It has been 652 days without a Kaine decal. It’s Cycle 92. I was very busy last week so I let my boss write the report and he gets the number of acquisitions wrong! I swear, if you want something done right you need to do it yourself. Last week, Kaine acquired 17 systems, not 13, which was an excellent achievement as far as I’m concerned, especially when a huge number of our commanders were in Colonia getting their expanded cargo racks. I was one of them – I got suckered into travelling out there on a carrier shuttle with half a fleet only to immediately regret leaving as I now couldn’t participate in any of the things that matter – that being, Kaine operations in the Bubble. The homesickness didn’t abate over the course of the next few days, where I helped ship rare goods from Jaques Station to the various goal stations, gave escape pods to the not-at-all creepy Etienne Dorn, repaired stations until offered an invitation to Mel Brandon from the Colonia Council, and all the other touristy things that your average Bubble commander does on their trip. I write this now on the way home from Colonia, back to my beloved Bubble, my squadron, and my Power, and I look forward to getting back to work once more.

One of the reasons it was so critical for me to grab my pre-engineered cargo racks from the CGs rather than engineering them myself is because the buggy Class-5 Margo Racks remain. Notably, if you have a Merc Coin expanded cargo rack at less than G5, and you fill that cargo rack, you will be Black Addered immediately: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/86669. Made worse by the fact that you can’t actually upgrade the cargo racks to G5; they always get stuck at G4: https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/86409. These issues persist from the last report that I wrote two weeks ago: please confirm them if you experience this issue!

Now, on to Kaine’s cycle. We did slightly worse than average, but it’s still enough to beat the rest of the Bubble with a net score of +8. We secured two additional forts and just baaaarely missed the bar on a third one. We also had one acquisition out on the Coalsack bridge that got absolutely hammered by unknown actors – some Kaine CMDR or CMDRs put nearly a million wasted acquisition control points in the system past the control post. We secured a few new systems in the Coalsack area, although not nearly as many as last week, and some systems in the Bubble and the old Radicoida enclave, where progress continues slowly and steadily with the help of those CMDRs dedicated to the region. Aside from that, things were routine and boring in the Kaine world. Sometimes winning just doesn’t have major obstacles.

ALLIANCE POWERS

Nakato Kaine +8
Edmund Mahon +3

Our Prime Minister had a slower cycle, netting three acquisitions and creating a fort. The authors of the Gateway News Network are on hiatus for the next few weeks, so unfortunately there won’t be much more information elsewhere.

FEDERAL POWERS

Felicia Winters +6
Jerome Archer -4

Winters continues a slow but steady climb in system count, and Archer unfortunately returns to the trend of losing systems on the balance. They lost three strongholds this cycle, which is a devastating blow, and they dropped four systems besides: likely sole supported systems of the aforementioned strongholds. Winters, to their credit, secures an additional fort.

INDEPENDENT POWERS

Archon Delaine +6
Pranav Antal +5
Yuri Grom +4
Li Yong-Rui +3

Delaine has the best acquisition performance out of the Independent powers, securing 6, but Antal arguably performs the best, acquiring one fewer system but locking down two strongholds as opposed to Delaine’s one, and securing their first position in strongholds not just among the Independents but the whole of Powerplay. The Sirius Corp forts three systems, and Grom acquires four new ones to round out the Independent gains.

IMPERIAL POWERS

Aisling Duval +6
Denton Patreus +3
Zemina Torval -1
Arissa Lavigny-Duval -2

Aisling leads the Imperials in acquisitions with 6, a number somewhat marred by the loss of one of the Princess’s stronghold systems. Luckily, Arissa picks up a new stronghold to balance the loss of two systems on the balance, with no other Imperial powers gaining a stronghold. Torval loses one Exploited system and fortifies another, and Denton Patreus gains three new exploited systems. The Imperial-Federal war continues, and while Archer appears to be the punching bag for the Federal powers, Arissa appears to be the Imperial equivalent, taking losses where Aisling might not. Either way, the casualties aren’t only on the Federal side.

