lunerfox

I think Science and Engineering should have a different relationship beyond adjusting power; In general, Science's role should be to discover dangers and opportunities that other consoles can act on....

I think you have the right idea; Since the mission scripts tend to follow patterns that would suit a state diagram (with superstates). Where superstates represent a mission objective, and...

+1 for this, would rather have this ability instead of homing to differentiate between the different missiles

Love the idea! Maybe this could be a 2nd level "Loading" of the missiles that occurs after the initial loading of the tubes. Missiles will start with the default mode...