Time Travel in ED

[Decksmeck]

Since the galaxy is procedurally generated, and if I understand right, that the computer has to factor in the time elapsed since the universe began to generate a system, then that means the computer can generate a system at earlier or later times.

So, is time travel something we could one day see?

 

[Stealthie]

Play in Solo mode and pretend you've time-travelled back to 3300.

 

[Nova McCool]

So you can drop off a ton of bio material, make a few jumps to get building supplies and return to an already established colony

 

[PavelKCZ]

Mine VOs today and sell them last Monday, when the price was 1.6 MCr

 

[Troopi]

No time travel. Please. Time travel and sci-fi are like matter and anti-matter. It may work specifically, in stories like Terminator, but sci-fi is always better without it.
Note: It's the worst part of Star-Trek stories, when they get the "time-travel-magic-wand" to rewind an event.

 

[Florenus]

So, is time travel something we could one day see?

Yes.
I'm sending this message to you from the past.
I don't know when it will reach you, because you're already travelling forward in time.

 

[Nova McCool]

No time travel. Please. Time travel and sci-fi are like matter and anti-matter. It may work specifically, in stories like Terminator, but sci-fi is always better without it.

Definitely not a Doctor Who fan

 

[Factabulous]

It will make it easier to get First Scanned credits ....

 

[MickyG1982]

Since the galaxy is procedurally generated, and if I understand right, that the computer has to factor in the time elapsed since the universe began to generate a system, then that means the computer can generate a system at earlier or later times.

So, is time travel something we could one day see?

You already move faster than the speed of light, even in system. The faster you travel, the slower time passes for you so effectively you do time travel.

A twin in orbit of earth, will (literally) land younger than their earthbound twin...

 

[PiLhEaD]

Time travel is already in game as far as I can tell.

I sat down to play the other day and before I knew I had travelled forwards 90 minutes in time.

 

[Stealthie]

According to some nutty old German, all the FTL travel we're doing means we're already time-travelling, aren't we?

 

[Morbad]

Play in Solo mode and pretend you've time-travelled back to 3300.

Still have the 3305 BGS. Also, there were plenty of other CMDRs in 3300.

According to some nutty old German, all the FTL travel we're doing means we're already time-travelling, aren't we?

No, because we aren't actually traveling faster than the speed of light through space.

FTL in ED is the displacement/dilation of the space itself.

Our ships never even get to anywhere near relativistic velocities, except by locking to the frame of reference of a body that already is.

 

[Stealthie]

Still have the 3305 BGS. Also, there were plenty of other CMDRs in 3300.


No, because we aren't actually traveling faster than the speed of light through space.

FTL in ED is the displacement/dilation of the space itself.

Our ships never even get to anywhere near relativistic velocities.

I wonder if it's possible to use time-travel to escape pedantry?

 

[Morbad]

I wonder if it's possible to use time-travel to escape pedantry?

No, I don't think so.

 

[Kzak]

You already move faster than the speed of light, even in system. The faster you travel, the slower time passes for you so effectively you do time travel.

A twin in orbit of earth, will (literally) land younger than their earthbound twin...

Only if you're travelling faster than light in realspace and not in Frame Shift, which folds space around your ship instead.

 

[Vandaahl]

So, is time travel something we could one day see?

No.

 

[DNA-Decay]

We already time travel - It’s actually why GalNet is so disconnected.

The publishers are only just now observing Hutton Orbital in 3301, and there won’t be anything about Colonia for 28000 years.
As for the Beagle Point landings?
64000 years till GalNet spots what is going on there.

 

[JesusRocks1988]

As far as I am aware only a few places in the galaxy actually factor in the 1286 years between now and 3305.
Those places are:

Sol - with Earth, Mars and Pluto all taking on forms based on the passage of nearly 1300 years - rising sea levels on Earth, the terraforming of Mars, and the sharing of dust between Pluto and Charon finally obscuring the current heart shaped formation on Pluto that it created. Also the positions of the Voyager probes and the New Horizons probe are indeed where they should be all those years in the future (problematic for Voyager 1, which will most definitely be in interstellar space by then, but the game still treats that distance as within Sol).

Eagle Nebula - No pillars of creation... can't remember whether that's canon or head-canon, though.

Other than that, the galaxy is pretty much as it is now.

 

[Phongsalt]

Time travel is sooo last century.

 

[Decksmeck]

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Good question. Who knows what utility it could serve. Perhaps the Thargoids win the war and the surviving humans, us, travel back in time to save ourselves.

Or maybe something throws the entire player base forward 1000 years and the galaxy is inhabited in a completely different way.

Who knows...I just thought it was cool since it seems technically possible.