The "L" server is coming and before anything we need to choose the name for it. After receiving hundreds of suggestions from this topic on our forum, we have selected the 6 best names and opened a vote to allow our players to choose the name to be used!
All you need to do is vote for your favorite n…Continue Reading »
General Bruce Wilkinson of Tiger Rock Communications HQ adjusted his headset and paused before initiating uplink with the cleanup crew commissioned in K42. He was the highest ranking at the communications facility, but he certainly wasn’t the most skilled man for the task of telling others the exact date and time, to the very splittest of seconds, that they will die.
“Volture Fleet 9, this is General Bruce Wilkinson – do you copy?” “Loud and clear, General. What’s our status?”“Enemy offensive heading towards you at full warp, Captain. You have three days.”“Three... days, General? Three days until what?”
General Wilkinson knew he was risking his career by abandoning protocol. But there was one thing Wilkinson knew about protocol and it was that silently woven into the fabric of every military rule there was a hidden protocol. A protocol that, under certain circumstances, made it imperative to disregard all protocol. The Captain of Volture Fleet 9 had not heard the word ‘day’ since he was a young boy, having been relocated to the pilot training program on Tiger Rock, 25 light years from Earth, at the age of sixteen.…Continue Reading »
The "L" server is coming soon and as usual we need to choose a name for it.
This time we decided for a different strategy. We want you to suggest names and once we have enough suggestions the AE administration will choose a few and launch a contest allowing everyone to vote for their favorite. The most voted name will be chosen for our next server. We will also draw a prize between all those who voted, to encourage your participation.
This is the first time the name of a server is picked directly by the community.…Continue Reading »
(Author’s note: if you haven’t read the earlier parts of this story, you should read that first before enjoying this story. Start with “Just Another Day At The Office”.
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“It’s FREEZING in here!” Midori Yuki, the group’s medical officer shivered and sipped a cup of hot chocolate. She was bundled in a sweatshirt and jacket, but still felt chilled to the bone in the Great Hall of the Museum of Antique Warfare. Over the course of the last eighteen hours the Resistance had been attempting to recharge an antique Corvette housed there, using power from the mini fusion plant aboard their fast sailing ship, the Alyra. The museum had turned the environmental controls to as cold as possible a setting to help keep the power transfer cable cool. So far it had worked, and the power transfer had approached completion without a problem. But to Midori and Nika, the other female member of the team, it seemed as though the museum had dialed the temperature all the way down to “Arctic”.…Continue Reading »
Hi guys,
It's been a bit since our last blog and thought it was time to get another one out there! There has been some interesting game news and the launch of Ares's second round. Excited? I know I am! After the successful first round of the Ares speed server the second is dawning. This time it will be longer and has been tweaked for greater enjoyment. Ares's second round launches TOMORROW!…Continue Reading »