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Weekly News Update - Medical news

Good evening everyone,

A little update here.

I've heard back from almost everyone and so far have not received anyone who is not returning to writing, which I am very glad about. We do have some personel changes happening in the medical department. Before we went into our dark period…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Oct 20, 2025 @ 4:22pm
Category: News


Starting again

Goodafternoon everyone,

We've been discussing it on our Discord, but the new mission and it's restart of our writing is a fact.

I just send a start for a JP to the people who were interested in joining. If you read this and you also want to be part of…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Oct 15, 2025 @ 12:13pm
Category: News


Website changes

Hey all,

I'm currently in the process of updating the website to fit the new mission. So you might see some things that don't fit with IC changes, but now you will know why.

So, please don't panic. I can only change one thing at a time.

~Kate

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sat Nov 5, 2022 @ 4:50pm
Category: News


Oktober 2021 Awards

What better way to celebrate a birthday then to give out awards.

The team and I have thought hard on what awards we wanted to hand out this edition. And we've came to the following:

First, the anniversary awards. These are given based on a person's time served on our…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Oct 13, 2021 @ 1:22pm
Category: Awards


Happy Birthday to Langley Station

I can hardly believe it's already been four years!

What started as a idea between four people to place a spacestation right next to the former demilitarized zone of Cardassian space. Has grown into a hub for many endeavours. From colony life on Lyshan Prime, to one of the two…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Oct 13, 2021 @ 1:00pm
Category: News


Let's start our new mission

Good morning everyone,

We've finally properly started our new mission. Two JP's are in the process of being written and I've created the new mission in the site.

One of the two JP's we're working on will introduce the mission, but in the mean time you can already start writing…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Tue Sep 28, 2021 @ 9:16am
Category: News


New Mission - First Defeat

When an archeological discovery brings terror and destruction...

For weeks archeological teams have been exploring the sands on Lyshan Colony to discover it's history. But until now it revealed nothing. Then the team comes across an ancient weapon from a time long gone. As they are trying to unravel it's…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed May 19, 2021 @ 10:16am
Category: News


April Fools 2021

Hello everyone.


For this years April Fools Event I would like to welcome you all to write a post or a few of em, doesn't matter how much.

This event will be running from the 1st of April till the last day of April 2021. At the end the jury…

Author: John Sheppard
Posted on: Wed Mar 24, 2021 @ 7:36pm
Category: News


Announcement regarding Langley's XO!

Good afternoon everyone,

I’ve got an announcement for you.

After lots of talking and thinking over the last several week Dan has decided to step down as Executive Officer of Langley Station. To be frank, he even offered me to look for a replacement a few weeks ago, but I…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Tue Oct 20, 2020 @ 12:25pm
Category: News


New storyline: Passing the Baton

I've came up with a new story line that will be part of our regular mission First Unity. I hope to be telling, together with all of you, the story of how 24 hours on the station could look like.

It starts with a post by me writing Kate's morning.…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sat Sep 12, 2020 @ 1:56pm
Category: News


Roll Call

Goodevening everyone,

As mentioned in an earlier message I want to do a roll call, to see who is still with us.

I’d also like to remind you about our rules regarding posting activity.

1.4 Writers on Langley Station are expected to post once a month. And tag within four…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Wed Aug 19, 2020 @ 8:14pm
Category: News


Small word from me!

Hey everyone,

A small message from me.

I know I’ve dropped the ball the last few months as the leader of Langley Station. I might have had great excuses, but that doesn’t mean you don’t deserve an apology from me. So, I’m sorry for my inactivity. I have every intention…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Aug 3, 2020 @ 9:34am
Category: News


Spring Awards

Another three months have passed since I did the Christmas awards. So here is a new round of awards:

Langleyversary First Year: For our members who have been a member of our family for more than a year.
Tuula Voutilainen

Langleyversary Second Year: For our members who have been a…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sat Mar 28, 2020 @ 9:32pm
Category: Awards


Valentines 2020

Ladies and gentleman of Langley Station.

