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TR
Alt #4 busy trying to win a war for a faction in an out-of-the-way system no-one has ever heard of...won one war for them already. This would have been a much more dramatic picture, if I'd taken it whilst a load of allied troops were capturing the control point - but by the time I'd got the camera straight, they'd all buggered off!

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And IRL, me and a friend are getting back into WH40K after a ten-year absence. It's...interesting trying to build and paint the models when your eyesight isn't what it was, we've both ended up wearing magnifying goggles!

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Decided to go for Necrons (even though I have six other armies stored away somewhere) :LOL:
 
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Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous
Tyres O'Flaherty said:
I started thinking "What has the navy got to do with that?" before the penny dropped :D
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Last time the Penny dropped for me, I end up in The Seraph's Wing surrounded by navy. I guess it was an independent detention facility but some of them looked like ex-navy
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CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
The Own of Noon said:
Last time the Penny dropped for me, I end up in The Seraph's Wing surrounded by navy. I guess it was an independent detention facility but some of them looked like ex-navy
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Haven't seen one of those, yet.
Neither from the outside nor inside...
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
Tango Romeo India said:
Alt #4 busy trying to win a war for a faction in an out-of-the-way system no-one has ever heard of...won one war for them already. This would have been a much more dramatic picture, if I'd taken it whilst a load of allied troops were capturing the control point - but by the time I'd got the camera straight, they'd all buggered off!

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And IRL, me and a friend are getting back into WH40K after a ten-year absence. It's...interesting trying to build and paint the models when your eyesight isn't what it was, we've both ended up wearing magnifying goggles!

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Decided to go for Necrons (even though I have six other armies stored away somewhere) :LOL:
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Well, looking at your commander, I can see why...
 

aRJay

aRJay
Tango Romeo India said:
Alt #4 busy trying to win a war for a faction in an out-of-the-way system no-one has ever heard of...won one war for them already. This would have been a much more dramatic picture, if I'd taken it whilst a load of allied troops were capturing the control point - but by the time I'd got the camera straight, they'd all buggered off!

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And IRL, me and a friend are getting back into WH40K after a ten-year absence. It's...interesting trying to build and paint the models when your eyesight isn't what it was, we've both ended up wearing magnifying goggles!

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Decided to go for Necrons (even though I have six other armies stored away somewhere) :LOL:
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An appropriate choice seeing as you are resurrecting the game.

CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF said:
Haven't seen one of those, yet.
Neither from the outside nor inside...
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The Own of Noon said:
Oh CMDR Timber McWolf, your moral scruples truly project beyond the bubble.

To leave long lasting peace, jettison 1T of copies of Emily Post Manners Books.
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I used to be a regular visitor to the facility a couple of jumps away from Maia.

It was few years ago and I had ships stashed all over the place but stations with useful facilities in that region kept getting into trouble one way or another but the prison ship did have the same problems so I parked a mini fleet there.
 

Codger

Codger
]M[ said:
My own father is 89, but has been describing computer games (and sometimes just computers) as "a complete waste of time" since I was 10 and he was 45
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That's rather amusing to me. I worked in computers most of my life. Taught myself programming and just slid right in there when it was all beginning to be a thing.

I played my first computer game on an Apple II computer, and it started a life-long love of computer games for me.

When I retired about 7 years ago, I intended to just play games, do some music, and nothing else. And that's what I've done so far. I started playing Elite right after I retired, and it's been a great joy to me all these years.

Games are a waste of time? Maybe so, but then, time is meant to be wasted. We don't get much of it, might as well do what makes you happy.

Reading this back I realize that I do sound like an old codger these days. I guess I chose my CMDR name well :p
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
I'm closing in on the guardian structures, sort of. Scanned all planets I hadn't scanned yet, except for CD 1 & 2, as these are a pair and 1 bears the ruins.
Ended my session on a moon nearby that had 3 geo and 1 bio signal. Landed close to a lava spout and instantly found a second geo signal and the bio signal.
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Are that trees I spot there?

Now I parked my ship under the twin suns of Synuefe TP-F b44-0 CD 5 a... Although, the system has 4 suns, overall...
But these two are all you get to see here...
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Yeah, two brown dwarves. Hence the neverending darkness on the previous planet.
 
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aRJay

aRJay
What I am up to now is deciding what to do next.

