Looks like a bed-leveling issue to me? Maybe theres a high point and the nozzle is crashing into the print at that positon.

In our defense; its not like we had an articficial UV source for the first 25 years.

what happened to 40(?) percent of workers sitting idle to act as backups?

Northern Journey is a personal highlight for me. Very atmospheric and interesting visuals but should run on a potato.