Not dead, just insanely busy.
The buggy is in far from good condition, but you manage to get a good deal for it at 11,500eb.
Marianne isn't charging you for the education (and, yes, she knows some electronics), but she is expecting you to put in a day's work for each day of training. Make sure you have enough time to do both.
You have managed to get almost all the remaining components for your flight system, but it will cost you 43,000eb. (Why so much? New technology is expensive to pioneer.) You will only be missing one component after that, but it's in the hands of Militech and they won't be parting with it; especially to you.