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Colonial Dispatches
Notices, wire, and features from across the colony.
Forthcoming: traffic procedures for the Vera Orbital Control Zone
Docking and undocking at stations will move to managed traffic, starting with Vera Orbital. No date has been set.
Laid-up crews back on the belt
More than a hundred crews left without a craft since late summer are flying again. Expect a busier Vera Orbital.
Smith & Holden open a public office on the Network
The company that buys the colony's ore now keeps a public site at col.shis.corp. It's pronounced like a hiss.
The price you see is the price you pay
The VCA's transaction tax is now applied to every sale, and it is always included in the quoted price.
The extraction levy now goes to a public account and pays for replacement equipment
The Association's levy on extraction is now collected into a public account. It pays for the gear citizens are handed when theirs is lost.
First Galactic Bank accounts now settle on the colonial ledger
Balances, statements and the exchange now read straight from the colony's ledger, and citizens can pay each other directly.
MacroSol releases Longhand, a command application for SOS
SOS now installs applications like any proper operating system, and the first new one lets you write your instructions out in full.
The rock-breakers
Why the belt is full of rock a newcomer can lift, and who put it there.
Civilian docking at VSC command stations: by clearance, and distress always granted
The Command's stations are military bases first. Civilian craft may now request clearance to dock, and a mayday never waits.
Transponder settings: what your vessel tells other people
Citizen vessels now choose how much their transponder discloses. Vera Space Command sets out the four settings.
VSC rescue fleets now fly standing patrols
Search-and-rescue craft no longer wait in the hangar for a call. They are already out there, making rounds.
Colonial Registration to Open to Off-Charter Arrivals
The Vera Colonial Administration confirms a forthcoming general intake — the first registration open to arrivals beyond the founding charter.
MacroSol readies an SOS edition for the new intake
A Standard Citizen edition of the operating system, tuned for first-time citizens.
What the first new arrivals will find
A short orientation to a colony still deciding what it wants to be.