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[[File:GNN Newsflash.png|thumb|right|The viewscreen (top right) icon informing you that a GNN Newsflash awaits on docking. It appears when you enter the [[aegis]] ]]
 
[[Image:IconGNN.png|100px|right]]
 
[[Image:IconGNN.png|100px|right]]
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GNN (The Galactic News Network) - in-game newsflashes
 
== Story ==
 
== Story ==
 
[[Image:Snoopers_Cover.jpg|Cover or undercover. We take it.|180px|thumb|right]]
 
[[Image:Snoopers_Cover.jpg|Cover or undercover. We take it.|180px|thumb|right]]
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* source: [http://daftworks.co.uk/elite/index.php/Galactic_Timeline Encyclopedia Galactica]
 
* source: [http://daftworks.co.uk/elite/index.php/Galactic_Timeline Encyclopedia Galactica]
 
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And communications companies popped up like mushrooms, offering dubious and sometimes very expensive services,
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And communications companies popped up like mushrooms, offering dubious and sometimes very expensive services, each trying to grab the biggest slice of this new market, swept up by a gold rush fever. Only a handful of news agencies survived the ensuing 'War of Information' - an orgy of mergers, acquisitions, lawsuits and the occasional little bit of terrorism and sabotage - to create today's stable news market that we know and love.
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each trying to grab the biggest slice of this new market, swept up by a gold rush fever. Only a handful of news agencies survived the ensuing 'War of Information' - an orgy of mergers, acquisitions, lawsuits and the occasional little bit of terrorism and sabotage - to create today's stable news market that we know and love.
 
  
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== Features ==
 
== Features ==
 
GNN is the successor to [[Snoopers]].
 
GNN is the successor to [[Snoopers]].
 
* Four established news agencies. GNN, Rooters, Snoopers and the good old Tionisla Chronicle
 
* Four established news agencies. GNN, Rooters, Snoopers and the good old Tionisla Chronicle
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* Hot news for [[Oolite_Missions|Constrictor Hunt]], [[Oolite_Missions|Nova]] and [[Asteroid_Storm|Asteroid Storm]] mission.
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* Hot news for the [[Oolite_Missions|Constrictor Hunt]], [[Oolite_Missions|Nova]] and [[Asteroid_Storm|Asteroid Storm]] missions.
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* Useable for other oxps.
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* Usable by other oxps.
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* Configurable through [[Library]].
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* Configurable through [[Library OXP]].
  