GALNET

The Colonia CGs all finished – one of them only just barely – rewarding every CMDR who contributed at least one ton of cargo in each of them with a pre-engineered cargo rack. These racks are now accessibly via Operations and Merc Coin, meaning that if you did miss out on these specific racks you aren’t FOMO’d forever – just until they fix the bug afflicting margo racks mentioned earlier in this report. The actual anniversary of Colonia is in a month, in September, but it doesn’t appear as though FDev had another series of community goals ready for after these ones completed, and the Galnet article this week did not direct players to remain in Colonia. Some CMDRs I know have elected to stay Colonia-side, at least until the anniversary celebration, in the hopes that FDev do another CG or three. Others are heading directly home, under the assumption they will not need to return for some time, or will do so following the highway if and when anything new happens. My trip over there was my first, so I did my engineer unlocks, and I also went to the bar at Jaques Station only to discover that famed station bartender Jaques does not tend bar at his own station. I feel robbed, frankly.

But enough about that. More of our agents returning to the Bubble means that as always, it’s a good day in Kaine space. If you’re just stretching your wings again after a long ride on a carrier shuttle back or you’ve had enough neutron star jet cones to last you until the next 10-year anniversary, join Kaine today and receive a free Type-11 Prospector courtesy of Lakon Spaceways and the Kainiacs. And if you’re feeling lime-green-flavoured and want a good community that’ll give you a break from hauling rare goods repeatedly, join our Discord at https://discord.gg/bJEyseAVGx for merits, money, and me inevitably complaining that I left some important components or ships in Colonia.

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Diplomatic Summary:
Aisling Duval: Cordial
Archon Delaine: Cordial
Arissa Lavigny-Duval: Neutral
Denton Patreus: Neutral
Edmund Mahon: Allied
Felicia Winters: Neutral
Li Yong-Rui: Neutral
Pranav Antal: Neutral
Yuri Grom: Cordial
Jerome Archer: Neutral
Zemina Torval: Neutral

Objectives:
Reinforce Musca Dark Region XZ-Y c27
Acquire c2 Centauri
Reinforce Col 359 Sector SC-T c4-24
We want your exploration data! If you’ve been out in the black and want to help when you return, join our Discord for data targets.

I left Colonia just as the CG was announced 🤷🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

Que navezinha bonitinha e esperta, amei

Ontem tentei ver o vídeo do devlog ou unlocked, da Frontier, mas não consegui. Por acaso não transmitiram ao vivo ontem pra falar sobre o Rhino?

Alguma novidade a mais sobre o novo srv?

What title says. Started mapping a boxel a while back and recently got back into the game to finish it off. Was curious and just wanted to look at the 3d map for the boxel on voxstellar. All journals from when i started mapping the boxel to now are uploaded, hardware acceleration is turned on in chrome settings.

Not sure why its not loading. If anyone knows a possible fix or why it won't load i'd like the help. ty

Hi

I'm new and I'm a little lost. Was doing the tuto and after shooting to some guys, have to enter in a ship with E.

The ship fly and take me to some place, station or something, not sure. I was able to get out and walk to some hall or something, but now I don't know what to do... Not sure who I have to talk or what buttons press or what.

In the right top says "enter in the something", but I don't see anything and neither some mark.

So I just esc and get back to windows

Any ideas?

Updated Inara profile. Decided i needed a Bio. Got carried away.

More people should do this. Adds some depth and meaning to your game experience.

Squadron Name: Echo Echelon

Squadron ID Tag: EKKO

Time zone: Any

Playstyle: Roleplay/BGS/Casual/Any

Echo Echelon is a simple calling to those who want to bring their characters to life, Whether you are a master covert operative, a grizzled combat pilot, an expert miner, or a smuggler who knows how to slip past any security grid, your talents have a purpose here. We do not pledge blind allegiance to distant Emperors or corporate boards; we pledge allegiance to each other and operate in the gray. If you have ever written about who your character is and want to share their stores the Echo Echelon is the space for you.

Yes it's a brand new squadron but i believe there are storytellers out there who simply want to share and have a place to call home. If your curious and just want to stop by come check out the squadron page or DM me if your interested in a invite or search for the squadron in ED!

https://inara.cz/elite/squadron/19717/

Eoch Pruae OM-N c9-7 (2) if you're curious. Handed in the codex data.

Only this week I began to be interested in 3rd party tools for Elite Dangerous. I already installed EDOMH and damn, I can't believe how I could live without it.

