Sorry, didn't read this earlier. They said it was for a Kumo Burger ad! The pay was lousy.My initial thought when looking at that scene is that it was Codger, but I quickly ruled that out as he is currently collecting salad samples far far away...
So then I though maybe it was Tharrn or ubermick...but, as Jack suggested above, Arf did say in one of the livestreams that something really cool was coming that he was personally involved with......hmmm...
But seriously I think that video is the only bit(s) of Salvation anyone outside of FDev (and presumably Azimuth Biotech) have recently seen...
I think I know where Salvation is...?
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Now I'm reading this in the style of "Go West" by the Village People or Pet Shop BoysSalvation went back to playing Horizons 3.8, where framerates are great and the Thargoids met their fate.
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Sorry, that bald headed Nemesis chap could’ve been absolutely anyone, and even possible it was Salvation salivating at the tossed salad he was about to make with his Tempura fried wave scatter blast of those dreaded daffodilgoids.
Also, I pegged it after the cutscene, happy to be among those who escaped successfully.
I didn’t stick around for anything, it felt Dangerous.
Also, I pegged it after the cutscene, happy to be among those who escaped successfully.
I didn’t stick around for anything, it felt Dangerous.
So, wait... you're saying Salvation wasn't on the Bright Sentinel, but on some Fleet Carrier somewhere else, but you draw your conclusion about his location from horizontally flipped Bright Sentinel shot?
I don't follow.
I'm shocked ppl are fighting the remote viewing theory remember we can in game manage our fc from any system we're in
Setting up a huge livestream due to fears of being hunted down by those who attacked his research labs
Setting up a huge livestream due to fears of being hunted down by those who attacked his research labs
It's definitely not a Drake, but a Nautilus Class Fleet Carrier.
It's quite clear that all the pads are way the back and it features the rounded bow element
Ah yes, thanks! I don't own a FC myself so the Drake Class was the first one that seemed like it fit. Thanks for clearing it up!
Given that Salvation's superweapon was supposed to be the Thargoids' nemesis, I doubt that the name Nemesis for Salvation's carrier was an accident.
Frontier may be running Elite Dangerous on financial fumes, but however limited the budget it can probably run to creating an account with an appropriately named carrier for a video shot.
Whether we see Salvation again depends on how Frontier chooses to develop the narrative: you'd think his story would be done with the end of the Azimuth saga, but it's not unheard of for supervillains to come back from the dead, and after all the cinematic didn't show his body being torn into a thousand pieces - or perhaps it's just that that would have broken the budget.
Frontier may be running Elite Dangerous on financial fumes, but however limited the budget it can probably run to creating an account with an appropriately named carrier for a video shot.
Whether we see Salvation again depends on how Frontier chooses to develop the narrative: you'd think his story would be done with the end of the Azimuth saga, but it's not unheard of for supervillains to come back from the dead, and after all the cinematic didn't show his body being torn into a thousand pieces - or perhaps it's just that that would have broken the budget.
Indeed - IIRC the cinematic does rather suggest that Salvation is a Person of Restricted Hair Growth.
I'd agree that the dark nebula is more likely to be the Coalsack than Taurus Dark Region - I can't see a plausible way to get the Large Magellanic Cloud and TDR into the same shot from HIP 22460 even ignoring the inversion.
The odd thing is that the skybox seems to have been inverted in that shot, but the megaship hasn't been - its hab ring is spinning in the standard clockwise-from-the-front direction in every shot in the video - well, the ones before it gets shut down, anyway - including that one.
Salvation's video clearly isn't taken from on-board the Bright Sentinel or even near it - his ship is pointed at the Proteus Wave site and the surface, while the Bright Sentinel is aligned parallel to the surface. Similarly, at 0:46 he's looking down on the planet from above the site, more-or-less over the terminator, while at 0:47 the Bright Sentinel is at an earlier point in its orbit, approaching the site from the side.
Interestingly, by 1:30 the Bright Sentinel is over the terminator ... and by 1:58 it and its Thargoid attendants have passed beyond and left the site behind - but by 2:23 it's back to "approaching" the site and the wave hits it from the front.
I'd guess none of that is deliberate clues that there were in fact three separate Bright Sentinel megaships, all of which were decoys to get the Thargoids to ignore the Nemesis... and more a sign that they were filming shots which looked cool without paying too much attention to exactly where the megaship was at the time, though.
(None of which means that Salvation is dead, of course: why go to the trouble of establishing any doubt at all if he's not actually alive somewhere - but equally I don't think it's intended as a clue to where he is)
The odd thing is that the skybox seems to have been inverted in that shot, but the megaship hasn't been - its hab ring is spinning in the standard clockwise-from-the-front direction in every shot in the video - well, the ones before it gets shut down, anyway - including that one.
Salvation's video clearly isn't taken from on-board the Bright Sentinel or even near it - his ship is pointed at the Proteus Wave site and the surface, while the Bright Sentinel is aligned parallel to the surface. Similarly, at 0:46 he's looking down on the planet from above the site, more-or-less over the terminator, while at 0:47 the Bright Sentinel is at an earlier point in its orbit, approaching the site from the side.
Interestingly, by 1:30 the Bright Sentinel is over the terminator ... and by 1:58 it and its Thargoid attendants have passed beyond and left the site behind - but by 2:23 it's back to "approaching" the site and the wave hits it from the front.
I'd guess none of that is deliberate clues that there were in fact three separate Bright Sentinel megaships, all of which were decoys to get the Thargoids to ignore the Nemesis... and more a sign that they were filming shots which looked cool without paying too much attention to exactly where the megaship was at the time, though.
(None of which means that Salvation is dead, of course: why go to the trouble of establishing any doubt at all if he's not actually alive somewhere - but equally I don't think it's intended as a clue to where he is)
I can't see the rounded bow element, can you?
Well, if you walk down that rabbit hole, how do you even know that the bald guy was Salvation and not just a random fleet carrier commander in the same system listening to Salvation's speech over bridge speakers?
And let's not forget about the possibility of telepresence in ED, i.e. even if Salvation was sitting on the Bright Sentinel's bridge and we could see his lips move, it STILL wouldn't prove he was actually there.
At some point you have to consider how FDev made that video. They used a fleet carrier bridge because that's the only bridge model in the game, and they simply didn't pay attention to the carrier's name appearing on the display. That's the most straightforward explanation IMHO. Occam's razor applied.
In fact they can easily introduce a Nemesis carrier in subsequent parts of the story, so that it looks like it was all intentional although it was initially a simple goof. We will never know unless someone from the team spills the beans. That's why I keep telling people not to read too much into these details.
It's like those recent Thargoids in CQC. Bug or feature? Sometimes it's hard to tell.
One of the stations hearing the announcement is Maclean Hub which is in Lugh.
Ya the cqc thargoids were a bug I'm not saying that was him on the bridge just saying theres tech in the elite universe that will allow ppl to be and not be at the same time I hope it's just not a mess up and hints to his return . Just hoping for a continued ark
Could be an origin point from where they came from pointing to a point leading to a separate galaxy. the center only has 2 arms in its spiral galaxy so its not the milkywayAlso at the video, on the spinning galaxy of the thargoid machine at 2:13, there is one star that is not moving at all. Random or not??
Or, and I'll reference Occam here, he could have put up a movie screen and showed moving pictures, you know, that technology that should be easily enough reproduced in the year 3000+.
It is one of those thingy's on the wall of the chamber.
The scavenger dock?