#311th for 4th December, 2025 or 3311! (33-Oh-Leven, not Oh-Eleven, OH-Leven)

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Squad Stuff:  Updated by Bloom 10/16 <- LOLZ

• The Pax Screwiana continues, a few wars and elections but good neighbors make good fences

• 349 systems, controlling 99!

• New Screwspace has a dozen and a half systems! Volt, Ranglon, Ty, Lark, me and Ciaran are working the space. If you’re interested in colonizing, it’s a good location.

PowerPlay Update: - unashamedly copied from KrugerFive’s post in our Discord, 12/4

• Kaine with the largest gains this week with +3 strongholds and +10 new systems

• Aisling after big losses last week regains most of the loss with +14 new systems, +3 forts, and +1 stronghold

• Aisling looks recovered and adapting from the 1 ton changes

• Li Yong-Rui also starting to make a comeback tying Antal for 3rd for the week

On the FDev leaderboard for number of systems:

• Aisling is back with the most systems gained with her +14

• Kaine in second with +10

• Torval losing -14 systems. Now losing ground to Archon Delaine

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 Now that we have 3 cycles of post 1 ton trading and re-introduction of power data download, we have a good view of who was affected most by the changes. The ASCII table (sorry if you are on your phone) shows the average each power was seeing from cycles 41-52 (non Relic rush cycles) vs cycle 55 and after (after 1t):

+---------+------------+------+--------------------+

| Power   | 41-52 Avg  | 55+  | Post 1t Difference |

+---------+------------+------+--------------------+

| Delaine |        200 |  433 |                233 |

| Grom    |       1817 | 1833 |                 16 |

| Antal   |       1991 | 1804 |               -188 |

| Kaine   |       2307 | 2009 |               -298 |

| Winters |       2053 | 1342 |               -711 |

| Patreus |        -97 | -892 |               -795 |

| Archer  |       2017 | 1117 |               -900 |

| ALD     |       1499 |  387 |              -1112 |

| Mahon   |       1816 |  656 |              -1160 |

| Torval  |       2096 | -502 |              -2598 |

| Aisling |       4555 |  627 |              -3928 |

| LYR     |       6435 |   16 |              -6420 |

+---------+------------+------+--------------------+

You can see LYR took a massive fall, along with Aisling and Torval. Basically no effect on Delaine, which seems obvious in retrospect. The real winners at have been Grom, Antal, Kaine, and Winters who dropped some, but kept most of their mid-range output to be productive in these first 3 cycles. With some trading for powerplay back in the picture it, Aisling/LYR adapting, and now a powerplay CG and war for the enclave bubble, things are interesting again.

Dev News: 

• GLOWING MUSHROOM  TREES!

• CASPIAN!

• CG STYLE POWERPLAY FIGHTS!

Galnet News: Galnet News | Elite Dangerous Community Site

• Pilots’ Federation Members Enter HIP 87621

• Rumours Spread About HIP 87621 Flora

•  HIP 87621 At Centre of Major Military Conflict

• Zorgon Peterson Unveils Caspian Explorer Vessel

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Discussion:

• Powerplay 

Community Corner:

• https://youtu.be/KtFjhAFoZ6c  - Alec Turner’s Mountains of Madness race

• Elite Dangerous:The Long Break - The High Wake (The Long Break)

• https://youtu.be/DH1MASLp30M - Goose Screws (for those who didn’t know)

• A new Loose Screws SRV event is in the works By Lark