| Position | Crew Member | CMDR Name |
| Head of Health and Safety | Ben Moss-Woodward | Eid LeWeise |
| Chief Archivist | Colin Ford | Phoenix_Dfire |
| (in)Human Resources Director | Shan | Shan |
| Deputy Trade Attaché | Souv | Souvarine |
| Tech Monkey | Norman MacArthur | Ventura_ |
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Development News – what have the devs said this week?
- Beta 2 is coming. Stephen has said they’re taking a snapshot of the database on April the 30th. This snapshot will be the basis for Beta 2, so you’ll if you want to own a fleet carrier, you have until then to get your 5 to 7 billion. 😉
- People suspect that the beta will start in the second week in May.
In-Game Events – what’s happened this week?
- Operation IDA – The station repair guys are working on Guidoni Enterprise in HIP 9599.
- AXI – CMDR Rub.100 is going to keep his latest fleet carrier survey up until the 30th of April. It can be found here https://forms.gle/Fv6jYAwx38iYi9Yr8 and Cmdr Avasa Siuu has published his usual AXI debried over at https://youtu.be/t6cVzb4W1L0
Main discussion
- Space Legs Speculation and Dreams
Community Corner
- Absolutely BRILLIANT video (advert) for Elite Dangerous by Orchestral Design
- Orion Expedition has just finished, and the Eastern Promise expedition (which was originally the Orion Expedition’s route home) has just begun – with a joint mass jump from Sagittarius A*
Some video here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/603463230 - After a period of inactivity (excluding the standing challenges and the Cortes Base stuff our last official race was Halpy Hand back in January) – I’m pleased to announce that the Buckyball Racing Club have just updated their race diary with … not one … not two … not three … but four news races, coming next month, June, July and August!
The Buckyball race calendar is here: http://buckyballracing.org.uk/#upcomingevents
And the details for “Signs of Life” should be appearing around the end of the week. - Hey Lave Radio. Long term commander Kinetis here from the UK. Although not ED related it would be great if I could share my daughter’s fundraising page on the Lave Radio Facebook group for the NHS and other social media feeds. I’ve tried to get Remlok sponsorship but waiting for the subspace communication to come back
. The page is www.justgiving.com/hairthatcares o7 Commanders!
- God Help us all, The HCS Voice pack of Cecil has been updated to work with singularity in voice attack. So if you want gin related help while flying your ship then goto https://www.hcsvoicepacks.com/collections/voice-packs/products/cecil-performed-by-david-pearson and remember all proceeds goto Special Effect.
- The Buur Pit has release a great video showing their top 5 QoL improvements
- Button to toggle docking computer
- Button to target, your target’s target
- Cancel Launch Request
- Cargo space and swapping limpets (basically auto dump cargo)
- Bookmark Folders in the Galactic Map
- Kai Zen from Loose Screws talks to Bruce Garrido (Frontier Community Manager) and talks everything from Raxxla to Fleet Carriers with an eye on development practices and the process of helping bring great new things from the dev team to the community!
Questions
- We’re after your favourite ‘You’ve been framed’ or ‘Cmdrs do the funniest things’ stories! Boosting instead of docking, face-planting on High G worlds, funny pirate encounters. Let us know and we’ll tell the rest of the community your shame!
Shoutouts
- Our sister station, Hutton Orbital Radio, Broadcasts on Thursdays from 20:30. You can tune in at tv.forthemug.com/ or, for just the audio, at radio.forthemug.com/.
- For the discerning Commander who likes a bit of CQC action, check out the CQC Discord at “discord.me/elitedangerouscqc”.
- Cmdr Wotherspoon and Galnet news (also mention the powerful people profiles he is doing now).
- Thanks to those who have chipped in on Twitch chat and in-game commanders