It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year and as the thyroid War rages on some are engaged some
are not if you're out doing your own thing there's an in-game event for Christmas 3308 that's dropped
from Frontier to help you take your mind off all the Carnage and Mayhem caused by the thyroids
the thyroid War has had an impact on Christmas however and delivery methods are being used up
by rescuing hostages from all those outposts that are being taken on by
the thyroids so it's down to us commanders to start delivering presents to children
thank you hello it's Ricardo and welcome back to Elite dangerous yes folks it's Christmas and the
in-game event is with us let's take a look and see what it's all about they say Christmas Comes only
once a year but in Elite dangerous you could also say that it comes multiple times who were
what are we saying well you've got your maelstroms with your thyroids you've got brand new ax
weapon updates as well you've got enhanced ax multi-canons you got missile racks you've got
fixed and turreted multi-cannons and if you're to believe it a gimbaled multi-canon coming as well
cause toy Emporium has called for help Pilots Federation alert it says Sandra cause the CEO
of the largest manufacturer of children's toys in the course systems has requested
help this holiday season many parents will be familiar with Sandra's Workshop lovely play
on words there Frontier can't you can't fault it recognizing the company logo stamped across
countless datapad's interactive Suites and tactile playsets designed for youngsters but the joy of
this year's festive season is at risk y thyroids with the recent thyroid Invasion impacting the
workshop's distribution chain in an interview with Vox Galactica cause explained we typically use a
feat of Transport provided by our partner company Dolce roots to deliver presents to Good Children
all across the bubble but those transports have been assigned to provide evacuation support to
63 Tory entirely understandable and they applaud the company for its Brave work but it does leave
many presents without a slate as my grandfather used to say I'm hoping that independent Pilots
will fill the vacancy left deliver festive gifts to the children in time for the upcoming holidays
Arrangements will be made to provide a variety of wonderful rewards for those pilots who help
keep youthful Spirits high in these troubling times Pilots will be willing to help Sandra's
Workshop can collect festive gifts from the frost dock Outpost in the njabala system a
beacon outside of frost dock will distribute delivery information when scanned so it's a pickup
and delivery missions for which you will then be rewarded for your efforts now as it is an active
in-game event this is your spoiler alert spoiler alert spoiler alert you may want to stop watching
if you want to do this yourself and discover all the mysteries of the Sandra's Workshop yourself
well thanks for sticking around and it's now time to get ourselves over to frost doc now
it's an outpost so as you all know no large ships here something nice and medium once you get there
Sandra cause is gonna send you a message as soon as you're Dock and this message States as follows
thank you for visiting frost.commander it's such a busy time of the year here and we're in need
of your help outside this station is a beacon wasn't actually outside this station we will
get to that in a minute containing letters from children all across the bubble I'm eager to ensure
we deliver gifts to as many as we can but our usual delivery team at Dolph's Roots is helping
transport refugees from the awful thyroid War even Nicholas Saint Claus is at full capacity this year
if you haven't already scan the beacon to obtain a selection of letters you'll have to figure out
where the sender lives from the message text it can sometimes be confusing so nice and easy what
we have to do now is get into this station pick up the commodity at the market um it's not a mission
to select I've already been given your mission via the text all you got there is usual ax multi-canon
stuff that's currently running so what you do is you get yourself back into the commodity Market
and you scroll all the way down for the rare items and there they are festive gifts colorful
presents for both naughty and nice you can get a maximum of 24 of these festive gifts
to put into your hold but as you'll see as we go through this step you only need to deliver
one ton of gifts to complete a of the mission and a ton of gifts is is quite a lot he come
to think of it anyway festive gifts there you are they're bigger for nice kids and not as big
for naughty kids as it should be so it's time to get ourselves over now to Sandra's post box now
it's not directly outside this station it's kind of kind of not right there but it's quite easy to
go and find Sandra's post box is a little ways away once you get there you scan the
beacon normal Beacon as you'd normally see and it's going to give you six messages the
first one is from Helena lamura age nine I have been very good this year all my class work was
complete I helped Daddy with changing Tommy in the mornings it goes on um let me make some stew
on a Wednesday she keeps saying it's vocally special but it tastes so weird now this is a
bit of a play on words and perhaps the easiest one to sink your teeth into vocally special and weird
well no one likes horrible stew so it's time to get ourselves over to the weird system and
Buckley station now it's not too far away as you probably imagine from the starting system
where Frost stock is Type in weird into the Galaxy map and it will show you it is better
cool 187.9 light years away so time to get in the old slay and get myself all the way
over there now going into the system map you can just check you're looking for the station