As of January 1st 2020 I have been appointed the Community-hero position here on Langley, this means that I together with the command team of this station will be in charge of creating non-mission critical events to bolster our post counts and more importantly…

Author: John Sheppard
Posted on: Sun Feb 2, 2020 @ 12:31pm
Category: News


Langley Station is leaving Obsidian Fleet

After much consideration I have decided to remove Langley Station from Obsidian Fleet. Without going into to many details, all I will say that it is time for us to move on to another Fleet.

Over the last several months I’ve had a couple of differences of opinion with the…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Fri Jan 31, 2020 @ 8:53am
Category: News


Christmas Awards

Happy Christmas Eve everyone,

I've got a little Christmas present for some of you. As I've mentioned before we want to do awards more often and what better moment to plan a new round of awards with Christmas. So, here we go.

The first two awards that I'll be handing…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Tue Dec 24, 2019 @ 9:15pm
Category: Awards


New Mission - Probing the Alien Dutchman

Hey everyone,

Another news item. I promise this will be the last for tonight.

We got a new idea submitted for a great story that I want to bring to your attention. This mission is going to start soon. You might already have heard of it on our Discord. Lance…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sun Oct 13, 2019 @ 9:49pm
Category: News


August '19

It has been quite a number of months since I did some awards, so I thought this would be a great moment to do another round.

First, I want to give the Captain’s Personal Merit out Megan and Anahera. As an appreciation for your activity during my absence. Both in…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Aug 12, 2019 @ 7:50pm
Category: Awards


The USS Sedna

Goodmorning all,

I’ve promised to write this news item for a few weeks now, but real-life stuff came up causing me not to have the time needed to write this. You’ve all heard of our new garrison ship the USS Sedna, heard some bits of its background and even created…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Apr 8, 2019 @ 8:58am
Category: News


Manifest changes

For the last few weeks we’ve been really busy behind the scenes in improving our simulation. One of the things we did was an overhaul on the manifest. We took a good look at each department to see how we could make it more fitting for our situation. That resulted…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Apr 1, 2019 @ 9:57pm
Category: News


Spotlight Award

One of the new things we want to introduce to our simulation are the spotlight awards. Two awards who highlight a great post or a great character on the Langley Station.
Character in the Spotlight
Character in the Spotlight is a award handed out every three months. A character that…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Sat Mar 30, 2019 @ 11:07pm
Category: Awards


We have a new XO!

Good evening, night, or even morning for our backward Australians! ;)

I’m very excited to make this announcement; the first of hopefully many positives yet to come.

After a very long search for feet big enough to fill the boots left behind by Caoimhe; I’m excited to announce the appointment…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Fri Jan 18, 2019 @ 11:50pm
Category: News


Merry Christmas and a Happy 2019

Good afternoon everyone,

With the end of 2018 approaching, I would like to thank you all for this amazing year. It was Langley’s first full year and it was amazing. We gained new crew and lost some. We went through hell and got back up again. We learned who we…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Dec 24, 2018 @ 4:29pm
Category: News


Year Awards 2018

Starting last week Nominations for the 2018 awards are open! I really encourage everyone to vote for Commanding Officer of the Year, Executive Officer of the Year and for Character of the Year. Look at the link below for instructions on how to vote and please do so quickly. Votes…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Fri Nov 23, 2018 @ 6:34pm
Category: News


The Golden Pumpkin Competition

Hey everyone,

Below a message from the fleet that I encourage everyone to participate in. It's fun and has great prizes. Below the message, as copied from the fleet website.

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Information On The Golden Pumpkin Competition

This year for Halloween Obsidian Fleet is calling on all members to come…

Author: Commodore Kate Banninga
Posted on: Mon Oct 22, 2018 @ 6:42pm
Category: News

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