There needs to be more life out there. I think it would be interesting to have entire civilizations of aliens out there that we don't know about but discover as we explore. Some may be advanced some may be primitive. Some may be violent while some are peaceful. They might run across us or we run across them while exploring. Maybe through negotiations we are allowed to trade new ships and materials with them. Maybe they close off thier borders and anyone entering those borders gets into a fight or we stage a rebel war, against our governments will, against them. Maybe they stage a war against us. There's so many possibilities if there was random life scattered about.
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This is not the vision of the future you are looking for…
Elite is not Star Trek or Star Wars.
We have at least three advanced civilizations quite close to each other, although one is long dead. That's already stretching it for a fantastic vision of the future that aims to be realistic in its roots.
There might be something more out there (why not?), but I wouldn't count on (and wouldn't want) plethora of living alien civilizations. Space is big, life is abundant, but intelligent life? That should be extremely rare.
I really like how Thargoids are actually so alien, that there's no way to even understand them - not to mention trading ships. Or tea.
Also everything in Elite is rather static (f.ex nothing regarding Thargoids really changes unless Fdev change things manually) and I can't imagine them rebuilding the game now to allow dynamic wars with aliens, although this kind of Thargoid war could be interesting.
We have at least three advanced civilizations quite close to each other, although one is long dead. That's already stretching it for a fantastic vision of the future that aims to be realistic in its roots.
There might be something more out there (why not?), but I wouldn't count on (and wouldn't want) plethora of living alien civilizations. Space is big, life is abundant, but intelligent life? That should be extremely rare.
I really like how Thargoids are actually so alien, that there's no way to even understand them - not to mention trading ships. Or tea.
Also everything in Elite is rather static (f.ex nothing regarding Thargoids really changes unless Fdev change things manually) and I can't imagine them rebuilding the game now to allow dynamic wars with aliens, although this kind of Thargoid war could be interesting.
According to the Fermi paradox alien Civilizations are extremely rare. It is possible we could eventually have one or POSSIBLY even 2 more alien species introduced during the entirety of the games lifespan but it's not likely we will ever see anything beyond what we already have. Guardian AI excluded of course.
I have said this for years!
There are areas way the other side of the core that are permit locked, far from any current known guardian and thargoid sites, so these may be future alien races, but no Elite isn't star trek, no blue humans with antennas walking around starports please.
Are green Orions ok though
Are green Orions ok though
Only if I can be Captain Kirk, the lucky beggar!
But aliens are very likely not to be very humanoid, Star Trek made it cheaply by just using coloured make up and attachments, although there were a few very un-human like aliens in TOS, but aliens are likely to be....alien, and not humans dressed up in funny colours and pointy ears and antenna etc. So no I am not dead against aliens per-se, but they shouldn't be like Star Trek common, and maybe not even advanced enough for space travel, interstellar civilisation level alien would be the rarest type of alien and it would not be surprising to only encounter a few in the galaxy.
I would like to see an alien species as advanced ad as humans in 2022. Im kinda sick of all aliens being super advanced (guardians, goids) or Neanderthals (ones in achenar, tau ceti). Give me sonething that like humans today is relying on rockets not hyperdrives, rovers on planets, small probes in local in system space. With a ISS style space station around their home planet and all of their people living on that planet witb lights on dark side. It would be a neat CG to make first contact with a less advanced but intelligent life.
Maybe one way to do it is to have aliens that co-exist with Thargoids...
Just a thought.
Just a thought.
Really? The furthest ive ever been is Sag A. I didn't know there were any permit locks that far out.
Kind of on that note, realistically what are the chances an alien race would be able to breathe the way we do? Chances are their home planet would have different mixtures of gases and air pressures. They'd die.
Yeah the Praei locked sector is in the Formorian Frontier, 53,000ly from the bubble! The Bleia locked regions is just the other side of the core in the Izanami region about 33,000ly from the bubble, there are a few other distant ones scattered around so there's plenty there for new star traveling aliens if that's what FDEV intend to use them for.
I would like to see living Guardians eventually. Or maybe a rogue faction of geneticists try to revive the Mudlarks, that would make for a bittersweet story arc
Perhaps the Guardian faction that was exiled before their 2nd civil war became nomadic and left to explore the Andromeda galaxy and having found nothing for eons, their descendants return to the milky way only to find that their fabled homeworld is dead and their once noble species has become extinct. I like sci fi that has many extant races like Halo or Mass effect all competing for resources or grouping together against a common threat. The lonely universe theory crushes my soul.
Perhaps there could be a very suspenseful community goal where intergalatic Guardian signals are detected coming from Andromeda and the signals are getting closer and closer...
Perhaps the Guardian faction that was exiled before their 2nd civil war became nomadic and left to explore the Andromeda galaxy and having found nothing for eons, their descendants return to the milky way only to find that their fabled homeworld is dead and their once noble species has become extinct. I like sci fi that has many extant races like Halo or Mass effect all competing for resources or grouping together against a common threat. The lonely universe theory crushes my soul.
Perhaps there could be a very suspenseful community goal where intergalatic Guardian signals are detected coming from Andromeda and the signals are getting closer and closer...
The odds of 2 species emerging and simultaneously developing to the same level would have to be infinitesimal.
have an idea where the Guardian homeworld may be, it's currently a single locked system with a planetary nebula, which would explain thier liking for living in nebula, just like home, that may be developed in the future as part of the on going storyline, we will have to wait and see.
I've been working up the wanderlust to explore Guardian space and look for undiscovered installations with a focus on tenuous atmospheres, to see if Odyssey has any Guardian related content.
I usually explore to tag undiscovered ELW systems but finding schematics for new Guardian starships sounds like fun. Hopefully new Guardian content made it into Odyssey
So a 1v1 isnt good enough now we need a 2v1? I say each gets an ally. Humans with and another species vs thargoids and another species making it a 2v2
I saw that one. I am banking on that being where living guardians are. They might have hid underground from AI. The AI killed what they could find and then moved on. Eventually thinking they exterminated all but some stragglers survived, living under the radar as to not attract unwanted attention. Pilots federation discovered them, locked the system to not draw any dangerous entities to said system until we could defend them if the situation called for it.