Galnet News Digest

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.

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.