Nope, just confirmed Glaives (but not Scythes) have an anti guardian field.
CG predictions...
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Yeah i edited my post on this as I had just remembered also but had gave a tip to avoid this for the most part
There have been at least two others, in terms of individual rewards
- the Marlinist expansion CG in April 2022 had one of the sets of cosmetics available at the 100% tier
- the "Pods" CG at Colonia was originally intended to be a 75% tier reward, but I think Frontier changed it to 100% since the time required to get even one pod would have comfortably reached top 50% in any normal CG
Prototype Frame Shift Drive almost production ready, competitor sceptical
Material gathered from the Titan Taranis wreckage has reportedly allowed Achilles Aerospace to complete the research on their prototype Frame Shift Drive.The recent initiative sponsored by Achilles Aerospace saw over 5000 independent pilots enter the hazardous wreckage of Titan Taranis, retrieving enough Titan Drive Components to allow Achilles to allegedly design a new type of Frame Shift Drive based on Titan technology.
A spokesperson for Achilles Aerospace gave the following update:
The Achilles Corporation would like to commend every brave pilot that responded to our request. The data we are gathering from the collected materials is staggering, and our work has progressed at an astonishing rate. Our teams are hard at work getting the prototype ready for production as I speak, and we are eager to show you all the fruits of our labour very soon.
Sirius Corporation, the current sole manufacturer of Frame Shift Drives, was asked for comment on this research:
“Sirius recognises Achilles’ claims of ‘revolutionising’ an extremely advanced technology in a relatively short span of time, but we remain unconvinced of their substance. If Achilles can produce something other than words we will be happy to comment further.”
CG for Materials for research into Mk2 FSD (SCO) coming up! (a less heat/more fuel efficient version?) 
Oh, maybe not then, just seen the news about U18.03
I probs won't get in to ED for 3-4 days after update on Epic - here we go again support tickets and waiting for Epic to update ED
Oh, maybe not then, just seen the news about U18.03
Titan Oya Rewards & Update 18.03 | 18 April
I probs won't get in to ED for 3-4 days after update on Epic - here we go again support tickets and waiting for Epic to update ED
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CGs are manual work, just like Galnet. Not enough staff left at FDEV to do that.
They’d have easy pickings with a “Aegis Titan Salvage Initiative” CG for the other three unique items that can be found there(other than drive components). Throw in an Azimuth counter goal for good measure and to provide them the smallest semblance of relevance to the narrative too.
I predict no CG's for a few weeks as too much going on to get people sidetracked from Reducing Titan Defenses/Titan Destruction/EA Python mk2/FSD SCO/etc...........
However, if they become bi-monthly (i.e. 1 every 2 months) CG's, a nice one could be a CG for access to new ships (or specifically P2) for CR instead of with ARX!
However, if they become bi-monthly (i.e. 1 every 2 months) CG's, a nice one could be a CG for access to new ships (or specifically P2) for CR instead of with ARX!
New GalNet!
Stent Jackson, a ship engineering and design consultant, spoke to Vox Galactica about this new surge of research:
“Now don’t get me wrong, every manufacturer I’ve spoken to considers Supercruise Overcharge to be a great thing, but it’s also ripping our hulls apart. The good with the bad, as always.”
“Funny thing is, every manufacturer is realising all at once that there are some crucial things about ship construction that they’ve all taken for granted. When you get down to brass tacks, we assume certain thresholds, right? Before, we didn’t need to worry about exceeding certain temperatures or hitting high levels of hull stress regularly. Now that’s all out the window.”
“I haven’t seen such a single-minded focus from ship manufacturers for a long time. They’re all clawing to be first to market with a ship that can alleviate Overcharge stress, and it’s not long before one of them really does rise to the challenge.”
"My hat’s off to them, Achilles have changed the game in the industry for good.”
Ship manufacturers must “rise to the challenge” of Supercruise Overcharge
Users of the Supercruise Overcharge function of Achilles’ new Frame Shift Drives have reported that the module puts ships under immense mechanical and thermal stress, often causing severe hull damage. Ship manufacturers throughout the galaxy are now diverting research towards overcoming this issue.Stent Jackson, a ship engineering and design consultant, spoke to Vox Galactica about this new surge of research:
“Now don’t get me wrong, every manufacturer I’ve spoken to considers Supercruise Overcharge to be a great thing, but it’s also ripping our hulls apart. The good with the bad, as always.”
“Funny thing is, every manufacturer is realising all at once that there are some crucial things about ship construction that they’ve all taken for granted. When you get down to brass tacks, we assume certain thresholds, right? Before, we didn’t need to worry about exceeding certain temperatures or hitting high levels of hull stress regularly. Now that’s all out the window.”
“I haven’t seen such a single-minded focus from ship manufacturers for a long time. They’re all clawing to be first to market with a ship that can alleviate Overcharge stress, and it’s not long before one of them really does rise to the challenge.”
"My hat’s off to them, Achilles have changed the game in the industry for good.”
Well, okay, I didn't see that one coming, and looking at the last posting dates here nor did anyone else...
At the moment it just looks like a standard trade/bounty filler CG brought to us by "why is he still Vice-President" Archer, but I suppose there's room for it to lead to something else.
At the moment it just looks like a standard trade/bounty filler CG brought to us by "why is he still Vice-President" Archer, but I suppose there's room for it to lead to something else.
'next up' - so in about September then ...
