 This is Witchspace News for Friday the 2nd of August 2019 I'm CMDR Buur In this week's news The Enclave updates CMDR Machine releases his latest video And the Danger Zone hosts its first SRV race Remember to hit like and subscribe and click the little bell icon to get a notification next time we upload a new video You can also come and join us on the Buur Pit Discord server This is where we organise all our outings and community events And if you want to help support the work of this channel Then you can also join us on Patreon Links to both of those as well as all our social media feeds are in the description below And if you've got a piece of elite related community news that you'd like us to feature You can email us via thebuurpit.newsdesk at gmail.com The ongoing Interstellar initiative, The Enclave Got an update on the official forums from Will Flanagan this week Detailing where we're at and what the current goal is After the discovery of a new source of meta-alloys in the Witchhead Nebula And the scrambling of multiple mega ships and a cellar starports to the area The Thargoids, unsurprisingly, wailed on the newly established super power assets Like a nine-year-old boy on his birthday piñata, desperate for his latest sugar rush Humanity's always reliable, independent anti-Xeno pilots flocked to the area in response And delivered the abrupt but succinct message that humans were here and were staying With such a colossal meeting of heads and carapace, collateral damage was inevitable And with the exception of the planetary base of Jack Rock Outpost With its oh-so-handy shipyard, all the starports in the region have been nicely char-grilled By the Green Menace and are now offline, pending repairs And therein lies the challenger head of us In order to secure the meta-alloys, we need the starports online To repair those starports requires a gigantic amount of shipped-in resources To bring in those resources requires, in some cases, an 1800 light-year round trip According to Operation Ida, the player group that attempts to coordinate such things In a cargo-capable vessel 1800 light-years is a long way in a cargo ship, a really, really long way Whilst Ida have proven numerous times in the past that they are more than capable of such things They also have a list as long as a gibbons arm of stations in the bubble That are much more easily repairable and are not currently, at least, being added to By the Thargoids' usual weekly schedule of station barbecues Ida have publicly stated that they are going to continue to focus on the bubble's problems While the Thargoids are absent, and I honestly don't blame them There are no newly-attacked stations this week, which means that the team at the Post-Disaster Evacuation Service currently have no rescues demanding of their time So they have stepped up and pledged to do what they can for the Witchhead Nebula But they also admit that it's unlikely to be enough to get even one station online They're not really equipped for this task So it remains to be seen what happens to the stations down there And what the Thargoids, and indeed Frontier, do as a result The latest episode of the comedy series Machines for Hire by Commander Machine Went live on YouTube this week If you've not seen the Commander's videos before, I urge you to take a look It's ingenious stuff and involves a fair few community names in the voice acting And amazingly shares a universe with the work of other creators on YouTube Such as Turgeon Starstone, kind of like Elite's own version of the MCU The ECU, can we say that? Somewhat cheeky humour, genuinely funny, charming and technically oh so very clever You'll find links in the description below And remember to subscribe to Commander Machine's channel to see episodes of the show going forward In case you've not seen it, we maintain a list in the description of every video we produce That links to other great Elite content creators, do please check it out And finally, as you may have seen from our video earlier in the week Last weekend saw the inaugural Scully Powers 500 surface installation SRV race Hosted by the Danger Zone Galactic Archive Discord, run by Commander Mad 7 The event was very much a toe in the water test case for the race But even with limited pre-exposure it was a resounding success and huge fun for all involved To get a feel for what went on check out our footage from just one of the races Our understanding is that another event is now in the early planning stages And that we're likely to see more of this in the future As a side note, we were remarking in the burpit household this morning that the tagline for Elite has always been blaze your own trail and events like the bucky ball races, distant worlds expeditions, speed bowling and now the Scully Powers 500 are just fantastic examples of how the community can pick up that ethos and really run with it Or in some cases sprint with it into the distance laughing maniacally like a crazed baboon I'm looking at you prime time casual That's it for now, thanks so much for watching We'll be back later this week with more videos until then 07 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