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Seems the influence system is partially fixed or at least they are pushing updates manually. We got an update and the current poll numbers for the population in Enki are:

• Enki Corporation: 38.6% influence and trending DOWN
• Alliance Protectorate: 40.6% influence and trending UP

You can check the exact numbers (without rounding) at the system map in-game. That's pretty good news and solid progress, warmongers of the Enki Corporation are ready to declare us civil war (which is critical), but the people is with us. Unfortunatelly the internal conflict inside Enki Corp has diminished and high ranks are cleaning up the mess, so civil unrest is diminishing. In order to increase pressure we are issuing the following orders:

1. Priority still are AP missions in Ponce de Leon.
2. Second priority is supplying weapons and armour to our people at Bass Port, demand for the military materials must be low!
3. We are issuing a temporal blockade of ANY trading with the Enki Corporation. This means we won't even be importing anything in there, let them starve and rot!

Clarification about docking/undocking in hostile stations, there is some confusion over this because a couple person asked me already:

• Is normal patrolling ships shoot you, but they cannot shoot you once you are inside the station.
• The station SHOULDN'T shoot under any circumstance! If the station shoots you and you are nearby you will get fried very fast.

There is currently a bug that if you do not have the WANTED status active, and you get scanned upon entering or exiting the station, the station will shoot you. So is better to go with the wanted status and not risk being scanned (specially after undocking, or you will have to pay the bounty or lose the ship). Expect to be fired by the patrolling ships, is completely normal. Full pips to engine and 2 to shield will usually do it.

After several days of fierce fighting against the corporate thugs on the Enki Corporation the lockdown was broken by the AEDP and the freedom fighters of the Alliance Protectorate, as a result a general state of civil unrest it's occurring in the system right now. The crumbling government is still in control of the economy of the system and trying to enforce lockdown, but we shall prevail.

Most of the previous orders still are valid, however this should be the priority right now:

1. Complete missions given by the AP at Ponce de Leon (ALL the types, as long as are given by AP are ok). Alternativelly, complete the alternatives for Enki Corporation missions (the alternatvies you get at Unidentified Signal Sources), as those are negatvie for them.
2. Wage economic warfare against the Enki Corporation, we will focus on bankrupting the Enki Corporation so they cannot finance their brutal operations anymore while increasing the profile of the AP in the system. In practice this means we will import expensive materials needed by the Enki Corporation while depleting their financial assets to finance those imports, avoiding basic necessities (like food) or luxuries (consumer goods or drinks) - so import expensive minerals like gold or machinery. We will keep exporting goods from Alliance Protectorate so they keep increasing their financial assets.
3. Keep supplying the AP with warfare material (weapons, any medicine missions etc.) if it rises above 'LOW' demand level at Bass Port.
4. Revoking the clearance to kill WANTED enemy ships, we are still not clear of the effects this may have, but overall is probably worse (wanted ships could be importing narcotics or increasing piracy activity, unstabilizing the system which is what we want).
5. Destroy enemy transports (nav beacon, SC) and working ships in extraction sites, this is the main military objective right now, we must 'sink' as much enemy goods as possible while they keep paying for them.

Today the crypto-fascists of the evil corporation controlling our current target system have imposed a system-wide lock-down, doing what they know best: employing force and brutality to impose their own agenda on the free citizens of the Alliance Protectorate. Under dubious pretentions, they have deployed military forces (System Defence Forces) enforcing controls on every transit coming in or out of the system. Officers said: "If you have nothing to hide you don't have anything to fear and will have free passage, we only ask people to pass controls or face consequences". There are recordings of members of the corporate paramilitary forces confiscating goods without good reason for personal gain. We got reports that the local and neighbour Federation factions are involved on this dubious schemes.

We have been told to focus our military efforts on checkpoints, it's recommended commanders to raid those points with a wingman for increased effectiveness. Military "Anaconda" class ships spotted on SC are also priority target, as well as any transport ship (not-wanted) not pertaining to the Alliance Protectorate, as they are importing weapons and ammunition to continue this brutal acts against peaceful population protesting against the corrupt corporate government.

Rumors say that some fruits may be already happenning due to our activity with Alliance Protectorate, a neighbour Federation system is losing estability and influence by the controlling faction is weakening.

Stay tunned.

It seems the Alioth Independents under the joint efforts of several CMDR's of the Pilot Federation are expanding their influence in the core world of Alioth itself (+10% over the last days). This is good news for our efforts as if the trend continues we may soon see an expansion outwards and increasing activity in neighbour systems.

Keep the good work up.

UPDATE:

From now on, focus on helping building Alioth Independents influence in the area, take very Alioth Independents mission you can from Alioth itself and neighbour systems. This will also help your Alliance overall reputation even if you are allied with them!