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A mining initiative by the Starship Enterprises faction has ended successfully, with the establishment of a new asteroid base in the LP 339-7 system.

Independent miners delivered large quantities of construction materials, which were used to complete construction of the new installation. The starport Miner Prospects has now opened for business in the planetary ring of LP 339-7 4.

Company CEO Dr Lewis Chapman held a press conference to thank those involved:

"The new base will offer much-needed resources to the system's outer reaches, and act as the headquarters for our SE Mining division. I never doubted the galactic community's response, and it is a humbling thing to see in action."

Commanders who contributed to the campaign can now collect their rewards from Gell-Mann Ring in the LP 339-7 system.

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The Sap Core Legion faction has launched an initiative to build a state-of-the-art medical facility in the Heike system.

Heike has some significance in the field of medicine – a species of tea plant native to the system played a vital role in the development of a cure for the Cerberus Plague. Sap Core Legion believes that this detail makes Heike an ideal location for the new installation.

Professor Macklin Fox, speaking on behalf of Sap Core Legion, said:

"Sap Core Legion wishes to build this facility in response to a number of recent outbreaks and epidemics. When one also considers the current Thargoid conflict, we feel humanity would benefit from additional off-world medical resources."

Independent pilots have been invited to deliver advanced medicines, thallium and medical diagnostic equipment to Braun Enterprise in the Heike system.

The initiative is scheduled to run from August 29th to

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From August 29th at 8am PT to September 2nd at 10am PT, we are having a 20% ship sale. Enjoy not just a discount on our ships, but fleet modules, dry dock slots and ship upgrade tokens as well! Have you been eyeing a new ship or ship bundle in the C-store? Now is the time to grab the ship you've always dreamt of commanding, including the new ships of the Temporal Warship Bundle! All ships and dry dock slots in the C-Store are 20% off. This includes bundles which are comprised only of ships. This does not include bundles that have items other than ships in them. The ship upgrade token, ship upgrade token bundle, and the fleet module are all 20% off as well. .share-footer a { margin: 20px 10px 10px 0; background: url(d7afaaa14e96d0d973f76157ae31ec5b1466398539.png) no-repeat 0 0; opacity: .5; display: inline-block; height: 60px; width: 60px; padding: 0;

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From now until 9/3/19 at 9 AM PT, you'll be able to unlock bonus currency on the Arc platform for Perfect World titles! The bonus you can expect is listed in the chart below: This Charge Bonus is ONLY available for the following payment processors: Direct Credit Card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover) Paypal Skrill (Formerly Moneybookers) BoaCompra Xsolla Paysafecard Steam (Steam Purchases receive the bonus but do not receive extra ZEN for buying in bulk)

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We've just released another patch on Switch, here's the list of changes:

Features

• Added support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese

Tweaks

• Show energy allocation of passive devices in ship stats screen

Bugfixes

• Fixed using Drone Disassembler on own drones not decreasing current drone count
• Fixed a handful of hardcore mode handicaps carrying over from sector 6 to sector 7
• Fixed splitter glyph additional projectiles having incorrect range/lifetime
• Fixed nano injectors not working while emergency shield is active
• Fixed enemy sentinel sometimes still firing discharger while dying/already dead
• Fixed life support damage sound still playing during game credits when winning a run with damaged life support system
• Fixed that the scatter gun didn't have additional projectiles on max. charge
• Fixed a bug where ore from mining drills would fly away out of reach right after being spawned when having tractor

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UI: Added a search filter to the Item Store UI and the Powers Menu UI. Updated abilities window to use the faction-skinned version of a power's icon. This means the icons between the power tray and the powers list will be consistent. Systems: WARBIRD UPDATE: Removed "Romulan Only" restrictions from nearly all Warbirds and other Romulan-only starships. Members of the Federation, Klingon, and Dominion factions that have completed their Tutorial (and traveled to the 25th century, if applicable) may now command all such ships except for any on the following list of exclusions: Commander's Gig Daeinos/Dinaes Heavy Destroyer (All variants) R'mor/Sui'Mor Temporal Science Vessel (All variants) Talvath/Tal'aura Temporal Destroyer (All variants) Thrai Dreadnought Warbird [T6] Valkis Temporal Heavy Dreadnought Warbird [T6] T'Liss Temporal Warbird [T6] Kelvin

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Chronocidal Guy

is back with a new take on his

impressive 3D printed Excalibur

. The new design, pictured in red below, now features intricate panel line engravings thanks to the latest generation of machines. He was also able to print it as a single piece as opposed to numerous smaller components originally (pictured second). The third image below includes the old model painted by rivaledbynone. We include it to help you imagine how great the update will look when complete!

