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Immediately after the launch of **Next**Colony about 2 weeks ago, we made countless optimizations and fixed bugs. An essential optimization is the <a href="https://jarunik.github.io/nc-docs/api/">API</a> and therefore <a href="https://nextcolony.io/">**Next**Colony</a> runs much smoother.

We were really overwhelmed by the mass of players. We are now working on our next big module, the **battle module**. The date for the start of the battle module is now fixed.

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<center><sub>Battle starts on</sub>
**June 8, 2019 20:00:00 UTC**
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**Now it's your turn!** Expand your mines, choose the skills you want to enhance, explore the environment around your planet and search for a new planet to colonize. Join an strong alliance, form alliances and trade pacts with the settlers in your area. We've released the **deploy** mission, so you can buy and sell ships now.

The first explorers have already entered unknown areas. From reliable sources we can report, however, that only one new planets have been sighted yet.

Until the start of the battle module we will publish fragments here as usual.

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**Here are some fresh numbers for you:**

- 1,807 settlers
- 329,416 transactions to date
- 14 settlers with explorer level 20
- 28 missions, of which 27x explore
- 25 explore missions performed, one planet found
- 24 ships built or under construction

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Tell your friends, your family, your neighbors, and all your colleagues about the launch of the battle module on **June 8**, 2019 20:00:00 UTC.

Join the official <a href="https://discord.gg/55r9rU2">discord server</a> now.

**Resteem to the moon.**

Stay tuned.
**Next**Colony