| Greetings Troopers!
It would appear that 2010 has become a year of problems for First Strike, starting off with a considerable downsizing of the team and delays to our next release. Our latest crisis is a big one, and in this news post we'll be requesting your assistance in dealing with it.
As you may well have noticed recently the First Strike Stats server has been down for some time, well this is only the visible tip of an iceberg which represents a far graver problem. Our server has been maliciously hacked, and this has resulted in the corruption and loss of a great deal of First Strike's assets, as the server also housed our FTP resources where our various assets are stored. Typically when this attack occurred the FTP had not been backed up for a while resulting in the loss of a considerable portion of First Strike work. FSDev Imperial who is in charge of running the server has as a result had to foot the bill to have a professional recovery service retrieve the lost data that would have crippled First Strike development had it remained unrecovered. Now he has done so out of his own pocket, and we feel that it is wrong that he should shoulder that financial burden alone, to assist him we are putting together a donation drive to help him recoup at least part of the cost of the recovery which was a staggering $500.
Now we must make it absolutely clear that this donation drive will not result in us making a profit on the modification that is First Strike, as per our agreement with Lucasfilm we are not allowed to do so when producing a product based on the Star Wars franchise. The donations will go towards recouping the costs incurred due to a malicious attack on the First Strike server. We'd like to ask everyone who loves First Strike to donate at least a small amount to this cause.
We've discontinued this appeal and deactivated the button as we don't want to accidently go into profit. I'd just like to thank all those who donated, it was most generous of you and meant that Imperial and the rest of the Dev Team did not have to foot the bill alone as a result of this malicious act.
Once again, many thanks for continuing to support the mod.
We hope to be able to reward you for that support very soon.
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