The ED Universe Is A Really Weird Parallel Universe

Genar-Hofoen

Genar-Hofoen
The ED universe is really weird, compared to ours.

I can only assume that at some point in the past, something monumental happened and it branched off from our universe. Perhaps around 1984 or thereabouts.

Sometimes the people of the ED universe seem really clever, inventing FTL travel, being able to build all those ships and starports, etc.

Then other times, the people of this strange ED universe seem really dumb.

Case in point - it appears to have taken the ED universe hundreds of years to develop asteroid mining technology, like explosives, drills, and scrapers...


A range of new asteroid-mining equipment is expected to trigger an increase in the availability of ores and minerals.

A spokesperson for the Industrial Mining Guild discussed the new tools at an industry symposium:

“Using mining lasers to remove surface deposits from asteroids can be difficult. The new abrasion blaster fires projectiles that break them free more easily.”

“For deeper deposits, sub-surface displacement missiles can penetrate the rock and then be detonated remotely, releasing larger chunks of material.”

“Finally, there is now a way to access valuable resources deep within certain rare bodies. Seismic charges, when carefully positioned, can crack an asteroid open and free the minerals at its core.”

“Combined with upgrades to existing tools, such as scanners and prospector limpets, we are confident that these new tools will result in a surge in private mining activity.”
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Iskariot

Iskariot
They are lucky in that parallel ED universe.
I wonder if we will ever get that far in our universe.
 
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pzykozomatik

pzykozomatik
Well, there is (or at least was) also this thing:

http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Asteroid_Miner
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Deadlock-3000

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It's a horrific place peopled by a mixture of lunatics and morons as far as I can tell.

You can control a fighter via telepresence in real time via FTL communications from the opposite side of the galaxy. But you can't get a price list for the market on the next moon across, let alone a neighbouring star system.

You can warp the very fabric of spacetime and propel yourself across the interstellar void in seconds. But you can't have an autopilot that mimics even the most basic functions of a 1960s passenger jet, except for the one and only express purpose of leaving you alone on a dustbowl's surface in a golf cart.

You can buy a great variety of off-the-shelf starships, some the size of a football pitch, which can all be controlled by one pilot, many carrying hundreds of passengers. But if you have a pilot's license then you're barred from ever being a passenger yourself, even if you're a multi-billionaire with your own fleet and you literally employ a crew who are all trained pilots.

Practically begging to be wiped out by aliens if you ask me, and good riddance.
 

krylite

krylite
Genar-Hofoen said:
The ED universe is really weird, compared to ours.

I can only assume that at some point in the past, something monumental happened and it branched off from our universe. Perhaps around 1984 or thereabouts.
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Iskariot said:
They are lucky in that parallel ED universe.
I wonder if we will ever get that far in our universe.
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If going by the general lore, I would agree the human race has it good in ED's universe in 3304. They've expanded to trillions in the galaxy without having to generally compete, share space and deal with thousands of pesky interstellar alien civilizations like in Star Trek. Interstellar esources are so abundant, practically infinite compared to today so that communism, communes and cooperatives can actually work by their idealism to an extent and there seems to be freedom to roam or visit for many billions within the galaxy.

Then comparing to the Fallout4 world which is horrible and dystopic, where their alternate universe deviated from ours soon after WWII. They kept the "golden age" culture of 20th century America with an atomic energy fixation until their great nuclear war in 2077, but their world fell back to barbarism and sustained radioactive fallout(p) dystopia by their 23rd century. Although if Obisidian's upcoming "Outer Worlds" lore is a loose continuation of the original fallout franchise premise, it could be they cleaned up their act eventually to reach the stars as well, sometime by the end of the 3rd millennium.
 
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60mm

60mm
People are still falling for communism too. [where is it]

People definitely did not get any smarter in 1300 years.
 
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