I have, I believe, visited every inhabited system in Colonia and I fancy heading out to parts less visited, but I am tempted by that bright red claw like nebula the problem with that is obviously everybody else will have been tempted by it and there will be nothing to find first. Perhaps a visit to one of the map sites is in order to find where is least popular.
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
aRJay said:
What I am up to now is deciding what to do next.

I have, I believe, visited every inhabited system in Colonia and I fancy heading out to parts less visited, but I am tempted by that bright red claw like nebula the problem with that is obviously everybody else will have been tempted by it and there will be nothing to find first. Perhaps a visit to one of the map sites is in order to find where is least popular.
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There should be a lot of unvisited space left, if it is correct that there is about 0.001something% of the galaxy discovered...
And sometimes, the first footfall lurks in unexpected places...
 

]M[

]M[
Codger said:
That's rather amusing to me. I worked in computers most of my life. Taught myself programming and just slid right in there when it was all beginning to be a thing.

I played my first computer game on an Apple II computer, and it started a life-long love of computer games for me.
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Ahh the Apple ][ was a seriously good part of my late childhood/early teens! ...we had a few of them at school, and later on a "clone" at home - Apple Galaxian was the first game I got really fanatical about, managing to beat all but the highest score on the preloaded list iirc - and I remember Space Eggs, Apple Panic, Falcons, Karateka, Indiana Jones... also those early Sierra adventures, though I've still yet to complete HHGG - even finished making a game myself, though it was really a reskinned version of Snafu, written in AppleSoft BASIC :geek:

Codger said:
When I retired about 7 years ago, I intended to just play games, do some music, and nothing else. And that's what I've done so far. I started playing Elite right after I retired, and it's been a great joy to me all these years.
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Ah yep, this game has become quite a part of my life too the last 5 years - I didn't play the original 1984 Elite, but remember it well - every lunch break, the computer room at school was full of people playing it on the newly acquired BBC Micro's in 1985 :)

Codger said:
Games are a waste of time? Maybe so, but then, time is meant to be wasted. We don't get much of it, might as well do what makes you happy.
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That's the Meaning of Life, isn't it? 😊

Codger said:
Reading this back I realize that I do sound like an old codger these days. I guess I chose my CMDR name well :p
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Ahh yep, "age" is a state of mind, ultimately? Keeping an open mind and good sense of humour is the important thing it seems - the years go by much more easily that way... :]
 

]M[

]M[
CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF said:
There should be a lot of unvisited space left, if it is correct that there is about 0.001something% of the galaxy discovered...
And sometimes, the first footfall lurks in unexpected places...
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Plenty of places to go still! :)

...it's been a crazy week here, but I guess throwing one's self into work is sometimes the best strategy for keeping sane - so I put together this video which I've had the idea of making for some time - it's a montage of First Footfalls...

 

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Marvin the Martian

Marvin the Martian
CMDRQuainMarln said:
Greetings from Sphiesi HX-L d7-0 planet 3.
This location is notable because it is as far 'west' as you can go from the Sol.
The final two jumps to get here were
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137.1639
light years each. So you need an almost 80ly jump range plus level 3 FSD injections to get here.
To date I have been to the most northerly, southerly and now this westerly point in the galaxy. The eastern point I might save until next year, or at least late this year and try to hit Elite V in exploration in the process. I have no plans for a circumnavigation of the galaxy, but never say never.

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You can see almost the entire disc of the galaxy from there.

Awesome.
 

CMDR Timber McWolf

CMDR Timber McWolf
]M[ said:
Plenty of places to go still! :)

...it's been a crazy week here, but I guess throwing one's self into work is sometimes the best strategy for keeping sane - so I put together this video which I've had the idea of making for some time - it's a montage of First Footfalls...

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I once again have to quote your post to be able to see the video. I hope.

EDIT: Yep. It worked.

EDIT II: Ah, yes first footfalls... At this moment, I have just one under my belt. Snuck up on me and surprised me. When I was ready to take a pic, it was already gone again...
 
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]M[

]M[
CMDR TIMBERMCWOLF said:
I once again have to quote your post to be able to see the video. I hope.

EDIT: Yep. It worked.

EDIT II: Ah, yes first footfalls... At this moment, I have just one under my belt. Snuck up on me and surprised me. When I was ready to take a pic, it was already gone again...
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I think I missed my first one too - was busy fumbling with the genetic scanner probably - made a habit of snapping a quick pic or two most times since then though... :]
 
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