 On Thursday, the 26th of August, two days from now as I speak these words, a data point on a crashed Type 9 in Colonia that has been unavailable to scan since 2017 is going to unlock. To make sure you don't miss any of our videos hit like and subscribe, remember to click the bell icon and select all notifications and to help directly support this channel you can also join our Patreon via the link in the video description. Heiford's Cache, a scannable data point on a crashed Type 9 in the Colonia system originally appeared in the game in 2017. When it arrived it was originally actually bugged and couldn't be scanned. With update 6 to Elite Dangerous Odyssey the data point was finally fixed and became scannable but instead of giving material rewards or the final part of a story that began in the bubble the data point merely states that it will unlock on the 26th of August 3307. That's this Thursday. The story behind Heiford's Cache begins at two listening posts in the bubble, one in the Wasat system, the other in the Nechi system. When accessed collectively they tell the story of one commander Heiford. Heiford apparently took on a delivery job for a shadowy military organisation based in the Pleiades and doing so put a target on his back. The details are sketchy but there's a paper trail you can follow on the Elite Dangerous Wiki that talks about Heiford delivering occupied escape pods for an organisation monitoring alien encounters and technology that is performing experiments on the contained individuals. All very unpleasant. It's also speculated that the super shadowy Black Flight covert military organisation was the force attempting to hunt down Heiford and stop him from talking about what he knows or has seen. The Black Flight rumoured to be tasked with hiding evidence of Thargoid surface installations from the general public by any means necessary. Commander Heiford eventually fled to Colonia and scuttled his Type 9 on Colonia 5 EA where it and its cache of who knows what now reside. So what's going on here? Honestly, we don't know, Frontier specifically highlighted the repair of the broken data point at Heiford's cache on a live stream when Update 6 launched. It seems odd that they do that without it being important but it's not outside the realms of possibility of course. The fact that the data point is locked until a specific date would seem to imply that it's linked to an in-game event that kicks off on that date. Again it's not outside the realms of possibility but it seems odd that it would be locked off until a specific release date if it was just a text file to give the end of the story. The storyline running through the game at the moment concerns a mysterious individual calling themselves Salvation. Slightly pretentious obviously but we don't yet know who this Salvation is or what they're saving us from. Could Salvation be Heiford ready to spill the beans on what he's found out or could it be completely unrelated? All possible. If you want to follow up on this yourself be at Heiford's cache on Colonia 5 EA on Thursday after the scheduled server reboot. Give the data point a scan and see what you get. If you can't get to Colonia yourself fear not we'll be watching closely what happens and we'll report back when we know anything. Make sure you're subscribed to ensure you don't miss a thing. I've linked to some useful wiki articles in the description below for more reading on all of this if you want to get gend up but what do you think is going on here? Could Heiford be Salvation? Should we trust Salvation either way? 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.