Official Umbra swag has been released by Niantic. Stickers, beanie, hoodie, and t-shirt. https://shop-niantic.com/collections/umbra-ingress

Niantic has provided an update on Umbra Anomaly paid ticket:

🔹 A new onsite free ticket only for have attendees’ actions count for scoring and no medals.
🔹 Remote tickets will only work for their respective cities.
🔹 For agents purchasing an Onsite ticket before Oct 9 5PM UTC, they will have two paid onsite ticket codes for free, which they can give to other agents.
🔹 Niantic will add more payment options for paying ticket.
🔹 Niantic has reiterated the sustainable Anomaly events, even the game, will require a paid event model and they need community's help in this.

https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/4225/update-on-umbra-anomaly-ticketing/

Field Test bundle is now available in in-game store.

There’re reports Prime is down or doesn’t yield media in hacking, be sure to check out Scanner Redacted during your Field Test!

NIA Field tests how to:
1-Once you hack the registration portal you will get a media that contains all information
2-In the hacked media you can see the map of artefacts portals as well as the list of global leaders for your city
3-In order to get your badge you need to complete the 6 tasks:
🔹Collect at least 6 Media Artifacts
🔹Make at least 36 successful portal hacks
🔹Deploy at least 30 resonators
🔹Deploy at least 12 Mods
🔹Gain at least 30 Glyph Points
🔹Walk at least 3km
4-Artefact portals are specially marked in the scanner
5-You can track your progress online by going to events in your scanner, choose your city and then click on progress
6-If you are looking for local support you can find the list of all XF telegram groups here: https://www.willbe.blue/en/field-test/

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Live report from Ingress Field Test: Progress meter, regular medal, e-mail after action report and elite medal.

In response to various issues during Field Test this Saturday, NIA is awarding the Hexathlon medal for all participants and they'll arrive by the end of next week. https://community.ingress.com/en/discussion/4301/field-test-medal-for-all-participants

Saturday evening 10 Agents built a field over the densely populated Ruhrgebiet in Germany.
A base link had already been supplied from Agent DaBronyc, so we needed to just complete the other two parts of the puzzle.
Keys were farmed, swapped and for the 01:00 CP on the 15th September we created 17 layers of 1.8 Mio MU for a Total of over 30 Mio MU.
4 Agents made their largest Field to date.
2 Agents increased their longest link length.

The Gothenburg resistance are preparing for the UMBRA anomaly next month, and there is no better way to get the momentum going than building a nice blue field over the city. With some help from Denmark, 30 agents built approximately 70 fields and 30 million MU (new record!) for the 1 AM checkpoint. Some of the layers are still standing after three checkpoints.

Also last night: 54 layers, 2.4 million MU per layer built as Austro-Czech Resistance collaboration covered Eastern Austria and Moravia including Vienna & Brno.

Today in Sicily Italy, 40 fields were made in Africa and one field was made in Africa. For the past few months and specially the last few weeks over 40 agents worked to prepare for this moment. It was a joint effort of agents from Italy, Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Ghana, Spain, Lebabon, Russia and Netherlands to make it happen. In total we captured 3.4 billion mind units.

If you're waiting to buy your anomaly packs, you're not alone... but you'll have to be a little more patient. Anomaly packs will be available a few days before the anomaly, so stay tuned for updates here on RGNN!

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In 1 hour, 1218 Hank Johnson is coming online for a live transmission!

His intention is to relay important information about Nemesis and the state of XM.

RGNN will be online and reporting anything valuable to you, agents! 💙

You can watch the transmission here:
https://youtu.be/VaoQEmRAtV0

Hank Johnson is advising agents that the Tesselation is important. This image appeared during the transmission. It appears the Tesselation is the RPE board referenced in the previous live video.

Hank Johnson is advising agents save hexagonal media objects. They are a part of the Tesselation, and will be important in the future. Here is the image of the Tesselation from last time to remind you what they may look like. There may also be new or unknown ones not seen here.

In 7 hours the Shard Targets and first shards will spawn! Prepare your local agents, and review the rules and rewards for this challenge.

Field Test badges are currently being pushed for those who attended the Field Test on September 14 and did not receive a badge. Check your scanners!

Alert Agents!

Avenir Shards have spawned in these locations:
Romania: Flowers Slide
USA: Cities Change Over Time
Japan: 安春川

Targets have spawned in these locations:
Italy: Milano Le Fonti
USA: The Beacon of Hope
Paraguay: Plaza Uruguaya
Taiwan: 南紡夢時代-蜜蜂小鼠

Happy Shard Scoring!

The Brooklyn Umbra store is now fully up and running! We have anomaly swag, pizza swag, pride swag, a special second run of our iconic token coin in a new color, and you can even just give us money if you want!

Hurry before orders close!

brooklyn.willbe.blue/shop/

Jump time has come and gone, and shards did not jump even though linked properly from level 4+ portals. Niaoops?

You can see one such shard in Philadelphia, PA. https://intel.ingress.com/intel?ll=39.947562,-75.146628&z=17&pll=39.947562,-75.146628

Next scheduled jump in 5 hours from now.

Niantic is looking into the stuck shards, and are attempting to have them jump manually. Stay tuned for the Saga of the Stuck Shards.