This is what i would love in Elite in the next 2 years.

This is to illustrate the idea that I think would be awesome. Not a story teller so bear with me :D

*Logs in*
Oh Mark is online see what up with him. “Hey what’s up man, what you been doing today?”

“Oh hey been exploring a little listen got a weird message from David, I think he might have crash landed onto some planet, it’s on bulletin boards in every station as a distress beacon message it’s a bit scrambled though”

“Oh? I’ll go check it out”

*Gets to the nearest station*

Message reads “ … crash landed… critical system damage.. strong gravi….ty.. unabl…. Lift off… Hel…p “

“Why didn’t he just send you a message on Skype instead of this though? No one is going to help him there people been trying to lure others to take their ships for a while now”

“Well, either that or someone is going to go there and take his garbage ship leftovers and leave him for dead. I don’t know, he’s really into role playing, do you think we should go help him out?”


“Eh, it’s coming from, “PYRAMOE BC-0 C9-9” It’s really far man, maybe we should just leave him there for a few days so he can learn his lesson?”

“Well, I kind of feel like an adventure anyways, so I say we help him out, might be fun”

“Right, well, we got to get some repair kits then and get some auto maintenance units, we can rip them out from our ships and put them into his, will take some time, but I still haven’t figured out how to fix some subsystems, although I do love that I actually have to know what I am doing, it’s immersive”

“Oh yeah, I've been learning how to fix thrusters, but other than that, nope, can’t do it, I don’t get it, should YouTube it, I guess we can do that when we're there.”

“Right I’ll be ready in a few going to go to Shinrarta for them discounts and then be on my way”

“Cool I am there as well had the same idea, I’ll wait here and then we can head out”

*3 hours later*
Bob “Yeah, that was awesome took 60% hull damage due to them pirates, I won’t make it back myself”

“We’ll be fine, I am damaged too, and my left beam laser is refusing to work”

“Alright, last jump, let’s do this, if it’s a binary system I quit”

“Doubt it, let’s go”

*3…2…1 ENGAGE*
Mark “Alright, so where is this distress beacon coming from?

“I bet it’s on the earth like planet, let’s go there first, it’s the safest bet, why couldn’t he just tell us for crying out loud, this is just painful”

“He more than likely disabled all modules to leave the last power he had to continuously send that message”

“Yeah, alright so, I was right see that ripple effect on the surface of the planet that’s where it’s coming from, let’s roll. Oh, and remember “.. strong gravi….ty” haha”

“Yeah, oh and I am picking up 2 Anacondas just in the planets orbit, for some reason doesn’t feel like a coincidence”

“Probably having trouble landing with that massive ship or already sent friends out to check it out first, well this will be fantastic”

“I am hitting the atmosphere pretty steep, can’t see anything, fire everywhere: DD “

“Same here ya, love this effect they have going, you look like a fireball it’s awesome: DD”

“Whoa, he wasn’t kidding about gravity man, it’s insane, I have to thrust upwards all the time to not lose altitude, can’t even blame the guy for crash-landing if he didn’t expect this”

“Yeah, it’s the rough alright look of the ship, it’s somewhere around here”

“There on your left, he left some nice skid marks man :D about 100 meters he must have been going fast :D

“Alright, lets land there see what’s up”

To Be Continued?
 
I fully support this vision of the future.

Don't worry about your storytelling skills either; this sounds like a believable player experience to me. The epic is in the details here, not the delivery. There's tons of things in there that I want.
 
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