I did want to post an update to the Excalibur kit I made a few years back though. Upgraded my printer recently and went all-in on a single-piece print of that model, upgraded to include panel line engravings. I haven't tried it on Shapeways or Sculpteo in this format, but the recent generation of printers is getting impressive.

My current project is re-engineering the individual parts of my original design to build a larger kit,

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Something is terribly wrong. Forces from all across the universe are being drawn to our galaxy. Where once they may have attacked one at a time, now the Borg, the Elachi, the Tzenkethi, and more are coming at once. We need the forces of the Alliance now, more than ever. This weekend, from August 29th at 8am PT, to September 2nd at 10am PT, all Red Alerts will be live at once! Play your favorites with no cooldowns, and earn mark rewards for each one! Enjoy this special weekend event, Captains, and protect the galaxy as best you can! .share-footer a { margin: 20px 10px 10px 0; background: url(d7afaaa14e96d0d973f76157ae31ec5b1466398539.png) no-repeat 0 0; opacity: .5; display: inline-block; height: 60px; width: 60px; padding: 0; border: 1px solid transparent; -webkit-transition: opacity .3s; transition: opacity .3s; } .share-footer .TI {

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Five new patrols are coming to Star Trek Online, bringing new challenges and story to the universe. J’Ula, sister of T’Kuvma, is on the march once again. She is seeking the spores of prototaxites stellaviatori to fuel her devastating new superweapon. With the aid of Lt. Commander Paul Stamets and Captain Kuumaarke, captains can stand tall in the fight against the dangerous matriarch of House Mo’Kai. We’ll be revealing the new patrols one at a time in the lead up to Awakening – check back with Startrekonline.com for more! Sentinels A research facility on a small moon in the Donatu System is studying prototaxites stellaviatori. Deploy defense satellites to protect the unarmed facility from raiders. You will first be able to access these new Patrols from your mission journal after completing the episode “Beneath the Skin.” If you are on a Patrol mission from the journal, have completed it, or

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Hello everyone,

Thank you again to everyone playing Beyond, especially those taking the time to report any issues they encounter via Zendesk or console crash reporting.

We are listening closely to your feedback, and have identified and resolved a number of stability issues. Fixes for these were released on Steam experimental, and this patch, 2.09.2, is now live on PC. We’ll be rolling out these fixes to other platforms as soon as possible.

Bug fixes

• Introduced a number of PC-specific VR optimisations.
• Improved VR-specific anti-aliasing.
• Reduced graphics memory usage to improve stability.
• Fixed an issue where control pads did not rumble on PC.
• Fixed an issue where transferring valuable treasures (such as ancient bones) to other players would result in an invalid product.
• Fixed an issue where Shutter Doors had incorrect icons in the build menu.
• Fixed an issue where Gek players would float when sitting on the ground.

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As part of our upcoming Season 18 release, we’re making it quicker and easier to play our new patrols. Alongside the launcher for TFOs is a new launcher specifically for patrols, where you can find a list of the new bite-sized content. Simply click on the PVE Operations button, select the Patrols panel, and you can see a list of the new patrols and launch to any one that you want to play. No need to fly around sector space hunting for the right place—the new interface will take you there immediately. You can launch into a patrol by yourself with no delay, or team up with friends and go as a group. Once you finish, you’ll return to wherever you left off. You’ll notice that these patrols appear in the mission journal as well, as part of the “J’Ula’s Discovery” mission group. This means that you’ll be guided through the patrols, and the first time that you play each one as part of

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I am very excited to finally be writing this announcement: We are moving the events to a new home in the UI! Moving and updating the event system is something we have been discussing internally for quite some time. As you all know, the events used to live as a single tab within the reputation section of the UI. This was fine but always felt like we had hijacked another (more complicated) system for what should be a fun and simple part of the game. I am incredibly happy that we are finally updating this system. Seasonal Events are one of my favorite things about MMOs. The best part is all the hype and excitement; “The Winter event starts today! Wee!!! Everyone log in and let’s go /dance in the snow!” I always felt that the STO events were lacking this extra bit of presentation, they never felt “special” enough. I am happy to say we have finally carved out a space to make them feel more

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NightBall06

has created a neat design based on a popular bit of speculation. He's taken

Klavs' hypothetical Wildcat

, of

Action Stations

fame, and translated it into a modern Hellcat. Based on the real life Wildcat/Hellcat similarities, this has been a

recurring

thought experiment for people as they get to take a bit of artistic license without straying overly far from classic Wing Commander stylings. What do you think? Hit the comment button below and help NightBall make it even better!

Hey guys, lately I have been doing an evolution study on Klavs' incredible Wildcat. When I first saw his model, I did like it a lot, but I felt it too big as a Hellcat. So I wanted to do it myself, but since I am no 3D artist, I had to Photoshop my way through it... I hope you like it nonetheless.

