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Anti-Xeno Initiative

Now that we have built a good portfolio of "challenge ranks," testing a variety of advanced AX skills, we wanted to further recognize CMDRs who achieve them all.

Much like @Collector is achieved by "Collecting" most progression ranks (including getting Herculean Warrior together with another @Collector), we are now formalizing the "Club10" informal designation by launching a special @Decent Pilot designation; @Decent Pilot is a meta-rank that will be automatically granted to CMDRs who have been been awarded all ten challenge ranks. It has no color, by design, but it allows to display a medal next to your name. This idea builds on the long-running informal list of Club7/8/etc (which grew as we added challenges to our ranks.)

Furthermore, given the exceptional nature of such accomplishment, CMDRs earning @Decent Pilot will be individually recognized in our #hall-of-fame channel.

Contextually, and in consideration of the fact that we have not held a Ceres Trial in a while, we will be retiring the @Ceres Medal rank, and the formerly-known-as Ceres Medal will now be assigned to our ... Decent Pilots!

Glory, To Mankind!

The Thargoids have returned in great force pushing large incursions into multiple human-occupied systems. Commanders abroad have been requested to aid with the defence, rescue and logistical efforts.

response to this latest push in Thargoid activity, the Anti-Xeno Initiative has commissioned a new tracking and monitoring system to allow commanders to keep up-to-date with the latest movements and presence statuses of incursion systems.

This new system can be found at www.Thargoid.watch

Glory, to Mankind!

CMDR Mechan and CMDR Toyotanos will be on an Odyssey Frontier twitch live stream tomorrow (Thursday) at 18:00 UTC (7pm BST, 2pm US EST, ...) with FDEV Community Managers Bruce and Zac. We will discuss Anti Xeno combat and see if, among other things, we can get Bruce his first (wing) rank (Zac already has it)

Agenda is fluid but we expect to spend some time talking about AX before jumping into combat ... for all multi-goid fans we'll also be bringing meta-alloys to see if we can get an interceptor to invite a friend to the party.

Also, we will do our best to NOT follow in the footprints of our glorious founder, and die on stream to a clops, but there are no guarantees...

Join us tomorrow on Twitch to listen in, participate, and have some AX fun!