Galnet News Digest

There's confusion tonight over the theft of components from a fabrication plant in the LHS 1167 system, with sources claiming the heist was exceptionally well organised. And there are questions over whether there might be implications for the forthcoming Operations mixed mode combat system.

Nearly 6,000 Commanders have been given the wrong reward for the Unica Seed initiative: they were promised a Maverick suit, but were instead given a Dominator. The organiser expects to fix the problem shortly.

October Consortium's two-week initiative to gather Radicoida Unica seed pods has ended early, after unexpectedly enthusiastic participation from more than 7,500 Commanders fulfilled the quota in only four days, allowing accelerated development of what a scientist at the Holloway Bioscience Institute described as "Radicoida-based enhancers".

The October Consortium want your help with an egg hunt, and they're offering a pre-engineered maverick suit as an incentive.

The Distant Worlds 3 exploration initiative at the new Rainbow's End starport has concluded, and the expedition is heading to Waypoint 9, and in some comfort.

The Caspian Explorer has entered full production, and is available to buy for Credits. Zorgon Peterson's neutron-jump optimised long range exploration vessel is by far the fastest ship along the Neutron Highway. Plus, there's an exploration CG going on, far, far away.

A brand new deep space starport has been commissioned, using materials gathered by the Distant Worlds III Deep-Space Infrastructure Project initiative back in January. It's in the Roefoo ZE-H d10-0 system, 48,000 LY from Sol.

There's growing concern over reports that the Alliance is becoming overrun by a sense of unexplained and curiously homogeneous physical and mental wellbeing among many of its citizens.

The 16-day-long active service test of the Kestrel Mk II fighter in Duamta has concluded, with Core Dynamics predicting that the Federal Navy will use the new ship to replace its existing fleet of Eagles.

10 Mar 3312: With three and a half trillion credits in bounties issued as rewards for killing pirates, there's confusion about why the number of pirates in systems near Duamta doesn't seem to be decreasing at all. But there's still time to bankrupt the operation's sponsor, Core Dynamics.