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STELLAR JOCKEYS JANUARY NEWSLETTER
Welcome to the rst Stellar Jockeys newsletter of 2021. We're starting thenew year on a more formal note than usual.
Benjamin, Stellar Jockeys

Merch Deliveries To The UK Suspended

As of January 28th, 2021, we have suspended deliveries to the United
Kingdom and Northern Ireland following changes in the trade
agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom signedon December 24th 2020, and brought into e ect January 1st 2021. As aresult of this change, the UK is no longer part of the EU's single marketand customs union meaning new rules apply to parcels arriving to the UKfrom non-EU countries. What that means for us as an overseas seller isthat we are now required to apply for a UK VAT ID from the HMRC. We
only became properly aware of this because as of January 24th 2021, theUnited States Postal Service added a new mandatory eld to its
international shipping labels requiring a VAT ID for parcel deliveries to theUK. Please note that we are still accepting merchandise orders to allother countries.
It will take some time to resolve this matter. If you have any outstanding
issuesabout
yourmerchandiseorder,pleasewrite
team@stellarjockeys.com and include your four-digit order number.

toHold The Line Competition Winners

Back in November we ran the Hold The Line community competition. Thechallenge was to come up with a three-sentence pitch about a Brigador ofyour choosing or invention, and should cover what the Brigador did
before, during and after the Long Night. The competition ran for a month,
taking in nearly 200 submissions from several dozen Discord community
members. Following a blind vote, we shortlisted those submissions downto eleven entries from nine members, of which we picked our top three. Inorder of appearance below, those entries belong to members Aubrey,
mellonbread, and SCOREGOBLIN, who each received an item of theirchoice from our merch store.

There once was a Corvid detractor,
who liked to weld guns to her tractor.
When the action began,
she came up with a plan,
shot a man and became a contractor.
For the girl riding the tractor,
opposition became a slight factor.
Things got a bit heated,but the violence she meted,by turning her wheels into a compactor
She managed to meet the extractor.
Back home they call her a malefactor,
but she's out on the beach,with a drink within reach,and a boyfriend who's also an actor.

When Martim Eaton read about the Contract on Bolero Wells Middle
School's single battered terminal, he hopped on his bicycle, rode to thenearest communications tower, and severed every exposed cable hisstolen bolt cutters could reach. His payout wasn't much, but his gogetter attitude must have impressed someone. As the youngest traineein Consultant Services' Military Orphan Apprenticeship Program, he's
ready to prove that Brigadors come in every shape and size.

Yesterday I worked.
Today I am a traitor.
Now I have to go andwork again tomorrow.
Anonymous gra toMany thanks to everyone that took part! The team very much enjoyedjudging the entries, and all submissions can be found archived in the#hold-the-line-competition channel on our Discord server.
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Community Spotlight
While we might be light on news this month, the community certainly wasnot. First, a nearly-forgotten throwback to 2018 when Hara hooked up
their old CRT to play Brigador...

...over on Twitter, @scutanddestroy continues to make more 32x32
Brigador pixel art...

...and closing with a dual creation which we'll title "Pay Up" wherein
mellonbread imagined the following short story about Precursor James...
"You understand, we've got every intention of paying what we owe. It's
just a cash ow issue." Robard didn't usually give this level of detail - asimple 'we're working on it' was usually all that was needed. It wasn't
like the average contractor could a ord to press the issue. TheContracts were ironclad, after all.
The dead man stared at Robard through the winking laser of therange nder mounted to his helmet. The mask communicated nothing.
Robard reached for one of the hardcopies on the table.
The ghting machine lurched forward. The skeleton inside lurchedforward, almost falling out of the suit onto the desk. The skull's
forward motion was arrested by the jack plugged into the base. It
yanked back and the jaw fell open behind the mask with an audible
clicking sound.
The hands of the suit hadn't moved. It hadn't raised a weapon at him it shouldn't have even had any weapons, but he didn't trust theNOSPOL dicks to catch everything this client brought in. It just lurched,seemingly for no purpose at all. Yet it had been a purposeful
movement. The laser designator on the helmet was now pointed
directly at the page beneath Robard's hand.
Robard pushed the button beneath his desk, the one that indicated tohis secretary that she should interrupt the meeting and pretend there
was something urgent that needed his attention. Give him an excuse
to end an awkward or unpleasant encounter.
There was no response.

...Which prompted this excellent illustration from Flyingdebris.

Remember that this is only a small sample. Scroll through our#becks_best channel any time over on our Discord server for more.

Next Month
Despite the cold, February is looking to be a busy one for the team. We'reexcited about all that's coming soon, and greatly appreciate everyone's
curiosity about what we've been up to. We hope you stay wrapped up andwarm until then.

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