vere: refactors event log metadata reading to avoid the loom #547
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This PR resolves a bug that I introduced in #531. I added stronger validation during event log initialization by checking for the presence of metadata, but that was allocating on the loom (in the case of 32-bit or greater ships and/or lives). There are various chicken-and-egg problems with initializing old event logs for replay, so it seems best to just remove this whole operation from the loom.