Galnet News Digest

We visit the Lantern Light starport, which is orbiting a neutron star in Lalande 25224 very, very fast.

Colonisation of new systems remains paused, but there's better news for System Architects who already have a system, as the first colonies come online.

The Pilots' Federation and Brewer Corporation have declared themselves delighted with the rate of colonisation in the week since the initiative launched, but they have announced a short pause to the colonisation effort while Brewer sorts out a few problems.

The entire Galaxy has gone colonisation mad. It's less than a week since the Pilots' Federation fired the starting gun on the initiative, and already thousands of previously uninhabited systems are in the process of being converted for human habitation and commerce.

Colonisation has just got under way, and we have information about how it works. There's a new ship, the Gutamaya Corsair, and a promise of more ships to come. We learn about the successor to Squadrons, and we get a fleeting glimpse of a new space station built entirely of ice.

After what seems like months of silence, the Pilots' Federation is on the verge of firing the starting gun on system colonisation.

Brewer Corporation plans to build a fleet of Trailblazer megaships to provide support during the early stages of the Trailblazer colonisation initiative, which is still due to start on Wednesday next week. And they've appealed for help to do it.

With the new colonisation initiative just days away, there are rumours that some of the ship manufacturers that missed out on the Supercruise Overdrive sales bonanza last year may be developing new SCO-enabled ships to help transport emigrants to colonisation systems.

The first two weeks of February have gone by without a single Galnet article being published. What, in the Galaxy, is going on?

With just a day left to run, Brewer Corporation's data-gathering initiative is back on. Commanders holding large caches of exploration data are hurrying to deliver their data.

The initiative to search for new systems to colonise has been put on hold after persistent pirate attacks in the HIP 90578 system forced Brewer Logistics to declare Lockdown, denying access to Universal Cartographics on the megaship Trailblazer Echo.

More than 9,000 commanders are honking their scanners for Brewer Corporation ahead of the start of the great Trailblazers colonisation initiative.

We have a date for the start of Trailblazers Colonisation. Brewer Corporation wants your exploration data, and the Sol Tourism Authority reports record numbers visiting their latest tourist attraction.

Imperial Powers are expanding into new territory faster than their competitors, according to Conrad Sterling of Vox Galactica in one of his intermittent Powerplay updates.

Should Thargoids be invited back to HIP 22460? And should there be another Distant Worlds expedition?

The HIP 22460 system has been declared completely devoid of Thargoids, following action taken by AXI and XSF.

In the first news bulletin of 3311, Shadow President Archer is in a bit of a pickle. Anti-Xeno pilots are taking the fight to the Thargoids. And pilots report that things seem to be a lot slower than they used to.

In this episode from the 3303 archives, Kahina Loren manages to steal a large number of Meta-Alloys, the final Project Dynasty settlement, Conflux Alpha, is discovered, and a protest against Wreaken Construction is held, demanding that pilots be given access to the Col 70 Sector.

In this episode from the 3303 archives, the number of Guardian ruins found doubles to 30. And the Trappist-1 system is discovered to have three Earthlike worlds that had previously been overlooked.

In the Elite Dangerous Galaxy, 3310 has been a busy year. We started the year in the middle of an alien invasion, with the Bubble occupied by eight seemingly impregnable Titan motherships. By the end of the year, we had not only defeated that invasion, we had also gained four new ships, a faster frame shift drive and a completely new political system.