starter ship
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the standard starter ship is the ''sidewinder''
other backer options (for various backer levels) are the ''eagle'' and the ''cobra III''
as far as i recall those are the only ships , but there are a few different configerations within that
Default ship is the Sidewinder, I think everyone gets one of those.
Then depending on how much you pledged these are the extra starter ships at varying pledge levels...
Then depending on how much you pledged these are the extra starter ships at varying pledge levels...
- Imperial Eagle Mk II Fighter with upgraded weapons and shields (Imperial Bounty Hunter)
- Basic Cobra Mk III loaded with cargo (Federal Trader)
- Stolen but upgraded Cobra Mk III (for Pirates)
- Basic Cobra Mk III docked at Lave (Independent Trader)
- Long range version of the Cobra Mk III (Explorer)
As Greeboski and Erimus have said. However, if a player starts on the Founders world with 4000 credits and a basic Cobra, it may be possible to downgrade hulls and upgrade equipment.
I'll be starting in a Sidewinder with 100 credits even though I could start with the maximum. I want to play a newly liberated Imperial slave who has spent his life serving a space trotting Senator. I've now been given freedom and the basic building blocks for establishing myself as a pilot.
I'll be starting in a Sidewinder with 100 credits even though I could start with the maximum. I want to play a newly liberated Imperial slave who has spent his life serving a space trotting Senator. I've now been given freedom and the basic building blocks for establishing myself as a pilot.
As Greeboski and Erimus have said. However, if a player starts on the Founders world with 4000 credits and a basic Cobra, it may be possible to downgrade hulls and upgrade equipment.
I'll be starting in a Sidewinder with 100 credits even though I could start with the maximum. I want to play a newly liberated Imperial slave who has spent his life serving a space trotting Senator. I've now been given freedom and the basic building blocks for establishing myself as a pilot.
Heh I never thought of creating a back story for my character, sounds interesting
How about this?
I'm an Andromedan that fell through a worm hole and ended up in the Milky Way. Taking on human form I've blended in to human society, acquired a long range Cobra and set myself the daunting task of reaching the centre of the galaxy, to the black hole, through which I can travel back home to Andromeda (or be spaghettified depending on who you believe; Walt Disney or Stephen Hawking)
I'm an Andromedan that fell through a worm hole and ended up in the Milky Way. Taking on human form I've blended in to human society, acquired a long range Cobra and set myself the daunting task of reaching the centre of the galaxy, to the black hole, through which I can travel back home to Andromeda (or be spaghettified depending on who you believe; Walt Disney or Stephen Hawking)
Are you an illegal immigrant in the Milky Way?
I can't wait for the first players to make it to the galactic centre and take some images. I don't know how long this will take though, it really is a good hike away. As for the super massive black hole, you'll be al dente a lot slower than in a collapsed star core.
Send a post card if you get back to Andromeda!
There is an old sci fi story that includes a guy who travels to the centre of the galaxy and discovers it has exploded, obviously his ship can travel much faster than the explosion but it will reach inhabited space eventually.
I thought that was a pretty good idea, knowing that everyone is doomed unless you can come up with intergalactic travel even if you have several thousand years to think about it would be a worry.
I thought that was a pretty good idea, knowing that everyone is doomed unless you can come up with intergalactic travel even if you have several thousand years to think about it would be a worry.
That is a good idea, although maybe not the centre exploding. I think the development team will be a tad annoyed if all the players move to the Magellanic clouds!
However, a close supernova (like Betelgeuse) will only take about 600 years to get to Sol. If it has already exploded this time could be reduced for game purposes. I can imagine evacuation missions (and colony conflicts). Maybe even science missions like building a huge shield to protect critically important planets.
To add a link: Wiki Ship List (some ships pages also include images)
I think that was a theme as well in one of the ringworld novels
It's actually the plot point driving a good number of the Known Space/Ringworld novels.
Beowulf Shaeffer is your man.
Beowulf Shaeffer is your man.
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afair, the Milky way is going to collide with another galaxy in a few million years time so maybe we can prepare for that - evacuate people from systems in the line of fire - maybe that will be for Elite 5 if it is set that far into the future
Except that galaxies don't collide in the way most people think. It's more like two different liquids flowing into each other, slowly mixing in the process; "galactic merger" is a far more fitting name. Some planetary systems may get disrupted if two stars get too close to each other, other stays can get flung out of the galaxy, but any truly interstellar civilization should be able to cope with all of that easily (e.g. migration away from affected worlds), especially considering the time scales involved - you'll have hundreds, if not thousands of years warning ahead before a planet might get in trouble.
Cheers, has been a long while since I was in Known Space, its all coming back to me now though.
That could well be, I have only read two and it was part of at least one..
Just looked it up, about the Puppeteers:
"They transformed their home world, and several other astronomical bodies, into a Klemperer rosette, in order to flee a galactic catastrophe."
If I remember rightly they sold the designs for their indestructible (except for antimatter) transparent ship hulls to finance getting their whole planetary system up and running away from the explosion
They sold the hulls, they didn't sell the designs. They kept that secret, since if you knew how they were made you knew how to destroy them.
They actually murdered people to cover the secret (not so cute and cuddly, they also commit genocide at least once!).
They actually murdered people to cover the secret (not so cute and cuddly, they also commit genocide at least once!).
Heh I never thought of creating a back story for my character, sounds interesting
How about this?
I'm an Andromedan that fell through a worm hole and ended up in the Milky Way. Taking on human form I've blended in to human society, acquired a long range Cobra and set myself the daunting task of reaching the centre of the galaxy, to the black hole, through which I can travel back home to Andromeda (or be spaghettified depending on who you believe; Walt Disney or Stephen Hawking)
Cobra won't save you from the black hole. Steven Hawking is full of noodles.
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I think they sold the hulls anyway, i believe they sold the designs when they found out about the approaching radiation bought outsider drives so they could move entire planets and withdrew from the rest of the races?
Admittedly it has been a long time since i read any of the books, but i think that was what happened, up until that point they had been meddling in all sorts of things for many years, hence the name.
Admittedly it has been a long time since i read any of the books, but i think that was what happened, up until that point they had been meddling in all sorts of things for many years, hence the name.
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I will be starting the game with a Sidewinder and 500 credits which will probably be a significant improvement over the starting situation I usually had in my Elite games not that I can remember that far back. I think I had an Eagle and 100 credits at the start of Frontier maybe? And then that really ugly ship with 100 credits for FFE. So 500 credits will be a luxury. Although I can imagine a Sidewinders cargo bay is not large, not that it matters if you can buy something like a few computers straight off rather than water or veg!