Strange exploration mission for ELITE ranked commanders

Hello,

maybe it's nothing, but yesterday I encountered a very strange mission on the board - has anybody seen and played this mission?

Here's the story:

I was at Apura, Fuca Station. I came across a mission, unobtainable for me, since it requires to be ELITE in exploration (I am only Trailblazer).
It read something like that (the text was indeed very long):

"For decades you are the role-model for all young exploreres... now we have not these kind of experienced commanders to verify a rumour, saying that there is evidence of a gate to another dimension, the so-called open door, you know what we are talking about..."

The mission requests you to go to the very outer rim of human inhabited space, some outpost, where you should investigate if the rumours are true. The mission had no monetary reward to it, as far as I remember.

It really intrigued me as it is exactly the kind of mission I like to see in Elite, in the best case with a whole storyline behind. But maybe you just go there get some info and money and that's it.

Has anybody seen this kind of mission?
Has anybody actually flown this mission - what happens?

If it's new, may I kindly request an ELITE-ranked (exploration) commander to check out Apura system for this mission?

Or is it a new way to perhaps - gasp - the gate to Thargoid space? (Ok, one can dream...).

Let us know.

Cheers,

Kathryn
 
One similar here...
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Yes, I've seen something like this. See screen capture below. Same text as Easy, different stations.
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Exploration elite missions are low quality.

Go to B from A, dock receive 12000 crédits.
Or go to WSS find 5 military plan or black box get 250 000 credits.

Exploration mission should ask you to find specific stellar corpses : find 2 O class, collect data, bring them back. Find a black hole, a neutron and so on. And missions should pay more.

Elite combat mission : kill 20 pirates get 2M credits is faster and way more profitable.

Exploration missions need complete rework.


I am an Elite explorer, i travelled 160 000 ly in total. Elite mission require 80ly trip ? Lol ?? Seriously. Thx for 12000 credits.... I have done 162m exploration data for this ?? Lol redesign need urgently.
 
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Yes that one. Sigh.


That's exactly the one I was looking for. Disappointing from what I can read here, but expected.

Now, we have that fantastic universe, the grand space simulation, but not a simple storyline system. I recall playing the "Escape Velocity" Series on Mac (remember anyone?) in the 90ies. Simple 2D Space exploration and batte fun, but boy, how much atmosphere was added by simple text storylines that developed, decisions to take and added by nice still graphics. More of this please could make my day.

CU out there guys,

Kathryn (always playing open since premium beta ;-) )
 
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