Space madness.

Duckfather

Duckfather
LostLegend said:
...I am on the cusp of reaching the center of our Galaxy. A journey I... we have done in real time (futuristic hyperjumping none-withstanding)

Name another computer game where this is an objective?...
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I have just had this type of conversation with some of the guys at work that played Destiny and have moved on to other quick fix console games. I received blank looks basically!

I personally can't beleave that I'm currentl 61KLY out from Sol and nearly at the 65KLY target of Beagle Point, in a 1:1 recreation of the entire galaxy (as best as it can be done at the moment). In a game. Which has taken months to do. And I've slowed down to join up with the social waypoints. And am loving it :)
 

Sniffy75

Sniffy75
I'm with Turjan.
This is not madness but pure brilliance, or perhaps they are one and the same?

There is always one more star that needs to be explored!
 

Glafnazur

Glafnazur
I have only done one short trip but I totally agree with this. I am currently back in the bubble trying to her enough credits to equip my cobra for a prolonged trip into the black. I don't know when I'll be back I just know that exploring is what I bought the game for.

To infinity and beyond
 

BaldEagle

BaldEagle
Olivia Vespera said:
I have to agree with everyone here. It sings to my heart.
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This says it for me - it is a brilliant essay on Exploration and Explorers.
I know that if I was to go back to the Station where my Asp is being cared for I would be unable to resist the pull of the unknown far reaches ...
 

CDR Michael Darkmoor

CDR Michael Darkmoor
It is *Brilliant!*.
Sadly, it's eloquence and message seem to have been lost on those who would bring their power struggles and politics (of the bubble and other realms) to Beagle.
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We explore... We try to get away... To escape that which we cannot abide.
But wherever a mass of humans gather...
The bid for dominance remains...
 
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Witzo

Witzo
CMDR Poet Starwind is going places! His mindset is the correct one for Deep Journeying.

MassBStruction said:
Heading widdershins down the Perseus Arm, I am finding many, many, unexplored icy bodies. The shame these forgotten worlds must feel; I, the only one to nurture them into the annals of Universal Cartographics. Sure. they're worthless, pitiful, uninspiring moon-faced backwaters; but don't they deserve some love too?

And don't get me started on the Class L brown dwarfs you leave behind, or the Terrible Tauris; more than one water-based lifeform has evolved in the gas giants there, suckled on the pathetic solar output from dying/half-matured stars. Where is your humanity? Where is your humility in the face of the furnaces, nay, the crucibles of the Galaxy?

I'll just keep sopping up the leftovers from your gluttonous binges of worthy worlds, bringing home the discoveries of the discounted dismal dreggs; their countenances frozen over with glacial tears of neglect.

Oh, hey! Earth-like world! Cha-ching!! Heading back to the bubble!

Saving the galaxy from podunkery obscura once again,
CMDR Poet Starwind
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We approve of your diligence.
 

Scoopy Doopy

Scoopy Doopy
What an extraordinary thread!

I know of no other game that could elicit these sentiments. When I returned from my first exploration trip, which was to Sag A*, I carefully parked my Asp, bought it a coat of paint, and then bought another Asp so I could do Asp things in the bubble without defiling my exploration vessel. I then jumped in my Vulture and shot things for a while. It's incredibly dull. I couldn't stand the babble of the bubble for more than a week and so took my trusty exploration Asp out again. 70,000 LY later, I am wandering up the Sagittarius arm, mindlessly going from star to star, ruminating on why the galaxy had to spring into existence almost entirely made up of medium sized M class stars surrounded by balls of ice and a single solitary metal rich planet the size of a large pea. But I love it and just can't stop seeing if the next star may turn out to be something different and hoping against hope that if and when I return, that ringed ELW I found will still be virgin.

For all that is held worthy in this life FD, don't let the babble rabble expand out of the bubble.
 
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Witzo

Witzo
Scoopy Doopy said:
What an extraordinary thread!

I know of no other game that could elicit these sentiments. When I returned from my first exploration trip, which was to Sag A*, I carefully parked my Asp, bought it a coat of paint, and then bought another Asp so I could do Asp things in the bubble without defiling my exploration vessel. I then jumped in my Vulture and shot things for a while. It's incredibly dull. I couldn't stand the babble of the bubble for more than a week and so took my trusty exploration Asp out again. 70,000 LY later, I am wondering up the Sagittarius arm, mindlessly going from star to star, ruminating on why the galaxy had to spring into existence almost entirely made up of medium sized M class stars surrounded by balls of ice and a single solitary metal rich planet the size of a large pea. But I love it and just can't stop seeing if the next star may turn out to be something different and hoping against hope that if and when I return, that ringed ELW I found will still be virgin.

For all that is held worthy in this life FD, don't let the babble rabble expand out of the bubble.
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May I use quotes from this post whenever the whim strikes me? Its accidental eloquence is so poetic it may not be accidental at all.
 

Witzo

Witzo
Good.

Commander's Log of the Improbable Puffin, 30 March 3302, crossing The Abyss.
Our plumbing problems may be contained if we don't let the babble rabble expand out of the bubble.
Ruminating on why the galaxy had to spring into existence almost entirely made up of medium sized M class stars surrounded by balls of ice almost made me barf up too much, I will take Scoopy Doopy's example and modify my redundant KWS mount to be an outside toilet. Then I won't defile my exploration vessel.
 

Scoopy Doopy

Scoopy Doopy
Witzo said:
Good.

Commander's Log of the Improbable Puffin, 30 March 3302, crossing The Abyss.
Our plumbing problems may be contained if we don't let the babble rabble expand out of the bubble.
Ruminating on why the galaxy had to spring into existence almost entirely made up of medium sized M class stars surrounded by balls of ice almost made me barf up too much, I will take Scoopy Doopy's example and modify my redundant KWS mount to be an outside toilet. Then I won't defile my exploration vessel.
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I like it! innovative, direct and yet suffused with a hint of mystery regarding how one might defile ones exploration vessel.

Rep to you sir (or possibly madam)
 

Dippy

Dippy
If I see another Venus de milo or The Scream in the hyperspace sequence again I will cry! :eek:

Just another 3.7kly to go on DW. ;)
 

GreyAreaUK

GreyAreaUK
Does anybody else get the urge to pop the canopy during hyperspace and hold their hands up, rollercoaster-style?

I'm guessing it probably comes under the heading of Bad Idea...
 

Witzo

Witzo
GreyAreaUK said:
Does anybody else get the urge to pop the canopy during hyperspace and hold their hands up, rollercoaster-style?

I'm guessing it probably comes under the heading of Bad Idea...
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GreyAreaUK said:
I'm outbound westwards from the bubble in my Cobra MkIII. Not very far as yet (less than a Kylie in fact) but won't be heading back in any time soon, and feeling oddly calmer the further out I get. I feel like...I belong out here.
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Yes, yes you do.
 

Witzo

Witzo
Commander Icobacca lets it be known that he was jumped by a primal fear while travelling down the Carina-Sagittarius arm direction Bubble, broke off his planned route and is now dashing home in a straight line in multi-hour sessions.
 
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Scoopy Doopy

Scoopy Doopy
Witzo said:
Commander Icobacca lets it be known that he was jumped by a primal fear while travelling down the Carina-Sagittarius arm direction Bubble, broke off his planned route and is now dashing home in a straight line in multi-hour sessions.
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He'll be back
 
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