Speak for yourselves. I totally get it.
Guardian SLF - magic ships?
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Speak for yourselves. I totally get it.
Guardian Plexiglas and fishing line!
You could even say, "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C Clarke)
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I don't understand how it works either OP so I'm going with space goblins!
Or magnets ..
Though "maglev" maybe is, more likely? Otherwise what's stopping them from snapping together?
^^ That sounds even better.
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The triangles imply non-human input, so I guess this alien tech only works in threes. Humans have ships which are identical reflections about a single axis. Clearly, the Guardians are tri-axial.
Ram Tah has just assembled the technology available to him from blueprints, I should imagine. Blueprints which we can get our hands on to build our own ships .....
and clearly Guardians like blue !
Where did you find these super nice screenshots? Not from the phone footage that was leaked from last night's presentation surely?
P.S. why has nobody mentioned TRON yet?
Where did you find these super nice screenshots? Not from the phone footage that was leaked from last night's presentation surely?
P.S. why has nobody mentioned TRON yet?
P.S. nevermind, a single post just answered both my questions.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...mesN-article?p=6943691&viewfull=1#post6943691
meh, not a fan of the magic wings either
New Ship Kits Opportunity !
Fill in the missing bits in your Guardian SLFs with spoilers, fins and connecty-pieces-with-spikes-on
Fill in the missing bits in your Guardian SLFs with spoilers, fins and connecty-pieces-with-spikes-on
Look how people here try to explain scientifically this artistic direction the game is headed towards, as if we're not flying in a universe where instant teleportation exists, fighters which 90% of their volume is dedicated to a totally useless holographic projector and windshields capable of withstanding the temperature and luminosity of a star while admiring a planet with liquid water but no atmosphere.
Guys, Elite has departed the scientific accuracy a long time ago
The slf looks cool, let's leave it at that.
Guys, Elite has departed the scientific accuracy a long time ago
The slf looks cool, let's leave it at that.
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Yep, i agree with OP. While I like look the general design of the hybrid fighter, I really, really dislike the unattached free-floating wings.
Looks like Frontier are giving up on the "plausible science" aesthetic and just going for full-on space fantasy.
Great.
Soon we'll be using laser swords and biotic/Force powers.
Looks like Frontier are giving up on the "plausible science" aesthetic and just going for full-on space fantasy.
Great.
Soon we'll be using laser swords and biotic/Force powers.
Guardian SLF's are held together by a force, a force that surrounds them and binds them ... luminous beings are they, not just crude matter!
When was any of the sci-fi magic in Elite plausible science? I suppose we all draw the line at different amounts of imaginary technology.
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Well, they have visible laser weapons (in a vacuum) already, which is also a scientific abomination.
Who would have guessed ...
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You make a good point
I think they're cool even if they're on the edge of 'Elite believability'.
Naaaah! they are using transparent aluminium.
Yeah. It's not like Electrostatics are even a thing in Physics, at all .... oh wait.
To avoid all components needing independent power supplies I think you'd mount a static magnet in the wings, as attractor, with a reverse pole electromagnet in the main fuselage for (active) repulsion to balance. However it works though, the main power supply, must be .. pokey.