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edgar

edgar
Date: Sunday 24 January 3302 / ASAP

Location: Nagi, Kamadhenu, Achenar, Nemgla.

Title: Nagi Rejoins Empire

Description:


Last night militia forces loyal to Empire Pact boarded Bolkow City, industrial and political centre of Nagi.

Governance in the system, long-standing member of the Empire and home to millions of imperial clients, recently fell to hostile takeover by independent Nagi Corporation.

Inquisitors of the Chapterhouse, Noxa, Edgar Starwalker, and Jubei Himura, from nearby Kamadhenu, led ships into battle above the rings of remote Nagi ABC 2 – drawing away corporate security forces.

Eyewitnesses claim Empire Pact faced little resistance from station defenders, with System Authority command codes secured within minutes of their arrival.

Chapterhouse of Inquisition spokesperson Selune d'Amenta confirmed the group's involvement:

“With our help Nagi has returned to the imperial fold. Citizens can rest assured that other fallen systems can expect similar intervention very soon, as part of our Tour of Duty initiative.”

Events in Nagi contrast with reported problems in Facece, where Chancellor Anders Blaine has been struggling for months to regain control from a local independent faction.

Commander Pentwyn Sudonnan
Capitol Herald | Interstellar Press

PLEASE NOTE: I have used a pen name due to my own Commander's inclusion in the article.

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Jesters09

Jesters09
Date: Sunday 24 January 3302

Location: Maia

Title: The "Nuts Wing" do it again.

Description:

Today saw the final part of a massive logistical undertaking.
CMDR Jesters-Ink (in a bid to claim the highest single profit record), landed his Imperial Cutter at Obsidian Orbital loaded with no less than 728t of Meta-Alloys. Total profit rang in at a little over 66 million credits.
It becomes obvious this is no ordinary undertaking, when you consider the loadout used. No fuel scoop or limpet controller was present on the ship, making for maximum cargo count available. How is this possible when you also add into the equation, Obsidian Orbital has no "refitting" facilities. This would mean the ship was filled and fitted at a system more than 275ly form Maia. The next question is, how does a ship with no fuel scoop manage to travel 275ly?
"It takes family and friends" said CMDR Jesters-Ink, who is a proud member of the "Nuts Wing" of the Hutton Truckers.
Their motto is "Any cargo anywhere", hell, they've even shipped Hutton Mugs to Sagittarius A, twice.


Surround yourself with like minded, dedicated CMDRs and anything is possible. Oh and you've gotta be nuts.


Thanks go out to CMDR LLAO, JKRowners, Optiplex, DamienC and Snap-Shot, for their support in this exercise. Special thanks go to CMDR Vingtetun for the first barnacle wingup and CMDR LLAO for finding the last barnacle. CMDR Snap-Shot (flown by Jesters Jr) for his supporting role on the last leg of the journey, which would have even made the "fuel Rats" proud.


Thanks guys, that's another milestone reached.
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Futuristic Kung Fu

Futuristic Kung Fu
Jesters09 said:
Date: Sunday 24 January 3302

Location: Maia

Title: The "Nuts Wing" do it again.

Description:

Today saw the final part of a massive logistical undertaking.
CMDR Jesters-Ink (in a bid to claim the highest single profit record), landed his Imperial Cutter at Obsidian Orbital loaded with no less than 728t of Meta-Alloys. Total profit rang in at a little over 66 million credits.
It becomes obvious this is no ordinary undertaking, when you consider the loadout used. No fuel scoop or limpet controller was present on the ship, making for maximum cargo count available. How is this possible when you also add into the equation, Obsidian Orbital has no "refitting" facilities. This would mean the ship was filled and fitted at a system more than 275ly form Maia. The next question is, how does a ship with no fuel scoop manage to travel 275ly?
"It takes family and friends" said CMDR Jesters-Ink, who is a proud member of the "Nuts Wing" of the Hutton Truckers.
Their motto is "Any cargo anywhere", hell, they've even shipped Hutton Mugs to Sagittarius A, twice.


