 Whilst it might at first sight appear to be just some simple political flavour text on Galnet, a really significant story emerged this week that may mean big changes and huge ramifications for Elite Dangerous in the very near future. You know how this bit goes, if you enjoy our videos please do hit the thumbs up, subscribe and ding the little bell so you don't miss any of our Elite Dangerous content and to directly support our work here at the pit you can also join our Patreon Links to that and everything else are below. A couple of weeks back we speculated regarding Frontier's key feature overhaul that was promised as part of their top level roadmap in May last year. The roadmap last year ran from May through to November and further promised in early 2023 that a key feature of Elite Dangerous would be overhauled without saying what that key feature was. If you've not seen the roadmap then you'll find it linked in the description below this video but in essence amongst the stability and optimisation updates there were entries for a new mission variant in May, narrative content in August and what the roadmap referred to as the start of the next major narrative phase in November. We now know that the mission variant added in May was the settlement defence missions that sees law enforcement vultures arriving to attack criminal elements with lights flashing and sirens wailing. The August narrative content saw the explosion of the Proteus device in HIP 22460 and the arrival of the then mysterious Stargoids and in November the Thargoid deployment of the Maelstroms and the start of the Thargoid invasion of the bubble. Everything on the roadmap has come to pass, the only thing we're still waiting on from that list is the key feature overhaul. In our previous video that you'll find linked on screen now I gave some thoughts on what that key feature overhaul might be after looking at what could probably benefit from an overhaul in Elite whilst also taking into account other comments from Frontier. One of the options I reflected on was the power play feature of Elite Dangerous, my reason for picking power play over and above it's I think obvious need for a refresh was at the time a nagging suspicion that I have over the artist formerly known as D2, Sojin A. Sojin A you may remember is a former experimenter of Salvation who has since begun to manifest abilities that allow her to commune with the Thargoids on some level and I've been wondering for some time now if D2 won't evolve into a power player herself becoming a kind of Doctor Doolittle character that bridges the two warring worlds, fielding legions of Thargoid drones as her army of minions, Queen B style. This is all tin foiling that I've spoken about a few times on this channel but this week away from D2 I've been given further cause to stare into the tea leaves as power play yet again rises to the surface. At the end of February Galactic, Gagillionaire, Entrepreneur and Space Rockefeller Zachary Rackham launched an independent candidate campaign to run for federal president when the incumbent president and serial T-1000 cosplayer Zachary Hudson is forced to step down due to the federal laws surrounding the maximum allowable presidential term. In essence, Zach Hudson has been prezzed for 8 years and that's the maximum term under federal law. 100% playing to type the in-resident president T-1000 tried to have the inconvenient law changed to allow him to continue as president. Had the law gone through that would be a nice convenient get out clause for frontier meaning they didn't need to change any portraits in power play and they wouldn't need to expend any development time getting references to Hudson removed from the game or at the very least shifted. His staying on ad infinitum could be hand waved away with a few sentences of law on Galnet and power play would continue as is uninterrupted without too much real world budget getting involved. However, intriguingly that isn't what has happened. On Galnet the Hudson contravention was challenged in the federal congress and wouldn't you know it the objection was upheld. Zachary Hudson cannot stay legally on as T-1000 in charge. He either steps aside when the elections happen in June or refuses to go and forces his presidency on the Federals which would surely lead to rebellion and civil war in the entirety of the federation at the very least. In the article published this week Zach Hudson has said he will abide by the ruling. Zachary Hudson the president of the federation appears to be leaving and if that's the case then the aforementioned development budgets that frontier could easily hand wave away if they so choose to would surely now need to be involved on some significant level. Do you think Zach Hudson will really leave the White House on the red planet behind? Will the fed swap one Zachary for another and if power play was to be overhauled what would you like to see from it? Let us know in the comments below. That's it for now, thanks very much for watching, if you enjoyed this video consider subscribing to the channel and maybe take a look at one of our other videos linked on screen right now.