GAME NEWS
Quiet week on game news this week. Looks like we should be expecting to hear more about Update 8 next week though.
GALACTIC NEWS
Over the last week there has been a pair of Community Goals running to build a bridge between the Bubble and Colonia. These have proven enormously popular and completed well ahead of schedule. As a result a total of 10 new dockable megaships will be added to systems along the way, these are expected to offer places locations to refuel and repair your ships on route, and also to sell tritium greatly easing the process of moving fleet carriers along the path to Colonia.
As an added bonus, completion of these CGs has resulted in a discount on Fleet Carriers and their modules of 30% starting this Friday - 15th October for one week from the Alcor system (very close to Meliae). So, if you’d like to get yourself a fleet carrier, or refit your existing carrier. This is an opportunity to do so at a substantial discount.
FACTION NEWS
Hello again, radio listeners! This just in - New Pilots Initiative has expanded into the Rakapila system! Rakapila, already besieged by war from faction infighting, needs a new steward to bring it peace and prosperity. The system is only 19ly away from Meliae, and that makes it NEWP’s duty! Good luck, CMDRs! Rakapila is depending on you!
Also close to home, New Pilots Initiative support in 14 Herculis has grown and grown, and now residents demand an election to decide who will run the entire system. As we speak, NEWP pilots scramble to their ships for the campaign. I know which faction I am betting on!
Faction Command is looking for new pilots to help with control over our systems. Regardless if your interest is with peaceful elections, or with invasion, they have a place for you! Inquire in faction-chat to find your home!
EVENTS
This Weekend - Gank Survival Training
This training session will teach you how to survive against the most dangerous things in the Elite Dangerous universe - other players. Despite what some parts of the game community think, Elite is a highly defence biased game. As a result, it is possible to escape from virtually any attack once you have learned the technique as long as you have a passably well built ship (no that doesn’t mean tonnes of engineering).
This training will teach you everything you need to know. From ship design, to awareness, to evasion and escape techniques, and will include live fire training with real gankers to practice.