Well I'll be damned! That sounds very much like what I want Nova to eventually be :) We don't have fields split apart at present, mostly because Rust doesn't make that quite as easy as I would want to. Otherwise it sounds like it's very much all the same, in a good way.

I'll definitely be taking a look at wisp, thank you very much for the link! If you ever have the time, I'd love seeing a comparison of this sort of engine design against a more traditional one.

Sorry, what is "CDR" in this context though?