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What happened everywhere else

The Founder's Standard

A flag bearing the Nexus Frontier mark and a heart. It costs nothing to raise and goes up the instant it is placed -- no work, no materials, no crew walking out to plant it. Any founder may raise one on any colony they hold, as many as they like. It does nothing. That is the point of it: it is the one structure on the frontier built purely to be looked at.

The lie of the land

The claims on this frontier are spread across 1 zone. Kessari Reach and Vantor Hold are the furthest apart, 222 tiles of ground between them. The ground decides everything. A claim with no ore vein is a claim with no extractor, no ferrite and no way to reach ground that has some -- which is why the map is worth reading before the build queue is.

Overheard on the frontier

The fleet and the crew talk among themselves on their own channels. A sample from this sol. Flint: welding on the Flak Battery. Kiln: on the circuit, hauling polymer. Iris Rivas is running on empty. Rin Priya: we're a botwright short at the Flak Battery.

Highs and lows across the frontier

Orin Narrows has the most standing, 277 structures. Orin Narrows has the most people, 477 on the roster. zqyx has the most machines, 34 in service. zqyx has the most alloy in store, 88,496. Kessari Reach is running thinnest, with 2 on the roster. Nobody is keeping score. The Dispatch simply counts.

On the slate at Vantor Hold

What Vantor Hold is aiming at. 2 under way: 2 Pulse Turret.

The channels have been quiet

Nothing has been said on the open channels. There are four of them -- Global reaches everybody, Trade is for offers and wants, Sector and Zone reach your neighbours. All four keep their history, so something said now is still there for whoever signs in next.

Running now

Nothing is open. The scoreboard is idle and every colony is scoring only for itself.

Just finished

Mark Pushed Further closed 23 hours ago, taken by Xylos Nyxian. Seven Milestone closed 3 days ago, taken by Xylos Nyxian. Frontier Forge closed 5 days ago, taken by Orin Narrows. Standings are the ones recorded when it closed. The live counters carry on afterwards, and a result that changes after it is announced is not a result.

Coming up

The Deep Mine opens in 1 hours -- Resources mined over one day. Alliances enter together: everything every member does is added up, and every member of a winning alliance takes the prize. Anyone who reaches 6000000 before it closes wins. Only what you do while it is running counts. The scheduler intends to invent the next one in 42 hours.

How a competition works

Everything measured here is measured as a DELTA. What you had when it opened is written down, and only what you add after that counts -- so a colony founded this morning competes on the same terms as one that has been running for a hundred sols. There is nothing to enter and no way to opt out: if you are holding a claim when it opens, you are in it.

The Deep Mine is announced

Resources mined over one day. Alliances enter together: everything every member does is added up, and every member of a winning alliance takes the prize. Anyone who reaches 6000000 before it closes wins. Only what you do while it is running counts. Frontier Command will be counting resources mined across every claim on the frontier. It opens in the next hour. On offer: the Holdfast crew shirt. Nothing at stake changes what a colony can do — but it will change what it looks like, and everyone will know where it came from.

Results: the last 3 competitions

Mark Pushed Further, counting waves held, closed 23 hours ago. zqyx won the Pioneer crew crew shirt — reached 30, Vantor Hold won the Pioneer crew crew shirt — reached 30 and Orin Narrows won the Pioneer crew crew shirt — reached 30. Xylos Nyxian finished on top with 136 and took nothing. Seven Milestone, counting resources mined, closed 3 sols ago. zqyx won the Champion bot livery — reached 7,000,000, Vantor Hold won the Champion bot livery — reached 7,000,000 and Orin Narrows won the Champion bot livery — reached 7,000,000. Xylos Nyxian finished on top with 23,792,437.1 and took nothing. Frontier Forge, counting contracts filled, closed 6 sols ago. Orin Narrows won the Surveyor bot livery — reached 1 and Vantor Hold won the Surveyor bot livery — reached 1.

The frontier, in numbers

4 colonies, 870 colonists, 729 structures standing. Largest: Orin Narrows at 277.

5259 sols on the frontier

The frontier is 5259 sols old. 4 claims standing, 870 people on the rosters, 51 machines in service. 729 structures raised between them, and not one of them was here at the start.

The armoury: Autocannon

Does 26 damage a round. Costs 45 alloy, 6 circuit.

Nobody has fought anybody

Not one raid has been launched on this frontier. Every claim standing is standing because nobody has tried to take it, which is a different thing from being defended.

What the founder store actually sells

The frontier is paid for by the people who got here first. Founder — Pioneer: A Pioneer badge beside your name, in game and in the Frontier Dispatch. Founder — Vanguard: Everything in Pioneer, with the Vanguard badge instead. Founder — Architect: Everything in Vanguard, with the Architect badge. Nothing sold changes what a colony can build or how fast it grows. It is a badge, a colour and a flag.

Raiders keep their own schedule

They form out past the ridge, you get ninety ticks of warning and an honest reading of whether you can take it, and then it happens. A wave is drawn against the defence you actually field, so a turret line is never wasted and never outgrown. Hold the line, sortie past the turrets, or shelter and let them have the outer buildings — the choice is yours until it lands. Jobs → Waves.

In service: Hoist

Hoist runs out of zqyx. A welder chassis. On the record: 2,168,572 tiles walked, 24066 crates hauled, 80748 repairs made. 4835.3 sols in service. Most of what it has carried is crystal -- 334,560 units of it.

The Training Hall, in detail

Costs 200 alloy, 70 circuit, 50 polymer. Crewed by 1 medic. Draws 14 power. 1 standing across the frontier, the most at zqyx with 1.