Pakkrat, the one currently acting as the GM, will be stepping down; I believe Lloyd will be GMing next; this has been in the pipeline for a while, so everyone's been ready for it. There's also an association of "Traveller Spinward" with a failed Kickstarter; they were essentially trying to do the "D&D Basic" version of Traveller; it didn't go well; so it's bad advertising to call our game that. As far as the ship battle went, we took some lumps, but nothing that couldn't be brought back to working order after a prolonged stay. We also gained Fang's undamaged Pirate Ship, which we never really decided what to do with. I still say that we need a ship for Close-Air-Support purposes, for which the Ares isn't really suitable.