Sure, I wouldn't mind more dangers.
But not those kind of dangers out of some other fantasy.
More survival-like exploration would be really great.
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But not those kind of dangers out of some other fantasy.
More survival-like exploration would be really great.
In a universe where we dont exactly know whats out there then anything is possible.
Yeah, sure. If you can't prove that something doesn't exist, then it can surely exist, right? Without proof to the contrary even ancient Greek gods in the form of teapots floating in the orbit of Mercury are possible. And you can't prove they aren't there - all you can say is that you didn't see them.
But aside from possibility, there's also plausibility .
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100 years ago we would have thought that the Internet was nonsense, surely? Yet here we are.
Never rule anything out.
You might just be surprised.
We already have organic things that exist in space outside of atmospheric planets and some just even floating in space by themselves.
It's not hard to imagine that there are animal like beings that feed off these mostly plant-like space creatures.
It's also not hard to imagine that they could be large, though they would need some form of propulsion. Perhaps huge fins to act as light sails. Ion propulsion doesn't seem very likely and nebulas are too sparse to actually be something you could "swim" thru. Could go the star wars route and put hem in large roids. Where they can dart out of holes they've dug in waiting to eat passing material like huge space snails with teeth.
elite would never go lovecraftian ...even if that would be cool. Stellaris kinda does that. But i think space whales that use light sails to maneuver around solar systems are possible ...as are animals that hide in roids and jump out at you if you get too close to eat your ship.
They could always bring in the AI race (for the ones that escaped the banning and went off into deep space) as a 4th species to the game spreading faster than a plague across the galaxy ...always maybe the next jump for an explorer where they find themselves surrounded by hostile ai ships ... That would have explorers thinking twice about where they're going in jump maxed ships with no shields or weapons.
It's not hard to imagine that there are animal like beings that feed off these mostly plant-like space creatures.
It's also not hard to imagine that they could be large, though they would need some form of propulsion. Perhaps huge fins to act as light sails. Ion propulsion doesn't seem very likely and nebulas are too sparse to actually be something you could "swim" thru. Could go the star wars route and put hem in large roids. Where they can dart out of holes they've dug in waiting to eat passing material like huge space snails with teeth.
elite would never go lovecraftian ...even if that would be cool. Stellaris kinda does that. But i think space whales that use light sails to maneuver around solar systems are possible ...as are animals that hide in roids and jump out at you if you get too close to eat your ship.
They could always bring in the AI race (for the ones that escaped the banning and went off into deep space) as a 4th species to the game spreading faster than a plague across the galaxy ...always maybe the next jump for an explorer where they find themselves surrounded by hostile ai ships ... That would have explorers thinking twice about where they're going in jump maxed ships with no shields or weapons.
100 years ago Internet would be purely Science Fiction.
That said I understand your point and a 1000 years ago it would be seen as some sort of magic from delirious vision.
But that's not really the point here.
Plausible Science Fiction is just that - a genre, as opposed to complete Fantasy, where anything your imagination can come up with goes.
I prefer Elite to remain leaning more towards hardcore Sci-Fi, even if I really enjoy Lovecraftian lore (Lovecraft as a writer is another thing - I grew out of him) - I just don't want to mix those genres.
I don't think space monsters is necessarily a step too far for Elite. Some of the designs are a bit cheesy but...
We already have void life in Lagrange clouds.
We have energy anomalies that can damage our ships (and may suggest a form of non-biological "life" or even intelligence).
All this really asks for is more lifeforms that are actually dangerous, and in places that aren't just sightseeing locations.
Swarms of metal-eating organisms that a careless miner might disturb in a ring system, for example.
Lovecraftian entities might be step too far... but then again, who knows what creatures, intelligences, or ascended AI constructs might "live" in witchspace...?
Where did the Guardians go? Where did the human-created rogue AIs go? What the heck would they look like to us now?
We already have void life in Lagrange clouds.
We have energy anomalies that can damage our ships (and may suggest a form of non-biological "life" or even intelligence).
All this really asks for is more lifeforms that are actually dangerous, and in places that aren't just sightseeing locations.
Swarms of metal-eating organisms that a careless miner might disturb in a ring system, for example.
Lovecraftian entities might be step too far... but then again, who knows what creatures, intelligences, or ascended AI constructs might "live" in witchspace...?
Where did the Guardians go? Where did the human-created rogue AIs go? What the heck would they look like to us now?
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We have "cheap monsters" like this on earth! Seriously, look at some of the weird things growing in the depths of our oceans. What makes you think there's zero chance of weird monsters to be found in one of the other four hundred billion star systems out there?
Now if every system in ED had a cheap monster hiding under every rock, that would be too much.
Now youre getting it , thats the spirit!.
I would like deep space monsters, as well as spooky and creepy random events. Imagine being in deep space for months, everything is going great, when one day a comms text message appears: You were tossing and turning in your sleep. Bad dreams? o7 CMDR