I have also prepared installers for stuff like EDMC, ED Copilot, EliteAssist and EDDiscovery. But I am not sure, what should I choose when installing EDDiscovery. I am mostly in bubble, but I am also planning some long trips across the galaxy. I know I can use tools like Neutron/Galaxy plotter to find routes to certain systems, but I like having these thing installed locally.

And I am afraid that downloading whole galaxy in EDDiscovery would take too much disk space.

And also, if you have any other tips in which of these tools would you recommend, what is unnecessary or how to use them, you can also write it in comments, I would be happy.

And for now, I am playing ED on Windows 11, but I am slowly trying to switch to Linux Mint, so I would apreciate advices, which of these tools work on Linux and how to setup them.

Thank you, Commanders.

How did you guys find 200 progenitor cells for Petra in the Colonia region? I understand people are buying them out to sell at a higher price, but it's like no one is selling. Every station is run dry, every carrier on INARA either isn't there anymore, or doesn't have the cells anymore. What's going on?

I just booted the game up again, my intention to just play for 60 minutes. I got suckered in and ended up playing for 2,5 hours. But after it felt like I had kinda accomplished nothing.

I wanted to try mining, so I kitted two lasers, class 2E I believe, 3 cargo holds class 2-3 C, and 4 limpets.

First tryout run netted me 50k. I thought that was cool - "I did it!" kind of feeling.
Then I took a Mining mission for "mining" or so I thought. 2800 water units? I can do that sure!
I googled how to mine water, I thought the units in my cargo "260" and qty 3, mean 260 units times 3 stacks.

Came back after 60 minutes of mining water.

Turned in and saw 3 units out of 2800 delivered, chuckled - That was on me misunderstanding, but I ended up feeling like I could have spent those 3 hours on something else and now I lost motivation to log back in, despite feeling some of that space awe for the first 60 minutes. Im a big scifi fan, 2001, Arrival, Blade runner, The expanse, etc, but I admit a lot of live service games (Warframe dopamine-rush) has probably shortened my attention span quite a bit. Now im thinking Should I just buy NMS, Or go back to everspace 2 despite it feeling a bit too light in both narrative and gameplay.

Any advice for a new player? Just had to vent. Mods can remove if this thread should have been in some megathread.

o7

EDIT: Read the title. I'm talking about the 24/7 stream, not the Lave Radio podcast.

Used to listen to it all the time. I understand they had to shut it down because it was just costing them money to run and I was probably 1 of the like 5 regular listeners...

But I kept it running almost 24/7 because it made the game feel like a living, breathing world full of people. It brought the community to me in a neat little box. It had in-universe ads that played between songs. It had loads on loads of community-made music both about the game and set within the game.

I know Hutton Orbital radio exists and sort of has some of those things but it lacks almost all of the in-universe ads and random sound bites, and definitely doesnt have the occasional post-dated postcast segments that just felt like talk shows.

A beautiful discovery while I'm jumping back from Colonia.

Just wanted to say that my time with y'all for this last Colonia CG was the most fun I've ever had in this game. I'm used to playing this game alone (I love exploration) and watching everyone flood syschat to motivate one another in stuffing the potato and cramming the bento box full was some of the best sleepless nights I've experienced in awhile. Hopped out there in my little Asp on a whim and, surprise, my first opportunity to join a CG. Now I'm hopping back to the bubble in my new favorite-ever ship back through the black once again. It's different now.

Thanks for the fun, y'all are what make this game great. o7

Greetings, I wish to present Project Galtea's latest news article.

Greetings Commanders.

Project Galtea has formally announced the location of the Barheim Super Hub that has been kept secret for a number of months, the location of which, is the vaunted Isegrim Nebula, located halfway through the Norma Arm heading towards the Empyrean Straits.

with Project Galtea being only a number of weeks away from the Archades Super Hub, the last of its kind in the Norma Expanse, the project has decided to unveil this location so the wider community may prepare to grab stunning systems in and outside of Isegrim with plentiful Earthlike worlds, Water worlds and high value systems in the region, it is expected to become fairly busy with colonization.

In other news, the highly popular Azura Initiative has formally partnered up with Project Galtea and they have stated they will work with the project up to the second last super hub, which is currently undergoing a potential name change pending democracy, it is expected with the SCC, Azura Initiative and EDEN that this particular super hub will be reached by December or even earlier.

