GNN

This icon appear on your viewscreen (top right) to inform that a GNN Newsflash awaits on docking. It appears when you enter the aegis

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3130 MGMT - GalCop begins a programme of retrofitting out-of-date communications equipment on older vessels.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.

source: Encyclopedia Galactica

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.

Features

GNN is the successor to Snoopers.

Four established news agencies. GNN, Rooters, Snoopers and the good old Tionisla Chronicle
Hot news for Constrictor Hunt, Nova and Asteroid Storm mission.
Useable for other oxps.
Configurable through Library OXP.

Documentation

API Documentation for OXP developers
Forum

Requirements

Latest version needs Oolite v1.88.
Library 1.7,1.

Download

GNN1.2.oxz (oxz, 4.1 MB)

Links

Communication
What are these "Map-Update" news alerts? (2016) - they had an important function before Oolite v.1.82 came out
A news OXP (2006) - fons et origo of all this?