Mac Mini Server RAID mess up

This is a follow up to a previous thread of mine. Previously, the Mac mini server (2009, 3,1 I believe) would not boot. The Apple logo and the spinning wheel would appear forever.

I found the boot disk and a USB optical drive and so I went into disk utility. I had software RAID 1 set up. Both of the HDDs were fine, physically, but the RAID set said it was "degraded" and one of the volumes said it failed. I tried rebuilding it but that failed. I did not try deleting the failed volume, instead, I deleted the entire RAID set, thinking I would be able to boot the disks as standalone. Instead, neither volumes are mounted, they will not mount when I click mount, and when I turn on the machine I now get the folder with the ?. No volumes appear when I hold down the option key while booting. I tried mounting the disks from the terminal and it said they were mounted successfully, but they were not. I must be missing something in the commands, I don't know them well. I tried creating a new RAID array but it said all data would be erased. At one point both RAID volumes said they were failed, and then the RAID array would either not appear or show up as Offline as opposed to Degraded.

Have I screwed myself by deleting the raid array? Both drives are unmounted and their partition type is "Apple_RAID_Offline"

Can I repair this and save my data?