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Wanted to practice my writing a bit, so I took half an hour to write parts of the latest release notes into a kind of storyline, hope people enjoys it ^^
(I don't feel I am very good at 'official'-ish texts since I have not gotten much practice writing them...)
Colonisation Cost Causes Collapse in Communications?
The extreme costs of rebuilding Calypso after the War Titan crashing into it years ago, coupled with the costs of the colonisation of the new worlds RockTropia, Next Island and Arkadia, has resulted in a massive lack of resources in the Imperial Government. Transports and development of new technology has had to cope with major budget cutbacks and one of the costliest projects in this venture has been establishing an interplanetary teleportation grid, or IPTG.
With the cancelling of an order for a big number of war spaceships to the Calypso Provisional Government, due to lack of funds, the budget has reached a new low. While Carramone (former officer of the CDF) is being tried for breach of contract, these spaceships will be auctioned off to private buyers to cover the deficit.
While the ships will be limited in firepower (restrictions applied to any civilian vessel, in accordance to galactic law) they will be looked upon to provide protection to their home planets and offer transportation for other colonists as the Imperial Government is shutting down the IPTG program.
The ships will be sold off as they arrive at the colonies and the IPTG will be shut down when the first ship is put up for sale. Admiral Newton had this to say:
"While I am aware that the shutting down of the IPTG will cause problems for many, we believe that the resources spent on keeping it up and the resources poured into compensation for the hangar and ship owners that has been forced to retire due to the program will be better used for other projects."
The admiral also promised to make sure that the process of going back to ships for interplanetary travel will be as smooth as possible.
CDF announcement to spacefaring colonists:
Please be adviced that due to underfunding from the Calypso Provisional Government and the Imperial Government, along with the cancellation of the Mothership Project, designed to give more firepower to the CDF fleet, the Calypso Defense Force will only be able to guarantee the safety of colonists within a certain radius of the planet Calypso and the orbiting space stations.
All other areas should be considered extremely dangerous to enter.
PLEASE NOTE: All colonists attacking other colonist owner ships will be logged in the CDF files. Those destroying a fellow humans ship without apparent cause will be put in a publicly available database. If a colonist destroys a ship logged in this database, they will be put in another database recommending them for service.
Economical Block, or Opportunities arise?
Due to being being part of the now shut down IPTG (Inter-Planet Teleportation Grid), the auction interplanet teleportation grid will also be shut down. This means that only auctions started on the same planet can be bidded on and retrieved on the same planet.
The reason given by Nirida Van, Auctioneer Union leader, for the shutting of the bid service along with the goods transportation service is that it would be too expensive to ensure the security of cross-planet bids without having the infrastructure of the Imperial Government to base it on.
Negotiations were being made between the IG and AU over the possiblity of the AU buying the already placed infrastructure to ensure the safe transfer of payments over larger distances, but the AU had to fold due to the expense of buying such an infrastructure would not be covered by the fees involved.
Welding Wire Ignites Outrage, spotlights Omegaton scandal?
Mega corporation Omegaton decided Tuesday to not include Welding Wire in the blueprint package for Vehicle Repair Tools in the future, instead forcing disgruntled colonists to get it elsewhere. The reason for this is rumored to be a way to compensate for the money lost due to the Imperial Government freezing post-War Titan support money to the company after millions of PED disappeared, along with Omegaton second-in-command Briar Zench.
Mr. Zench was later found strangled in the captains cabin of his two million PED yacht orbiting Calypso. The docking ring of the yacht had been torn in a way suggesting someone had left the ship without disengaging it first. None of the money that Mr. Zench is suspected of stealing has been found in the yacht, and no further comment has been made by the CDF officers investigating the case.
Imperial Government Sales And Requisition Department (IG-SARD) Notice:
Names of Motherships released to the public
Due to the Motherships initially being ordered by the CDF (Calypso Defense Force), all Motherships were formally registered and named for this. Because of the level of paperwork needed to change the name of such a ship (transfer of name, registration, database entries, etc) this is not an option at the moment.