My thoughts were: What would ConFed do after the battle for Earth while in desperate need for new fighters? They would

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DefianceIndustries

has confirmed that the Prophecy and Secret Ops

Model Upgrade Pack

is now transitioning from the alpha to beta test phase. This is an exciting milestone as it indicates most all of the core features are in place, and now it's mostly fancy ships that have yet to be added. You can download the update and give it a try

here

(115 meg exe)!

Good evening MUP fans! If you were at the party you probably saw this, but if not, we have a Beta 1 release candidate ready for you to try. We are officially moving to Beta as we are largely feature complete on engine and graphics upgrades. The only remaining work is art-based stuff. There is one pending feature: extending dead capships to WCP - which we are currently testing, hence why this is only a candidate and not an official full release.

Features include:

• Corvette shield/hull fix - now once a corvette's shields are down, the engine registers

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We're headed to Oracle Park to celebrate Star Trek with the San Francisco Giants! Come and join us this evening for a game against the Diamondbacks, where Star Trek Online will take over the VIP section and let you come and sit in our recreation of the Original Series Captain's Chair! Anyone who purchases a ticket (or receives one from this contest) will receive a Star Trek messenger bag, and the chance to meet the developers of Star Trek Online and score Star Trek: Discovery holographic bridge officers. VIP ticket holders will also receive a Picard bobblehead, and the opportunity to take a photo in STO’s lifesize Captain’s Chair. For more information, please check out the Giants’ website. Take us out to the ball game, Captains, and we’ll see you there! .share-footer a { margin: 20px 10px 10px 0; background: url(d7afaaa14e96d0d973f76157ae31ec5b1466398539.png) no-repeat 0 0;

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It's hard to believe, but it's already been a week since the CIC's 21st Birthday! We're still getting back to normal here, but if you missed the party (or were there and just want to relive it), Kris has prepped the logs. You can find the chat transcript

here

. You can also find other prior logs in the

#Wingnut section

. If you missed the actual slate of amazing birthday updates, make sure to

check that out

, and send in your name and address if you

won a prize

. Last, but not least, this was a special year with an accompanying six hour live stream. Watch it below! The formal party starts about three hours in, and cake arrives at 4:02:45.

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Here are this week's main stories.

The Alliance Festival of Culture's fifth week has focused on theatre and dance. Crowds travelling to New Caledonia in the Tionisla system have enjoyed a wide variety of performance art shows, ranging from full stage productions to amateur street acts.

The Fortunes Corsairs faction has announced a successful conclusion to their appeal for food deliveries in the Chamas system. A new starport has been built in Chamas, following the well-received grand feast attended by many government officials.

Finally, the Starship Enterprises faction has issued a public request for mined resources. The intent is to build a new asteroid base in the LP 339-7 system, which would serve as a portal for increased trade and industrial operations for residents.

And those are the main stories this week.

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Very soon, Captains among the ranks of the Federation, Klingon, and Dominion factions will be gaining access to most of the Romulan Republic’s fierce fleet of starships. This includes many legendary Warbirds, and a number of other Romulan starships. Though these vessels have been restricted up until now, the galaxy is heading in a direction of increased cooperation and sharing of technology, and the Republic has been benefiting from those arrangements for some time. Their leadership has decided it’s time enough to return the trust that has been shown to them, and allow their trusted allies the opportunity to test out their Singularity technology and specialized starships. We will be removing the faction restrictions on nearly all starships that have been previously restricted solely to the Romulan faction. Any ship previously available only to Romulans will now be available to any member of

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Christian Klein

posted this fun shot of the cover of the Japanese DOS/V user manual. It's an interesting line art digitization of the WC1 box. The typed-in dashboard values mostly match up, although I think the KPS looks more like 2400 than 2480 and the bottom shield stat seems more like an 82 in the original. It might seem obvious at first that this is just the same iconic scene we always see, but this isn't the only time a familiar WC cockpit bears down on three Dralthi! Mike Winterbauer's famous

SNES art

and the

cover of End Run

are just a

few alternate examples

.

Random #WingCommander stuff ...

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The Alliance Festival of Culture has entered its fifth week, focusing on a wide variety of theatre and dance performances.

Crowds have flocked to New Caledonia in the Tionisla system to enjoy performance art from dozens of systems. Shows ranging from elaborate stage productions to amateur street recitals have offered classical operas, circus shows, theatrical plays and much more.

Art critic Bryony Lindholm published this review on Vox Galactica:

"While the entertainment on display has been nothing short of marvellous, a personal favourite has been the ballet 'Bones of Dreams'. It is performed by skeletal robot dancers made of scrap salvaged from the Tionisla orbital graveyard."

"It is a moving portrayal of inhumanity, and like most of the audience, I was left in tears despite – or perhaps because of – the absence of any sentient organisms depicting grand themes of grief and loss."

The Alliance