Elite: Dangerous helped me solve a 32-year-old plot point from "Aliens"

Touch of Grey · Sep 17, 2018

Nothing better to do, so I head to the system from the movie "Alien", Zeta-2 Reticuli. While looking around the local area, I see lots of stars named "CORE SYS ...". And then the line from "Aliens", where Carter Burke says to Ripley that she had drifted right through the "core systems", and that finding her was "blind luck, one-in-a-thousand, really. Hey, you're lucky to be alive!".

I always thought that line meant that Ripley had drifted through the systems in the Galaxy's core, which seemed pretty stupid considering how far away that would be, and she'd end up on the other side of the Galaxy. The odds of finding her would be far, far greater than one in a thousand.

Just goes to prove how detailed James Cameron was and is in the technical accuracy of most of his films.

One more of life's mystery's solved.

captainchubb · Sep 17, 2018

You should also, er, check your ship for... stoyaways

Bigmaec · Sep 17, 2018

Touch of Grey said:
Nothing better to do, so I head to the system from the movie "Alien", Zeta-2 Reticuli. While looking around the local area, I see lots of stars named "CORE SYS ...". And then the line from "Aliens", where Carter Burke says to Ripley that she had drifted right through the "core systems", and that finding her was "blind luck, one-in-a-thousand, really. Hey, you're lucky to be alive!".

I always thought that line meant that Ripley had drifted through the systems in the Galaxy's core, which seemed pretty stupid considering how far away that would be, and she'd end up on the other side of the Galaxy. The odds of finding her would be far, far greater than one in a thousand.

Just goes to prove how detailed James Cameron was and is in the technical accuracy of most of his films.

One more of life's mystery's solved.

Just keep an eye on your cat. If she starts acting strange, you're in trouble.

SkyB · Sep 17, 2018

Are there landable planets?
If yes, do not go there!

babelfisch · Sep 17, 2018

Bigmaec said:
Just keep an eye on your cat. If she starts acting strange, you're in trouble.

Cats always act strange, it's in their nature.

starman · Sep 17, 2018

If you play Alien Isolation I just think its the space legs dlc we are waiting for . Aliens=thargoids

Touch of Grey · Sep 17, 2018

Bigmaec said:
Just keep an eye on your cat. If she starts acting strange, you're in trouble.

Found this a few days ago. The people who submit NPC names know their Science Fiction, I'll grant you that:

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Spacemarkl · Sep 17, 2018

I think Cameron meant the core systems of human colonisation in space. The bubble so to say.

Lily from anim.o.v.e · Sep 17, 2018

Bigmaec said:
Just keep an eye on your cat. If she starts acting strange, you're in trouble.

if thats how to check it, There must be always one behind me.

Phoenix_Dfire · Sep 17, 2018

If that's the case, never install the HCS voice pack of the Ship's Cat!

Although the cat might act as a xenomorph early warning System, you'll probably get eaten anyway!

Jack Schitt · Sep 17, 2018

Spacemarkl said:
I think Cameron meant the core systems of human colonisation in space. The bubble so to say.

That's how I interpreted it, and when Federation space was labelled "Core Systems" in Frontier and FFE I figured that was a nod by David Braben. CORE SYS xxx systems in ED may be a nod to the earlier games, as well as a possible direct reference to the movie.

Cool either way. I like it when my SF franchises give each other little hat tips.

CMDR Cosmic Spacehead · Sep 17, 2018

Xenomorphs would probably be scared of cats.