Trailblazers: The journey so far

Greetings Commanders!

Trailblazers launched February 26 2025, bringing a brand new opportunity to Elite Dangerous, the chance to colonise your own systems and spread your influence throughout the galaxy! The response so far has been astounding and humanity has grown the "bubble" at a rate that was previously unimaginable!

The Trailblazers Beta has been an incredibly helpful process, generating huge amounts of data and feedback on scale, really helping us shape the process going forward. We've made several adjustments based on your feedback including improving the rates at which you can gather CMM Composites, allowing you to rename planetary ports as a System Architect, refinement of server capacity to facilitate your expansions and more!

Here's some of what you have achieved with Trailblazers so far:

• Claims Made: 42,226
• Systems Colonised: 23,423
• Starports & Outposts Completed 47,821
• Surface Installations Completed: 27,227
• Total Units of Cargo Delivered: 1,505,765,686
• Most Popular Construction: "Industrial Outpost - Vulcan" with 5970 constructed

This data is correct as of March 24 2025.

If you are looking for advice on how to get started with Trailblazers be sure to check out our System Colonisation Guide!

We're still in the Beta phase of Trailblazers so we will be making adjustments and improvements as time goes on. Please be sure to keep on sharing your feedback and reporting any issues you encounter as we continue to make establishing your own place in the galaxy even better.