 This is Witchbase news, for Friday the 12th of November 2021, I'm CMDR Buur. In Elite Dangerous News this week, Frontier dropped some intriguing hints around SRV missions and NPC SRVs, it's all out war between the supporters of Aegis and the followers of salvation, the Thargoid incursions spread as more stations burn and more. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe and remember to click the little bell icon and select all notifications and if you'd like to help directly support this channel you can also join our Patreon via the link in the video description. The spat that's been brewing for weeks between Admiral Aiden Tanner and the forces of Taurus mining ventures spilled over into open conflict with the start of this week's community goal on Thursday. Federal naval officer Admiral Tanner is the fed's chief military liaison to the Aegis anti-thargoid research and defence organisation and whilst he is acting against the wishes of Aegis he claims that the Taurus mining company that is under contract to the individual calling themselves salvation has proof in its hind mine asteroid base in the T-Tauri system that salvation's unlicensed anti-zeno WMD that was used to great effect in the corn star system recently is actually designed to provoke the alien peril pansies. The circumstantial evidence around that claim, i.e. the goids were kind of a background thing before old salivation nations stuck a stick in their wasps nest for a few weeks before finally nuking them after which 4 major areas of human occupied space got absolutely rammed with non-human signal sources filled with utterly livid laser lilies would seem to lend no small degree of weight to that argument. On the other side of the coin of course you have salvation who is named salvation and whom has undoubtedly killed lots and lots of thargoids whilst liberally supplying the commanders of the pilots federation with beefed up weapons tainted with guardian spangles that can also help them kill lots and lots of the nebula dwelling pillage poppies. Clearly salvation is either helping humankind defend itself against the legitimate clear and present threat or stirring up a problem that only they can save us from thereby forcing us to hand them the keys of power surely not what politician or power monger has ever tried that trick right? The ongoing community goal as of this recording would seem to indicate that currently salvation has the sympathy of the majority of the player base and that tana has perhaps dealt himself a losing card. If the CG continues to go in salvation's favour will either bolster a powerful alloy in a fight against a terrible intractable enemy or install a monster on the throne that wants to benefit from a war they created. As this story has progressed community leader Arthur Tomey has stated on a number of occasions that our decisions as a community throughout the evolving story would have real consequences in the game. Let's all hope we're making the right decisions. The massive thargoid incursion that seems intent on turning us all into Swedish meatballs began at the end of October and has continued this week largely unabated. As of this recording Galnet is reporting in-game that 13 human occupied star systems are in a state of incursion with 12 of those 13 reporting a massive thargoid presence with only one sector in the Pleiades with a reduced presence of significant. A new AXI website resource launched this week in the shape of Thargoid.watch. Currently the site has a sortable list of the systems that are under incursion from the Xeno cauliflower of carnage but more tools are promised for the site to further help direct human anti-Xeno firepower to where it's needed. The team at the post-disaster evacuation service are now currently tackling the get the hell out of dodge requirements of 13 stations that are now burning in space in the affected systems and the haulage specialists of Operation Ida are now carting the required goods to the one station that can be directly repaired at the moment, Copernicus Observatory in the Asterope system. Whilst 13 systems are showing as under incursion, if you've not been to the affected zones then don't let that fool you that those numbers are the end of the problem. As I've mentioned, under incursion signifies a human occupied system that is infested with the horticultural horrors but the green meanies themselves are present in extended bubbles around those focal points as well. Right now, the aforementioned Thargoid watch website is listing a 175 light year bubble around Marope in the Pleiades Nebula, a 75 light year bubble around Roanmar in the Witchhead Nebula, a 60 light year bubble around a Musca Dark Region system in the Colsack Nebula and a 100 light year bubble around HIP 18390 in the California Nebula that will deliver pallet loads of the perilous caustic cabbages in every single system contained within. What has happened in the last two weeks, the AXI is referring to as quote a catastrophic class event unquote and they've seen a lot of this stuff. Leading back the legions of worry weeds is proving far more challenging even with Salvation's Wonder Weapons than it ever has been before in all of Elite Dangerous history. Whilst we've no direct evidence it does feel on the ground like this is all building towards something. The regular Frontier Thursday night livestream went visiting a Thargoid surface site for a mass commander fly in and shenanigan session with no plans for any big reveals But as is often the case the conversation between the resident CMs in this instance Sally Morgan Moore and Arthur Tolmey did drop a few juicy morsels. First up then the team mentioned that they're kicking around the idea of a community meetup in December in the Cambridge area of the UK. Arthur was at pains to stress that the event wouldn't feature any content reveals or anything of that nature but was more an opportunity to meet and greet other members of the community, the CM team themselves and possibly even a dev or two. No further details are forthcoming at the moment as soon as we know more we'll let you know here. Patch 9 for Elite Dangerous Odyssey is currently scheduled to arrive in the game in December meaning that whilst there likely won't be a patch in November patch 9 should be bringing with it the new multi-crew capable combat centric SRV. The team also reiterated that in December we can expect a special stream featuring the tour of the new fleet carriers interiors feature that is expected to arrive in the game sometime after patch 9. As the conversation progressed the team filled in questions from the community in chat and it's here that the really interesting nuggets appeared. A question around the possibility of SRV based missions didn't yield a flat no or the standard that's a great suggestion will forward it on response. What Arthur did specifically say is I can't talk too much about that at the moment and Sally nodded when Arthur vocalised the question in response to something else as it turns out but the fact that Arthur mentioned Sally nodding and then laughed about it he then continued that there's more to come with missions that's all I'll say. Well here's the clip taken directly from the stream see what you think. I saw a question there would there be SRV missions transport protection deliveries oh now I can't really talk too much about that Sally might have nodded but we can't we can't really talk too much about it. Honest answer is the mission things there's a lot of stuff going for missions the team are hard at work expanding those missions we had mission givers and stuff like that but yeah there's more to come missions that's all I say so that's cool. As the stream progressed Arthur continued to field questions and when asked about the possibility of combat with NPC controlled SRVs he responded no comment on NPC SRVs at this moment again here's the clip for you see what you think. Claim question if we're having a combat SRV will we have then combat with NPC driven SRVs no comment on NPC SRVs at this moment. If a new combat-centric multi-crew capable SRV is being introduced whilst that's an enticing prospect it currently serves no purpose in the game that we have right now as I've mentioned on this channel before the current SRV can barely operate in the cluttered space inside a settlement so a larger heavier vehicle is not going to find that particular zone of operations any easier it makes sense to us at least that if a new SRV is introduced it would need a role to serve to make its development meaningful and to give it value. One of the bulleted feature points of Elite Dangerous Odyssey was to be the sphere of combat the idea that surface operations would see input from commanders on foot in SRVs and in ships at launch one of the complaints leveled at Odyssey was that the sphere of combat didn't exist sure you could bring a ship or an SRV to a conflict zone but why would you it was clearly an environment built around on foot gameplay with these comments from Frontier you could argue that the sphere of combat whilst a possible feature of the surface conflict zones is not actually what they were hinting at but time and new SRV will I guess tell but what do you think about Arthur's comments are we about to see NPC SRVs and missions based around them or is this all far from your mind as you engage in the conflict with the Thargoids or perhaps in the community goal let us know in the comments below that's it for now thanks very 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