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[[File:BGS XMapping.jpg|thumb|right|300px|BGS-X Mapping (note the rather dim buttons on the right for toggling regions and spacelanes)]]
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=== OXPs using GNN ===
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*[[Asteroid Storm]]
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*[[BlOomberg Markets]]
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*[[Diplomancy OXP]]
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*[[GalCop Missions]]
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*[[The Galactic Almanac OXZ]]
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*[[UPS Courier]]
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=== Declarations of Regional/SpaceLane Naming ===
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These were originally introduced in conjunction with BGS-X Mapping, where these features would ''appear'' on the F6 chart only after their announcement by Snoopers/GNN. The changes to the F6 chart introduced by Oolite v.1.82 comprehensively clobbered BGS-X.
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See [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=18170 What are these "Map-Update" news alerts?] (2016)
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[[File:Tca.png|right|200px]]
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=== Tionisla Chronicle Array OXP ===
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An associated OXP.
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The [[Tionisla Chronicle Array]] OXP adds in a news broadcasting station to each of the 8 galaxies. This station is felt by many to be one of the most beautiful in Oolite.
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That in the first galaxy is called the Tionisla Chronicle Array, and is located at Tionisla itself, on the opposite side of the planet from the main orbital station. There is also an associated mission ([[Tionisla Reporter]] OXP).
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The news broadcasting stations in the other 7 galaxies are named after other news services, 4 of which do not (yet) feature in GNN's broadcasts in those galaxies: The Views of the Worlds Array (Galaxy 2), The Daily Wail Array (Galaxy 4), The G5TVN Array (Galaxy 5) and The StarSports Array (Galaxy 7).
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== Channels ==
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[[Image:Snoopers_Snoopers.png|right|Snoopers.gal - Independent]]
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=== Snoopers.gal ===
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We snoop, it's what we do best. Every rumour, every unbelievable tale from every corner of every chart. We collect, collate, dismiss as guff or reveal as unimaginable truth. If you haven't yet heard the one about Raxxla, then visit our pages: ooo.snoopers.gal
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Heard a rumour: rumour@snoopers.gal
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Got a question: whatisseventimessix@snoopers.gal
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[[Image:Snoopers_GNN.png|right|GNN - Official GalCoop Network]]
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=== Galactic News Network ===
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Up to the minute live commentary on the issues that matter across all eight charts. Voted best Serious News Channel for three consecutive cycles.  Unparalleled access to the upper echelons of The Galactic Cooperative and the Galactic Navy. We don't start rumours, we don't report rumours, just the news, the truth, without spin or compromise.
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=== Rooters ===
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[[Image:Snoopers_Rooters.png|right|Rooters - Independent]]
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Didn't 'vape that embarrassing nano-storage crystal properly? Is that fly on the wall really just a fly? Here at Rooters we rely on the fact that corrupt people surround themselves with other like-minded people.  Like-minded people who are usually less well paid/bribed than their superiors and not above taking a tongue loosening bung from one of our highly unscrupulous reporters.  We're here to reveal the truth and we're not above paying for it, stealing it or intercepting it before it goes to the trash compactor.  No matter how well buried you think the truth is, we will dig it up.
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=== The Tionisla Chronicle ===
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[[Image:Snoopers_TC.png|right|The Tionisla Chronicle - THE network]]
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Affectionately known as the 'Chronic', and considered by many to inhabit the trashy end of the news market, nevertheless the Tionisla Chronicle is one of the most widely read news feeds broadcasting around the galaxy with advertising revenues in excess of five million credits per year. Its blend of populist articles, local news, hyperbole and scant regard for complete factual accuracy, aimed squarely at the impecunious yet entrepreneurial small-time trader, endears it to many.
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It is one of the longest-running news networks, with an unbroken line of editors stretching back to 2781. The current editor-in-chief, Anna Mereso, worked her way up through the ranks as a reporter, finally clinching the top job by being in the right place at the right time to cover the 'Lave Blockade' of 3125 as featured in the closing chapters of [[Status Quo]]. The origin of its famous catchphrase, "Truth is, we don't know!", has unfortunately been lost in the mists of time.
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The Chronicle operates from its base at Tionisla, transmitting from the [[Tionisla_Chronicle_Array|Chronicle Array]], on wideband channel 385.2.
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== Documentation ==
 
== Documentation ==
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For developers GNN gives you some infos. Just use the console, e.g.
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* [[GNN_Doc|API Documentation]] for OXP developers
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  worldScripts.GNN._Help();
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* Presuming that the ''GNN phrase generator'' was added in from CCL, [[Cabal Common Library Doc PhraseGen]] may well be relevant
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  worldScripts.GNN._Help("_insertNews");
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* [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19419 Forum ]
  
 
== Requirements ==
 
== Requirements ==
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* Latest version needs Oolite v1.86.
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* Latest version needs Oolite v1.88.
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* [[Library|Library 1.4]].
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* [[Library OXP|Library 1.7,1]].
  
 
== Download ==
 
== Download ==
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Currently Beta stadium.
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[https://app.box.com/s/0egrfa3a3c5nnpablgzucgd44tee15gb GNN1.2.oxz] (oxz, 4.1 MB)
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== Links ==
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*[[Communication]]
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*[https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2741 A news OXP] (2006) - fons et origo of all this?
  
 
==Quick Facts==
 
==Quick Facts==
 
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{{Infobox OXPb| title = GNN
 
{{Infobox OXPb| title = GNN
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|version = 1.0
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|version = 1.2
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|release = soon
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|release = 2018-11-21
 
|license = CC-by-nc-sa-4.0
 
|license = CC-by-nc-sa-4.0
 
|features = Images, Sounds & Music
 
|features = Images, Sounds & Music
 
|category = Ambience OXPs
 
|category = Ambience OXPs
 
|author = DaddyHoggy, Disembodied, Drew & Svengali
 
|author = DaddyHoggy, Disembodied, Drew & Svengali
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|feedback = [https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=19419 BB]
 
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Latest revision as of 01:47, 29 February 2024

The viewscreen (top right) icon informing you that a GNN Newsflash awaits on docking. It appears when you enter the aegis
IconGNN.png

GNN (The Galactic News Network) - in-game newsflashes

Story

Cover or undercover. We take it.