Surround yourself with like minded, dedicated CMDRs and anything is possible. Oh and you've gotta be nuts.


Thanks go out to CMDR LLAO, JKRowners, Optiplex, DamienC and Snap-Shot, for their support in this exercise. Special thanks go to CMDR Vingtetung for the first barnacle wingup and CMDR LLAO for finding the last barnacle. CMDR Snap-Shot (flown by Jesters Jr) for his supporting role on the last leg of the journey, which would have even made the "fuel Rats" proud.


Thanks guys, that's another milestone reached.
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Jmanis

Jmanis
Ian Dingwall said:
This has been published in Maia.
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Hey Ian,

Can you take a moment to explain why that gets published, meanwhile this article I wrote during the peak of station failures gets, i dunno, rejected? Ignored? Not quite sure what term to use. Notwithstanding that station never failed, which seems to run contrary to any observations of the UA's in other player interactions.

As far as I can tell the two are very similar, although I'd love to argue that shipping 250 unknown artefacts as an individual player is a lot harder than what basically boils down to logging in and out over 350 times. But that's by the by, credit where it's due pushing a cargo-only ship out that far is a good demonstration of teamwork.

I really want to know this because I'm part of a very small player group, but we've spent the last year or so pushing the interests of our favoured factions and trying to develop some sense of lore about them. But to date I've not had a single one of the various articles I've had a crack at accepted. It's pretty demoralizing when you're part of a small faction to consider that one day, some big faction might write an article about goings-on in your area of space that completely trashes any semblance of effort you've put into establishing some lore, but just because they had some "critical mass" of public participation or interest, all that work just gets swept under a rug.

I'm not going to argue or debate whatever response is made; it is what it is, but I would like to know, and hopefully you understand my concern. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one with these sorts of apprehensions. I've tried looking at what gets published and using those observations to generate similar articles, but again, no luck.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
LordZoltan said:
Dr Arcanonn going 'underground' is a sub-plot we are planning on using. It was conceived before the PvP 'activity' (I'll avoid using stronger words) started in Maia but, as it has turned out, it links quite nicely.

Title: Arcanonn Backs Palin Despite Death Threats
Location: Global
Time: Before the CG ends!

Description:

A statement from Dr Arcanonn for immediate circulation:

“I am now working from a new lab, two kilometres underground, at a secret location.

My council has forced me to relocate because if I stay, I will be killed. The threats started shortly after I urged everyone to go looking for the barnacles. Then, as we got word of our fellow scientists being hunted and killed, we realised these threats were not idle.

But the work must continue! I urge you all to collect meta alloys for Professor Palin to study at Obsidian Orbital, Maia. I’ve had my only samples sent directly to him because he is our best hope to solve the station malfunctions.

But if you’re harvesting, please stay out of the open to keep away from those with the irrational idea that this endeavour will lead to our future annihilation.

This is nothing but fear and myopia: history tells us that it will always be humanity that starts the war, so let’s instead focus on learning while we can.”

CMDR Lord Zoltan
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Ian - thanks for posting this Galnet :)

But an edit that's been done has rather changed the meaning of the sentence in question (see bold above)! I was trying to give an in-game hint to stay out of playing in Open unless CMDRs want to get griefed lol.

If you can alter it, I'd be grateful. If not, no worries.

Thanks!
 
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who?

who?
LordZoltan said:
Ian - thanks for posting this Galnet :)

But an edit that's been done has rather changed the meaning of the sentence in question (see bold above)! I was trying to give an in-game hint to stay out of playing in Open unless CMDRs want to get griefed lol.

If you can alter it, I'd be grateful. If not, no worries.

Thanks!
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I thought that was very nicely worded actually (by you). Giving them [role-playing-hat-off] advice while keeping the role-playing-hat firmly on!
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Thanks - exactly what I was aiming for. I struggled with the wording and think it was probably changed while being proof-read or something. There was no two ways about it - it's verging on clumsy lol!
 

