Remnants of Alien Civilisations

[mrmcp1]

First of all this is my first thread so sorry if I have done this incorrectly

I think it would make the game more interesting if when you exploring far away from inhabited space you could come across parts of an alien civilisation. A few ideas I have had that you could come across are: Dyson spheres, alien stations and alien capital ship.

Dyson sphere: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
I think it would be great if you could come across Dyson spheres in various states: completely sealed so it is impossible to determine if there are aliens inside, spheres that where abandoned half way through so it is possible to go inside and maybe even spheres that have sustained battle damage (large holes) and the aliens have either fled or been destroyed.

Alien Stations
It would also be good if you could come across alien stations and outposts in various states: fully built but abandoned, half built and battle damaged ones. I think I might be overdoing it here but I think it would e great if you could find inhabited stations and you could buy alien technology and ships (but not be able to sell them back in human space) but this should only possible if you do missions for them.

Capital Ships
As before I think these should come in 3 different states but I think sometimes you should come across two different types that look like they have destroyed each other e.g. one could have rammed the other and ended up killing both sides.

I think if these where added it could make exploring far out very rewarding. I also think the ships and stations should have different designs to the human ships and could have similar or more advanced technology.

Thanks for considering this suggestion and sorry if it is not a new idea.

 

[Sindoras]

i would love to see this happen, perhaps in later game stages when atmospheric flights and landings are a thing even empty cities or outposts, ruins etc
i would die for a chance to land at an old temple grab my helmet and my gun and search for old artifacts that can be sold for a high price or use them as a decoration in my ship that grants a little buff.

 

[riley75]

I'd love to see ideas along these lines -- and I don't think we really need to wait until atmospheric landings are part of the game for it to work. Coming across remnants or signs of ancient civilizations can be done in space as well. You'd come across some kind of signal, have some way of pinpointing its location (probes, a scanner, whatever), and could drop out of supercruise to investigate. You could then scan it for technology / artifacts / relics, then salvage from it, and maybe eventually board it. And ultimately, add some danger to all this by finding out that not all such "derelicts" are as unoccupied as they might initially appear...

I'd be all about "space archaeology" if that were ever to become a thing in this game...

 

[Joe Spivey]

Except for the Dyson sphere all of the others are expected in some form.

 

[Tuub t Tute]

I didn't expect remnants of ancient civilisations to be vacuum cleaners :/