To all those whiners, i say...
"We set sail on this new game because there is new space to be explored, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space gaming, like shoot-um-up gaming and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on players, and only if the Community occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether Elite Horizons will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered , maybe feeding the fires of war, maybe repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
There was no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space until now. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all players, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation, or not, may never come again. But why, some say, Elite Dangerous? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 39 years ago, play Space Invaders? Why does a Noob Play at all?
We choose to Play Elite! ...We choose to play Elite in this moment and do the other things,not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win .."
Happy New Year...and See you in Space!
[Parody of Original J,F.Kenddy Speech at Rice University. If you havent heard it...watch it on You Tube.]
"We set sail on this new game because there is new space to be explored, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space gaming, like shoot-um-up gaming and all technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on players, and only if the Community occupies a position of pre-eminence can we help decide whether Elite Horizons will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war. I do not say that we should or will go unprotected against the hostile misuse of space any more than we go unprotected against the hostile use of land or sea, but I do say that space can be explored and mastered , maybe feeding the fires of war, maybe repeating the mistakes that man has made in extending his writ around this globe of ours.
There was no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space until now. Its hazards are hostile to us all. Its conquest deserves the best of all players, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation, or not, may never come again. But why, some say, Elite Dangerous? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 39 years ago, play Space Invaders? Why does a Noob Play at all?
We choose to Play Elite! ...We choose to play Elite in this moment and do the other things,not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win .."
Happy New Year...and See you in Space!
[Parody of Original J,F.Kenddy Speech at Rice University. If you havent heard it...watch it on You Tube.]
