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 <wrap lo>**U.S.S. ARES** This resin model kit is licensed by Axanar to Starcraft Models, well known for selling unlicensed models. Online reports peg its cost at $85.</wrap> <wrap lo>**U.S.S. ARES** This resin model kit is licensed by Axanar to Starcraft Models, well known for selling unlicensed models. Online reports peg its cost at $85.</wrap>
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 ====== Merchandise ====== ====== Merchandise ======
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 <wrap lo>//Main article: [[Annual Report]] \\ <wrap lo>//Main article: [[Annual Report]] \\
-See also: {{tagpage>commercial|Articles on Axanar's commercial operations}}//</wrap>+See also: {{tagpage>commercial|Articles on Axanar's commercial operations}} \\  
 +[[author_author|Website Sells Axanar Merchandise for Big Potential Profits]] \\ 
 +[[soundtrack_pulled|Bookseller Pulls Axanar Merchandise]]//</wrap>
  
 [[Axanar Productions]] operates an organization that goes far beyond the production of its eponymous film, expanding to the sale of entire lines of **merchandise**, including posters, apparel, artwork, Blu-rays and model kits of the starships featured in //Prelude to Axanar//. [[Axanar Productions]] operates an organization that goes far beyond the production of its eponymous film, expanding to the sale of entire lines of **merchandise**, including posters, apparel, artwork, Blu-rays and model kits of the starships featured in //Prelude to Axanar//.
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 ===== Ares Digital ===== ===== Ares Digital =====
 {{::ares-digital-login.jpg|}} {{::ares-digital-login.jpg|}}
 +<wrap lo>//See also: [[ares_digital_update|Axanar Scrambles to Ship Perks]]// and [[new_ares_digital|Axanar Launches New Fulfillment Platform]]</wrap>
  
 [[https://ares.digital/index.html|Ares Digital]] is a for-profit company created by Axanar Productions to process and ship merchandise (known as "perks") to donors of any project's Kickstarter, Indiegogo and private donation campaigns. Ares operates a [[https://ares.digital|fulfillment website]], including the Donor Store, on behalf of Axanar. [[https://ares.digital/index.html|Ares Digital]] is a for-profit company created by Axanar Productions to process and ship merchandise (known as "perks") to donors of any project's Kickstarter, Indiegogo and private donation campaigns. Ares operates a [[https://ares.digital|fulfillment website]], including the Donor Store, on behalf of Axanar.
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 > I cannot speak for anything else -- not my department -- except for Ares Digital.  NO DONOR FUNDS have been spent on Ares Digital.  I've paid for any expenses out of my own pocket, including hours and hours of my time to create it, server, software, and co-location costs, and the data pipe/bandwidth costs, which are a recurring expense. Period.(({{::12814432_1561880374124383_5289494103590369278_n.jpg?linkonly|View screenshot}} of Terry McIntosh's Facebook comment, retrieved 3/9/16)) > I cannot speak for anything else -- not my department -- except for Ares Digital.  NO DONOR FUNDS have been spent on Ares Digital.  I've paid for any expenses out of my own pocket, including hours and hours of my time to create it, server, software, and co-location costs, and the data pipe/bandwidth costs, which are a recurring expense. Period.(({{::12814432_1561880374124383_5289494103590369278_n.jpg?linkonly|View screenshot}} of Terry McIntosh's Facebook comment, retrieved 3/9/16))
  
 +With his [[terry_mcintosh|resignation]] in May 2016, McIntosh said that completion of the Ares Digital platform was halted. Axanar fulfillment director Diana Kingsbury announced in June 2016 that the software would [[ares_digital_update#new solutions, old problems|soon be defunct]], replaced by something new being [[ares_digital_update#starting from scratch|created from scratch]] by a "new tech team."
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 +In September 2016, Axanar announced the launch of "[[new_ares_digital|Ares Digital 2.0,]]" which was built by its new chief technologist, Bill Watters.
 ==== Perks ==== ==== Perks ====
-List from Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns. + 
-{!stub:incomplete section requiring author's attention}}+**AxaMonitor**'s [[perks|analysis]] lists all the perks that were offered by the Axanar Kickstarter and Indiegogo campaigns, with the small subset of rewards that have actually been manufactured but whose [[ares_digital_update|delivery has been delayed]] for two years.
 ==== Donor Store ==== ==== Donor Store ====
 {{::donor-store.jpg|}} {{::donor-store.jpg|}}