Ian Dingwall

Narrative Lead
Frontier
Jmanis said:
Can you take a moment to explain why that gets published
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I appreciate that it can be frustrating when your submission isn’t published. One of your stories included a thread about Zemina Torval refusing to help the Sitakapa system, and since we generally discourage people from ascribing specific actions to Powerplay characters, it’s likely that’s why that particular story wasn’t chosen for publication. Beyond that, the best advice I can give is to refer to the submission guidelines at the top of this thread.
 

LordZoltan

LordZoltan
Ian Dingwall said:
Ah, I see! I must admit, I didn’t pick up on the reference. Urging people to stay out of Open is a bit of a fourth-wall break, though, even when it’s done in a subtle way. Sorry about that.
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That's cool - I was aware of that :)

With hindsight I could have said 'stay out in the open, but away from...' and that would have got a similar message across (primarily to look out for anti-science CMDRs).

Cheers!
 

Kristov

K
Jesters09 said:
Date: Sunday 24 January 3302

Location: Maia

Title: The "Nuts Wing" do it again.

Description:

Today saw the final part of a massive logistical undertaking.
CMDR Jesters-Ink (in a bid to claim the highest single profit record), landed his Imperial Cutter at Obsidian Orbital loaded with no less than 728t of Meta-Alloys. Total profit rang in at a little over 66 million credits.
It becomes obvious this is no ordinary undertaking, when you consider the loadout used. No fuel scoop or limpet controller was present on the ship, making for maximum cargo count available. How is this possible when you also add into the equation, Obsidian Orbital has no "refitting" facilities. This would mean the ship was filled and fitted at a system more than 275ly form Maia. The next question is, how does a ship with no fuel scoop manage to travel 275ly?
"It takes family and friends" said CMDR Jesters-Ink, who is a proud member of the "Nuts Wing" of the Hutton Truckers.
Their motto is "Any cargo anywhere", hell, they've even shipped Hutton Mugs to Sagittarius A, twice.


Surround yourself with like minded, dedicated CMDRs and anything is possible. Oh and you've gotta be nuts.


Thanks go out to CMDR LLAO, JKRowners, Optiplex, DamienC and Snap-Shot, for their support in this exercise. Special thanks go to CMDR Vingtetung for the first barnacle wingup and CMDR LLAO for finding the last barnacle. CMDR Snap-Shot (flown by Jesters Jr) for his supporting role on the last leg of the journey, which would have even made the "fuel Rats" proud.


Thanks guys, that's another milestone reached.
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Well hells, and here I thought my 300 that I loaded in my Annie was something special, well done Commanders!
 

Redtribution

Redtribution
Title: Captain's Log Advocates One-Upmanship Contest
Location: Maia
Time: ASAP

Description:
A newly formed squadron known simply as "The Captain's Log" has taken to the task of delivering Meta-Alloys to Obsidian Orbital with gusto. What the small team lacks in numbers and resources, they have been making up for with sheer zeal. Highlights of the manic-paced flurry of deliveries by the intrepid group include Admiral "Self-Promotion" Manni offloading over two hundred and fifty tonnes of alloys within six hours and Captain "Captain's Log" Red boosting a fully laden and heavily modified Type 7 sideways clean through the Orbital's airlock and skidding onto his designated platform within forty seconds of gaining docking clearence. Efforts by the team have been in motion since an exploration operation led by the previously mentioned squad members two days ago accidentally stumbled across the entire situation at Obsidian Orbital.


The Captain has issued a general challenge to all Commanders involved with the community effort, indicating his total of 450 tonnes in the past 48 hours and stating, "I'm all the way up here, Fam, where the rest a' y'all at?"


The Log reported they have collectively amassed 1270 tonnes of alloys and have no intention of slowing down, despite reports of violent response to collection efforts.


