 This is Witchspace news for Friday the 20th of March 2020, I'm CMDR Buur. In a packed show this week, free stuff from the East India Company, a CMDR takes an E-rated Sidewinder to Colonia, ED Tutorials expands again plus bucket loads more. If you enjoy this video consider subscribing to the channel and also click the little bell icon to make sure you don't miss any of our future videos. From midnight on Saturday night all trades with the East India Company for commodities needed for engineering unlocks will be free. If you're unaware the East India Company is a player organisation that provides access to hard to obtain commodities in bulk in exchange for Imperial slaves, kind of like the fuel rats but for stuff. I've linked to an excellent tutorial below by CMDR Exegius that shows you how to use the service but essentially you make a request via a very slick web interface also linked below and then turn up with slaves and limpets to make the exchange, yeah elite is amazing. The initiative entitled Operation Helping Hand is a direct reaction to the current worldwide coronavirus pandemic in full awareness that a great many commanders are going to be self isolating and could use a helping hand and a bit of a lift in these strange times. Operation Helping Hand is scheduled to last for four weeks but may be extended as the global situation develops, bravo EIC. CMDR Wicked Karma otherwise known as WKJES on Twitch has for the last 2800 jumps been flying an E-rated Sidewinder with approximately 7.7 light years of jump range to Colonia, yes really. In a tweet earlier this week the apparently still sane commander noted that he had just 763 jumps to go and expected to arrive in Colonia in the early hours of Monday the 23rd of March by UTC time. I have no idea how he's managed this, if I'm faced with anything over about 50 jumps I start to eat my own face, you'll find links below to his Twitch stream if you fancy supporting the Valiant commander. CMDR Exegesis ED Tutorials site has expanded again and taken in some more high quality content for its burgeoning pantheon of creators, nestled amongst exegesis superb tutorials you'll already find names like the pilot, the East India Company and the AXI and in addition now burpit favourites flintlock engineering and the bucky ball racing club. Add ED Tutorials to your essential ED web pages if you haven't already. Operation Ida the team that have dedicated themselves to repairing stations damaged by the Thargoid attacks now have a web app that will track any deliveries you do as part of their efforts and auto magically post them to their official discord server to help track the flow of goods and activity. Commanders were previously encouraged to post manually for Ida into their discord but now it can be handled by Witchcraft if you join their discord server and then register on their website and link your discord and website accounts. Very clever. Devilry obviously, but very clever. There's a new edition of the frankly glorious Elite Dangerous magazine's Sagittarius Eye out this week. In this quarters edition you'll find articles on the Newton's Gambit Flight Assist Off Community, Drew Wager's Law Tour, an obituary for Salome, a guide to surviving CG's co-pilots and loads more. Right when you could use a good read, links are below. In these troubling times a couple of Elite communities have joined the Folding at Home Anti-Corona Virus Initiative to help crack the virus open. Folding at Home is a simple to install and use app that sits quietly on your PC and utilizes the power of your processors when you're not using them to number crunch and aid scientific projects. By default right now Folding at Home is crunching on the worldwide effort against the coronavirus. We've seen notifications for Folding Teams from Canon Research as well as the whole seals which are linked below. If you know of any more then post them in the comments and let's get some friendly and beneficial rivalry going. Unsurprisingly the Elite community meet which was planned to hit Cambridge on April 11th has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The team however are not deterred and are planning to hold a virtual community meet instead. Links to how you can view and participate in that are below. And Frontier Developments announced this week that following government guidelines they are quite rightly working from home to help slow the spread of the virus. They have said right now that they don't anticipate it affecting any schedules or plans that they have for rolling out content but it has meant that the live stream schedule has been suspended for the moment. The Burpett is also self isolating at the moment as well and we know a great number of you are. The plus side of this is that we have more time to focus on all things Elite Dangerous and we'll be ramping up everything we do. We're planning on holding a lot more events so head over to our friendly and welcoming community on Discord to join in with those. We're also hoping to increase our video and stream output so watch out for that. We're acutely aware of how lucky we are to be part of this amazing community and it's heartening to see everyone pulling together to help keep us all connected during this time of need. Stay safe and take care of yourself and those around you. If you enjoyed this video consider subscribing to the channel and be sure to click the little bell icon to make sure you don't miss any of our future videos. That's it for now, thanks very much for watching, we'll be back later this week with more videos until then O7 Commanders, follow the Greens on the way out and do keep clear of the toast rack. We very much look forward to seeing you next time.