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<fs smaller>**LAST TIME** Ares Digital was in beta it promised donors' perks only moments away. The platform's version 3.0b is the linchpin for still-murky plans to eventually produce //Axanar//.</fs> <fs x-small>//Image/Axanar Productions//</fs>

<fs x-small>FEBRUARY 8, 2019<wrap indent>|</wrap><wrap indent>2 MINS READING TIME</wrap></fs>

====== Ares Digital 3.0b Drops into Public Beta ======

**//Axanar Short Films Won't Happen Until Troubled Software Platform Gets Fixed//**
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===== Beta Bolsters Outlook =====

Axanar producer Alec Peters [[https://axanarproductions.com/ares-digital-3-0-enters-beta-testing/|announced]] the digital platform on which he'll rely to deliver donor perks and raise money for producer the Axanar short films went into public beta for testing.

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==== Double Duty ====

Ares Digital 3.0, the [[new_ares_digital|troubled proprietary software]] platform, will have to serve double duty for Axanar, managing:
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  * Fulfilling perks [[ares_digital_update|still owed]] to donors in three separate crowdfunding campaigns in the course of four years.
  * Eventual donation transactions from Axanar supporters in the forthcoming private fundraising effort to make [[axanar_lite|Axanar]].
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==== Hoping for help ====

Peters advertised for volunteer [[https://axanarproductions.com/ares-digital-3-0-enters-beta-testing/|testers and technologists]] to help in the beta test. So far, even the beta version of Ares Digital was not yet accessible online, according to Peters.

==== Barred from Crowdfunding ====

Barred from [[crowdfunding_platforms|public crowdfunding]] by the [[axanar_settles|settlement]] in Star Trek's [[copyright_infringement|copyright]] [[lawsuit]] against Axanar, Peters is depending on Ares Digital to raise the [[axanar_confidential_3#details|quarter-million dollars]] he estimates Axanar will cost.

===== Why it Matters =====

Forward movement toward Axanar's production completely relies on Ares Digital 3.0. It's the first of the milestones Peters laid out for the moribund project:
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  * Ares Digital launch. Status: Beta testing. Launch date: Unknown.
  * Delivering perks. Status: Pending. [[production_update_3#shipping_patches|Shipping patches]] relies on a working Ares Digital with donors  required to manually confirm their contact and shipping information. Shipping date: Unknown.
  * Private fundraising. Status: No progress. Accurate donor information in Ares Digital is vital to the outreach required to raise the needed $240,000. Launch date: Unknown. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}
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