Our forums can be quite the hive of activity, especially regarding time-sensitive operations.  However, sometimes they bring forth very interesting new concepts.  Today we have a couple of new rare goods and a bit of the story behind them!

Freedom Bread

After being pledged to Prime Minister Mahon, pilots were somewhat eager to buy and test to see what his exclusive beam laser, the Retribution, could be capable of.  Quickly our hopes were dashed against the rocky worlds of deep space as it was found that the weapon has no effect on shields, and only marginally increased the heat of a ship that had no shields.  Wailing was had on the galactic discussion forums.  Cries of neglect were heard throughout civilized space.  Nevertheless, tireless scientists engaged in rigorous testing.  After many months, their efforts paid off:

After applying the laster to a canister of grain for 3.1415 seconds, bread was made.  Though this bread was slightly different.  Those that tasted it had a new sense of vigor and desire to strike out and pursue their dreams.  So strong was the effect they coined the term "Freedom Bread" for this wonderous concoction.

Purer Water(tm)

During the Diamondback construction CG, Hamilton Gateway was a strong exporter of water purifiers.  

Some pilots began to wonder what made these specific ones so desirable outside of Wolf 406.  It was not long before an article in the Wolf 406 Herald help shed some light on the subject.

Today I want to recollect on our drive and impact on the early days of PowerPlay.  Being staunchly Alliance, our choice of Power to support was extremely easy.  Those of us who were interested pledged to Mahon.  From that point, we began to systematically target the highest profit systems.  In fact our first target was Leesti.  To us, this was the most logical choice as it had a large profit of Command Capital and the lore around the Old Worlds and the Alliance strongly supported further ties.  Once Leesti entered the fold, each week following, our scouts gathered a list of the most profitable systems within reach and we strove to prepare and expand to them.  

For the first few weeks we found systems worth 100 in Command Capital profit.  This helped create the strong Command Capital economy that Mahon enjoys today.  Once the initial extremely good systems were under Mahon's influence, we switched to again playing the background simulation to flip systems to government types that were weak against Mahon's strong economic will.  Doing so helped reduce the workload of fortifications for the other Mahon players a great deal.

Through this entire process we formed a strong relationship with the players organized under the Mahon subreddit page.  The players there have consistently shown the drive and discernment to analyze and test all aspects of PowerPlay.  Thanks to their efforts, not only does Mahon thrive, but other Power players have taken note and begun adopting the practices employed by us Alliance players.  

To this day our players continue to throw support into helping the galaxy know that Mahon is a strong power and his pilots are a resilient and resourceful lot. 

Remember, always fly safe, for the Alliance!

Welcome to 3302 Commanders!

Star-Hunter scouted and organized some New Year events mostly involving Eagles.

Events included activities named "First Flight," "Mother Goose," and "Feeding Frenzy."  Other activites happened as well, please feel free to read about it!  "First Flight" involved having two wings of players see which wing of Eagles could first find and destroy a wanted Anaconda.  "Birds of Prey" was an event where wings of players did bounty hunting in a nearby RES to see which wing could earn the most bounty vouchers within 30 minutes.

"Mother Goose" was racing with a twist.  Pilots started behind the station in an Eagle with no cargo racks.  Any other outfitting was allowed, but you could not have cargo racks when you started.  Pilots then raced into the station, changed outfitting to equip a cargo rack and then had to deliver one ton of cargo to Star-Hunter.  In total, 4 runs of this event happened;

First run - Deliver 1 ton of pesticides, won by Barbwire.

Second run - Deliver 1 ton of copper, won by Multipurpose Minion.

Third run - Deliver 1 ton of evacuation shelters, won by Dragon1x.

Fourth run - Refuel Star-Hunter with 1 ton of fuel - won by Multipurpose Minion.

A great event to be sure and some great innovation on racing and time-limited goals.  I look forward to many more great times and shenanigans with this great group of Pilots.

Fly safe.  For the Alliance!

Greetings Commanders!

We are the Alliance Elite Diplomatic Corps, a collection of Elite: Dangerous players who have found a calling in supporting the Alliance in any way we can. Our members span the globe and our TeamSpeak server is usually full of these players. The atmosphere is casual and light-hearted. Our players are mature and we work well together even though we come from different countries, nationalities and even religions.  

Our main focus is supporting Alliance factions in the Milky Way galaxy by promoting them to ruling status of systems. Our members have been instrumental in welcoming hundreds of systems into the Alliance through this process. We support them through all of the available methods, missions, bounty hunting, civil and system wars, selling exploration data and even trade. 

Over the course of our time together our members have developed tools that help us note and track influence changes in systems and we have a separate tool that we use to organize operations to accomplish our goals.  

As staunch supporters of the Alliance, we don't enforce any particular kind of playstyle for our members with the exception that we do not condone piracy or unprovoked aggressive actions toward other players, Alliance or not. We recognize your right to play the way you want to play. If that happens to be supporting what we want to accomplish then we welcome your efforts.  

So if you are looking for mature and well-rounded players working to accomplish good things for the Alliance in Elite: Dangerous, please join us! Our TeamSpeak server is noted on our website and there is usually someone that can welcome you!

As always, fly safe.  For the Alliance!

AEDC is now one year old!  We celebrated in two ways.  The first was a Diamondback Demolition Derby held inside of Hamilton Gateway.  How many other ships could you ram to death before the station signed your own death certificate?  

Each of these shots was taken by Hexen during the event.  Special thanks to him, and also to Elementical for providing a piece of unorthadox obstruction.

Meanwhile, on the surface, other shenanigans were happening involving SRVs, large ships, and judicious use of thrusters against low gravity. Video of these fun times was taken by McCloud and I plan to share it with you in the next few days.  But for now, enjoy this shot I was able to take while we all figured out how to land together!

Please stay tuned for more news, and thank you all for helping make this group the awesome place to be that it is!  May next year bring even more fun and crazy goofing off!

As always, fly safe, for the Alliance!