 This is Witchspace news for Friday the 20th of November 2020, I'm CMDR Buur In this weeks news, the NMLA goes after the feds, balance changes incoming next week, changes to rewards from last week's CG and upgrading the Colonia engineers. If you enjoyed this video remember to subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications and if you'd like to support our work you'll also find us on Patreon, links to everything you need are in the description below. After NMLA terrorists were discovered hiding amongst Marlinist refugees that had sought asylum from Imperial persecution this week, they were filtered out and sent to Kepler orbital station in the Atropos system, presumably with a view to them eventually being handed over to the Imperial security forces who were looking for them. Suffice to say this didn't go down well with the NMLA leadership who took the presumably executive decision to attempt to martyr the 9 individuals being held and send some sort of message to the Federal superpower leadership. The end result of all this is that Kepler orbital is now a flaming hulk with thousands of innocent civilians desperate to escape the remains of the station and willing to pay in money, materials and commodities to do just that. If you're in the market for any of that as well as some significant federal rank increases then get yourself over there with some economy class passenger cabins and heat sinks and start ferrying souls off the station and onto the waiting megaship nearby. A quick heads up in case you missed it, Frontier are planning a series of balance passes to the games economy starting next week with mining before moving onto combat payouts later. We created a summary video earlier this week when the news broke and it's expected that Frontier will brief the community on more specifics before the changes take hold so watch this space when we know more we'll post it here. Both the Alliance Colsack Nebula centric community goals last week were offering a bonus fully engineered class 5 frame shift drive to the top 25% of contributors to the goals. However in a surprise move this week Frontier announced that following community feedback the 25% of contributors will be increased to the top 75% of contributors. The announcement led to a degree of further feedback from the community as a portion of the player base had decided not to participate in the goal assuming that they'd never reached the magic 25% and as the widening of the goal mouth hadn't been announced until after the ball had been punted they'd missed out. Hopefully the feedback will be taken forward to future community goals meaning that the goal mouth is set in stone from the start and won't change for future events. Just a real quick reminder that Elite Dangerous which now includes Horizons as well is free to own and keep on the PC via the Epic online store until the 26th of November. The demand for a free copy of our favourite galaxy spanning space sim yesterday caused some problems somewhere between the Epic and Frontier stores however as of our recording this and following a seriously long day and late night for the team at Frontier it now appears to have been fixed. If you have that friend that is still resisting the call of the void now is the time. One quick further note you'll need a separate email address to create a Frontier account with in order to register the game if you're an Elite Commander already. And finally this week a new community effort is being launched to upgrade the remaining Colonia based engineers. The engineers in Colonia actually level up based on the amount of usage they see and not all have yet reached grade 5 in their disciplines. Operation Laforge kicks off on the 1st of December and is aiming to have all the engineers fully leveled up before the start of 2021. If you want to help out with the initiative then there's a link in the description below to the official forum post from Commander Paul Smith III to get you started. 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.