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The new Lynx Highliner looks much better than we expected. And it introduces a major innovation: this is the first ship that you board by walking up a ramp. The Zorgon Peterson Lynx Highliner base model will be available at all good shipyards from Tuesday 28th April. The Stellar and Galactic Editions, which come preconfigured and bundled with cosmetic options, will be available on the same day, for an allegedly modest number of ARX.

The Pilots' Federation has given more details about Operations, but has delayed its release by a further two months, to June. Meanwhile, Zorgon Peterson has announced that its new ship will be released next week and will be immediately available to buy for Credits.

Guardian technology is beginning to pile up at Exogene Sciences, but we still have no idea what the October Consortium wants them for. Meanwhile, conspiracy theorist Kit Fowler has claimed that we should be getting worried about the current wellness trend.

The October Consortium has developed a sudden interest in Guardian civilisation, and they're willing to pay for samples of Guardian technology. The CG is at Exogene Sciences in HIP 87621, and you need to gather various Guardian artefacts to take part.

New findings suggest that Radicoida Unica may may have been genetically manipulated millions of years ago by intelligent alien life. That might mean Thargoids, Guardians or some other species, but it raises uncomfortable questions about the Radicoida-based pharmacological products being developed by the October Consortium.

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.