Thanks guys, it's good to know Commander definitely distinguishes between home base and other potential stopover locations. I kinda thought it did but I kept getting bounced forward 26 days and then even when I told it 1 DAY PLZ KTHXBAI and kept doublechecking the options the game was still giving me the same start date. Took me a bit to figure out it was the damage we took, it's been a while since a career lasted long enough for me to take any (that didn't kill me) so it just didn't compute at first.
Oddly enough the Corrientes had enough eels available to give me a full loadout!
Real life is overrated in some regards.
