language file (the new strings; everything else falls back to en_us).
• /nerospace gallery gains a Freight exhibit north of the rocket row: two routed Cargo Pads on 3×3 footprints, pad A with a fuelled Cargo Rocket, a loaded hold, a Fuel Tank and a rocket-fuel pipe into its buffer, pad B with an extraction pipe into a chest — open A and press Launch.

Privacy

• One new store, nerospace:cargo_routes, guarded by Neroland Core's SavedDataRecovery (Nerospace is now 6/6) and registered with PlayerDataErasure: erasure removes the player's routes, anonymises their pads and flights, drops them from pad access lists and rewrites the backup at once; in-flight cargo is delivered or crated, never deleted. Completed flight records are pruned after cargoFlightRetentionDays in-game days. Verified with Core's ErasureConformance harness in the unit tests. Logs and telemetry breadcrumbs carry flight ids only. PRIVACY.md lists the store.