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Red Martian

Red Martian
Well, yesterday I finally got my Sol Permit, and I headed on home. Took a few moments to grab some energy from my home star, zipped on over to Earth and Abraham Lincoln Station. I stopped at the station first, and was a bit underwhelmed. I realize it was my expectation, but I was kind of hoping Earth's stations would have been different in some way, but Abraham Lincoln looked like every other Orbis station, and the greetings were like every other greeting. The interior was like any other interior. The passenger and mission options were bog standard in every way. In fact, if it wasn't for seeing the system I was in, you'd have never thought I was in the home system, one requiring a permit to reach.

Anyhoo, I stayed there for the night, and then today I jumped to Alpha Centauri, and then Epsilon Eridani to drop off a few quick missions, and then back to Sol. When I came back in this time, I headed straight for Earth, and got a nice closeup:

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Sitting there, watching her, a tear came to my eye. I know it's not real, but it really did feel like home. It reminded me that it was important for us to take care of it, because unlike the 3300s, we don't have any other earth-like planets to call home aside from this one.

After taking a few minutes to just observe the Earth, I decided it was time to visit my other favorite planet in the system, Mars.

You know, I should have realized that the Mars of the early 3300s wasn't going to look like Mars of 2017, but it was still very much a shock that as I approached, I noticed "Mars. Earth-like planet" in the sensor feed. I knew in my gut that she was going to look a little different, though when I finally saw her, I was still surprised. You could see where the ruddy Martian soil still stuck out in places, but for the most part she looked like her slightly younger sister 1,200 light seconds in the other direction.

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Of course, the really cool thing was that as I approached, I saw "Capital Ship" as a marker buoy, and decided to visit. Wow! It was so cool to see a federal ship in-system! I had never seen one before, and holy cow, I kept my distance because I figured they could have killed me or worse.

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So feeling a little better, I decided to stop for the night at Mars High, so I cruised over there, and at least it looked pretty awesome:

Mars_High-_IMC-_Arabesque-_Elite_Dangerous.jpg


Granted, it looks a lot like any other station, but I was really hoping a station around Mars would have an angry red look, and this one did.

I haven't seen any other planets than Earth and Mars yet, and won't until tomorrow, but I'm looking forward to it. Anyone else visit home and was surprised or disappointed?
 

wrmiller

W
I too was a bit underwhelmed the first time I visited the Sol system. You'd think that the developers would have come up with something unique, but oh well. I just added this to my list of 'things they could have done better' and moved on.

I'm based fairly close, at Founders World, so I do drop in occasionally to grab a few missions and see if anything's changed. :)
 

Red Martian

Red Martian
wrmiller said:
I too was a bit underwhelmed the first time I visited the Sol system. You'd think that the developers would have come up with something unique, but oh well. I just added this to my list of 'things they could have done better' and moved on.

I'm based fairly close, at Founders World, so I do drop in occasionally to grab a few missions and see if anything's changed. :)
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I'm kind of hoping with the 3.0 core updates, that they do a little fancy work in the system. Granted, it's not a high priority, but a little spit and polish would be nice.
 

CMDR Ellegon

CMDR Ellegon
I agree, there are some systems that should be special, foremost Sol. To a degree, this should also apply to Shinrarta Dhezra (Founders World), Achenar and the Aliance capital (Alioth?). Special should cover special installations/ stations, missions and unique ATC voices, perhaps more.
 

SMcA

SMcA
Nicely written. :)
You could if you like SC have a look for the Voyagers. There are some guides out there in the (what was it called back then?) outer.. no, interweb. ;)
 

Nick Sticks

Nick Sticks
ARTHUR:
Night’s falling. Look robot, the stars are coming out.

MARVIN:
I know. Wretched isn’t it?

ARTHUR:
But that sunset, I’ve never seen anything like it in my wildest dreams! The two suns… It was like mountains of fire boiling into space.!

MARVIN:
I’ve seen it, it’s rubbish.

ARTHUR:
We only ever had the one sun at home. I came from a planet called Earth you know.

MARVIN:
I know, you keep going on about it, it sounds awful.

ARTHUR:
No, it was a beautiful place.

MARVIN:
Did it have… oceans?

ARTHUR:
Oh yes. Great wide, rolling, blue oceans.

MARVIN:
Can’t bear oceans.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Coloratura said:
Well, yesterday I finally got my Sol Permit, and I headed on home. Took a few moments to grab some energy from my home star, zipped on over to Earth and Abraham Lincoln Station. I stopped at the station first, and was a bit underwhelmed. I realize it was my expectation, but I was kind of hoping Earth's stations would have been different in some way, but Abraham Lincoln looked like every other Orbis station, and the greetings were like every other greeting. The interior was like any other interior. ...............

....................... Anyone else visit home and was surprised or disappointed?
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It would appear that you are from the USofA by your first choice of station - you would have found white / palm tree stations if you had not fallen prey to your cultural bias. e.g:

[video=youtube;9WscG_jdCbI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WscG_jdCbI[/video]



Isn't one of the Mercury planetary installations supposed to be quite something too?:

[video=youtube;Q6j96odwxa8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6j96odwxa8[/video]


BTW - The terraforming of Mars is well accounted in the lore I believe.
 

S~P

S
Actually made my first stop in Sol tonight, been playing ED for 3 years and only just thought of heading to Sol. And yes it is a bit disappointing considering it's the birth place of humanity and all.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Well here is a gallery (not mine) of the interior of Galileo station around the Moon:

http://imgur.com/a/kMF4e


These are old shots, the stations are much more decorous now but I have not been back there for a while.


... bland? - nope.
 
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Red Martian

Red Martian
MalcYorks said:
It would appear that you are from the USofA by your first choice of station - you would have found white / palm tree stations if you had not fallen prey to your cultural bias. e.g:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WscG_jdCbI



Isn't one of the Mercury planetary installations supposed to be quite something too?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6j96odwxa8


BTW - The terraforming of Mars is well accounted in the lore I believe.
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While I am from the United States, I chose the Abraham Lincoln because it is the nearest station to Earth. Of course, once I got there, I saw that Earth was still quite far away compared to other stations that are often much closer to their planet.

As for bases like Erlich, that's a planetary base, and because of skimmer suiciding, I'm avoiding planetfalls as much as possible until the bug is fixed.

S~P said:
Actually made my first stop in Sol tonight, been playing ED for 3 years and only just thought of heading to Sol. And yes it is a bit disappointing considering it's the birth place of humanity and all.
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Yeah. Again, my expectations are certainly clouding what I'm seeing, but I did expect something, I don't know, grander? Something with a little more fanfare? Something "WELCOME TO THE CRADLE OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION" ish?

That said, I have now visited Mercury, I'll be heading to Venus tonight, and then the other planets, as well as a number of moons, and planetoids. Also, as SMcA suggested, I will be looking for the Voyager probes as well, though I hope I don't encounter Voyager 6. *cough* Sorry, wrong franchise.
 
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