Festival! Awards Announced

UUNN Newswire

(UUNN HQ)  Thirty-two pilots logged duty hours during this years Festival! and a number of them participated in the events, but the most surprising news coming out of the holiday is the awarding of the coveted TRI Order of Merit medal.

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“The TRI Order of Merit is given rarely and only those who have a long history of service and dedication,” said Garth Taren,  President and CEO of TRI Corp. “We had not planned on presenting this award until we started looking at statistics over the past couple of years, and one name just jumped out at us.  So as a final celebration of this year’s Festival! it is our honor to bestow the TRI Order of Merit to:

Algore of The Octavian Vanguard

Please join us in congratulating Algore and thanking him for his long, and continuing, support of The Reconstruction Initiative.

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Other awards for this year’s Festival! events are as follows:

Voting Opens for 122 Pilots’ Choice Awards

UUNN Newswire

Voting has opened today for the 122 Pilots’ Choice Awards.  Medals for Combat, Mining, Conflux Hunting, Economy Support and Leadership will be awarded to pilots receiving the most votes — and this year there is a FIVE-vote minimum in each category to qualify for an award.  A Pilots’ Choice Award can be given to ANY registered pilot (active or inactive) and any pilot can vote — but just once.

ALL PILOTS are encouraged to participate by voting HERE

Missing Tow Found!

UUNN Newswire

(UUNN HQ)  TRI-Security released the following statement regarding the missing TRI-TRAN-1:

The missing remote-operated tow, TRI-TRAN-1 was recovered from a deep space area of Light Gateway.  Unfortunately, its important and valuable cargo had already been stolen.  This is a considerable loss, but since the theft occurred in unregulated space, we are unable to investigate further or press charges.

TRI Releases Info on Missing Transport

by UUNN Newswire

(Solrain Core)  TRI Corporation announced today that it is requesting assistance in locating the missing transport ship (TRI-TRAN-1).

“We have been searching for some time, but we realize now that we need more help with this,” said Solder Ronin, Commandant of TRI Security.  “Our searches have turned up nothing.  As far as we can determine the ship should be somewhere between Far Point and Pulsar and ship safeguards should keep it within 75k of a beacon — so that’s a lot of space to cover.  A multi-pilot search pattern would present the best opportunity to locate it.

“The big concern is that either the Conflux, or the shield and armor storms that frequent this area will destroy the ship before we can get to it, so time is critical.”

Ronin said that the ship is a standard remote-piloted Solrain tow with about 200u of cargo, relics and other important TRI information.

If you locate the ship, please contact TRI-SEC immediately at tri@tri-subspace.net

TRI Trivia for Festival! 122

UUNN Newswire

(UUNN HQ)  The TRI Trivia contest is ON!  There are five questions to answer, and all of the answers can be found here on UUNN; on TRI-Databank; or in the Sarath V Memorial Library.

Here are the questions:

1. Who were the two participants in the Duel of Accession to become heir to Octavius Emperor Atticus VI?
2. Where did The Striking Fists establish their base to attack Solrain?
3. Who wrote the religious saying beginning with “May the ‘roid rise up to meet you …”
4. What famous comedic series was created by piot Kwip?
5. What former Senior Project Director at Samsun Universal ran for a major political office in Hyperial?

Answers must be submitted to tri@tri-subspace.net on Saturday 122.11.25 by midnight (24:00) UTC.

The awards:

• All five answers correct: Seeker of Knowledge medal and 1 million credits
• 1 to 4 answers correct: Keval’s Thanks medal and 500k credits
• 0 for 5: Captain’s Commendation

UUNN will publish links to the answers at the end of Festival! after winners have been announced.

Festival! 122 Event Schedule Announced

UUNN Newswire

(UUNN HQ) The following events have been announced for the upcoming Festival! holiday which runs from 122.11.24 through 122.11.27 this year.

THURSDAY – 122.11.24

BEER FEST FMs

Every party needs beer, so pilots will have a number of “beer-sharing” missions to take on. Watch the Faction Mission board on Thursday for details.

FRIDAY – 122.11.25

TRI-TRIVIA CONTEST

A series of trivia questions will be release on UUNN (jgnewsnet.wordpress.com) by 10:00 UTC. Answers must be submitted to tri@tri-subspace.net by midnight (24:00) UTC.

The awards are as follows:

• All five answers correct: Seeker of Knowledge medal and 1 million credits
• 1 to 4 answers correct: Keval’s Thanks medal and 500k credits
• 0 for 5: Captain’s Commendation

SATURDAY – 122.11.26

SEARCH & SALVAGE

TRI-TRAN-1 is a remotely-operated cargo tow.  TRI Corp. has lost contact with it and it’s stuck somewhere far out in Unregulated Space.  Because of the upcoming holiday, TRI may not be able to dispatch a search party for some time  — which means the derelict ship will be legal salvage and who knows what you’ll find!  More details regarding its possible locations will be announced here on 122.11.26 around 15:00 UTC.

SUNDAY – 122.11.27

PILOTS CHOICE AWARD VOTING OPENS

Unlike prior years when we completed voting for the Pilots’ Choice Awards, this year we will be kicking off the vote on the last day of Festival!  Voting will continue through 122.12.31.

TREASURE HUNT

If TRI-TRAN-1 has not been found, then the hunt for its treasure will continue! 

FESTIVAL LIGHTS!

“Light up” the beacons around space 00:01 UTC TO 24:00 on Sunday by tuning/re-tuning and holding* them.  The pilots with the MOST beacons held will win the following awards:

• First-place winner will get the Cesium Medal and an EB-3, 2, 1 stack
• Second place, Platinum Medal and an AB-3;
• Third place, Antimony Medal and a CM-4.

All others with 10 or more beacons held will receive a Captain’s Commendation.

* “Holding” means that the beacon must remain tuned (and not flipped or re-tuned by another pilot) for 25 consecutive cycles (2.5 hours).

We’ll be taking a master “stats snapshots” at the beginning and end, but we strongly recommend that participants take a screen shot of their own Pilot Stats (which shows Beacons Held) before and after they do their tuning as a backup.

Please note:  Times are subject to adjustment and additional events may be added, so stay tuned to UUNN for updates!