Galnet News Digest

The Pilots' Federation has announced Squadron Carriers, five years after they were originally planned. Coming within the next few months, these super-sized Fleet Carriers will be owned and run by the Squadron, with a shared bank, space for shared commodities and a sort of lending-library for ships.

Councillor Nakato Kaine has pledged that she will match Prime Minister Mahon's promise to hand out two sets of Power Distributors to everyone in the top 75% of contributors to her trade initiative, even if, as seems inevitable, the Prime Minister's initiative is more successful.

Commanders pledged to Edmund Mahon and Nakato Kaine can do more for their Power by working for the other side, selling goods at the other Power's destination starport.

Following last week's vote to end the anti-xeno defence pact with the Sirius Corporation, Councillor Nakato Kaine is advocating on an "Alliance first" trade policy, buying from Alliance-based corporations, while Prime Minister Mahon wants to continue the Alliance's dependence on external mega-corporations like Sirius. Alliance systems have split along these lines, with Kaine and...

The Alliance Assembly is kicking out the Sirius Corporation, ending a defence pact that has been in place for more than three years.

Supporters of President Winters are celebrating victory in the Platinum mining initiative after they turned in dramatically more of the precious metal than disgraced rebel Yuri Grom.

Commanders with a Fleet Carrier may once again buy and sell Titan Drive Components, after a four-month ban expired earlier today.

Sore loser Yuri Grom has sparked a conflict after it became clear he could not win the ongoing mining initiative. Grom is failing to deliver enough Platinum to the people of LP 855-34, and it seems inevitable that the system will be won by Grom's bitter Rival, President Winters, whose deliveries of Platinum have been far more satisfactory.

Mined platinum is selling for 440,000 credits per tonne in the LP 855-34 system. And it's supporters of President Winters that seem to be taking best advantage.

This week, the Powers seem determined to create a less stable Galaxy, Winters and Grom get confrontational over Platinum, and the Trailblazers initiative is hailed as the largest migration in Galactic history.

Zorgon Peterson has announced it will be releasing the Panther Clipper Mk II in the next few months, fulfilling an ambition that has lasted more than ten years.

A guide to the changes to economies within colonised systems that made on Wednesday 30th April. Topics covered: - Links between supporting facilities and ports, and also between ports. - Boosts to economy types from the different sorts of stars, planets and moons within the system. - How Colony ports automatically adapt to the type of body they are orbiting. - How population increases as the syste...

The Faulcon DeLacy Cobra Mk V, the only small ship optimised for Supercruise Overcharge, is now available for Credits.

Desperate Dhan offers faster scans. The System Colonisation Contractors pass 1,000 members. And we look at some ways to spend your ARX.

Harald Gomes, the head of security for the Dhan Empire League, has a bigger problem with pirates than he first thought. On Thursday last week, he appealed for bounty hunters to come and hunt bounties.

There are rumours that Gutamaya is monitoring the combat performance of its new ship, the Corsair, in the Dhan system, where an outbreak of piracy has been causing sleepless nights for Imperial leaders.

Princess Aisling acquires a new Gutamaya Corsair. Shadow President Archer is offering 40,000 merits to his agents if they win a war, and the spinning station Lantern Light is commemorated in a very small way.

With just five days to go before the start of early access to their new ship, the Corsair, Gutamaya has started its marketing drive. We have a look at the specifications, and take one for a spin.

What's the silliest outpost in the Galaxy? It used to be easy to answer that question, but with the coming of Colonisation, there are a surprising number of new candidates for the title. Let's have a look at a few of them.

Gutamaya plans to launch its new rocket-ship, the Corsair, on Tuesday 8th April, and it's promising something that will make both its own Clipper and the Faulcon DeLacy Python into yesterday's news.

Brewer Corporation is trying to put things right. Having announced last week that system economies rely on the supply chain being clustered round a single landable planet, Brewer says it is now investigating ways to expand what it describes the "route to market" to encompass facilities elsewhere within the star system.

Brewer Corporation says that it has been struggling to get all the newly-commissioned starports and outposts online, and that some of the space stations built this week won't become fully operational until next week.

Brewer's fleet of colonisation support hubs has finally been deployed, after a delay of several weeks.

Colonisation is back, and some important new fixes are on the way. The Distant Worlds 3 people want to colonise Orion, and there's a new, "improved" Hutton Orbital for the most dedicated pilots to visit.

The partially-suspended colonisation trial is hailed as a "remarkable success". There are growing signs that there may be Thargoids living among us. And we get some bare metal paintjobs for the four new ships.