Tionisla Graveyard in Beyond?

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
rootsrat said:
It's been hinted at Lavecon 2016 IIRC. About time to make it real!

Pretty please, Frontier? :)
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aye i would like it too... but with some small print - and this goes for all the new pretty "CQC" asset bases, shipyards and generation ships too............................. give us reasons to go there... missions to scavenge, pirate invaders to kill , with prisoners to liberate, (and bases to hijack with security forces to destroy) as well.

i would love to see and fly around a pretty ship graveyard................................................... for 10 mins... but they must have real purpose
 

Dad Rock

Dad Rock
+1 It's one of the areas that's been talked about for ages and we still haven't seen it. Bring on the Tionisla graveyard.

Maybe with some aggressive robot scrap metal drones that we have to avoid if we hang around there too long.
 

Koen

Koen
IndigoWyrd said:
What? Where? Explain.
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The Tionisla Orbital Graveyard (TOGY) was in "The Dark Wheel" by Robert Holdstock, the book that came with ELITE in 1984.

Robert Holdstock said:
The best way to see the wreckplace at Tionisla is to approach it from the Sun (a reasonably safe thing to do since Tionisla, being a Democracy has few pirates in its system). Tionisla itself is a bright yellow world, and the cemetery is always between the planet and its star. As you fly close, the whole strange graveyard seems to be expanding from the circle of the world behind.

The first thing you see is a shimmering, silver disc, a double spiral of tiny bright points. It slowly turns: it's a galaxy in miniature, with the same intense blur of light at its centre, because here is where the biggest tombs are to be found.

Come closer and soon you can see that the stars in this galaxy are markers, great lumps of metal, heavily inscribed with the words and symbols of a thousand religions. The cemetery is a bizarre and moving sight. The markers are rarely less than a thousand feet across. There are chrome-alloy crosses, titanium Stars of David, duralium henges, and all the strange symbolic shapes of the worlds, and the minds and the faiths that have come to die in this Star traveller's special place.

Tethered below this vast, rotating mausoleum is the dodecahedral shape of a 'Dodo' class space station, the home of the Cemetery Authorites. Here you go through security checks and get your visitor's visa. And as you stand in the queue, staring up through the translucent ceiling of the Customs Hall, you can see the battered, broken ships of many of the dead, still attached to the silent tomb that contains the body.
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Tionisla is one of the Old Worlds near Lave.

TOGY also plays a role in the book "Elite Dangerous: Premonition" by Drew Wagar (GalNet), and in the associated game event on 29th April 3303.

Screenshot of the Tionisla Orbital Graveyard OXP in Oolite:

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IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Koen said:
Tionisla graveyard was in "The Dark Wheel" by Robert Holdstock, the book that came with ELITE in 1984.



It also plays a role in the Premonition book by Drew Wagar.

Screenshot of the graveyard in Oolite:

http://wiki.alioth.net/img_auth.php/archive/5/58/20060117090944!Togy_ss_oct06.jpg
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Ahh... books I've never read, one that came with a game I never played, another by a writer I'd never heard of... and didn't he leave or something?

But I support this - could make for an interesting place to drop a Tourist beacon.
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
IndigoWyrd said:
Ahh... books I've never read, one that came with a game I never played, another by a writer I'd never heard of... and didn't he leave or something?

But I support this - could make for an interesting place to drop a Tourist beacon.
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There's already a beacon there iirc. Or a sidewinder placemarker or something. Been there at least since The Salomé Incident.
 

Augustus

Augustus
Yet Another Place...

Where I Need to Funnel Bomb a Bottle of Fine Aged Tequila..!
Toke Up a Big Fat Bowel of OnionHead..!
And Douse Myself in Patronum Experience Jelly..!

With the Aid of my Arcturian Crew!

[alien]

-gus
 

IndigoWyrd

IndigoWyrd
Siobhan said:
There's already a beacon there iirc. Or a sidewinder placemarker or something. Been there at least since The Salomé Incident.
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Incident, fiasco, farce, sham.. different people have different names for it. I didn't really pay much attention to it, as I knew exactly how it was going to play out from the word go - inside job. Just had no idea who the insder would be. Turns out it was the fellow named after a character from a series I despise.
 

Manticore

Manticore
IndigoWyrd said:
Incident, fiasco, farce, sham.. different people have different names for it. I didn't really pay much attention to it, as I knew exactly how it was going to play out from the word go - inside job. Just had no idea who the insder would be. Turns out it was the fellow named after a character from a series I despise.
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This is one thing I can totally agree with you on.

Also that wizard series; never seen any of the movies all the way through. Not interested and I don't care about Rowling.

As for the Salome incident. Yes I agree about that too. Predictable wasn't it?

And only a total loser would use that name as an in-game handle (but I suppose Winnie the Pooh also would have been appropriate). I'm sure their thumb never came out of their................... mouth long enough to type up a support ticket for a name change.
 

rootsrat

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rootsrat
Siobhan said:
There's already a beacon there iirc. Or a sidewinder placemarker or something. Been there at least since The Salomé Incident.
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Yeah, the beacon is there! Which is cool. I would love to see the actual location though, as it seemed like a really cool place to visit, as per description in the books.

Would be a great nod from FDEV towards players who are well into ED lore :)
 
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