Thank you for the kind words (and the feedback!) There'll be a release with some bugfixes in the next few days. The replacement characters you've mentioned in the edit 2 are unfortunately platform-specific, that's why I didn't catch it in testing. Whoops. Something to fix!
Wait- I got a message that... May or may not be intentional? Is this intended or have I tripped a debug message? (Rot13)
Lbh unir artbgvngrq na vzcbffvoyr qrny. Guvf pna arire unccra. Guvf zrffntr pna arire qvfcynl. V unir ab vqrn jung'f unccravat.
(Currently trying the NORMAL ending)
On the note of NORMAL, I have a theory of what our cargo is. (Rot 13)
Vf vg n fnir cbvag?.. Gur cvax tybj tvirf zr gung frafr.