For three-four days any attempt I made to connect to the internet, even tethering by phone onto a freshly installed system, was met with a barrage of scripts to immediately sabotage any kind of system recovery.
As of today I am back online with my development environment (mostly) reinstalled and additional security measures in place. The good news is I that I lost very little in terms of meaningful assets or scenes.
I am now back online and actively working on the game. Believe me, I want 1.7 to be finished more than you do, and I'm working as hard as I can to make that happen.
I'll have more substantive updates soon, just wanted to let you know what has been going on. Thank you for your patience.