and have a good old search around have a bit of a rummage and there's Buckley station here
no dramas that's where we're going that's where we're going to deliver the first set of presents
so we zoomed straight over there no dramas in the weird system don't forget there is an engineer
here as well if you want to do a little bit of engineering getting ourselves in and Landing
as soon as we're on the pad nothing special to do here you just go into that old starport Services
into the commodity section and like I say it's time to sell one ton of festive gifts that's all
you need to do one turn of festive gifts so onto the sell section scroll all the way down festive
gifts thank you very much um select one ten if you want to drop 24 tons on them for a child
here we go 110 sell Bush there you go and straight away you'll get that notification
message as well so here we go enter notifications complete and what do we get well we get a type
9 snowfall Chestnut paint job and a festive firework launcher red which is in local storage
so that's part one well and truly out of the way quite simple no anyway it's time to go and get
our second clue from the list of six that we got from Sandra's drop list Sandra's post box as it
were so into the messaging side of things uh down to number two and we say okay this is from paddy
Gilbert age 11 hello Sandra this Cheeky Monkey wants the latest medal of Duty 142 game uh
because stupid friend Colin keeps beating me at medal of Duty 141 and saying he's the best
player on Crackle Zone and I must admit I didn't know where Kragle Zone was so I went to good old
search engine Google you know it you love it you hate it whatever and typed in craigle's own early
dangerous that brought up eddb and all the other tools and that told me that it was in Wolf 397.
now this wasn't as far as the last jumper and I was quite easy to do it in my crate
which has got very like minimal modification because it's my Santa's sleigh crate for all
these sort of events okay getting in there same old stuff we've seen it before uh we've
been through all the hard part of trying to work out where you actually deliver it
to down to the Commodities market and you just drop off one turn festive gifts select one ton
there we go bum Bosch sell you get that notification message and straight up
into the messaging and you can see you've got another completion and this time we get a crate
Phantom snowfall Chestnut paint job and a festive firework launcher yellow that's in local storage
time to move on to number three
now time for number three on our list this one is from Gareth Brun age six dear Sandra please may I
have a moon with some snow on it my sister keeps telling me there's no snow on our moon so I want
to give one to her my sister is very nice to me and I love her very much isn't that lovely so snow
moon in Elite dangerous this sounds like a station to me so back onto Google again snow Moon Elite
dangerous where is it so off the old Galaxy map onto Google and you'll find it in the Bento system
from that location it's 113 light years away only a short jump nice
and easy into the system map having a look through there it is snow Moon
plotted into the station let's get ourselves over there
the trip over to the third part of this Quest is uneventful to say the least but once you do get
into the Bento system there is the opportunity to see a federal capital ship in Dry Dock now
if you don't see this very often it is a nice in-game spectacle it's not really attached to
the Christmas event but it's worthwhile taking the opportunity to go and take a look at it
I certainly did and I do I it's they're great little things to go and check out inside the game
getting over to snow Moon station in the Bento system straight in in and dock you
know the score by now we're gonna Dock and we're gonna go straight to the Commodities Market once
we've done that we're gonna sell a 10 and then we're gonna be rewarded with a particular gift
now this is the third mission in our Quest
here we are we're just docking a bit of a refuel star Port Services straight into commodities
onto the cells section scrolling down to our festive gifts let's ensure we just sell one ton
there you go we get our notification
and then we get our reward for being a good Santa so three of six there you are we get what do we
get a diamondback Explorer snowfall Chestnut plant job and then a festive firework launcher in green
which is also placed in local storage well these festive firework launchers are all well and good
I thought I got too fitted to the ship already let's fit the green one and get ourselves looking
all festive for the festive season so straight into experimental um there it is right I've
already got one to be perfectly honest from last year's winking cat solution which I've got to say
I did enjoy a little bit more than this one I know Frontier got a lot going on but if you look at the
pre-engineered module you can see it doesn't do a hell of a lot of damage it's decorative green
as well you know we got green we got red we got yellow so if you look at a standard remote
launcher you can see it does do a bit of damage and is used very well against the fairground swarm
which is very topical right about now looking at the decorative one and it is just that
it's just a firework launcher by Any Other Name either way I thought I'd equip it and
store my Advanced plasma accelerator this is not my combat ship it's just my sleigh
and there it is check it out in all its festive remote flak launcher Glory good old turreted
weapon now to fire these off I set into forward fire and you can see they do give quite a nice
spectacular effect anyway I've been Ricardo this has been the first three missions of the
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