(I don't feel I am very good at 'official'-ish texts since I have not gotten much practice writing them...)
Colonisation Cost Causes Collapse in Communications?
The extreme costs of rebuilding Calypso after the War Titan crashing into it years ago, coupled with the costs of the colonisation of the new worlds RockTropia, Next Island and Arkadia, has resulted in a massive lack of resources in the Imperial Government. Transports and development of new technology has had to cope with major budget cutbacks and one of the costliest projects in this venture has been establishing an interplanetary teleportation grid, or IPTG.
With the cancelling of an order for a big number of war spaceships to the Calypso Provisional Government, due to lack of funds, the budget has reached a new low. While Carramone (former officer of the CDF) is being tried for breach of contract, these spaceships will be auctioned off to private buyers to cover the deficit.
While the ships will be limited in firepower (restrictions applied to any civilian vessel, in accordance to galactic law) they will be looked upon to provide protection to their home planets and offer transportation for other colonists as the Imperial Government is shutting down the IPTG program.
The ships will be sold off as they arrive at the colonies and the IPTG will be shut down when the first ship is put up for sale. Admiral Newton had this to say:
"While I am aware that the shutting down of the IPTG will cause problems for many, we believe that the resources spent on keeping it up and the resources poured into compensation for the hangar and ship owners that has been forced to retire due to the program will be better used for other projects."
The admiral also promised to make sure that the process of going back to ships for interplanetary travel will be as smooth as possible.
CDF announcement to spacefaring colonists:
Please be adviced that due to underfunding from the Calypso Provisional Government and the Imperial Government, along with the cancellation of the Mothership Project, designed to give more firepower to the CDF fleet, the Calypso Defense Force will only be able to guarantee the safety of colonists within a certain radius of the planet Calypso and the orbiting space stations.
All other areas should be considered extremely dangerous to enter.
PLEASE NOTE: All colonists attacking other colonist owner ships will be logged in the CDF files. Those destroying a fellow humans ship without apparent cause will be put in a publicly available database. If a colonist destroys a ship logged in this database, they will be put in another database recommending them for service.
Economical Block, or Opportunities arise?
Due to being being part of the now shut down IPTG (Inter-Planet Teleportation Grid), the auction interplanet teleportation grid will also be shut down. This means that only auctions started on the same planet can be bidded on and retrieved on the same planet.
The reason given by Nirida Van, Auctioneer Union leader, for the shutting of the bid service along with the goods transportation service is that it would be too expensive to ensure the security of cross-planet bids without having the infrastructure of the Imperial Government to base it on.
Negotiations were being made between the IG and AU over the possiblity of the AU buying the already placed infrastructure to ensure the safe transfer of payments over larger distances, but the AU had to fold due to the expense of buying such an infrastructure would not be covered by the fees involved.
Welding Wire Ignites Outrage, spotlights Omegaton scandal?
Mega corporation Omegaton decided Tuesday to not include Welding Wire in the blueprint package for Vehicle Repair Tools in the future, instead forcing disgruntled colonists to get it elsewhere. The reason for this is rumored to be a way to compensate for the money lost due to the Imperial Government freezing post-War Titan support money to the company after millions of PED disappeared, along with Omegaton second-in-command Briar Zench.
Mr. Zench was later found strangled in the captains cabin of his two million PED yacht orbiting Calypso. The docking ring of the yacht had been torn in a way suggesting someone had left the ship without disengaging it first. None of the money that Mr. Zench is suspected of stealing has been found in the yacht, and no further comment has been made by the CDF officers investigating the case.
Imperial Government Sales And Requisition Department (IG-SARD) Notice:
Names of Motherships released to the public
Due to the Motherships initially being ordered by the CDF (Calypso Defense Force), all Motherships were formally registered and named for this. Because of the level of paperwork needed to change the name of such a ship (transfer of name, registration, database entries, etc) this is not an option at the moment.
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I wish more was written up like this of ingame events and VU-s 
