First, we would like to thank everyone who donated this month to help us reach our goal - and all of those that have donated in the past. As most of our players know Awakening relies on those donations to cover operational costs and any shortfalls in funding ultimately falls on staff to cover. In August we saw quite a few first-time donors and hope to see that trend continue in the future. So, we decided to implement an incentive plan to try getting the donation meter consistently filled on a monthly basis while possibly expanding the donor pool.

Beginning in September, bonus xp will be turned on for the remainder of the month once the donation meter hits 100% on the following schedule:

• Occurs on or before the 15th of the month - 50%
• After the 15th but on or before the 20th - 25%
• After the 20th - 10%

To kick off this incentive we will be granting double xp for the Labor Day holiday weekend which will start at the time of this post.

Thank you all for making Awakening your SWG home!

About a month and a half ago we asked our players if automating the resource updates to Galaxy Harvester was something the players of Awakening would like to see implemented. We got a resounding "yes" from our community including those of you who put in many hours of your time over the past several years to keep resource information current.

We are pleased to announce that beginning at 9am Eastern on August 17th, resource updates will be uploaded to the site at 12 hour intervals. We got a huge assist by the GH team, who elevated the reputation of our new SwgAwakening account to prevent any issues with posting to the site. The update will include any new resources that have spawned and those that have despawned.

Thanks for playing Awakening and let us know if there are other features you would like to see by posting in suggestions.

After much evaluation and debate the Empire has determined that Rebel forces have damaged the Enhancement Terminals beyond repair. Those units will be replaced with brand new Enhancement Droids that will perform the same functions with some minor improvements. These droids carry more effective medical enhancements than the retired units were capable of delivering. Imperial officers have also been overheard discussing some of the advanced features and modules that can be equipped for special deployments.

Services provided by these units will be performed at no charge until they have been properly calibrated.

The SWG Awakening website has been moved to a new server and the issues preventing email communications being sent out have been resolved. Anyone who registered or attempted a password reset during over the last couple of days and did not receive the expected messages should submit those requests again.

We apologize to anyone that was inconvenienced during the email outage.

Rumors have begun to circulate that CSR tokens are appearing on vendors throughout the galaxy. However, little is known about their locations. Brave explorers will need to confirm their existence.

Six vendors have been spread out across the galaxy, each containing a single item. Three of them are CSR tokens that can be traded in for rare and unique items in the CSR prize hall!

Hints may be given beginning at 8pm eastern on July 19th if any of the location of any of these vendors are left undiscovered.

Good luck to all of our hunters!