Can stations upgrade?
- Thread starter Noobc0re
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Potentially, as things are supposed to change over time. An outpost represent a variable in the process of change, so it is a good example for the purpose of theoretical debate at least. I think they might have to inject the upgrade manually, unless the automata is more extensive than suspected by this observer.
Good question. It would be cool if they could --the modular nature of an outpost would be perfectly suited to gradual expansion by bolting on more elements. Eventually it could sprawl. It could become huge.
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In a French 70's SciFi comic strip (they still do some of the best) about Valerian, about some space cop stroke trouble shooter ( L'ambassadeur des ombres, there is reference to the "Point Central", a massive, planet-size structure that began long, long ago as an outpost not unlike the ones in Elite Dangerous. Nobody knows anymore who originally built it, but over the centuries, even millennia, other species came along and bolted their own modules on. The whole thing grew like a barrier reef. At the time of the story it is a huge structure, and old, inhabited by hundreds of different species all in their own ecosystems, some trading and mixing, some living in strict isolation, with a vast traffic of ships coming and going all the time. Some modules more towards the centre are abandoned and unexplored... and possibly dangerous. Expect the strange, the unknown, the dangerous at Central Point.
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In a French 70's SciFi comic strip (they still do some of the best) about Valerian, about some space cop stroke trouble shooter ( L'ambassadeur des ombres, there is reference to the "Point Central", a massive, planet-size structure that began long, long ago as an outpost not unlike the ones in Elite Dangerous. Nobody knows anymore who originally built it, but over the centuries, even millennia, other species came along and bolted their own modules on. The whole thing grew like a barrier reef. At the time of the story it is a huge structure, and old, inhabited by hundreds of different species all in their own ecosystems, some trading and mixing, some living in strict isolation, with a vast traffic of ships coming and going all the time. Some modules more towards the centre are abandoned and unexplored... and possibly dangerous. Expect the strange, the unknown, the dangerous at Central Point.
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