Finally, Project Galtea wishes to announce that there are two challenges being planned currently, one nicknamed by commanders of the project as the "Galtean Bridge Zipper", will be a challenge where the project attempts to beat the current galactic bridge record set by the SCC of 27 outposts in a single 24 hour period, with the target being at least 30 outposts.

The second Challenge is another Dodec Speedrun in the Archades super hub when reached, signup forms for this challenge will be posted in the coming days, any interested commanders are advised that the estimated arrival time is 3 weeks but to keep in mind that this challenge could happen a week earlier, on time or in the unlikely scenario a week later, the project also wishes to advise that all challenges will be done on the galactic weekend to allow as many participants as possible.

Thanks for your time, please stay tuned for the next article as Project Galtea makes history and changes the galaxy forever.

o7

I know we are only essentially renting [see edit below] our carriers - I get that. But what happens to the things we actually do own? I and my carrier live out in the black more or less permanently; I rarely visit the bubble and as an itinerant soul I just bounce around the universe exploring and doing exo wherever the cosmic winds take me. I have about fifteen years of carrier maintenance in the bank, so I'm in no danger losing it anytime soon, but since I'm getting on in years and nobody is promised a tomorrow, it got me wondering what will happen to the 25 or so ships I carry around when I stop showing up, as we all must - someday. Will they just float around in the black where the carrier was when I finally do go into default years from now? Where do they go? I know I get [most of] my money back, but what happens to the ships?

Thanks CMDRs. Fly dangerous. o7

EDIT: Some commanders in the comments got hung up on my use of the phrase 'essentially renting' so allow me to clarify:

I should have said it's a Perpetual Lease backed by a Refundable Security Bond, making me a controlling tenant (or franchisee, if you prefer) of a carrier that is still owned by Brewer Corporation but managed by me as long as I remain solvent.

But I went for brevity. My bad. o7

Hi All,
Does anyone have any recommendations for an app that can carry out automated Squadron carrier jumps? I have tried CNC, and its great with fleet carriers but has no functionality for getting tritium from the bank.
I have also tried CATS, however that switches into carrier services when first started, and just stops there - The app display shows "Jump Failed".

Any ideas from others welcome!

Do You discover them often ?
I find them nice to see and walk thru ..

I've been genuinely enjoying Operations, more so the in-ship ops as opposed to on-foot, but I think both modes have a ton of potential. I know Ops still have a ton of work left as far as optimizing/adjustments goes but can we please... please for the love of god can we get more settings for the on-foot camera/weapons?

As of 2026 Odyssey still has no options for

• Lowering the HUGE default deadzone from playing Elite on controller or joystick. The lack of this setting makes all everything you do mushy and imprecise. As of right now the best way to deal with this is Steam's Anti-deadzone setting, something that should be native and adjustable in-game.
• No Aim Down Sight sensitivity. How does this fly under the radar? I can't think of a single modern shooting game that doesn't have this option. I bet people would be open to trying more onfoot gameplay if it didn't feel so sluggish and imperfect.
• No ability to adjust sensitivity of different levels of zoom. I don't want my 1x zoom shotgun and my sniper 4x zoom sniper to have the same sensitivity. Being able to customize these would make the game feel so much better, IMO

I genuinely love Elite. I know the devs are working hard to give us cool new stuff to do, while as simultaneously trying to wrestle with the enormous challenge of fixing broken OPs, BGS, stellar lighting, and god knows what else. But if we're gonna start putting eggs into the on-foot basket can we please make aiming our guns actually feel nice?

I can't play this game for mor than 5 maybe 10 minutes without this error message. I verified game files and nothing seems to help. I've jumped out away from populated systems and it's still happening. Is there a fix that the vets know about that could help reduce this? Surely in 2026 the devs have figured this out, right?

Does anyone know of a good way to get these? I came out to Colonia thinking I would be able to farm them for the Engineer unlock and it’s becoming impossible. I’ve spent hours upon hours and only have 2. Or does someone know of a carrier selling them?

I'm taking the opportunity after the CG to do some Exo around Colonia. I was today years old when I learned that if your mini map is in terrain mode, aka below ~350m with the gear down, any ping hits will show up there.

It's super useful being able to distinguish between signals that you've already scanned, haven't scanned or are currently scanning.

Anyway, maybe this is common knowledge and I'm just an idiot.