Dock workers expressed mild concern over the group's success. The foreman on deck at the time, who wished to remain anonymous, incredulously stated, "Where are they even finding this many of these things? It's just five pilots! One of them is still hauling in a Viper MK IV!"



CMDR Redtribution
 

Commander Starcloak

Commander Starcloak
Jmanis said:
Can you take a moment to explain why that gets published, meanwhile this article I wrote during the peak of station failures gets, i dunno, rejected? Ignored? Not quite sure what term to use. Notwithstanding that station never failed, which seems to run contrary to any observations of the UA's in other player interactions...
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I can't answer for FDev, but I can share my experience.

Ian's right, the article guidelines are a good starting point. They're looking for certain things to be adhered to like the word limit and the standard of writing quality. Your articles do seem to adhere to those, but keeping those guidelines in mind are always my first port of call when writing. Then, the next things to consider are if you have an article that just so happens to contradict something they themselves were just about to post, that won't get put up.

Also what Ian said about mentioning the Powers. That'll often get a rejection. That is a little bit frustrating for those of us who want to flesh out the lore, but don't give up. If you want to talk about Powers, try writing the article without mentioning the actual leader. Several of us have managed to write pieces talking about Utopia/Federation/Empire/Alliance in general, writing about events and life in those places, without mentioning the leader's name, and got published.

Aiming for local news is a good tip because it nets you publications that they reject for main GalNet. Main GalNet publications are rare, but they usually come when the topic is a galactic-wide one and on immediate and big news relevance.

I would definitely advise don't give up submitting articles. I get rejected all the time. I have 18 articles to my name... out of 63 submissions. For every 1 article I get published I get about 3 rejected. But I keep submitting. I even submit articles where I don't particularly care about the story and I just wrote it as a writing exercise - just to prove to FDev that I can write on a variety of topics, deliver submissions for them to choose from on a frequent basis, and to build up their trust in me as a writer who isn't going to screw up their story. And I always make myself amenable to edits - I make it clear that I am happy and willing to edit/be edited, and if I submit an article that I think is a bit risky (brief mention of a Power character in passing, usually), I offer them the option of simply changing one or two words or cutting one line and the article will still work.

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Speaking of submissions... I have a follow up to the local news piece I did on 5th Jan on a new Federal bill.

DATE: 26 JAN 3302

LOCATION: Sol, Nanomam, Rhea

TITLE: Congressional Corporate Donation Transparency Bill

DESCRIPTION:

The bill introduced by Liberal Congressman César Neves almost three weeks ago is now undergoing a motion to vote in Federal Congress. The Congressional Corporate Donation Transparency Bill proposes to make representatives’ donations from corporate sources publicly available and transparent. Premier Federal politics show HARDTalk this morning debated the implications of the bill, with former Liberal Congresswoman Ailana Middlebrooks stating:

“Well obviously the Republicans are scared, otherwise they’d be pushing for this vote so they could get it off the table. The fact that they’ve been filibustering it for this long indicates that they’re concerned that not all party members will fall in line.”

The debate opposition, former Republican Congressman Akash Bali, countered:

“I think we can all agree that this Liberal notion is just a huge waste of time. The Federation doesn’t need another layer of red tape.”

If the motion is carried the 213 Liberal representatives will be aiming to get Congress’ 49 Democrats on side in order to defeat the 238 Republican party in an upcoming vote.



Cmdr Stateira Eleshenar
Regulus Observer | Interstellar Press


AUTHOR'S NOTE: I made up the Congress numbers, using Braben's recent comments about the make up of the Congress and obviously weighting it in favour of Republicans, then Liberals, then Democrats. If FDev wish to change those numbers to something else that is fine. Alternatively, swap out the last sentence for the following instead: "If the motion is carried Liberal representatives will be aiming to get Congress' Democrats on side in order to stand any chance of defeating the Republican party in the upcoming vote."


I hope this is approved. Feels like we could use more Federation politics and drama - especially expanding on the lore that the Federation has a fair bit of corruption. I promise to steer clear of Hudson and Winters.
 
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