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Dispatches from contested space, logged as received. Every change to the war is recorded here twice: once as it happened, and once as it reads on the manifest.

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Broadcast 005·Joint Signals Authority · All relaysCriticalLatest12 Aug 2026

One helm, one pilot — duplicate command links severed

Two ships answered to the same callsign over KD-2 for eleven minutes. Both logged burns. Both logged cargo. Only one of them existed.

The relay had been accepting a second command link and averaging the difference. Wrecks were being written against positions no hull had ever occupied, and manifests were closing out against holds that had already been emptied somewhere else.

Signals cut the redundancy without ceremony. The newest link now holds the helm. The older one goes dark mid-sentence and is told why.

Change manifest

A new sign-in takes the helm; the previous window is disconnected instead of running in parallel
Disconnected windows show a takeover notice with a Reclaim flight button
Flight position and cargo are saved from the old session before it is closed
A closing or jumping stale window can no longer overwrite the active session's state

Broadcast 004·Umbral Signals · KD-4 forward yardPriority9 Aug 2026

Heavy patterns refitted after the KD-4 losses

Three heavy hulls came back from KD-4 with their centerline batteries hot and their flanks cold. The Xaruun had learned to sit off the beam where nothing could answer.

Yard crews stopped calling it a crew problem. The mounts were wrong. Guns had been bolted where the drawings had room, not where the fighting happened.

Ironhold's papers were amended the same week. Nobody who had flown one believed it was a wall, and the classification finally agreed with them.

Change manifest

Dreadnought weapon slots increased from 8 to 9
Battleship and Dreadnought hardpoints re-laid to mirrored flank pairs instead of centerline mounts
Ironhold reclassified from Bulwark to Broadside
Equipment tiers now use plain numbers; duplicate numerals stripped from module names
Weapon cycle rate and DPS shown on market, hangar, and briefing cards

Broadcast 003·Solaris Accord · Doctrine BoardPriority5 Aug 2026

Doctrine Board issues hull archetypes and burn authorization

The Board finally admitted what line pilots had been reporting for a year: hulls do not fight the same, and pretending otherwise was killing people who trained for the wrong fight.

Chase hulls kill in front of them. Broadsides kill along the beam. Bulwarks kill nothing quickly and are still standing when the shooting stops.

Reactor bypass — flank burn — was authorized for general use over objections from engineering. It costs power, it costs rate of fire, and it will get pilots home.

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Hulls assigned Chase, Broadside, or Bulwark archetypes with distinct damage angles
Chase and Broadside gain +18% damage in their optimal arc
Bulwark takes 22% less frontal damage, 44% while bracing, and gains no angle bonus
Flank burn bound to Q: archetype-specific maneuver with a drain cost and fire-rate penalty
Hull archetypes briefing added at /briefing with diagrams and matchup notes

Broadcast 002·Station Harbormasters · Joint circularRoutine1 Aug 2026

Manifests rewritten in pounds after the volume fraud audit

Harbormasters had been logging cargo by crate count. A hold of common ore and a hold of stabilized cores read identically on paper and did not read identically when the hull tried to turn.

The audit closed with a single instruction: weigh it. Cores are heavy. Salvaged modules are heavier. A ship carrying a fortune now flies like a ship carrying a fortune.

Every berth in every sector switched to the new scale on the same shift. Nothing else about the run changed — only what it costs you to be greedy.

Change manifest

Cargo tracked as weight in pounds; capacity references renamed to weight capacity
Resource weight doubles per rarity tier, from 1 lb common ore to 16 lb cores
Modules weigh 20 lb plus 4 lb per tier
All hull capacities doubled to match the new scale
Check cargo panel added for the full manifest breakdown

Broadcast 001·SOL-3 Relay · Fleet CommandCritical26 Jul 2026

Hull registry closed to the dead — losses are now permanent

Command stopped replacing ships. The yards cannot keep pace with the blackout and the accounting was a lie anyway: the hulls being written off were not coming back, only the paperwork was.

A ship destroyed in contested space is struck from the registry with everything fitted to it. What survives the blast drifts as a wreck until someone with the nerve to stop and cut it free arrives.

Bank at a station or lose it. There is no third option and there has not been one for some time.

Change manifest

Ship destruction removes the hull instance and its upgrade level permanently
Cargo must be banked at a station to be kept
Fitted modules roll for destruction; survivors drop into a recoverable wreck
Wrecks can be salvaged by any pilot who reaches them first
Hull inventory added so pilots can hold multiple ships