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Adventure summary:
Sandra's Workshop was hacked on the eve of Christmas gift deliveries! Sandra Corrs, who heads the leading toy manufacturing company, needs help with her deliveries. Dress up in your finest holiday attire and put on your Christmas sweater to deliver gifts to children.

The recap

Ship:

Exploration

Vaisseau

Medium Landing Pad

Landing Pad

Difficulty: Beginner

Duration

2h

Max distance

150 LY

Sandra's Workshop needs help

Sandra Corrs, the much-loved philanthropist who provides gifts to children across the core systems each year, has made similar requests in previous years. Last year, with the Thargoid invasion just beginning, her courier fleet was loaned out to help refugee evacuation efforts.


This year, we’ve been hacked, and most of our location data for each present was wiped clean. We managed to restore the majority from a backup, but a few presents are going out that we still need help with figuring out where to deliver them.


Even our fleet won’t be able to deliver all our presents on time, given the extra work needed to track down their proper delivery points. We’ll need to rely once again on kind-hearted pilots to volunteer their time and ensure we can brighten the smiles on every child on our list.


Pilots willing to help Sandra’s Workshop can collect festive gifts from the Frost Dock outpost in the Njambalba system.


Please note that the outpost can only accommodate small and medium-sized ships, and you must scan the beacon located near Frost Dock to obtain delivery information.



Santa's sleigh


There's not a moment to lose! Once you've docked at Frost Dock, you'll receive a message from Sandra Corrs!


15 DEC 3311
SANDRA CORRS
MESSAGE FROM SANDRA CORRS

 

Season’s greetings!

 

Thank you for visiting Frost Dock, Commander. It’s such a busy time of year here, and we’re in need of your help, again.

 

Outside this station is a listening post containing letters from children all across the bubble. Someone who is now on my naughty list has removed the delivery instructions from some of the kids’ messages!

 

Scan the listening post to obtain a selection of letters. You’ll have to figure out where the sender lives from the message text – it can sometimes be confusing.

 

Don’t forget to collect Festive Gifts from the commodities market at Frost Dock first – I’ll make sure the appropriate gifts are included. For your help, I’ve arranged for a selection of fine festive rewards with each confirmed delivery.

 

Have a wonderful holiday season!



Fill your cargo hold with Festive Gifts.



You'll only need 8 tons, but if you can, take more. 


If you haven’t already, go outside the station to scan the listening post and collect your wish list.


Once that's done, you're ready to start your delivery.




Forward CMDR!


Once this step is completed, proceed to the next one 


Gunther Albrecht



Gunther Albrecht, Age 8

 

Hi Sandra,

Sometimes I get scared in the dark. But the big monkey lantern hanging next to my bed is broken.

 

My brother Harry says I should grow up. He is a doodoo head.

 

Please can I have a new big monkey lantern that will stay on all night? Then I won’t get scared!

 

Thank you and happy holidays!

 

Gunther


Surely there must be a clue as to which station to deliver the gifts to?



- Harry
- Monkey

Destination: Big Harry's Monkey Hangout (Pad L) dans le système Jotunheim.


Once this step is completed, proceed to the next one 


Lana Henriksen



Lana Henriksen, Age 9

 

Dear Sandra,

 

I hope I am on the good list! I really, really want a new bike. There’s this new one, the Hotrod LC-T, which looks very cool! I would like the Chamo Frost one because it is super shiny!

 

My mom said if I eat all my vegetables then I might get one for Christmas. But it’s hard because my dad keeps buying me mountains of candy when I finish all my homework each week, and it ruins my appetite!

 

Maybe I need a big neon sign for my Dad to remind him not to buy so much candy! Not too big though, because I want candy sometimes.

 

Lots of love,

 

Lana


As before, we need to find the system and the destination station. A clue may be hidden in the text...



Chamo Frost,

Destination: Frost Terminal (Pad L) in the system Chamo.


Once this step is completed, proceed to the next one 


Jin Li



Jin Li, Age 6

 

Hi Sandra,

 

We learned today in school that our system is named after the Chinese word for ‘longevity’. I do not know what longevity means but it sounds nice.

 

Please send me a toy from the movie The Wubbles. Mom says my uncle Henry was in the movie but he does not look like a Wubble. I live in the only outpost in my system.

 

Thank you!

 

Jin


As on previous occasions, you have to find the clue, but where is it this time?



Chinese word for 'longevity' = Shòu
'the only outpost of my system'.

Destination: Steele Mine (Pad M) in the system Shou.


