Galnet News Digest

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Brewer Corporation has introduced new ways to make your Trailblazers colony work the way you want it. And for the first time they've spelled out how you can get the station services you want.

A guide to getting the station services you want in your Trailblazers starport.

There are renewed claims that Salvation survived the Proteus Wave disaster. And Test Subject D-2 plans to hunt him down.

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 Mahon keen to show that their policies will deliver better growth for the economy.

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.