Raxia galaxy opens up!

A new galaxy, termed Raxia by the joint Casian-Solian expedition force was found earlier this CE year.

The earliest reports managed this picture of the galaxy:

Raxians have been found to be what most Solian and Casian members dub “n00bs.” The expeditionary force that found the galaxy were able to get this report before contact was lost.

“Twen – planets…habitable-, not…. m-much… sign…-of… ap…200,000…wait… No-!…so many of them – … newbies! ”

Transmission Ended (Signal Lost)

A strange phenonemom exists in the galaxy that makes it inexplicably inhabitable for Solian and Casian members. Only new players have the ability to survive in the galaxy. Previous Solian and Casian citizens who have tried venturing into the galaxy have been met with destruction – along with their entire faction.

In addition, players who have self-destructed have found it impossible to have their consciousness transplanted into a Raxian body.

NOISI: Planetary Databank Added

A planetary database featuring planet types (from BOTH galaxies), location, population and current governments and more has been added to the NOISI page. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find:

Quadrant: Outer Rim NWPlanet Arcas
A Class P Glaciated Planet
Population 4,500,000
Arcas Council
Ruled By: High Lord G-force
Allegiance to: Joint Action Fleet
Next Election: 5542.29 CE
Sales Tax: 8.00% / Income Tax: 8.00%
- No Bounties Available

Get the rest HERE!

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Starship Design Competition Winners

The starship design competition has concluded!  Congratulations to all winners!

Grand Prize – Cpt. Joeyea – 5,000 points

Runner-up – Cpt. e1ement – 1,000 points

Entrants – 100 points

Cpt. Conejo
Cpt. Corozon
Cpt. Dragon_Blue
Cpt. Kid0527
Cpt. NO
Cpt. Shredder
Cpt. Sora1373

Next competition: Userbar design! 

Grand prize is 5,000 points!

Get a great tutorial on how to design userbars here.

Ask for help and receive answers to graphics questions here, on CSN!

Galactic Maps

The new Galactic Maps tab contains quadrant maps with planetary names for both the Solian and Casian galaxies. There is also a map with all the Solian outposts, by Cpt. Tohofuhai.

ONS/NOISI Collaboration

ChosenSpace News will soon be featuring static pages from Osenspa’s News Service! Stay tuned for more details, and expect things to be finished in a few days.

Check out the first pages by clicking on the NOISI tab.

Tribble Plague Sweeps Casian

Cute Animals Quickly Make Themselves Unwanted Guests

Small, furry animals approximately 18 cm in diameter have been reported in massive amounts from the holds of long-distance miners in the Casian Galaxy. These balls of fur have no external features, and range in color from gray, speckled light to dark brown, yellow to reddish orange, and black.

They reproduce exponentially, feeding off any amount or type of food. Traders have reported that these animals can turn an entire cargo hold of nutrition packs into millions of tribbles within one intra-sector jump.

The massive numbers of these animals quickly replicate until they fill all available space. One ship is rumored to have exploded after several thousand Tribbles somehow managed to lodge themselves inside the ship’s tetrium sonoluminescence chamber.

Dr. McFrwoCoy, president of the TTT (Trellum Tribbles Tribune) has done many years of research on the curious bundles of fur. The animals are, according to his research, born pregnant, and use “over 50% of their metabolism for reproduction.”

He advised Captains to exercise caution when visiting known Tribble homeworlds, purchasing ships that may have had a Tribble infection, and accepting cute fuzzy balls as hood ornaments.

Several factions in the Solian galaxy have expressed alarm at the sudden Casian wave; many called for a quarantine and lockdown of the Solian-Casian wormhole.  Further details of the proposal were not yet available.

Practical Self Defense – Out and About Part 2

Special thanks to Cpt. Aposter

Read the first part of this post here.

Getting Away

Once you feel happy that the trail has been lost, spend the rest of your turns hopping through deep space. Do not go near any planets or other landmarks, and do not go towards what you consider safe ground. These could allow your attacker to pick up your trail later, whereas the point of the exercise is to ensure that if the find your trail, its should be near the beginning and thus they have to waste as many turns as you do following it. With luck, this should make their attack less effective even if they do catch up with you. If however, you are already short on turns, it can be a better option to just stay where you are and hope….

If you feel you may be followed later on, but not at the moment, try to run through busy planets on a regular basis. These planets have so many other ships running through them that your trail should be obliterated by the trails of other people.

If you do ever find yourself in a situation where standing and fighting might be sensible (your attacker has a faster or weaker ship than you) then consider trying to damage their engines first. This gives you the chance to run away that you might require later. If however you are short on turns and your attacker is significantly weaker, then maybe you should just go for the kill. In this situation be mindful of the huge bribe cost you can build when fighting above a planet, even if it is self defense.

That’s pretty much all I have to say on online defense. Keep your eyes open, and take some basic precautions, and you should be fine.

Practical Self Defense – Out and About Part 1

Special Thanks to Cpt. Aposter

Once again, I will remind people to remember the golden rule. Its always your choice on how much to spend on safety precautions, be it credits, turns or real life time. Spending any or all of these can make you safer, but can never make you safe.  Some of the precautions below may seem a little over the top. Please remember I am writing this purely from a self-defense point of view. Although these measures can save you credits for buying a new ship, they can also cost profits lost through over-alertness.

Out and About
How to prepare and watch for attacks when you are online, and what to do when they happen.

Security

A useful piece of preparation which you cannot buy from a shipyard is security. How much security you want or need is your own choice to make, but you need to ask yourself some questions firsts. Are you planning to defend yourself purely from attacks made to kill? If so, security is little use to you, apart from having some friends to go down with the ship while you shamelessly run for the escape pod. Are you planning to log off at a spacedock? If so you want as much security as you can get, although more on that later.

The main online use for security is deterring or fighting off pirate attacks. Many of the stronger pirates already have enough high quality troopers to kill pretty much anything you have. Not all though, especially since the supply of such troopers is limited, and many people want them. High quality security is available, and its up to you how much you spend, but I would recommend at least some.

There are three main forms of online attack to watch for, on the hop piracy, deliberate hits to kill, and newbies on a killing spree.

If you have followed my earlier advice, you should have no problem with the third of these. This is useful, because it reduces the amount of paranoia required to operate safely.

Solian Galaxy Expanded – to the Casian Galaxy

The Solian Galaxy, the ChosenSpace as we know it, is suddenly a much smaller place.

Earlier today, a stable wormhole was found that led to an entire new galaxy. The location of this wormhole is being kept secret, for the moment.

Entrance to Casian Galaxy: X 0 2 _ _ _ 5

CSN has managed to acquire the locations of both entrance and exit wormholes between galaxy. At the moment this information is being held by a few select factions such as SLA (which is now being disbanded and migrating to the new unverse) and Cpt. e1ement and Cpt. Callian of the Trellum Republic. [/advertisement] =D

Note: You are not allowed to share the location of the wormhole at the moment; I believe there is a 5,000 point fine if you do so, such as on the Galactic Comms.