🚀 Star Trek: Outposts Unknown, a story-driven outpost-building sim from Magic Fuel Games and Playstack on PC.

There's a 3-hour demo, no release date and it's English only. You play the captain: design bases, pick tech and train your crew to face a mysterious force threatening a vulnerable civilization and all life in Kx'Lehari in the 23rd century

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🚀 Meet Star Trek: Outposts Unknown, a base-building sim from Magic Fuel Games and Playstack; trailer and a 3-hour demo are live on Steam.

No release date yet, English only. You play as CAPTAIN, train your crew and pick tech/buildings wisely, a mysterious cosmic force menaces the fragile ally Кс'Лехари and life across the system; set in the XXIII century, around the era of Strange New Worlds.

#SteamAndEpic #Playstack #КсЛехари #Outposts #Unknown #English

Spy vs. spy: A look at how some of Havana and Washington's most noteworthy agents operated
U.S. demands that Cuba close its Russian and Chinese spy outposts have come as the Trump administration exerts maximum pressure on the island with an energy blockade and widening sanctions. Here's a look at how some of the most noteworthy agents from both counties managed to operate under the radar — until they were caught.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-us-enduring-spying-tensions-9.7211772?cmp=rss
Spy vs. spy: A look at how some of Havana and Washington's most noteworthy agents operated
U.S. demands that Cuba close its Russian and Chinese spy outposts have come as the Trump administration exerts maximum pressure on the island with an energy blockade and widening sanctions. Here's a look at how some of the most noteworthy agents from both counties managed to operate under the radar — until they were caught.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cuba-us-enduring-spying-tensions-9.7211772?cmp=rss

#Taybeh is one of many Palestinian towns that will be affected by the Israeli government’s decision to officially recognise five illegal settler #outposts and expand existing #settlements in the occupied West Bank.

“The goal is for us to leave, but where will people go? We’re rooted in this land,” said Taybeh’s Mayor Sulaiman Khouriyeh.

“This town existed before Christ and it will continue to exist, God willing,” he added.

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#WestBank

The first step toward disintegrating Israel’s settler machine

Despite their narrow focus, recent international sanctions against settlers are laying the foundations to turn verbal condemnations into tangible action.

+972 Magazine

Illegal settler activity on Palestinian land

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#settlements
#outposts

I was sad to discover that you get no resources back when deleting a structure built in an outpost.

But you do get everything (it seems!) back if you remove the entire outpost from the Beacon menu. Into your ship's hold.

I created a small outpost then removed it to check:

Hold mass is 1:1 before/after. Items in containers (solid storage, a storage box, a display case) all were returned. Items on the floor in the habitat fell to the surface of the planet.

#starfield #outposts #gaming

Israel 'legalises' colonial outposts, causing further irritation in Washington

Israel has 'legalised' nine colonial outposts in the occupied West Bank, turning them into official settlements. The decision, which is said to be the first legalisation of such outposts by the Is...

Middle East Monitor

AWS published a blog about my team's work on the Auckland power grid with #AWS #Outposts. (Outposts = hybrid extension to the AWS cloud to on-prem.)

Really fun project to transform a big pet system into an automated system with a real #SRE practice around it.

Amazon are a bit light on the details there, but cool to have your work features nonetheless!

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/industries/vector-automates-deployment-of-ge-adms-at-the-edge-using-aws-outposts/

Vector automates deployment of GE ADMS at the edge using AWS Outposts | Amazon Web Services

Vector Limited is the largest distributor of electricity and gas in New Zealand (NZ), managing a rapidly expanding energy distribution network across the Auckland urban area, serving approximately 30 percent of the NZ population, and representing one-third of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP). The company entered into a strategic alliance with Amazon Web Services […]

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