Alien Races?
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I am hoping that there will be Sidewinder races which will be quite Alien to us, ah wrong type of alien race
DB did say that parts of the galaxy will be locked for now and that they have plans so I guess that Aliens are on the agenda but not for quite some time (unless you call Lavians etc as aliens then we have them already).
When we get planetary landings, we might see indigenous species which will be alien to us.
So short answer Yes (in my opinion but we don't know for certain).
I hope there will be many aliens races in the game. There is enough space for it.
See the multiple races, civilizations, technologies, goods. Able to trade and buy the spaceships of aliens. This will add even more of large-scale in the game
See the multiple races, civilizations, technologies, goods. Able to trade and buy the spaceships of aliens. This will add even more of large-scale in the game
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There might be enough space for it but what's the likelihood that a sapient race will survive to spacefaring capability? Even the most conservative estimates of alien life suggest thousands of alien intelligences. Given that in 14B years there's been enough time for even the most slow travelling race to colonise the entire galaxy, you gotta wonder where they are?
Well, we are the only real-life model we have to base our calculations on and we are only just beginning to reach out into space. Maybe it takes 14B years of evolution to get to the point where you can leave atmosphere? If that's the case, there could be thousands of alien civilisations on the verge of space colonisation.
Perhaps the more depressing answer (IMO) is that they are all out there but inter-stellar travel is just fundamentally impossible. Perhaps everybody is living in their own little bubbles of space, too remote to reach each other.
I'm sure there is a metaphor for a certain multiplayer game using peer-to-peer networking in that statement there somewhere.
I know the Thargoids will be in the game but I'd like to think that in the whole Milky way that there at least a few others because I think its unrealistic to have just us and them. I know that initially there will be a limited distance that we can travel. Perhaps we'll encounter other species when were allowed to land on planets and leave our ships.
I would have to guess that interstellar travel is either impossible to very rare,
The next closet planet with intersteller tech is that far away for an alien to find us it would be like standing in England trying to hit an ant in Australia with a pea shooter.
Out of about 9 million species on this planet, only 1 has evolved to the levels capable of technology.
Even if we find a planet with life, finding one with at least a 9 million to 1 species that has technology, that has a technology capably of intersteller space travel, in a 100 billion to 1 galaxy, where finding us would be like a needle in the haystack it makes the chances of a visit not very likely.
Then again, maybe being a 1 in 9 million species was extremely lucky and and 99% of other planets capable of life dont have a species capable of much more than a horse.
The next closet planet with intersteller tech is that far away for an alien to find us it would be like standing in England trying to hit an ant in Australia with a pea shooter.
Out of about 9 million species on this planet, only 1 has evolved to the levels capable of technology.
Even if we find a planet with life, finding one with at least a 9 million to 1 species that has technology, that has a technology capably of intersteller space travel, in a 100 billion to 1 galaxy, where finding us would be like a needle in the haystack it makes the chances of a visit not very likely.
Then again, maybe being a 1 in 9 million species was extremely lucky and and 99% of other planets capable of life dont have a species capable of much more than a horse.
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Well....I know this will sound suspicious and perhaps 'crazy' to some on this forum; but I've seen the 'unexplained' before in my 70 odd years. For me there is little doubt; I accept what I and some others have seen . Even if I consider other explanations for what I've seen;-- some random chemical imbalance effecting my vision, interdimensionals etc. I expect at least one or two other traveling species in game.
But we actually showed up after 3 billion years of evolution, because our planet is only about 4 billion years old. Consider that most habitable planets will have wildly different ages- some might be a few thousand years ahead (or behind), some might be 5-10 billion years older than ours or may have only formed in the last 2 billion years. What are the odds we would all evolve to spacefaring within a few centuries of each other?
I see maybe one advanced species and one less advanced being plausible.
And I'm not sure the kind of life that makes spaceships, edits newspapers, drinks rum and plays Chuckie Egg is in any way inevitable. It's only happened once. It might be like saying prawns are inevitable or that most inhabitable planets will eventually have beavers on them.
I'm one of those cheery optimists that believe it's reasonably easy to get life on a planet. Afterall, it's just a bit of chemistry and atoms tend to want to stick together in certain ways.
However, I think the level of life is most likely to be single celled organisms.
The environment may give these bacteria the nudge to make the evolutionary trek toward multi-cellular existence but that isn't a forgone conclusion.
But then big game hunting bacteria doesn't sound like the most exciting of experiences
As to full sentient space faring civilisations, I hope Frontier have the time to develop a few thoroughly (as suggested placing them in the fenced off areas of the galaxy) and allow them a distinct cultural identity.
I think it may also be a poignant to put in some failed civilisations. Planets with the derelict ruins of once sprawling cities. Devastated by environmental short sightedness and/or the inability to co-operate.
However, I think the level of life is most likely to be single celled organisms.
The environment may give these bacteria the nudge to make the evolutionary trek toward multi-cellular existence but that isn't a forgone conclusion.
But then big game hunting bacteria doesn't sound like the most exciting of experiences
As to full sentient space faring civilisations, I hope Frontier have the time to develop a few thoroughly (as suggested placing them in the fenced off areas of the galaxy) and allow them a distinct cultural identity.
I think it may also be a poignant to put in some failed civilisations. Planets with the derelict ruins of once sprawling cities. Devastated by environmental short sightedness and/or the inability to co-operate.
I think that initially the only other species we'll encounter will be the Thargoids and I'm ok with that but once Frontier open up space and we're allowed to travel further in the galaxy then I would like to think we will encounter at least a few perhaps at different levels technologically speaking.
If there isn't other species in the game except the Thargoids then you have to ask the question I think of what is the point of being able to land on planets and get out of our ships and explore if there is no-one else to interact with. I can just picture the scenario - you have travelled say 10,000 light years, which btw would take a good long time, dock at a space station and you are the only person there! No point in making the journey in the first place if there is nobody at the other end to trade, rob, fight with.
Going back to the game for a moment, the original Elite made reference to various alien beings, but for frontier and frontier fe, all of that seems to have been abandoned.
I wonder now which way the team will proceed - given this game feels more like elite than fe or ffe you could argue the way is open for alien life, but ffe was the last game in this setting, which was notably short on alien life apart from... Well I don't want to spoil it!
A final thought, while this elite feels more like successor to the original I do remember hearing/reading the the galaxy available to players would include the alliance, empire and federation which are all humanoid political entities from the fe/ffe games...
Toad.
I wonder now which way the team will proceed - given this game feels more like elite than fe or ffe you could argue the way is open for alien life, but ffe was the last game in this setting, which was notably short on alien life apart from... Well I don't want to spoil it!
A final thought, while this elite feels more like successor to the original I do remember hearing/reading the the galaxy available to players would include the alliance, empire and federation which are all humanoid political entities from the fe/ffe games...
Toad.
