🛰 Mission Day Darmstadt & NL-1331D

Ingress Mission Day "City of Science" in Darmstadt, Germany is in the books, and it was a huge success!
263 agents joined from Germany, France, Poland, Norway, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Belgium to explore Darmstadt's role as the "European Houston", home of ESA's space operations, tying in perfectly with Ingress's ongoing Apollo theme.

Between great weather, a full day of missions, city sightseeing, and an evening wind-down at the market square, Agents were able to spend a great day (or weekend!) of Ingress with friends from both Factions!

A big thank you goes to organizers MTBJo (RES) and AgentOrome (ENL) who compiled this SITREP for you all to read and shared it with us.

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In celebration of the 10th anniversary of IUENG, the admin of @IUGER and moderator of the discussion group @InvestigateXM has also sat down and wrote a small article about his own time with this channel.

Feel free to read through his thoughts here! https://telegra.ph/A-full-decade-of-news-09-20

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Niantic announced a new event for the month of October: Cygnus Global Battles!

This event will run from October 1st @ 18:00 UTC to October 28th @ 18:00 UTC and Agents will need to compete, Faction vs Faction, by deploying and fighting in Battle Beacons.

A three-tier individual medal will be available for all agents, regulated by a Campaign:
🥇200 Battle Beacon Combatant interactions
🥈50 Battle Beacon Combatant interactions
🥉5 Battle Beacon Combatant interactions

An Interaction is one of the following actions:
Deploying or upgrading Resonators, attacking or destroying Resonators, destroying Portal Mods, destroying Links, and recharging Resonators.

During the Event, the NIA will monitor CAT-VI Battle Beacons, and the top 100 CAT-VI Battle Beacon participants will receive bonus Cygnus Tokens. A leaderboard will be published after the conclusion of the event.

2,000 Season Points will be distributed between the Factions according to the number of Battle Beacon Points claimed. Battle Beacon Points are awarded after every checkpoint of a Battle Beacon.

One thing to note: During the event, the NIA will periodically post encrypted passcodes on social media. Redeeming the decrypted passcodes will award Rare Battle Beacons you can use for this event!
There are no plans to lower the AP requirements that are currently in place to purchase Battle Beacons (1,200,000 AP for Rare Battle Beacons and 40,000,000 AP for Very Rare Battle Beacons).

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-cygnus-globalbattles

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Niantic clarified a couple points for this Event, better detailing some rules. Here are the most notable changes:

• Niantic clarified the requirement for the Cygnus Global Battles Medal tiers. Points have been replaced with Battle Beacon participations, meaning an Agent can obtain only 1 point towards the Medal from a single battle beacon.
• The meaning of Interaction has also been clarified. An Interaction is defined as an action that contributes to increase the CAT of a Battle Beacon, as specified in their support article.
• Finally, it was made explicit that Beacons deployed by NiaSection14 (those deployed at the end of a septicycle on Portals scanned 7 or more times) do count towards the scoring, both individual and of the Faction.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-cygnus-globalbattles

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Niantic announced the long awaited details about the main event for this Season: Cygnus Shard Storms!

This event will be split across three days: October 17th, October 24th and November 21st.
Each day, 6 cities worldwide will host 3 Shards for a total of 18 cities and 54 shards.

Cities will be chosen 20 days prior to Event day, and will be highlighted on the Intel Map.

Shards will jump on different timings.
Shard 1 - every 30 minutes
Shard 2 - two minutes after Shard 1
Shard 3 - two minutes after Shard 2

Jumps between 1 km and 5 km will award 5 Season Points.
A single jump over 10 km will award 10 Season Points and will stop the Shard from scoring any more points.

35 Season Points are available per Shard, 105 Season Points per site, and 630 Season Points per Event Day.
1890 Season Points in total.

Agents will be able to earn 2500 Cygnus Tokens by hacking a portal where a shard is present.

For more info and details, check out Niantic's blog post: https://ingress.com/news/2026-cygnus-shardstorm

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Niantic highlighted the cities which will host a Cygnus Shard Storm on October 17th, on the Intel Map!

APAC Region
🇨🇳 Suzhou, China
🇱🇰 Colombo, Sri Lanka
EMEA Region
🇧🇬 Sofia, Bulgaria
🇩🇪 Magdeburg, Germany
AMER Region
🇨🇦 Toronto, Canada
🇺🇸 Las Vegas, NV, USA

It's time to move, Agents!
For all info and the complete rules of this event, check out our previous post, or Niantic's blog post.

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Cygnus Series Predictions now open!

The Cygnus Series is starting in a couple hours.
Do you think you can predict the score of the Series? Prove yourself on the Anomaly Score Predictor, powered by @IUENG! (Even if no anomalies are scheduled for this series 😅)

Predictions for the bigger events, such as Series Winner, First Saturdays and the first Cygnus Global Op, will close in 72 hours on October 2nd, so this is your final call to register your predictions for all events in the Cygnus Season! Other events will remain open until 24 hours before their start.

