Hi everyone! Here’s part 2 of the June newsletter - it's a long one as we have a special event and some other exciting announcements! Please be sure to read through entirely.

Merging with Sodaplanet:

As some of you may already know, Digimon has been gifted Sodacats/Longyu by C-Side, and as of today the species will be merging together! Spacecats, Sodacats, and Longyu will all be a part of the same universe, and we plan to have some lore revolving around how the three species are related, along with eventually adding some actual ARPG elements to the site soon.

While a big change, we hope you guys end up enjoying it. An announcement has been made in the Sodaplanet Discord server on how to get your inventories onto your on-site accounts - please read it over for more information!

Changes to Sodaplanet:

• Longyus have been renamed Guppymanders, since there is already a real animal called Longyus - we’ve decided it's best the name is changed!
• Some traits have been shifted around, removed, or added!
  • Normal Eyes has been split into two separate traits, Standard Iris and Dark Pupils
  • Overgrown Fangs has been renamed Saber Teeth
  • Glowing has been renamed Bioluminescence
  • Rings have been split into two separate traits, Rings and Halo
  • Point Ears have been renamed Standard Ears
  • Tuft Ears have been changed to a modifier trait (as in they are now not an ear type of their own, they need to be stacked on top of another ear trait) and renamed Fur Ear Tufts
  • Long Ears have been renamed Long Standing Ears
  • Colored Sclera has been split into two traits, (Rare) Dark Sclera and (Uncommon) Colored Sclera
  • Colored Pupil has been added as an uncommon trait
  • Extra limbs has been split into two traits, (Rare) Extra Limbs (Less than 4) and (Mythical) Extra Limbs (More than 4)
  • Stitches have been detraited
  • Heterochromia has been detraited
  • Decorations have been detraited (Although your sodacat still requires one, there are just no rarity tiers anymore.)
  • Smooth/Layered Soda has been removed as a trait
  • Standard Bubbles has been added as a trait
  • Sodacats now require bubbles throughout their soda
  • Shaped Eyeball has been detraited, as a team we feel this is more a stylistic choice than anything.
  • Stream Tail has been renamed to Cat Tail, as we noticed most end up just looking like regular cat tails.
  • Fountain Hair (hair made of soda that is unstyled or flowy, akin to the Spacecat wispy/loose hair traits) has been added as a common trait
  • Fur Hair and No Hair have been added as a trait
  • Shaped Hair (Hair made of soda that is styled) has been added as an uncommon trait
  • Bubble Tail has been renamed Bobbed Tail
  • Flop Ears has been renamed Long Floppy Ears
  • Fins have been renamed Aquatic parts. This is now a common trait on Guppymanders (for any aquatic traits outside of the gils, whiskers, and fins that the species requires) and an uncommon trait on Sodacats.
  • Antenna has been renamed Insect Parts and can now be any insect features.
  • Transformation has been renamed Shapeshifting
  • Multiple forms has been renamed Multi-form
  • Companion Growth has been renamed Companions, and bumped down to rare instead of mythical
  • Hooves have been renamed Paw Mutations and can now be any unusual paw shape.
  • Long/Short fish tail has been merged into one single Fish Tail trait
  • Rarity colors have changed
• Event traits have been merged into other existing traits, or simply detraited.
• Pearlcoins have been converted to Cloudcoins at a rate of 1PC:10CC
• Butterfly Pea Syrup has been renamed Rainbow Sweetener
• Straw has been renamed Silly Straw
• Sparkling Soda has been renamed Refreshing Tonic
• Blueberry, Strawberry, and Golden Sugar have been added as items, these items will add an uncommon, rare, or mythical trait to a pre-made Sodacat or Guppymander. Syrups can now only be used on MYOs.
• Shaken sodas have been added - randomized Sodacat MYO slots! It can have any traits, regardless of rarity, however all of the listed traits must be used! Guppymanders now have a similar MYO called Scrambled Eggs! These items are currently only purchasable via the USD shop and occasionally obtainable during events.
• Diamond Soda has split into 2 items, Diamond Soda (for sodacats) and Golden Egg (for guppymanders)
• Mini Soda has split into 2 items, Mini Soda (for sodacats) and Small Egg (for guppymanders)
• All Sodaplanet items (minus myth items) can be found at the Sea Breeze Shop! This shop does not currently have an image, however it will soon!
• Snowball has been renamed Fizz!
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SODAPLANET MERGE EVENT (NEW HORIZIONS):

This will be our first lore drop event - you can view it here! Make sure to check your settings and adjust your text speed as needed as well!
This event is a short visual novel styled event, and at the end of it you can claim 1 Small Star, 1 Basic Soda, and 1 Bronze Egg for free, along with the New Horizons patch! Instructions on how to do so will be at the end of the event page! The MYO prizes will be claimable until July 14th - you have one month to read through the event and claim your rewards! Afterwards the MYOs will be removed from the event, and the visual novel section will be archived! The New Horizons award will stay claimable, however.

If we find out you have made an additional account to claim more rewards from this event, you will be banned.

NEW HORIZONS ART PROMPT:

PROMPT:

Draw your Spacecats and Sodacats/Guppymanders interacting - this can be either your characters or a friends’. Drawing the NPCs works as well!

Rules:

• Approved designs only.
• Must be uploaded to the on-site event gallery AND the New Horizons prompt located here!
• Characters must be interacting in some way.
• The minimum requirement for this prompt is 2 cleanly lined and colored, minimally shaded, halfbodies with props as the background OR 500 words.
• Make sure to fill out the criteria rewards in the prompt submission menu so you can earn cloudcoins for this prompt!
• This prompt can be completed a total of 1 time per person.

Rewards:

• 500 Cloud Coins (This is on top of whatever you’d get for filling out the criteria rewards section)
• 1x Random Item box
• 1x New Friends Patch

This prompt will be open until July 14th 23:59:59 site time!

JULY GACHA:

On July 15th we will be hosting a gacha! Designs will be $15 each, and all 3 species will be included! More info on this will be in the July newsletter! Stay tuned.

Misc:

• Sodacats and Guppymanders do not currently have trait images on their visual trait guide! We are currently working on them, sorry for the inconvenience!
• The current Sodacat and Guppymander item images are temporary! We will be making new ones whenever we have the chance!
• The site has been renamed from “Spacecats” to “The Space Station” since we no longer focus exclusively on Spacecats!
• Small Stars have been renamed Dwarf Stars
• Pulsars have been added - these are Spacecat MYO items that allow unlimited common-uncommon traits and one rare trait! There will be a limited amount sold in the Starstop Shop every month.
• The myth sale is still on-going! Golden Eggs and Diamond Sodas have been added to the post.
• The masterlist should now store full sized/unwatermarked images - these will only be viewable by character owners or staff! Older masterlist uploads will not have this feature.
• Item wishlists have been added to the site! You can add an item to your wishlist by clicking the green + on it!
• A few spacecat traits have been renamed/merged!
  • Abnormal body has been renamed Mutation
  • Melted mouth has merged with Mutation
  • Will-O-Wisps have been renamed Orbiting Objects
• LupineLeopard has been added as a perma GA!

Thank you all, and we hope you're greatly enjoying the site!