3130 MGMT - GalCop begins a programme of retrofitting out-of-date communications equipment on older vessels. At the same time, satellite and comms buoys are upgraded.


And communications companies popped up like mushrooms, offering dubious and sometimes very expensive services, each trying to grab the biggest slice of this new market, swept up by a gold rush fever. Only a handful of news agencies survived the ensuing 'War of Information' - an orgy of mergers, acquisitions, lawsuits and the occasional little bit of terrorism and sabotage - to create today's stable news market that we know and love.

IconLib.png

Features

GNN is the successor to Snoopers.

BGS-X Mapping (note the rather dim buttons on the right for toggling regions and spacelanes)

OXPs using GNN

Declarations of Regional/SpaceLane Naming

These were originally introduced in conjunction with BGS-X Mapping, where these features would appear on the F6 chart only after their announcement by Snoopers/GNN. The changes to the F6 chart introduced by Oolite v.1.82 comprehensively clobbered BGS-X.

See What are these "Map-Update" news alerts? (2016)

Tca.png

Tionisla Chronicle Array OXP

An associated OXP.

The Tionisla Chronicle Array OXP adds in a news broadcasting station to each of the 8 galaxies. This station is felt by many to be one of the most beautiful in Oolite.

That in the first galaxy is called the Tionisla Chronicle Array, and is located at Tionisla itself, on the opposite side of the planet from the main orbital station. There is also an associated mission (Tionisla Reporter OXP).

The news broadcasting stations in the other 7 galaxies are named after other news services, 4 of which do not (yet) feature in GNN's broadcasts in those galaxies: The Views of the Worlds Array (Galaxy 2), The Daily Wail Array (Galaxy 4), The G5TVN Array (Galaxy 5) and The StarSports Array (Galaxy 7).

Channels

Snoopers.gal - Independent

Snoopers.gal

We snoop, it's what we do best. Every rumour, every unbelievable tale from every corner of every chart. We collect, collate, dismiss as guff or reveal as unimaginable truth. If you haven't yet heard the one about Raxxla, then visit our pages: ooo.snoopers.gal

Heard a rumour: rumour@snoopers.gal

Got a question: whatisseventimessix@snoopers.gal

GNN - Official GalCoop Network

Galactic News Network

Up to the minute live commentary on the issues that matter across all eight charts. Voted best Serious News Channel for three consecutive cycles. Unparalleled access to the upper echelons of The Galactic Cooperative and the Galactic Navy. We don't start rumours, we don't report rumours, just the news, the truth, without spin or compromise.

Rooters

Rooters - Independent

Didn't 'vape that embarrassing nano-storage crystal properly? Is that fly on the wall really just a fly? Here at Rooters we rely on the fact that corrupt people surround themselves with other like-minded people. Like-minded people who are usually less well paid/bribed than their superiors and not above taking a tongue loosening bung from one of our highly unscrupulous reporters. We're here to reveal the truth and we're not above paying for it, stealing it or intercepting it before it goes to the trash compactor. No matter how well buried you think the truth is, we will dig it up.

The Tionisla Chronicle

The Tionisla Chronicle - THE network

Affectionately known as the 'Chronic', and considered by many to inhabit the trashy end of the news market, nevertheless the Tionisla Chronicle is one of the most widely read news feeds broadcasting around the galaxy with advertising revenues in excess of five million credits per year. Its blend of populist articles, local news, hyperbole and scant regard for complete factual accuracy, aimed squarely at the impecunious yet entrepreneurial small-time trader, endears it to many.

It is one of the longest-running news networks, with an unbroken line of editors stretching back to 2781. The current editor-in-chief, Anna Mereso, worked her way up through the ranks as a reporter, finally clinching the top job by being in the right place at the right time to cover the 'Lave Blockade' of 3125 as featured in the closing chapters of Status Quo. The origin of its famous catchphrase, "Truth is, we don't know!", has unfortunately been lost in the mists of time.

The Chronicle operates from its base at Tionisla, transmitting from the Chronicle Array, on wideband channel 385.2.

Documentation

Requirements

Download

GNN1.2.oxz (oxz, 4.1 MB)

Links

Quick Facts

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