Thargoids this and Thargoids that, what about The Missing?
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Ah, the Missing. My probably-never-to-come-true-but-would-be-cool-nonetheless dream would be having these generation ships or what remains of them as actual discoverable assets in the game.
There might be a derelict hull drifting somewhere in space, the population of which has long since perished. Which then could be visited on space legs once those come around, only to discover what gruesome fate has befallen the late inhabitants. Being chased by space Zombies or Genestealer-like creatures through such a "space hulk" while trying to recover valuable artifacts would be pretty cool. :3 Kind of like a Left4Dead mode within Elite. Then there is the Trigun fantasy, of a generation ship orbiting the planet, with a remaining population on the ship and some settlers on the surface.
More potential there than Elite might ever realize in the coming 8-10 years.
I only hope that it'll turn out to be a bit more than a just another non-interactive USS.
There might be a derelict hull drifting somewhere in space, the population of which has long since perished. Which then could be visited on space legs once those come around, only to discover what gruesome fate has befallen the late inhabitants. Being chased by space Zombies or Genestealer-like creatures through such a "space hulk" while trying to recover valuable artifacts would be pretty cool. :3 Kind of like a Left4Dead mode within Elite. Then there is the Trigun fantasy, of a generation ship orbiting the planet, with a remaining population on the ship and some settlers on the surface.
More potential there than Elite might ever realize in the coming 8-10 years.
I only hope that it'll turn out to be a bit more than a just another non-interactive USS.
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They are missing.
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Haven't heard anything about the whole thing in a long time.
By now I'm fairly sure the assets aren't in the Game and nothing is to be found (yet), which would be business as usual.
So just like the upcoming things to see, we're dealing with a 12-18 months "warmup" phase of ASCII-only content, until at one major Client update the assets appear and stuff begins to spawn where there was emptiness a mere 24hrs before.
And at that time - if there's still anybody left searching and doesn't suffer from burnout syndrome - someone will find something.
Worst-case, we see someone beginning to point Fingers in the Forum with increasing precision, until we basically know a specific System and maybe even a most likely Planet. You know the drill
PS.
Considering "the Missing" would indicate something clearly within ~1000LY Range due to lack of FTL travel (no Supercruise Traffic), my bet is it'll appear as a Signal Source or a POI on a Planet one day.
V3.2 Update maybe?
If any of them made it to a suitable destination, I'm sure they didn't settle down on some airless rock.
So once we can land on Planets with Atmosphere, we might find a settlement.
By now I'm fairly sure the assets aren't in the Game and nothing is to be found (yet), which would be business as usual.
So just like the upcoming things to see, we're dealing with a 12-18 months "warmup" phase of ASCII-only content, until at one major Client update the assets appear and stuff begins to spawn where there was emptiness a mere 24hrs before.
And at that time - if there's still anybody left searching and doesn't suffer from burnout syndrome - someone will find something.
Worst-case, we see someone beginning to point Fingers in the Forum with increasing precision, until we basically know a specific System and maybe even a most likely Planet. You know the drill
PS.
Considering "the Missing" would indicate something clearly within ~1000LY Range due to lack of FTL travel (no Supercruise Traffic), my bet is it'll appear as a Signal Source or a POI on a Planet one day.
V3.2 Update maybe?
If any of them made it to a suitable destination, I'm sure they didn't settle down on some airless rock.
So once we can land on Planets with Atmosphere, we might find a settlement.
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Ba-Duh-Tshhhhhh!
you made me spill my morning coffee with this oneliner!
Anyways, the missing would indeed be a nice additional storyline to discover in ED. Given the Galnet articles which have surfaced about it and such, I do believe that at one point in time we will hear from these missing. However under which circumstances and how this contact would go is still very much an open question. I would imagine though that contact with the generation ships would be difficult, especially for them to comprehend that time simply past them by and mankind spread allover the stars crossing distances which took them multiple generations in mere minutes.
I feel sorry for the poor sods in those generation ships. All their lives all they knew is the promise of their ancestors that one day, they MIGHT be alive to settle on a new world. After countless generations the ship finally lands on a pristine world. They start converting the massive hull into settlements. Hundreds die in the effort due to their crude methods and forgotten techniques.
Suddenly, 3 strange signals appear on their radar, They scramble to activate their last defense turrets in panic of this unknown threat.
They watch baffled as 3 strange ships appear, suddenly their comms is filled with: "I'm not sure i can go ahead with this wedding."
Minds are blown, thousand cry out in despair.
Wedding barge: Anyone have any brandy?
Suddenly, 3 strange signals appear on their radar, They scramble to activate their last defense turrets in panic of this unknown threat.
They watch baffled as 3 strange ships appear, suddenly their comms is filled with: "I'm not sure i can go ahead with this wedding."
Minds are blown, thousand cry out in despair.
Wedding barge: Anyone have any brandy?
Considering that Voyager 2 is also travelling at sub-light speeds, and in-game is currently sitting at just over 2 million light seconds from Sol (which, I gather, is the correct place for it after 1200 years?), where exactly would we expect The Missing to be? How fast were those Generation Ships? Would they have had enough fuel to accelerate to fractions of c?
