Brookes Galactic Tours - Thank you Frontier

[Alien]

• In honour of the late Michael Brookes, a new organisation has been added to the game, Brookes Galactic Tours.
  • You can now find their adverts in most markets and their new megaship, The Legacy, which can be found in Artemis near Freeholm.
  • Brookes Galactic Tours has also established a new mini-series of tourist beacons to a handful of fantastic locations, the first of this series begins at the beacon at Freeholm. We hope you enjoy exploring and will take a moment to pause and enjoy the wonder that Mike helped bring to the universe of Elite.

From this thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/threads/update-16-deployment-release-notes.618851/

Thank you Frontier for doing this. Michael's influence on the entire Elite series (from FEII, his name is in the credits) is so great, even this doesn't come close (in my opinion) to honouring him, but it's better than nothing, and I for one appreciate it.

I'm not in the bubble at the moment, but when I return I will seek this out and think of Michael as I explore it.

Thank you Frontier.

 

[Northpin]

have to admit that reading this section of Sally's patch notes made me tear up a bit

 

[Alec Turner]

Beautiful, can't wait to see how this "new mini-series of tourist beacons" will work. Will they just be mixed in randomly with all the other tourist beacon locations or will The Legacy megaship be offering special tourist missions I wonder? (I hope the latter, there's a lot of tourist beacons so the chances of getting one of the new ones seems quite remote otherwise).

 

[Helmut Grokenberger]

I hope it is some form of guided tour, be it a mission, or just one beacon sending me to the next.

 

[nats]

Nice to see him remembered in the game he helped create

 

[Rochester]

Many thanks, I wonder @sallymorganmoore if this will be migrated over to Legacy as well (not in game to check (on PC and Console)) but would love to see this.

 

[Kzak]

I'd be up for checking out that series of tourist beacons. Nice gesture for Mr Brookes.

 

[Urbansparx]

Awesome job Frontier. Looking forward to the visiting the sites and the lore which Michael provided.

 

[CMDR-AD]

Glad to hear this. I'll go check out this beacon series.

 

[vanFace]

I hope it is some form of guided tour, be it a mission, or just one beacon sending me to the next.

Looks like one beacon sending you to the next.

 

[CMDR_PeteJustice]

I've just started this beacon series and it is a really lovely and fitting tribute so far, although for some reason the logs from the beacons aren't being saved to the Codex Archive which is a shame

Likely not going to be considered a high priority issue but I have raised on on the Issue Tracker if people feel inclined to add to it - https://issues.frontierstore.net/issue-detail/60849

Aside from that, thank you to the Frontier team for adding this in the game.