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Inter-house Tourism:

• Passengers (Gallia) will have their profits boosted by 25% at Planet Baden Baden, Planet New Berlin, and Wildau Station.
  
• Passengers (Rheinland) will have their profits boosted by 25% at Cannes Resort Station, Planet Marseille, and Versailles Station.
  
• Please note that not all stations that sell passengers are included in the config, though most are. Watch for the "registered into the event" message when buying to make sure.
  
• Descriptions of cultural landmarks and other shenanigans which may occur during the meticulously engineered state tours are encouraged in a new event story thread. The best submissions will earn rewards and potentially a place in future lore about each House.
  
• Reminder: Passenger Cabins take up 1000 cargo space, reduced to 500 for liner type vessels.
  

Hostages and hellraising:

• Beaumont and Darmstadt Depots will serve as drop-off points for Passengers whose tour package has been forcefully amended to an exciting, unscheduled alternative.
  
• Brigands and LWB can claim additional rewards by documenting the piracy of Passengers and their sale to Beaumont or Darmstadt (respectively). Roleplay from successful hostage-taking may be used for future events, or incorporated into lore.
  
• Brigands and LWB do not receive bounties or points for killing players - their interest is specifically in abducting Passengers.
  
• RFP, Gendarmerie, and other approved House lawfuls are incentivized to keep the peace via established bounty boards. We will sponsor any rewards handed out for event-related claims (at the current reward levels).

Rule changes:

• The Trade Ship exemption in rule 2.2 does not apply to ships carrying Passengers in Gallia, Rheinland, and bordering systems for the duration of the event. Docking during a hostile encounter with one of these ships counts as a PvP death.
  

Event rewards:

All prizes require relevant roleplay about the event. This can be submitted as a report within a relevant faction channel, as part of a comm / story thread, or in an appropriate event thread.

• Custom title: A user title of your choice applied to your forum account.
  
• Engine effects: Liners with event IDs scoring at least 160 points can request an appropriate replacement engine effect.
  
• Ship contrails: For each valid post in the Tour Compendium, Corsican Job, or LWB Priority Targets threads you can request replacement contrails for a ship.
  
• Misc: Additional rewards are available for participating factions on a case by case basis. The more effort you put into your roleplay, the greater the potential reward.

RESULTS

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After the latest annual Travel Industry Conference hosted by OS&C on Baden-Baden, representatives of both Gallic and Rheinland departments of state can report a qualified success to their superiors. The provided incentives brought a much sought-after increase in travel between the Houses, with even additional entities registering their vessels to help meet the increased demand. While the keynote speaker glossed over the challenges associated with the program, these remain to be solved by the respective governments of each House.

In Gallia, the growing unrest and the increased boldness of Brigand raids resulted in minor losses of crews and even tourists, somewhat souring the appeal of the trip for many others. But with OS&C rumored to formally take over Cannes in the coming months, government oversight over certain routes can be offloaded onto corporate security, resulting in significant savings to the local policing budgets.

On the other hand, the firmly secured Rheinland destinations have seen little interference from criminal elements. In those quarters, the problem is more of information control. The newly reforged state apparatus is sensitive to the recently healed wounds of the civil war, and telling apart a bumbling tourist from a deliberate agitator is an exercise in futility. Government commissions have already began surveying focus groups about the need for increased surveillance of not only the various touring groups, but the organizations currently registered to provide them. Only time will tell whether OS&C investors will appreciate the increased scrutiny, as a parallel situation with Synth Foods has developed negatively.

Grants for the analysis of the massive amounts of observational and survey data are already being developed to induce research into the impacts of such a large-scale sponsored cultural exchange program. While the conclusions of partisan outlets such as JNBU will likely closely mirror the governments' terse statements, the social scientific community is eager to discover whether interhouse population dynamics can be improved by similar programs. Cambridge University is expected to both produce and publish the flagship work on the topic in the coming years.

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Event Transportation

• Orion.Majestic 602)
  
• Astronome (480)
  
• La.Vie.En.Rose (415)
  
• Yvette (338)
  
• Rayonner (288)
  
• OS&C|TE~Red~Velvet~Club (265)
  
• GAMMA_6-12 (216)
  
• Reject (192)
  
• '\S/'SRV-Sol (182)
  
• H|PX-"Odyssey" (170)
  
• OS&C|Aestheta (168)
  

• @Ramke (5)
  
• @Frostpfote (2)
  
• @Lord Helmchen (2)
  
• @Coliz (1)
  
• @TheKusari (1)
  

Hi everyone, I'm opening a consultation to discuss the bonuses and recipes that are offered for Shipyard Components in Gallia and Rheinland. Factions receive bonuses on two Components, with each Component being produced by factions from two regions and featuring a blend of ingredients from those regions. Currently these are distributed as follows:

• Avionics Systems (Kusari / Liberty)
  
• Interior Systems (Gallia / Liberty)
  
• Propulsion Systems (Kusari / Rheinland)
  
• Reactor Systems (Bretonia / Gallia)
  
• Superstructure Systems (Bretonia / Rheinland)

• Interior: Current.
  consumed = commodity_industrial, 100
  consumed = commodity_titanium, 100
  consumed = commodity_copper, 100
  consumed = commodity_xenobiotic, 100
  
  Interior: Proposed.
  consumed = commodity_industrial, 100
  consumed = commodity_diamonds, 100
  consumed = commodity_copper, 100
  consumed = commodity_xenobiotic, 100
  
  Notes: Production bonuses to be swapped from Gallia and Liberty to Liberty and Rheinland. This means the ingredients will have one mined product from each region, a non-HRC product from directly between the two regions, and a non-HRC product that is produced locally in both.
  
  
• Propulsion: Current
  consumed = commodity_high_temp_alloys, 100
  consumed = commodity_ship_hull_panels, 100
  consumed = commodity_engine_components, 100
  consumed = commodity_niobium, 100
  
  Propulsion: Proposed
  consumed_dynamic_alt = commodity_cryocubes, commodity_high_temp_alloys, 100
  consumed = commodity_ship_hull_panels, 100
  consumed = commodity_engine_components, 100
  consumed = commodity_niobium, 100
  
  Notes: Production bonuses to be swapped from Kusari and Rheinland to Kusari and Gallia. This means the ingredients will have one mutually mined product, a HRC trade commodity from each region, and a non-HRC product that is produced locally in both.
  
  
• Superstructures: current
  consumed_dynamic_alt = 100, commodity_gold, commodity_pirate_gold
  consumed = commodity_ship_hull_panels, 100
  consumed = commodity_ablativearmor, 100
  consumed = commodity_super_alloys, 100
  
  Superstructures: proposed
  consumed_dynamic_alt = 100, commodity_gold, commodity_pirate_gold
  consumed = commodity_molybdenum, 100
  consumed = commodity_ablativearmor, 100
  consumed = commodity_super_alloys, 100
  
  Notes: Rebalances recipes to use one mined product from each region, and one HRC trade commodity from each region.

• Avionics Systems (Kusari / Liberty)
  
• Interior Systems (Liberty / Rheinland)
  
• Propulsion Systems (Gallia / Kusari)
  
• Reactor Systems (Bretonia / Gallia)
  
• Superstructure Systems (Bretonia / Rheinland)