I don't really know anything about the lore here, but I wouldn't expect a Generation Ship travelling slower than the speed of light to have gone more than 10 light years in the past 1200 years unless they did manage to accelerate to significant fractions of c.
I don't really know anything about the lore here, but I wouldn't expect a Generation Ship travelling slower than the speed of light to have gone more than 10 light years in the past 1200 years unless they did manage to accelerate to significant fractions of c.
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That's true. Soon as they turn up anywhere they're The Found.
LMAO [haha]
Haven't heard anything about the whole thing in a long time.
By now I'm fairly sure the assets aren't in the Game and nothing is to be found (yet), which would be business as usual.
So just like the upcoming things to see, we're dealing with a 12-18 months "warmup" phase of ASCII-only content, until at one major Client update the assets appear and stuff begins to spawn where there was emptiness a mere 24hrs before.
And at that time - if there's still anybody left searching and doesn't suffer from burnout syndrome - someone will find something.
Worst-case, we see someone beginning to point Fingers in the Forum with increasing precision, until we basically know a specific System and maybe even a most likely Planet. You know the drill
PS.
Considering "the Missing" would indicate something clearly within ~1000LY Range due to lack of FTL travel (no Supercruise Traffic), my bet is it'll appear as a Signal Source or a POI on a Planet one day.
V3.2 Update maybe?
If any of them made it to a suitable destination, I'm sure they didn't settle down on some airless rock.
So once we can land on Planets with Atmosphere, we might find a settlement.
A terrifying prospect.
Haven't heard anything about the whole thing in a long time.
By now I'm fairly sure the assets aren't in the Game and nothing is to be found (yet), which would be business as usual.
So just like the upcoming things to see, we're dealing with a 12-18 months "warmup" phase of ASCII-only content, until at one major Client update the assets appear and stuff begins to spawn where there was emptiness a mere 24hrs before.
And at that time - if there's still anybody left searching and doesn't suffer from burnout syndrome - someone will find something.
Worst-case, we see someone beginning to point Fingers in the Forum with increasing precision, until we basically know a specific System and maybe even a most likely Planet. You know the drill
PS.
Considering "the Missing" would indicate something clearly within ~1000LY Range due to lack of FTL travel (no Supercruise Traffic), my bet is it'll appear as a Signal Source or a POI on a Planet one day.
V3.2 Update maybe?
If any of them made it to a suitable destination, I'm sure they didn't settle down on some airless rock.
So once we can land on Planets with Atmosphere, we might find a settlement.
I am assuming these generation ships had scientists on them. Whos to say that the didn't discover how to do FTL travel on the way. They could be much further out then we thought.
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Not an original idea...especially if one were to compare them to the Quarian race who roamed the Mass Effect universe in a rag tag fleet after losing their home world to the Geth...whom they created in the first place only for the slaves to turn on their masters. Battlestar Galactica anyone?
Like the missing...just with a few small details changed, but fundamentally the exact same thing ^^
Like the missing...just with a few small details changed, but fundamentally the exact same thing ^^
I had a tip off mission the other day which - just as the last round of them inferred alien/hostile/mysterious activity - seemed to infer possible Gen-ship activities.
Here's the mission pic: http://imgur.com/a/2HQPz
Sadly, I was not able to discover what secrets lay behind this, as I logged off that evening with two large buildings in front of me and some skimmers activating, only to find them all gone in the morning! I lost them! :/
I suspect that FD might be introducing a swathe of similar tip off missions in the wake of the Galnet article, and that we are being 'trained' to look for traces of them just like we were given alien-esque attack tip-off missions prior to the discovery of the alien wreck.
Here's the mission pic: http://imgur.com/a/2HQPz
Sadly, I was not able to discover what secrets lay behind this, as I logged off that evening with two large buildings in front of me and some skimmers activating, only to find them all gone in the morning! I lost them! :/
I suspect that FD might be introducing a swathe of similar tip off missions in the wake of the Galnet article, and that we are being 'trained' to look for traces of them just like we were given alien-esque attack tip-off missions prior to the discovery of the alien wreck.
They'd be lucky! Given that each one contains - say - 0.000001% of the entire human scientific community. They'd have to figure it all out, with limited and self-contained resources, and crucially without the co-operation and sharing ideas with the rest of the community. One of the keys to scientific success is open sharing of papers and theories; essentially using a human hive mind.
Reavers.
When travelling with sublight without getting SO fast to have time dilation, they probably have never left the sun system just like the voyagers
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Also access to ressources and accidents. Some of the greatest scientific technologies were found through...accidents [blah]
I agree with Max, perhaps these discovered FTL travel on their own and could be anywhere. Also a possibility did they leave before the AI ban? If not perhaps we will find a machine planet as the AI killed off the crew and colonists and made their own colony. Perhaps they will be sort of like the Borg half man half machine. So many many possibilities, perhaps some are a nomadic existence living on the ships in orbit around a sun and they have their own ship board existence never knowing they once lived on a planet or think of the old TV series Star Lost, they don't even know it is a ship they live in a bio dome and think ti is a planet.
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Still a possibilty, and they may also have stumbled upoin Alien tech...