Guardian SLF - magic ships?

CMDR Zadian Lichtfrost

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I was already a bit annoyed by the magic guardian sentinels, but now we (apparently) get hybrid guardian magic ships as SLFs.

Why magic?
Because how do those free floating elements of the ship stick together without magic? I know it looks cool for some people, but ships like this annoy me a lot.

Something like that would require two separate forces to work against each other, perfect synchronization of the flight patterns (countering all additional forces) to keep the parts together and lossless energy transfer (or power plants in each element).

Argh.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Yes, I see what you mean, but it's cool ! I like the thinking outside of the box on this design.

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I also like that the Guardian technology has a "triangular" consistency, following through from the triangular shapes on the monoliths ...

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Weps

Weps
777Driver said:
Do you also get frustrated that we can travel a few thousand LY’s in an hour? Not even David Blaine can pull of that trick.

Try not to get frustrated by fictitious alien tech from a computer game (or film) Really not worth the stress.
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One point Braben made extensively during the game's early years, was that Elite was as scientifically accurate as possible, and that as little technobabble as possible was being inserted into the game, only where absolutely necessary, to account for game mechanics (FTL travel for instance) without which the entire premise of the game (an entire galaxy) would have been impossible. IIRC he featured in at least one article, specifically on this topic.

The new SLFs are just gratuitous space magic. I'm not saying that they don't look cool, actually I dig their aesthetic, but their design doesn't seem to have any other purpose than "trident ships rock".
 

Lobstris

Lobstris
I dunno. I kind of agree with the OP. All of the human ships in Elite looked functional and 'grounded' (until we got to the Alliance ships with their combination landing gear/thrusters :) ).

More CheeseWedges™ please!
 

Garris

Garris
Oh dear, oh dear o dear. This is hard for me. Well done FD design team. I actually am impressed, I like it.
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
Weps said:
One point Braben made extensively during the game's early years, was that Elite was as scientifically accurate as possible, and that as little technobabble as possible was being inserted into the game, only where absolutely necessary, to account for game mechanics (FTL travel for instance) without which the entire premise of the game (an entire galaxy) would have been impossible. IIRC he featured in at least one article, specifically on this topic.

The new SLFs are just gratuitous space magic. I'm not saying that they don't look cool, actually I dig their aesthetic, but their design doesn't seem to have any other purpose than "trident ships rock".
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It's alien :) The Guardians would probably think our ships were weirdly stuck together using gravity mechanics
 

Prorokpl

Prorokpl
Bless your ignorance OP. If you don't understand something doesn't mean its magic. It's just science we need to figure out. Also it's not first floating thing in game so what's new to you? Never seen guardian tech before? Also I can show you levitating magnets on earth irl.
 
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