 Something a bit different for today's midweek video, we have an important burpit channel update. We are delighted and super proud to be able to announce that we are the first Elite Dangerous Content Creators to be officially appointed to the VKB Partner Programme and we wanted to share with you what this means for us as a channel and touch a little on who VKB are if you've not heard of them before. Firstly I'll cover off what the Partner Programme is as partnering with a commercial entity is a very different beast to a sponsorship deal. With a sponsorship deal a content creator includes adverts and endorsements on their channel for which they receive a financial reward. In the case of a Partner Programme there is no financial element to the relationship. You won't be seeing any VKB adverts from us, instead and in the case of the VKB Programme in particular the company will occasionally provide us with products for review as well as giveaway competition prizes and a permanent discount code for use on their store. Importantly we are able and indeed encouraged by VKB to remain impartial throughout the whole process so this program is a good fit for us. Needless to say we're over the moon to have been invited to become a VKB Partner as since being introduced to their hardware around four years ago by members of our community VKB have become the only joysticks both myself and Rene use to play and film Elite Dangerous. Because of this the Partner Programme complements nicely what we already do here at the pit whilst also granting us the opportunity to get our hands on tech to review as well as some sweet sweet hardware prizes for our community. If you've never heard of VKB the company started life around 2003 when a group of combat flight simulator enthusiasts became frustrated by the lack of quality and choice in the gaming hardware marketplace and began designing and creating their own kit. The company takes a highly componentised approach to their hardware allowing and encouraging their users to replace components to suit their own particular requirements. Our first hardware review will be coming out soon so watch out for that and be sure to keep an eye on the channel over the year ahead for competitions and giveaways and we'll announce in a community post on YouTube when the discount code is up and running if you're thinking of picking up any VKB kit in the future. You'll find links to VKB and everything else you need in the description below this video. Exciting times ahead. That's it for now. Thanks very much for watching. If you enjoy our videos consider subscribing to the channel and maybe take a look at one of our other videos linked on screen right now.