This thread is intended ENTIRELY for fun; and should in no way be considered as a suggestion for actual aliens in ED.
Besides the Humans - who are doing what they always do; spreading out and reproducing like yeast - there are TWO known Alien races in the Galaxy:
The Guardians, who apparently lost; since they're now extinct (making simple data retrieval sites into complex games might have had something to do with that) and...
The Thargoids, who clearly won since they're still here - and BOY aren't we all REALLY glad for that!
A Galaxy with 400 Billion star systems...and this is all we got?
I personally envisage a Milky Way filled with complex, interesting and wonderful life - both living and extinct. We have only - to this point - explored a fraction of one per cent of this Galaxy, and the possibilities are ENDLESS. THAT is what drives me out into the black; I want to go LOOK; to turn over rocks and see what is underneath.
This thread is for your imagination, your idle speculations, your wishes. What Aliens would you like to find in the dark spaces we have yet to find?
I will start with my own, but there is NO limit, no qualifications or rules. All I ask is that your alien has some connection to reality and physics - at least as much as the Bugs and Guardians do. And yes, a LOT of people will answer with things like "The Planet where we get VR in Oddyssey!" or "The world of unbroken mining!!!!" Compose yourselves. This is not about your issues.
Which Alien would you love to see in Elite Dangerous?
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Mine is Sentipart.
Sentipart is one of my oldest Alien beings; I've been writing totally unsuccessful S-F for over 20 years, and while much of what I write is awful, some is good. Sentipart falls into that category.
Sentipart is a Sentient Particulate - a formless being that cannot be classed in any biological sense.
Sentipart appears to be a jet-black powder; its ultrafine grains black enough to absorb any energy from its surroundings. Each particle can receive and send a single weak electromagnetic pulse to its closest neighbors.
When trillions of Sentipart particles are collected together - such as in a smallish bucket - it is an intelligent, self-aware and curious entity that is willing to trade its services for learning. A mass of Sentipart will spread itself over the bulkheads of a ship, providing instantaneous and absolutely clear communication to all parts of a ship. It will also provide observation based upon its experience, some amusement because Humans have a VERY small world-view that they have a hard time fitting Sentipart into, and effectively make the ship itself semi-sentient, since Sentipart coveres EVERY single inch of the vessel.
What Humans do NOT know - and Sentipart never says - is that each of these small bucketfuls of black powder are part of a gigantic and incredibly intelligent, ancient Entity. This Entity puts out small parts of itself to experience the Galaxy; those parts which FIND data eventually return to share their data with the whole.
That Entity is visible from Earth: we call it the Coal Sack Nebula.
Humans Have NO idea that the dark cloud is intelligent, and WATCHING them; inserting parts of itself into Human culture to gain better information.
It is largely benign - the Coal Sack (as we call it) only wants to learn, and observe. BUT...if it ever decides to act...
I'll let you imagine what would happen if Sentipart became hostile.
(And in my story - it does. It's pretty gruesome.)
That is MY Alien I'd love to see in ED. What is yours?
Besides the Humans - who are doing what they always do; spreading out and reproducing like yeast - there are TWO known Alien races in the Galaxy:
The Guardians, who apparently lost; since they're now extinct (making simple data retrieval sites into complex games might have had something to do with that) and...
The Thargoids, who clearly won since they're still here - and BOY aren't we all REALLY glad for that!
A Galaxy with 400 Billion star systems...and this is all we got?
I personally envisage a Milky Way filled with complex, interesting and wonderful life - both living and extinct. We have only - to this point - explored a fraction of one per cent of this Galaxy, and the possibilities are ENDLESS. THAT is what drives me out into the black; I want to go LOOK; to turn over rocks and see what is underneath.
This thread is for your imagination, your idle speculations, your wishes. What Aliens would you like to find in the dark spaces we have yet to find?
I will start with my own, but there is NO limit, no qualifications or rules. All I ask is that your alien has some connection to reality and physics - at least as much as the Bugs and Guardians do.
And yes, a LOT of people will answer with things like "The Planet where we get VR in Oddyssey!" or "The world of unbroken mining!!!!" Compose yourselves. This is not about your issues.Which Alien would you love to see in Elite Dangerous?
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Mine is Sentipart.
Sentipart is one of my oldest Alien beings; I've been writing totally unsuccessful S-F for over 20 years, and while much of what I write is awful, some is good. Sentipart falls into that category.
Sentipart is a Sentient Particulate - a formless being that cannot be classed in any biological sense.
Sentipart appears to be a jet-black powder; its ultrafine grains black enough to absorb any energy from its surroundings. Each particle can receive and send a single weak electromagnetic pulse to its closest neighbors.
When trillions of Sentipart particles are collected together - such as in a smallish bucket - it is an intelligent, self-aware and curious entity that is willing to trade its services for learning. A mass of Sentipart will spread itself over the bulkheads of a ship, providing instantaneous and absolutely clear communication to all parts of a ship. It will also provide observation based upon its experience, some amusement because Humans have a VERY small world-view that they have a hard time fitting Sentipart into, and effectively make the ship itself semi-sentient, since Sentipart coveres EVERY single inch of the vessel.
What Humans do NOT know - and Sentipart never says - is that each of these small bucketfuls of black powder are part of a gigantic and incredibly intelligent, ancient Entity. This Entity puts out small parts of itself to experience the Galaxy; those parts which FIND data eventually return to share their data with the whole.
That Entity is visible from Earth: we call it the Coal Sack Nebula.
Humans Have NO idea that the dark cloud is intelligent, and WATCHING them; inserting parts of itself into Human culture to gain better information.
It is largely benign - the Coal Sack (as we call it) only wants to learn, and observe. BUT...if it ever decides to act...
I'll let you imagine what would happen if Sentipart became hostile.
(And in my story - it does. It's pretty gruesome.)
That is MY Alien I'd love to see in ED. What is yours?
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