Once this step is completed, proceed to the next one 


Phillip O’Rourke



Phillip O’Rourke, Age 8

 

Heya Sandra,

 

My sister took me to a museum about animals on Earth! It had a big bird that had a GIANT tail with eyes all over it! And it danced!

 

I would love one of these birds but Dad says they’re not around anymore. So can I have a stuffed toy that looks like one?

 

Merry Christmas!

 

Phillip


Another riddle hidden in the request... How will you find the destination this time?



- a big bird with a GIANT tail and lots of eyes on it' => a Peacock
- 'in English' => Peacock

Destination :
Phillips Dock (Pad L) dans le système Peacock.


Once this step is completed, proceed to the next one 


Ari Ani



Ari Ani, Age 9

 

Hi Sandra,

 

There is a show about three wise men who followed a star. So I asked Dad – he works in Human Resources – if they docked at our Depot. He said no because we only have two working landing pads right now, and he can’t find any engineers to fix them.

 

Please send some tools to Dad so he can fix the landing pads. Label it for Tom (that’s Dad’s name). Our dock name is like one of the presents carried by the three wise men. That’s so cool!

 

Thanks heaps,

 

Ari


This one's a bit trickier, but you'll have to find a way to bring the gifts!



'The name of our dock in English is one of the gifts of the Three Wise Men':
- the gift => Gold
- in English => Gold
- 'Dock' And the names 'Tom' and 'Ani'

Destination: Gold Dock (Pad L) in the system Tomani.


Once this step is completed, proceed to the next one 


Sophie Park



Sophie Park, Age 7

 

Dear Sandra,

 

Aunty Carol read me a Christmas story last week about a mean old man. But he learned about being kind and generous at Christmas time. The mean old man was visited by a spirit friend in chains who said three more ghosts would visit him. The spirit friend is named after the base where I live!

 

Can ghosts live in space? It sounds very cold but maybe ghosts don’t get cold.

 

That story was very good and I want to read more books like it. Please send me some!

 

Merry Christmas, Sandra!

 

Love Sophie


This is the sixth of eight deliveries!



- The text refers to Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol where Marley is the ghostly friend in chains who visits Ebenezer Scrooge.

- The base where I live...': There's only one base with the Marley name.

Destination: Marley Base (Pad M) in the system Guan Gong.


Once this step is completed, proceed to the next one 


Jake Vasilev



Jake Vasilev, Age 10

 

Hello Sandra!

 

I wrote a silly poem for you about my favourite insect!

 

Bee Boo Buzz

Bee Be Buzzy

Boo Buzzy Bee

Be Bee Be

 

I love bees! Please send me more than 8 thousand bees!

 

Hip Hip Hooray!

 

Thank you

 

Jake (The Bee)


The penultimate delivery!
Be strong, you're almost there!



- the words of the 'poem' with the 'Be Bee Be'...

- Hip hip': HIP system...
- 'over 8 thousand' (used to select a system between the two found)

Destination: Beebe Dock (Pad L) dans le système HIP 8109.


Once this step is completed, proceed to the next one 


Sasha Adebayo



Sasha Adebayo, Age 8

 

Hey Sandra,

 

Mom and Dad say we are “living the dream”, but I miss my friends. Because we’re so very far away, they never visit anymore.

 

Last week, my little brother found a rat in the kitchen. He named it after the robot that owns our station. I don’t like rats though.

 

Please could you send me a new pet? A fluffy one? I promise to love it forever!

 

Thank you :-)

 

Sasha


The last delivery!
Keep going, it's the last riddle to solve to save Christmas!



('living our dream'),
-'we live far, far away',
-'named after the robot who owns our station',
=> A Station far, far away that belongs to a Robot who gave it its name... https://elite-dangerous.fandom.com/wiki/Jaques_Station


Destination: Jaques Station (Pad L) in the system Colonia.


Note that, in my view, the reward is not worth the time it takes to complete this step and that completing all 8 deliveries doesn't bring any additional reward, so it's entirely conceivable to skip this stage. I'm told that Sasha hasn't been very good this year.


Nevertheless, it is possible to get to Colonia 'quickly' by using the shuttle services of Fleet Carrier's Owners Club (FCOC). A tutorial is available here: 


Once this step is completed, proceed to the next one 


Christmas saved at last


Congratulations CMDR, you have delivered all the presents and saved Christmas;

You will receive your final reward upon your last delivery :


Jaques Station gift received!

 

So grateful you made It out this way. Commander! Your reward for making this delivery is:

 

– 50,000,000 credits


Thank you again for saving Christmas!


You can automatically finish this adventure by logging in to the site with your Frontier account.


You can also share your snapshots on discord in the channel #trophées !


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