A peek into the Second Golden Age event can be found over at IGN: Planet Calypso Launches Into Space

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Evaluation say – MindArk and FPC will launch VU10.0 today, in app. 1-2 hours. We have a team monitoring the launch and to fix any issues that arise. Be nice to the new world and please report any issues or bugs you encounter to the Entropia Support.

See you on Calypso!

Quick update on the ongoing release work with VU 10. Still no ETA as to when we open up Planet Calypso VU10. We are still in transition mode and test and tweak things. An ETA will probably be given tomorrow when we have evaluated the tests and tweaks. An Content List as well as a VU 10 FAQ will be released as well, once the evaulation will allow it. We don’t want to release any information too early and thus risking it to become false due to last minute updates.

Participants unable to take advantage of the BitTorrent Pre-Launch Client now have the option of downloading the VU 10.0 client software from an official mirror hosted by EntropiaForum.com.

The Entropia Forum mirror features a Content Delivery Network with 21 servers located across the world, providing speedy downloads of the new client for participants in North America, Europe and Asia.

Full details can be found on EntropiaForum.com:

Entropia Universe VU 10.0 client software download mirror hosted by EntropiaForum.com

War Titan Typhon impacted at Hadesheim at 00:00.15 UTC August 17th.

The explosion was large enough for debris to be thrown into space. Fire-storms are raging across north-west Eudoria. An ash cloud is quickly forming over Calypso, blocking the sun. Surface readings indicate that the global temperature is dropping, and scientists are expecting a minor ice age.

Planet Calypso has been declared a disaster area by the Federal Imperial Navy, and travel to and from the planet is restricted until further notice.

Just as the Typhon passed the orbit of Calypso’s outer moon Eris, the looming war machine accelerated despite the increasing long range barrage of the pursuing battle group. The new trajectory means that it will hit Calypso near Hadesheim.

RDI predicts massive destruction: given the mass of the War Titan, the impact crater will probably be on the order of two kilometers in diameter, there will be an area of total devastation several times bigger, and secondary effects of the impact will probably cause a small ice age. “If you’re not off the planet until then, you’re toast” as the RDI spokesman put it.

And chances are that a lot of people will be toast. In order to maximize casualties, Scylla-like robot units are threatening the routes to the evacuation hangars, wreaking havoc on colonists trying to get off the planet in time.

An armada of civilian ships took off from Calypso and surrounding space stations, in a last ditch attempt to stop the approaching War Titan Typhon. The plan was to get close to the War Titan under long range cover fire from the pursuing Federal Imperial Navy battle group, and insert special operations team in order to destroy or divert the War Titan.

The plan quickly went haywire. As the armada left atmosphere and were preparing for their gauntlet run towards Typhon, they were intercepted by the missing Medium Strike Vessel Damocles. The leaders of the armada decided to divert some ships to board the Damocles, while the rest moved on to Typhon.

The ships attacking Typhon suffered heavy losses, despite the cover barrage from the Federal Imperial Navy. The special operations teams did not succeed in their mission: contact with the boarding party was quickly lost and Typhon’s trajectory has not changed. The fate of the Damocles team was equally grim: the last transmission from the landing party before it was lost revealed large “Scylla” like mechs. No number count was confirmed.

The pursuing battle group continues to pound Typhon, but at the range their weapons are largely ineffectual. Damocles is in high orbit above Calypso, and is out of range of the battle group. Ground forces are on high alert and requested to assist at evacuation locations.

As every telescope and sensor system gazes at War Titan Typhon, it is evident that Typhon will not break for orbit or try to land on Calypso: Typhon is aimed for impact. Astronomers have calculated that in present trajectory, Typhon will impact the Western ocean just after midnight the night to Monday.

After deliberations with the Federal Imperial Navy and the Ministry of Colonial Affairs, a clearly worn major Jenny Carramone finally addressed the public. In a prepared statement, she announced that colonists of Planet Calypso should be evacuated to the relative safety of Exodus or any other off-planet site.

Her statement was immediately contradicted by the Under-Secretary of Colonial Affairs, mr Otto Kummel, who said that the threat of the War Titan Typhon was severely overestimated, and that the cost for evacuation would be too high considering the relatively low risk. “The robots will not crash a major piece of hardware like Typhon into Calypso” he said. “They will land, take my word for it. We have fought off the robots before; we will do it again.”

However, civil authorities on Calypso have not retracted Major Carramone’s evacuation order. As Governor Dumpty said, “I’m not sure who the ‘we’ that mr Kummel speaks about are, but they are definitely not in a cushy office on Earth”.

Space has been cleared on Exodus Space Station as well as other facilities in orbit of Calypso and tenders of the Federal Imperial Navy stand ready to receive evacuees from Calypso.

Since the destruction of Fleet Support Vessel Julius Caesar, Fleet Command has transferred to the new flagship, Heavy Strike Vessel Alexander, that leads the breakneck hunt for Typhon. The war-torn battle group has been further diminished as the battle of Hypnos takes its toll.

Rapid Strike Vessel Tutankhamen exploded from engine failure. Medical Support Ship Eratosthenes had to stop completely as its engines failed just inside the orbits of Janus 1 and 2.

The strangest fate of all is that of the Medium Strike Vessel Damocles, that suddenly increased speed and left the battle group behind. When hailed, the damaged warship did not respond at first, and then transmitted a powerful but garbled digital code signal. Contact with MSV Damocles was then lost.