If you pause thrust while mid-journey between planets, the platform hub continues to emit the "moving from" and "moving to" signals, even though it is stopped.

The platform hub should not emit those signals when space travel is paused.

As far as I can tell, there is currently no way to detect ...

That's a bummer. Using bots to deliver barrels from island to island on Fulgora is nice, at least for the stuff you can barrel. I would be nice to do that with Holmium solution and electrolyte.

I felt like the in-game HUD didn't tell the whole story about pollution, and I've mostly just seen rules of thumb online when looking for pollution-optimization advice.

So I set up an experiment and measured pollution per item crafted, and put it all in a spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com ...