Intergalactic Travel

Trotsky2112

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In the wiki, about FSDs, it says that the older drives could jump to other galaxies. They were powered by a fuel made from a material called 'quirium', and could be engineered to jump huge distances.

Is it possible that the human race has a foothold in another galaxy, and that we've just lost contact with a colony or something? And how cool would it be to jump to another galaxy and build in it and develop it?

I would appreciate responses and opinions.
 

Nick Sticks

Nick Sticks
If we've lost contact with a colony in another galaxy we'll never find them again :(

Here's a peak at Andromeda taken by the Hubble telescope to see what we're up against in real life:

[video=youtube;udAL48P5NJU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU[/video]
 

Micha

Micha
Trotsky2112 said:
I would appreciate responses and opinions.
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Most people that I've discussed this with consider the 8 galaxies of the original game to have been 8 different sectors of the same (fictional, but later retconned to be our) galaxy. The "Galactic Hyperdrive" was a way to travel through one-way wormholes connecting these sectors; the final jump from "Galaxy 8" returning you back to "Galaxy 1".

This conclusion was partially reached because there was no real difference between the "galaxies", apart from star layout. Thargoids, for example, were present in all of them.

It could easily be argued that the Thargoids had access to the same wormholes and thus had spread to the same areas, so yes, it's possible that there are 7 other galaxies out there with human (and Thargoid) colonies.



Personally I was always a little disappointed that Elite went "realistic"; there was something nicely scifi about the original game with its Lavian Tree Grubs etc and the fact that all humans had more or less homogenised into one faction and were making their way amongst the stars amidst a variety of other spacefaring races, all part of GalCop. The Thargoids just happened to be one of these races and at war with the Humans at the time of the original game.

That said, the Stellar Forge is just really awesome - both as a piece of tech, as well as a place for us to play around in.
 

Sapyx

Sapyx
The Galactic Hyperdrives, the "quirium" fuel, and sentient alien races other than Thargoids within the Bubble, have all been retconned out of existence. Sorry. The "Old worlds" around Lave (Leesti, Diso, Zaonce etc) are all that's left of those old 1984-Elite galaxies.

In ED, other galaxies are just background scenery for the skybox. We can't actually travel to them in-game.

There might, however, be "lost colonies" out there, within our own galaxy. Presumably locked away inside one or more of the permit-locked sectors. Whether they are descendants of "The Missing", remnants of rogue AIs, or some combination of the two, we'd have to wait and see.
 
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Sunyavadin

Sunyavadin
Well, the closest dwarf galaxy is only 25,000ly away. That's barely 3k more than Jaques jumped. It's feasible with current tech to make it that far, potentially. You'd not find much beyond a whole lot of red giants though.
Conveniently, it has plenty of stars along the way, since you could hop right up the Monoceros ring to get to it. So it's probably reachable by megaships. You could likely use a similar route to get to a couple of galaxies close to the Sagittarius stream.
So with the amount of stellar streams surrounding the milky way as tidal forces tear our satellite galaxies apart, it's definitely not beyond the realms of possibility that some intrepid explorers may have hopped, skipped, and jumped their way up one of them.




(As a side note, on the classic 8, there's 6 of them within 100,000ly, so including the milky way you'd have 7. Segue 2 at 114k would probably make 8, and that's close to the edge of one of the streams, but there's way more dwarf galaxies orbiting the milky way, with so much more interesting potential for future Elite sequels than thinking that small)
 
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Straha Yeagar

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If we ever find a way to travel to other galaxies, I really hope they are done with a "Fog of exploration" to where we only have limited view and knowledge of unexplored systems in our immediate vicinity.
 

JetsonRING

JetsonRING
When and if Raxxla is discovered I would like to see the fabled great machine turn out to be a gateway to the next galaxy to be included in the game, a new and whole different galaxy to explore.
 

freshkosose

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Trotsky2112 said:
In the wiki, about FSDs, it says that the older drives could jump to other galaxies. They were powered by a fuel made from a material called 'quirium', and could be engineered to jump huge distances.

Is it possible that the human race has a foothold in another galaxy, and that we've just lost contact with a colony or something? And how cool would it be to jump to another galaxy and build in it and develop it?

I would appreciate responses and opinions.
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My response: Einstein is rolling over in his grave over everything about travel in ED

My opinion: Wormholes and ball-bearings. It's all ball-bearings these days.
 
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