🏆 A contest based on the leaderboard results will be running here on @IUENG, with loadouts at stake for the top three positions!

👉 https://anomalypredictions.crlb.dev

⚠️ Predictions are not made public, be it during the prediction phase or after the results are available! We do not want to undermine the hard work the organisers and Agents of each event are putting into it by potentially dampening motivation due to "unfavourable" predictions. The data is only visible to admins and will only be used for debugging, if at all.

And obviously, no money or betting is involved in any way. We just want to see who has the best prediction skills regarding Ingress events 💙💚

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Niantic highlighted the cities which will host a Cygnus Shard Storm on October 24th, on the Intel Map!

APAC Region
🇯🇵 Kochi, Japan
🇮🇳Gurgaon, India
EMEA Region
🇵🇱 Warsaw, Poland
🇬🇧 Norwich, UK
AMER Region
🇵🇾 Asunción, Paraguay
🇺🇸 Nashville, TN, USA

Predict the result of the Cygnus Series on our Anomaly Score Predictor! A VR Loadout card awaits for the top three in the leaderboard for this series!

It's time to move, Agents!
For all info and the complete rules of this event, check out our previous post, or Niantic's blog post.

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Niantic announced all details on the event for October and November, The Keepers Were First, celebrating Día de Muertos!

The event will run from October 12th @ 1800 UTC to November 11th @ 1800 UTC.

During this event, three Campaigns will be available in parallel through Dispatch in your Scanner. None of them affect Faction score this Season.

🔸Noise Floor - Free
Starts October 12th (automatically added to your Dispatch)
1 Stage with 4 Assignments, 4 bounties per Assignment (complete at least 3 to advance). Rewards up to 2,000 Cygnus Tokens, distributed as you advance.

🔸Blank Shell - 15,000 CMU
Can be purchased at any point during the event
5 Stages, 4 bounties per Assignment (complete at least 3 to advance). Blank Shell Medal awarded at the end of Stage 1. The following Stages award Portal Shields and Resonators.

🔸Cempasúchil - 15,000 CMU
Can be purchased at any point during the event
5 Stages, 4 bounties per Assignment (complete at least 3 to advance). Cempasúchil Medal awarded at the end of Stage 1. The following Stages award Ultra Strikes, XMP Bursters and Power Cubes.

- Neither paid Campaign awards Cygnus Tokens

Niantic also reminds Agents that ofrendas, cemeteries and gathering places are active sites of private observance during this period. Please respect these spaces and the people in them, and follow all local guidance and regulations.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-thekeeperswerefirst

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Niantic announced the list of cities which will host an Ingress Mission Day in Q4 2026!

November 7th
🇨🇳 Zhuhai, China

November 14th
🇹🇭 Khon Kaen, Thailand
🇷🇸 Novi Sad, Serbia

November 21st
🇲🇾 Putrajaya, Malaysia

November 29th
🇨🇳 Shanghai, China

December 5th
🇺🇸 Bellevue, WA, US

December 6
🇨🇳 Guangzhou, China

Mission Days are non-competitive events focused on the exploration of cities through Ingress Missions! The Mission Day medal is dedicated to these events, and completing 6 specially-made missions during the event will award you one point on this badge.

Source: https://ingress.com/news/2026-q4-md

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🇹🇭 Ingress Mission Day Khon Kaen, Thailand - November 14th 2026

Agents, mark your calendars!

The first ever MD in Northeastern Thailand (Isan) is upon us! Proudly presented by a very important ambassador, KK the dinosaur, a symbol of Thailand's first dinosaur discoveries!🦕

If you notice dinosaurs on the street signs, you're not imagining things. Thailand's first dinosaur bones turned up just west of here in the 1970s, and the city has never let anyone forget it. This is also the unofficial capital of Isan, with a university that keeps the cafes full and a lake in the middle of town that's best around sunset. Bring an appetite, because the food is the real reason people stay longer than planned.

During the MD, you'll experience the local lifestyle and hospitality of Isan's friendly heart: the perfect opportunity to meet new agents and create unforgettable memories together.

Thai Language Line Group
International Telegram Group

PoCs
🟢 @DomeEnl
🔵 @piaoopp

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Niantic acknowledged the server issues that affected the game during the deployment of Battle Beacons at the end of the last septicycle, as a reward for scanning Portals.

From now until the end of the Cygnus Global Battles, a daily free Rare Battle Beacon will be available to all Agents in the in-app store. This means that you will be able to redeem up to 16 free Rare Battle Beacons until the end of the month.

Source: https://t.me/NianticOfficial/1254

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