I remember back in the heady days of 2017-18, when tourist beacons were announced (at Lavecon), by Michael. A friend (Cmdr Vonpaulus) and I had been chewing his ear off about landing on the moon or some inane thing like that... but as he announced Tionisla being included the room applauded.
Michael was always in tune with the lore of the game - not an easy job as managing the lore between the game and the history was never going to be easy. The difference was that he was such a nice guy in the process.. and knew that a game like Elite Dangerous had a rich 'history' to draw from. Players had very firm appreciation (and mis-appropriations) of the games that they were prepared to fight for. After all, for many of us, we had imagined and played ourselves in the Elite universe through the games from childhood. When he left Elte for Jurassic, the loss was felt.
We all know that, being nice people, Frontier do have a hiostory of naming stations etc. after fallen Cmdrs, but I think it would be extra special and appropriate to set a tourist beacon next to Tionisla as a grave site or marker for Mr Brookes, with his contibution and achievements noted so we can all visit and pay respects to the great man.
He was a real character - from his Axe to his Chthulu and books... he will be missed. I don't know how to formally ask for this, but please upvote it or tag it so Frontier can make it happen... well, that and maybe a Dinosaur named after him too
Michael was always in tune with the lore of the game - not an easy job as managing the lore between the game and the history was never going to be easy. The difference was that he was such a nice guy in the process.. and knew that a game like Elite Dangerous had a rich 'history' to draw from. Players had very firm appreciation (and mis-appropriations) of the games that they were prepared to fight for. After all, for many of us, we had imagined and played ourselves in the Elite universe through the games from childhood. When he left Elte for Jurassic, the loss was felt.
We all know that, being nice people, Frontier do have a hiostory of naming stations etc. after fallen Cmdrs, but I think it would be extra special and appropriate to set a tourist beacon next to Tionisla as a grave site or marker for Mr Brookes, with his contibution and achievements noted so we can all visit and pay respects to the great man.
He was a real character - from his Axe to his Chthulu and books... he will be missed. I don't know how to formally ask for this, but please upvote it or tag it so Frontier can make it happen... well, that and maybe a Dinosaur named after him too
