Ready the whale boat lads! Unlash the harpoons!

[Deleted member 110222]

Frontier have confirmed through brain trees and geyser fungus that life can exist in a vacuum in the ED universe.

I propose an expansion on this. Space whaling. Hunting large space-faring organisms with special equipment. Harpoon tethers, nets, etc.

You could even have a secondary profession of people trying to save the space whales by hunting & destroying the whale boats!

This is not a joke post. I reckon this could be awesome in Elite.

 

[CMDR Cosmic Spacehead]

Only if said whales are larger than your ship, and can potentially eat you.

 

[Deleted member 110222]

Only if said whales are larger than your ship, and can potentially eat you.

I'm all for it. Needs risk after all.

 

[Tucker Dale]

Brilliant idea! That could even be extended to gas giants with water based life forms and worlds with very dense atmosphere.

https://youtu.be/s-45NTlgp-o

 

[Pville_Piper]

Well shiver me timbers lady!

 

[Stealthie]

If we kill all the space-whales, humanity will be doomed when Earth is rendered uninhabitable. [where is it]

 

[CMDR CPT. Boris]

Brilliant idea! That could even be extended to gas giants with water based life forms and worlds with very dense atmosphere.

https://youtu.be/s-45NTlgp-o

i was going to post it, but you were faster
... took me 5 mins to remember the name !

 

[BigFW]

Cool, after capture your reward could be measured at a Whale Weigh Station.... sorry, could not resist

 

[Sutore]

Whales? Small fry - I want a space Kraken. Unleash the space Kraken!!

 

[Tucker Dale]

Whales? Small fry - I want a space Kraken. Unleash the space Kraken!!

Why not have both? Heard the mighty cthulhu is from the Pleiades star cluster.

 

[StiTch]

Frontier have confirmed through brain trees and geyser fungus that life can exist in a vacuum in the ED universe.

Confirmed: actual location for player-owned bases:

Spoiler

 

[Pville_Piper]

I can just here the wails of the traders dragged out of space by the kraken and their holds are ripped apart in a bio-waste feeding frenzy...

 

[TheDayman]

Like a Leviathan from Stellaris (or other sci-fi) - that'd be awesome! A dimensional horror creeping out from a black hole, or a space dragon the size of a moon, or even an infinity sphere!

 

[Fubuki Ookami]

wouldn't we need atmosphere for the water? Or are we talking about giant floating space whale's(or krakens)? Either way it sounds amazing! Image doing it in a beluga though...

 

[thearmysredneck]

I propose an expansion on this. Space whaling. Hunting large space-faring organisms with special equipment. Harpoon tethers, nets, etc.

Or you could just fry 'em up with thermal shock/cascade and limpet in your freshly prepared dinner 1t at a time...

 

[Bran Tse Mallory]

Confirmed: actual location for player-owned bases:

Spoiler

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-medi...l_progressive,q_80,w_800/18ua7kt31dxktjpg.jpg

Flat Earth for 2.3 CONFIRMED!!!

 

[kmwmtd]

I propose an expansion on this. Space whaling. Hunting large space-faring organisms with special equipment. Harpoon tethers, nets, etc.

You could even have a secondary profession of people trying to save the space whales by hunting & destroying the whale boats!

This is not a joke post. I reckon this could be awesome in Elite.

There's already a prototype for this

 

[AgamemnonWhen]

Space-whales should be found in the upper atmospheres of Gas Giants. Their toots should be rare gases that can be mined (or made of Jumponium).

Petunias optional.

 

[racer1]

I was just trying to visualise the implementation, then I remembered distress call USS.

Is there actually a way to help those distressed souls?

 

[IndigoWyrd]

I was thinking something more like...

That would be a Budong. If you have keen eyes, the little thing between its teeth is Moya, the Leviathan.
And if you happened to miss Farscape, shame on you, go watch it.