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Jun 28, 2023

THE GALAXY TRIBUNE
EDITION #002

MODUS "Bethesda Tracker" Down


June 26, 2023 - The popular Fallout Discord Bot called "MODUS" that helps with tracking alerts from Bethesda and helping with server tracking currently has one of their commands taken offline at the moment. Reason being that of Reddit's new API Policies and Services changes. On June 9th, 2023.. Reddit Founder "spez" posted the announcement of the API changes and as everyone knows, it is a horrible change.

As per the words of the Head Developer "Tex", he said in an announcement about the discovery on June 24th that "After some back and forth with solutions on how to solve this problem. We ended up thinking about Reddit's new ridicules API... while we might be able to stay under the free tier, the API calls would be slower and comments might not appear as frequent and while Reddit has opened up to ome moderation tools. MODUS and/or NukaCrypt would not fall under this exception."

Following this announcement, they made it clear that the command was going to be offline for the following time and the developer team will be making changes to be able to get the command back up in a new way.

'' *This story is still developing. ''

A Galaxy Conference (001) - Interview with JlBrook88
As one of our first interviews of covering people who genuinely deserve to be covered for their hard work, talent(s) and or amazing thinking and concentration in many different communities. This person is one who have should been interviewed a long time ago.

Brook became a member of the "Fallout 76 Factions" community in 2019, exactly four years ago when he joined the server launch of a 500+ member Children of Atom server. Eventually, the server split at the Church of Charleston. However, he mentioned that he was kicked out of the server two months later due to inactivity. During that time, he avoided strangers, refrained from posting on social media out of fear of judgment, never teamed up, and couldn't form friendships in the game. Everything changed on June 22nd of that year when another member of the Factions Community, named "Scoty," started the Vault-Tec Corporation server and shared it on a Fallout Facebook group. Upon joining, Brook chose to be part of "Vault 108," the East Coast server. Alongside Scoty, he also met "Ken," the creator of the "CHAD: A Fallout 76 Story" podcast. These connections enabled him to bring about the change he desired within the community by becoming more active.

During his time in VTC, Scoty's posts were highly effective in achieving his desired outcomes, no longer requiring his direct attention. Eventually, Scoty offered Brook the first opportunity for a chief position due to his unwavering commitment and hard work within VTC. After considering it for a while, Brook requested the ACEO role. Once entrusted with this responsibility, he accomplished a tremendous amount for VTC, contributing to its growth and establishing the first alliance with the West Virginia Public Radio faction, the inspiration for Galaxy News Network. The alliance with the WVPR was his icebreaker and made hundreds of alliances after that. With the support of his close friends, including General Anderson from the old West Virginia Republic, another influential faction leader, VTC expanded rapidly. At the time in July of 2019, old WVR created a little while back the "United Coalition", a server that shares the same vision as Fallout Federation to unite the community and partner with different factions. VTC joined this alliance and later on Brook was able to join the UC's High Council with the support of Anderson, but a little after the election, he saw the person Anderson was. Brook said how "Anderson was the main issue we had with the old WVR. He used to pay people to nuke and raid Discord servers, doxx people, and take over small servers to take the people for himself." Brook said how VTC was being used to "offset the shady evil of the WVR." He was even threatened that if he left that "he was going to eliminate VTC and my leader friends" but he had enough of it as December 2019 came around, Brook had left the UC and any form of alliance with the old WVR. The faction than declared war against the VTC in January 2020 and started to grief and attack Brook's faction in-game and in Discord. Many different servers with this kind of attack would have had their leaders flee and give the server to the opposing server but VTC did not back down and fought hard and won with the included support of the Factions Community to take down Anderson and the old WVR as they told their members what WVR leadership had been really doing and the members leaving. VTC had won the war.



Brook went on how when they left the Fallout Community that they went into the ESO community. He did have to close VTC until that September but later on in the years, a new WVR had emerged with the leadership of old and calm Knights and Server Administration of the old WVR. He partnered with them in VTC and FF and stated in the interview that "The WVR you know today is not the same one, just making that clear." During this time, Brook and a handful of people the likes of Brook himself, Pinky, SocialV8, Professor, Delta, OMEGA and myself helped create the server today of Fallout Federation.

FF's vision is like UC's but a bigger message on community and collaboration but in the middle of this big community, another type of era was coming in the factions community and with that being the great leave. Old faction leaders were departing from the factions community and those servers were disbanding. Brook commented how "It sucks. It does feel lonely. It's hard to believe that I'm still around. They always liked me for my stubbornness and never wanting to give up." At the end of 2020, most of the old factions were dead including FF and going solo with VTC, stating that "The original community was officially gone. Our friends left us for other games... I went solo with Vault-Tec Corporation from late 2020, until September last year. Over 3 nonstop years." He then also stated that "during VTC's final years, we had more success uniting the community, mediating, and protecting... Rads and I decided to shut it down, rebranding was not an option. We did not want to erase our legacy."



But around Mid-2022, he was given back ownership of the Fallout Federation and which was a turning point. He pulled full focus into it and moved his Admin team from VTC to FF and built it from the bottom up. By the end of 2022, the "Server is booming with activity, and we have almost 30 servers partnered with us." said Brook. He said that how his mission is still the same when he joined four years ago.. "Protect, Help and Unite" as he continues with his developer team in FF to push and eliminate any toxic communities from the faction community to make it enjoyable for everyone. As of recent of this month, Brook has been absent for medical reasons and "can't wait to get back."



Brooks current plans when he gets back and recovers from his medical leave is continue working on Fallout Federation to help and keep the community calm and united and is/has been working on for the past year, a new server community for the up-incoming game called "Starfield" with his right hand "Rads". he stated that "This server is going to be something that no one has ever seen or experienced. Starfield isn't going to be the only thing out of this world." and how "We have some huge partnerships lined up already. We're shooting for 5,000+ members. I'm gonna pull a Todd, I don't want to give away too many details." We here at Galaxy News Network hopes he recovers fast and is happy to be able to get a chance on interviewing him for all the work he has done. As someone who has worked with and for him for the past four-ish years, when I was about 14-15 years old.. it has been such a pleasure to work with him and I cannot be affiliated with his future projects as he continues to be on Discord. As he said at the end "We're extremely excited for what the future holds for both communities."

Galaxy News Network is hiring writers!
June 27th, 2023 - At the Galaxy News Network, we want to be able to shine a light on people and or communities in Fallout that deserve the shoutout to grow and expand, and to highlight new and exciting things happening in the game and out. So GNN is hiring writers for The Galaxy Tribune! This gives an opportunity for people all throughout the Fallout Community to get a chance to spotlight new and exciting things to share with the masses! If you are interested in being a writer, contact for more information and application! We hope to see some new faces soon for the Tribune!