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THE GALAXY TRIBUNE
А Galaxy News Network Publication EDITION #010 ~ SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2023

Information on the Fallout TV Show
By CookOLo on September 14th, 2023 Revealed in July 2020, the Fallout TV Show was announced to the public where it will wrap up filming on March 2023. A couple months later, on August 23, 2023, Bethesda revealed their first short teaser of the Fallout TV Show exclusively at Gamescom 2023. In addition, Prime Video posted, on their social media, more information about this show. Namely, that this show would take place in Los Angeles, it involves a new vault, Vault 33, and it comes out "to Prime Video in 2024." While we don't know much, we do have some information about the show's settings based on previous Fallout lore.

Firstly, Los Angeles is now named Boneyard by the wastelanders, and it grew as a community with the help of the Followers of the Apocalypse and the New California Republic. As a result, it became part of the NCR and even formed the Angel's Boneyard Medical University.

In addition to the NCR and Followers being factions in the city, the Blades and Gun Runners also have a place here. However, other than that, that's all we know about this place. This lore might not even appear in the show depending on when the show is set. Even then, the show might expand on that. Nonetheless, everyone in the Fallout community is definitely intrigued by what this show has to offer!

Waving Goodbye
By Gryphon & Jah (@di0xaine_) on September 14th, 2023 Discord servers shutting down within the Fallout community are sadly all too common, but that doesn’t mean we can’t send these communities off without a proper wave of goodbyes. This week has been quite shocking with the closing of not one, but three. Today we wave goodbye to F76Builders, Tales From the Wasteland, and Blue Ridge Irregulars, which have all chosen to close down.

News Director Jah and I sat down with Li of TFTW, and Jangles of BRI, to ask them a couple of questions and give these communities a proper send-off. We reached out to Cowabunga, but sadly they were unable to respond.

Our first question to each of them was about their vision when they each started their server, what their goal was and what they wanted out of their servers:
 * Li: “I wanted a place to have a variety of stories and ways for people to share them. The idea was, as roleplay is, where you could play as anything you wanted.”
 * Jangles: “We wanted to be a multi-faction roleplay group with an emphasis on inter-faction cooperation and some text rp elements, since few servers seemed to marry text RP and in-game RP. Other than that, I’m not sure we had goals beyond growing and having fun.”

Next, we asked them about how they and their staff feel about this chapter ending:
 * Li: “I've come to terms with it being too bold of an idea to implement alone. Overall, the interaction was low for the roleplay side of the group and hard to keep going and with the amount of time I have for personal projects alongside this, and after giving it enough thought that's ok. Someone is welcome to take the idea for themselves and I wish them the best with it.”
 * Jangles: “We’re all sad to see it end, of course, but I think it was time. Everyone can move onto other projects now, at least.”

Finally, we asked if they had any closing thoughts or words they’d like to share:
 * Li: “Probably think it through a bit more before you jump into such a big idea lol. It takes a lot of effort to advertise alongside just interacting with yourself and it can be more than you're expecting. Out of the pros I have from my group, I'm proud of the way I did them this time. Make sure you have your rules set up prior, and respect yourself enough to not just be a billboard for other groups to advertise and set up rules for that as well (limits, timeframes, etc). You will see a lot of that getting into this. I hope you all achieve what you want with your groups and endeavors. God Bless.”
 * Jangles: “Remember folks: This is a game, we’re here to have fun! Happy trails.”

'''It’s always sad to see a community go, but Li and Jangles seem optimistic that people will move on, even maybe take on the idea of their servers. We really admire the acceptance and the optimism that they both displayed throughout their interviews, and we look forward to seeing what they’ll do in the future. We here at the GNN wish to thank Li, and Jangles for their participation in the interview, and we also wish all those members of F76Builders, TFTW, and BRI good luck, and a safe journey in the wasteland, as Jangles said, “Happy trails!”

Volume 0: Stories From a Wasteland Journalist: A Beginning
By Gryphon on September 14th, 2023

Greetings Tribune readers, today I come to you with not the story I was planning on writing, but a story I must share all the same. Recently, as I was traveling through Northern Virginia on the tail of an article, I came across quite an interesting sight.

Sequestered away in a pre-war apartment building were two skeletons, a man and his wife as I’d soon find out. Now, a sight like this is sadly all too common, since the Great War, and one might chalk these two up as just another casualty of the bombs. But in actuality, the story of these two is much deeper than that; nearby the skeletons was a small table, and atop that was a pair of wedding rings, a holotape, and a note, which I have transcribed below..

When I read that note I was struck by a sense of purpose. A request from fellow journalists, a last wish. Sharing stories that they didn’t have the chance to. As soon as I got back to my office I loaded up the holotape and ‘lo and behold, months and months of entries, upwards of a year, maybe two! This man, this Journalist, Arthur, had written hundreds of entries as he traveled across the country, stories of life just after the bombs, and I have the privilege to share them all with you on this tribune. I hope you all join me on this Journey as I begin to share “Stories from a Wasteland Journalist”.

A Galaxy Conference (005) - Arccharger, Another Millenia Mod Creator
By Jah (@di0xazine_) on September 13th, 2023 With each person's start in Fallout, there are many things to get into. There is many paths to get you started in your journey in this fascinating game. '''From content creation, to art, and to storytelling. But throughout all of them, the biggest one so far is the modding scene in the Fallout community. The person being, who has started the popular “Another Millenia” Fallout New Vegas Mod is the amazing Arccharger'''. We talked to him about how he started and why. Let’s get into it.

When Arc was 13, he first got into Fallout on the Xbox 360 with Fallout 3, then moved into being more active in the community when Fallout 4 came out. The first thing he got affiliated with was doing beta testing for a Fallout 4 modpack called Junkmaster by kungfuman. Arc said how he “''did a lot of beta testing and feedback for that. I didn’t actually get into making my own mods until 2021 and now I’m here,''” he said. For a little bit, he was on the Xbox side, the reason as of him getting into the Xbox side is since he didn’t have a PC to be able to use more modding tools. With getting more into the modding community, especially at the moment he focuses on refreshing and remastering some of the older weapon mods with “modern methods for better compatibility with modern mods,” including with digging his claws into the basic texturing for creatures in the game and other items. Adding on with him doing scripting for the AWO line of mods and helped with weapon models for CFWR. But with getting a PC in 2021, Arc was able to make his largest and popular mod to share to many different lovers of Fallout. The Another Millenia Mod. As he said about it, “with the help of my team, and other outside sources put together with the most complete and up to date version of Millenia’s weapons mods including new custom bashed weapons, unreleased weapons and several dozen unique weapons sprinkled through the Mojave,” said Arc. He than said right after that stating, “''It's the only one that has an ini to control things like weapon name, distribution, and even if you have something like the Big Guns framework what weapons use that. Also it is for the most part fully animated through Knvse''”. Arc was able to share new things coming to the mod soon for the next update that being the Mac-10, L85/LSW, Walther PPK, MP7 and much more!

'''Arc gave some advice if you or someone you know wants to get into modding. “Don't be scared to ask questions or ask for help, and try to stay away from older guides. And always be kind!” We will see you in the next conference! Discord: Another Millenia Mod Discord'''

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