Guardian SLF - magic ships?
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maybe they need space leg to attach the pieces together, after all it could be a placeholder 
Sufficiently advanced alien tech should look like magic. Either way, I think it looks cool, I love the ideaof SLF with guardian weapons and cant wait to fly them. Cool stuff!
Me too. Good thing I still have those guardian vessel blueprints from the magic blueprint-dropping obelisks.
Good for you. I can't wait to get flipped over by those troll guardian skimmers all over again.
maybe, but when I ram it and it has no shields, the parts would fly off of eahc other.
Honestly, Elite has left the approach of being soem "scientific realistical" approach, it snow about fancy fantastic fiction in space.
Oh, but people did, bitterly so.
Good. It might be a sign, that E: D will finely be free of ridiculous XX century physics limits and can move on (inertial dampeners, anti-grav etc). Some of you treat it as a religion, I know. For me, the SLF looks extremely cool and I look forward into integrating this technology into human tech. To put it another way, Elite was restrained by our limited physics understanding four years now, it's time to move on.
PS: Long hair thanks to anti-grav tech!
PS: Long hair thanks to anti-grav tech!
So biological ships, FTL drives, inertia-less travel, vacuum based life etc don't phase you?
That's a necessary evil to make the game work though, whereas I really don't think this space elves magic is in any way necessary or even desirable. There are more than enough interesting ideas if you stick to good old low-fi human tech and stories of evil pirates and corrupt politicians without the need for any of that alien stuff.
The Thargoids stuff was always the weakest part of the series even back in FFE, and this guardian nonsense is not making things any better. The Thargoids should have been retconned out entirely, or relegated to being the mythical bogeybugs we never get to see or engage with.
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Considering they use Gaurdian weapons, which we already know, work "Decently" against human technology (My krait permanently has two gauss cannons on it, and I do just fine) it is safe to assume that, yes, they will work against human tech.
It's also safe to assume they may not be the best weaponry to use against human tech.
However, this will now mean I can permanently have guardian fighters, instead of having to swap out AX fighters if I decide to shoot thargs, which is awesome.
Also, they look awesome, and I couldn't care less if the technology doesn't fit with our current understanding of physics.
I don't care one whit about SLFs, because I never use them. NPC crew is just too expensive, and the whole perma-death thing...it's all been said.
But seriously, these are no more or less magic than anything else in this game.
People like to pretend that ED is scientifically accurate, because *parts* of it are.
But huge swaths of the game are just plain fantasy (people disagree on which parts, though ). This is just another of those parts.
But seriously, these are no more or less magic than anything else in this game.
People like to pretend that ED is scientifically accurate, because *parts* of it are.
But huge swaths of the game are just plain fantasy (people disagree on which parts, though
). This is just another of those parts.Perhaps frustration or annoyed are to strong words. I just don't like that, apparently currently very fashionable, concept of unconnected parts space ships.
No, magnetism isn't magic, but that isn't magnetism. It's one thing to use superconducting magnets to levitate something and to use it to put things together as if they where physically connected.
Not having to buy one doesn't make them less "magically". If FDev introduced space unicorns that vomit rainbow colored cotton candy I wouldn't be happy even if I don't have to buy such an unicorn or the cotton candy.
I'm to lazy to search for pictures on the internet, but that concept of space ships being made out of disconnected parts that "magically" stick together isn't new or outside the box.
If they just went that route - transparent guardian crystals would have been cool (if they where slightly visible in some conditions).
superconducting magnets
OR
perhaps it's a transdimensional object that only partially manifests in our universe while the connecting struts exist in a higher dimension
I like the later explanation better.
Not sure how powerful superconducting magnets would have to be to keep the parts of a SLF connected.
Magic.
Yea, but at least that looks cool
Just don't accelerate anything to much
There is a difference between suspending something in a magnetic field and using a magnetic field as a substitute for a physical connection that is used to transfer forces (acceleration).
FD releases a bunch of ship designs based on conventional designs...forum whiners cry "more of the same cut-and-paste designs! FD has no imagination and are just cranking out lazy designs!"
FD releases some new unconventional alien based ships...forum whiners complain "these ships are too weird and defy convention...GD designers suck!"
FD releases some new unconventional alien based ships...forum whiners complain "these ships are too weird and defy convention...GD designers suck!"
String Theory?
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Everybody has their own "red line" - or things they can happily ignore and others are slightly more difficult to ignore.
And ships made of biological matter isn't that exotic. Humans used biological ships for centuries