You don’t suppose that he has some hidden motive to acquiring huge volumes of crowd control weapons along with armour and band aids?
New GalNet released. About the titans.
Since the fall of the fourth Titan, Hadad, there are increasing reports that the Thargoid expansion efforts have been growing weaker. While Thargoids are continuing to expand outwards from the Titans, they are no longer reinforcing their spire sites. Further, independent squadrons dedicated to defeating the Thargoid threat like SNPX, AXI, and MUDD, have noted increasing ease in thwarting attempts to probe and invade systems.
Dr. Ivano Colombera, Imperial Science Academy’s director of xenological studies and Empire liaison to Aegis, gave their view:
“I have heard the strategy reports touting words like ‘weakening Thargoid presence’, and I must urge caution. I hypothesise that this change signals a strategic defensive response, not an enemy on their last legs.”
“I believe that the Thargoids are consolidating and planning, with the likely aim of reinforcing the final four Titans to prevent further losses. They may seem ‘weak’ now, yes, but everything we know of Thargoid behaviour suggests that this change shepherds something else. We are backing them into a corner, but that is when any creature is at its most unpredictable. And at its most dangerous.”
Aegis has urged pilots across the galaxy to take this warning seriously and work to end the war before the Thargoids have time to retaliate. Humanity’s war effort is currently directed towards Titan Indra.
Aegis Wary About Changing Thargoid Behaviour
A recent behavioural change in the Thargoids has prompted urgent discussion among Aegis researchers and strategists.Since the fall of the fourth Titan, Hadad, there are increasing reports that the Thargoid expansion efforts have been growing weaker. While Thargoids are continuing to expand outwards from the Titans, they are no longer reinforcing their spire sites. Further, independent squadrons dedicated to defeating the Thargoid threat like SNPX, AXI, and MUDD, have noted increasing ease in thwarting attempts to probe and invade systems.
Dr. Ivano Colombera, Imperial Science Academy’s director of xenological studies and Empire liaison to Aegis, gave their view:
“I have heard the strategy reports touting words like ‘weakening Thargoid presence’, and I must urge caution. I hypothesise that this change signals a strategic defensive response, not an enemy on their last legs.”
“I believe that the Thargoids are consolidating and planning, with the likely aim of reinforcing the final four Titans to prevent further losses. They may seem ‘weak’ now, yes, but everything we know of Thargoid behaviour suggests that this change shepherds something else. We are backing them into a corner, but that is when any creature is at its most unpredictable. And at its most dangerous.”
Aegis has urged pilots across the galaxy to take this warning seriously and work to end the war before the Thargoids have time to retaliate. Humanity’s war effort is currently directed towards Titan Indra.
“This is fine… everything’s going to go alright.”
They said before the building shot up in flames around them.
… considering that even Indra is still a few weeks off from even being remotely vulnerable, well, I’m not expecting it to be reduced to scrap before the Thargoida decide it’s time to stop playing nice.
(I figured we’d see something along the lines of “Thargoids more focused on defense of their held systems” though, given how while the inner system core is easier to defeat, it equally takes much more effort to take the outer ones out.)
They said before the building shot up in flames around them.
… considering that even Indra is still a few weeks off from even being remotely vulnerable, well, I’m not expecting it to be reduced to scrap before the Thargoida decide it’s time to stop playing nice.
(I figured we’d see something along the lines of “Thargoids more focused on defense of their held systems” though, given how while the inner system core is easier to defeat, it equally takes much more effort to take the outer ones out.)
Colombera: "It's a strategic defensive manouvre, they're not on their last legs, we must be cautious-"
Aegis: "so what you're saying is we can finish them off now? okay great"
(I'm assuming Aegis will end up correct, though, and humanity will be congratulated on ending the Titans both in time for Powerplay and before they had time to enact their dastardly plan. Which coincidentally is a lot easier for Frontier than the Thargoids actually doing something.)
Aegis: "so what you're saying is we can finish them off now? okay great"
(I'm assuming Aegis will end up correct, though, and humanity will be congratulated on ending the Titans both in time for Powerplay and before they had time to enact their dastardly plan. Which coincidentally is a lot easier for Frontier than the Thargoids actually doing something.)
Even then they'd need to capture a lot more long-range controls before the total strength change was favourable to them.
If that is the aim then either the Thargoids are going to need to make a bunch more "strategic changes", or Powerplay is going to be extremely late to the extent that Frontier should really be doing some expectation management by now.
Control clearance is currently proceeding at ... maybe 20 a week? With the difficulty curve being somewhat flattened out that's probably roughly where it's going to stay under the current rules, and Spire support will be less available on the other three. So just under 600 Controls remaining means even without any Thargoid surprises it's going to take something like half a year to wear them down.
I mean, I’d look at it as them planning short term, even though the claim of them being incapable of quick strategy changes still abounded from time to time, following the start of the war too. This might have less of a benefit for Indra(especially) and Cocijo, but Thor might get a bit more out of it, given the limitations which its placement has imposed. (Not a clue about Raijin.)
And even with the changes it’s still going to be a couple weeks before Indra is near the window of vulnerability. Not that there’s any telling how quickly any such Thargoid plot twist might come (or what shape it will take, if it materializes at all). Aegis can claim that we should end the Titans as soon as possible but right now, well… let’s just say, your numbers speak for themselves. Unless something magical pops up out of nowhere*, the remaining four aren’t going anywhere quickly.
*Willing to bet Salvation 2.0’s toys would backfire just as spectacularly.