The excelsior will by the looks of it give me many things to divert myself with for quite a while but why no colony content? I know colonies are not widely loved but here we have another opportunity missed to make them more attractive, and once again those that do enjoy playing them are overlooked, (as they are at most events - easter excepted).. There could easily be a pvp related chain or somesuch in there somewhere, those that do not want to take part in colonies need not invest their jewels, those that are could... buffs etc to make colonies more attractive might help.... and why do zone wide buffs not cover armories and academies? Many adventures cost a lot of resources to do but at least we have 2 3 4 and even 5x buffs to help produce weapons etc, in colonies all we get are a couple of expensive double speed buffs so we can use up our resources even faster.
The Excelsior "slot machine " is great (apart from the graphic blighting my already distopian island) but as far as colonies are concerned it is yet another opportunity missed.