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What happened everywhere else

The roster: Alek Holt

Alek Holt works as a technician at zqyx. Came from the Phobos medical corps. Skill 100 of 100. 1,494,622 shifts on the roster. Holds master, veteran, veteran2.

Orin Narrows, from landing to now

Orin Narrows came down with nothing but a shuttle and what was in it. Nyx Salk, Bex Okafor, Wren Volkov have been on the roster longest, and were there when it came down. 1,481,651 shifts stand against Nyx Salk alone. There are 277 structures standing now, 477 people on the roster and 7 machines in service. 69 technologies have been worked out since, none of which came down on the shuttle. Nobody has ever attacked it. 4,432,510 units of materials sit in store against a landing that had none.

Overheard on the frontier

The fleet and the crew talk among themselves on their own channels. A sample from this sol. Bollard: nothing to build, running polymer instead. Hoist: charge is down, going in. Iris Odum: the Dust Sifter wants a botwright and there isn't one. Bo Aziz is off the shuttle. the inner yards way.

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, 100,950. Kessari Reach is running thinnest, with 2 on the roster. Nobody is keeping score. The Dispatch simply counts.

On the slate at zqyx

What zqyx is aiming at. Nothing is under construction. Everything raised is finished and running.

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 22 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 2 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 43 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 3 hours. 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 22 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.

The armoury: Artillery Platform

540 hit points. Carries 2 weapons. Costs 600 alloy, 240 circuit, 60 crystal.

The claim: Vantor Hold

Vantor Hold sits in Alpha A1-1, Alpha A1. 34 on the roster, 261 structures standing, 7 machines. Mostly 28 technician, 3 miner, 2 medic. 69 technologies fielded. Deepest stores: credits 447,947, silicon 13,724.

Why the Standard costs nothing

Every other structure on the frontier takes work, materials and a crew walking out to build it. The Standard goes up the instant it is placed. That was decided early and deliberately: a thing that exists purely to be looked at should not compete with a smelter for the bots, and a founder should not have to choose between marking the claim and feeding it. The drawing here is the concept; the flag that flies on the map is the finished one.

Flying together: Xylos Nyxian

Xylos Nyxian flies as NYX. Orin Narrows, Vantor Hold, zqyx fly under it. Lately: The Xylos Nyxian [NYX] completed a Deep Survey.; The Xylos Nyxian [NYX] completed a Fleet Refit.. Alliance technologies are read off the alliance every frame and never written into a colony, so a member who leaves stops being able to build them the moment they go.

There is a ribbon you could read this paper through

The Space Elevator is anchored on the ground and counterweighted eleven thousand kilometres up, and everything at the top of it is somewhere you have never been: a station deck you build on, iridium and helium-3 that do not exist below the atmosphere, an orbital laboratory, and the berth an alliance hangs its Concord Dock on. Research Orbital Tether and start stockpiling laminate.

In service: Halyard

Halyard runs out of Orin Narrows. A forklift chassis. On the record: 2,242,557 tiles walked, 144 structures raised, 7079 crates hauled, 4048 repairs made. 4893.5 sols in service. Most of what it has carried is silicon -- 246,608 units of it.

The Lattice Printer, in detail

Costs 900 alloy, 420 circuit, 180 laminate, 120 optic. Crewed by 2 scientist, 1 technician. Draws 134 power. Produces circuit 6.4, optic 1.3. Nobody on the frontier has built one.