Greetings, space-faring pilots, evacuees, researchers, and all citizens of the new galaxy! With our leader, 
Birdbeak covered mentioned some small but important technical updates made concerning citizens and tooltips in his last post. No new developments yet since.
However, an informative post has been released detailing the plan for the new and highly anticipated Beta contracts. If you have not already, you can check that out here.
The new contracts proposed include a starship maintenance pack (shown above), an Achean Gang contract to compliment (or compete with?!) the Syndicate, and a suit modification contract. So soon we will be able to create suped-up Eisen suits which may be more powerful or specialized for our needs!
By the way! Beta contract packs are going to get a new look! So they won't have that same old frame (or shape?) as the alpha contracts!
A new type of contract will also be introduced: the franchise pack. Such a contract may provide useful items like software/hardware, cooking recipes, and tools. This franchise's partnership with TOM Settler corporation will enable captains to take advantage of synergies with existing TOM products! We can probably expect to see more partnerships like this in the future.
There will also be a black market version of the above franchise. Do I smell a partnership with Rekatron? No? Well then perhaps they can illegally modify some of those weapons to make them ever more deadly!
These franchise packs will also introduce an interesting new mechanic. The more of those packs you own, the larger the share of the franchise you control. this, in turn, will grant access to special promotional drops! That's pretty much all we know about that at this point.
Contract packs will be initially released to alpha players for a 10-day window beginning on October 12. It is birdbeak's and my suggestion that everyone who is able, buy at least 1 of each contract. Feeling the FOMO yet, anyone?
More contracts were originally planned to be released but considering the harsh, nuclear, crypto winter we are in the midst of, releasing too many packs (priced at $90 each tentatively) might cause some frustration to players unable to obtain them all.
This week, 3 different people have a chance of winning:
x1 Holidays
This consumable drug might come in handy on a dark, uncomfortable planet like Casrarene. It comes with 10 doses and grants Happiness but also Slow. Hey, sounds fun! It lasts for 24 hours and upon end triggers the Narcophile trait (wording may change in the future). For 3 whole days, the affected character will be addicted to Holidays (or drugs in general?).
An unhappy citizen won't work efficiently or perhaps not at all. Or maybe you're trying to get Happiness high enough to potentially unlock and "mint" the citizen! It's hard to speculate what we would use this item for at this point.
But enjoy!
Congratulations, 
You have been sent Ayumi # 0d69d2159915015180099836b54f6679,4a19b41949ae927f625f8fd47dc31aa4, and e018ce3046f35dc9f7979bc3e22b8dea respectively.
The winners should be chosen at random by Monday, October 17.
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