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Elite Trader v1.8.0 — vital voice callouts (fuel scooping & more)

Voice callouts now warn you about the things that actually end deep-space trips.
Toggle them with 🔊 VOICE in the flight panel; every callout also flashes a
banner or toast so it works with sound off.

⛽ Fuel-scoop planning along your route

The app reads your plotted route (NavRoute) and each star's class, learns your
real fuel-per-jump from your last jumps, and watches for the classic strander —
a run of non-scoopable stars (brown/white dwarfs, neutron stars…) your tank
can't clear:

  • "Scoop now" (critical) — you're sitting on a fuel star but the next one
    is farther than your fuel can reach. Top off before you leave.
  • "Top off, N dry jumps ahead" — leaving a scoopable star into a stretch
    with no fuel stars.
  • "Strand risk / no fuel star ahead" — already low with no reachable
    scoopable star; time to replot.
  • Low-fuel warning at 25% (route or not). Quiet while docked.

Scoopable = the KGB-FOAM classes (O B A F G K M) plus proto-stars.

🚨 Other vital callouts

  • Interdiction — "Interdiction detected. Evade or submit." the instant
    you're pulled from supercruise.
  • Hull damage — spoken at 75% / 50% / 25% as your hull drops.
  • First discovery — "…is undiscovered." when you jump into a system no
    commander has scanned before.

Run from source (run.bat / run.sh) or grab the attached EliteTrader.exe
(no Python needed). On the packaged app, updates install in place — click
Update & restart when it appears.

Full Changelog: v1.7.0...v1.8.0