Lave Radio: an Elite Dangerous podcast

The crew discuss Operations, Dodecs and fantasise about the happy endings they might get.

Links
Frontier Trading Update – https://otp.tools.investis.com/clients/uk/frontier_developments_plc/rns/regulatory-story.aspx?cid=1725&newsid=2056042
Operation Warbucks – https://tiltify.com/+operations-warbucks-eradicoiding-cancer/profile
Furthest From Sol Record – https://forums.frontier.co.uk/posts/10817621
Project Galtea Dodec Building Record – https://forums.frontier.co.uk/posts/10817621
Project Galtea Dodec Station Build World Record Video – https://youtu.be/0E5YRh3CutA
“BNE: COLOUR OUT IN SPACE part 9 – The Gyre Trees” by Inf Whale – https://youtu.be/5dVEhmvluLE
“BNE: COLOUR OUT IN SPACE part 11 – The Stolons” by Inf Whale – https://youtu.be/6KRoV0MAJYo
“Elite Dangerous / Distant Worlds Legacy Tour vol 2” by Juseppe’s World – https://youtu.be/Ics98rkFmwo
“ELITE DANGEROUS – DISTANT WORLDS 3 – #13 – A Vestige of Teal Nebula” by Lolof-gaming – https://youtu.be/972__Tufuac
“Elite Dangerous Flight Tutorial: Takeoff, Supercruise, & Landing | Stop Crashing Your Ship!” by Digmbot Gaming – https://youtu.be/wS1Ofsbq8mc
Starship Command: Orion Spur kickstarter – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/danielgibbs/starship-command-orion-spur

The crew talk about burning stations and how they’ve changed, and contemplate the new information about Operations.

Links:
“The Peduncle Tree Cloud” by BeetleJude – https://youtu.be/dkQ7YOmmStE
“Operation Warbucks” – https://tiltify.com/+operations-warbucks-eradicoiding-cancer/profile
“Why Commanders Quit Elite Dangerous(And Don’t Come Back)” by Midnite Black – https://youtu.be/eiYxH4KN27g
“To All Commanders – Introducing the NEW Standalone (Prototype) Elite Dangerous Control Module” by Fun of Flying – https://youtu.be/PZnwrgdtFqk
“Stranded outside of our Galaxy and rescued by DW3 – Using VR to see one of life’s biggest mysteries.” by VR Florian – https://youtu.be/ZTB_sDeyOOQ

We have burning station rescues! The crew are excited about this.
Links:
Operations Update – https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/update-operations?utm_source=forums&utm_medium=community&utm_campaign=ed_ongoing&utm_content=ed_operations_update
Patch Notes – https://www.elitedangerous.com/update-notes/4-3-3-0
CmdrGolgafunkin’s DW3 racing livestream: “Elite Dangerous Ep16 Throttle Therapy” – https://youtu.be/EOCkqu7750o
Original bubble time trials from StardustBrothers – https://frinkbottle.uk/TimeTrials/
At a glance leaderboards from Duck – https://leaderboard.shangtai.net/
Race visualiser from Duck – https://raceviz.shangtai.net/
Latest “Elite Dangerous Time Trials Leaderboards” from Vladigor – https://elitettleaderboard.vladigor.net/
“Massacres, Megaships & Station Rescues?! – DevLog Decompiled 04/26” by Nicey – https://niceygy.net/posts/2026/massacres-megaships-and-station-rescues/

It’s another slow news week as the crew talk about everything that’s happened in the last two weeks.
Links:
Elite Dangerous Lore Explorer – https://elitedangereuse.github.io/LoreExplorer/
Frontier Astro – FrontierAstro.co.uk
The Making of Type 7th Heaven – https://youtu.be/ov_ByQGnrJ4
ToCoSo patreon – https://www.patreon.com/c/tocosomusic/home
“Elite Dangerous / Distant World Legacy Tour” by Juseppe’s World – https://youtu.be/Sv01soS7lm0
“Elite Dangerous in VR Did Something I Didn’t Expect” by Midnite Black – https://youtu.be/ZTcrrGayyiI
“Elite Dangerous: They always know” by The High Wake – https://youtu.be/1e5Y0309AN0
“Honoring the Commanders Who Shaped the LLM Ship Computer” by Sudo Krondor – https://youtu.be/nZMS1du6OB8
“Gomu Gomu no Bakiboru!” by Homborger – https://edrushfleet.co.uk/2026/04/21/gomu-gomu-no-bakiboru/
“Elite Dangerous: Now THIS is DW3 pod racing!” by Alec Turner – https://youtu.be/lwCv_IJfh9I

The crew talk about the CG and play the waiting game for any more information about operations, no seriously, any more. Please.
Community Corner
“The Rise and Fall of the Guardians” by Xpeigh - https://youtu.be/9uq2h1rSBXI
“The CAMERA SUITE | Elite Dangerous: How We Film Stuff” by The Buur Pit - https://youtu.be/oFiW5EnF1So
“How to Make Exobiology Faster and More Profitable” by Mile13 Gaming - https://youtu.be/0ZBS2DzQz-o
“Distant Worlds 3 Interview with Karnath & Andrew Gaspurr” by Digmbot -
https://youtu.be/xhgKQK2dTsM
“Starship Racing! Bucky Ball Prison Circuit Qualifying Sumiton Elite Dangerous in a Flight Simulator” by Project SimStarr - https://youtu.be/18iqO32mNow
“Prison Circuit” Buckyball Race results
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/the-buckyball-racing-club-presents-prison-circuit-20th-30th-march-3312.646130/page-4#post-10804045