Why is Triton permit locked and not the Moon?
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Ok but why it's not permit locked then? Nothing in the game or in the lore that says you can't land there.. It's just handled like an atmospheric planet.
About Triton... Is it locked for some future content? It's the only locked planet on the galaxy afaik so there should be some explanation
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They could slap some aluminum-looking domes over the historic sites; they've been "preserved for posterity." Eventually they could be a legs feature.
No plans to ever make it landable. Triton probably locked for same reason Horsehead is, future content.
Permits are odd things in unpopulated, undiscovered systems.
Ehm, Lave 2...
Triton possibly IS Gaia and a hollow world within her. Inside is an organically created assortment of environments populated by sentient creatures such as gorgeous colour patterned hermaphrodite centaurs whose names are music keys that they sing in to communicate.
See here: John Varley - Triton
When we get legs maybe then they will open Luna to us, underground first.
Lots of handcrafting planned I think.
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White Sands is in New Mexico and is a National Park that anyone can visit. They only close it down when they launch missiles.
Roswell is near the Trinity site which was the birthplace of the A-bomb.
The Stealth fighter was developed at Area 51 located at Groom Lake, Nevada and is also next to where they did atmospheric testing of A-bombs in the 50's and 60's. This is also the location where the U-2 and SR-71 were developed and tested.
It's very interesting! But is it part of Elite Lore or an unrelated Sci-Fi book?
There are precisely three locked planets in the galaxy: Triton, Lave 2 and Diso 5c. We do not know why any of them are locked, though the Lave one seems to have something to do with the Dictator Walden story arc mentioned in some old Galnet stories, which is connected with the old lore of Lave. For Diso 5c and Triton, there hasn't been a peep from Galnet, and the system descriptions are silent - and those are our only two sources of canonical information.
Permit-locked planets look an awful lot like a feature which was intended to be much bigger and more commonly encountered than it actually is. I'm wondering if they were planning to put a bunch more into the galaxy, but ran out of time before Horizons launched.
when you brought up dev only perks I immediately thought of the valve weapon quality
I think only the first Apollo landing was faked. The indie movie "Project Avalanche" has a pretty interesting premise: The Pres had promised a man on the Moon, but the Eagle lander wouldn't be ready on time. We could get astronauts in orbit around the Moon, but not down to the surface. So the CIA spoofed the mission control computers by switching the live data feed for simulation data when the rocket was behind the Moon. Only the first landing was faked.
It was just a little leap of fiction for mankind.
I would disagree on this. While the vast majority of the galaxy in ED is procedurally generated there are at least some have been hand-crafted to at least a certain degree. Also, given we are talking over a thousand years in the future there are any number of probable causes for differences (subtle or otherwise) in the way the moon looks in ED.
As I said multiple times, in ED the Moon doesn't need an accurate modeling because it's a rock without atmosphere, in the next 1300 years many places could be very different from how they are now.
According to lore, the Moon is densely populated and industrialised, far more so than rocky bodies elsewhere. FD would have to build all that. Or, they can not allow us to go there, because we're not allowed to go to densely populated areas and bother the locals.
As for eventually getting access to populated atmospheric earth-like planets, the lore and general consensus seems to have been (here paraphrased only):
''Heavily polluting stellar craft will never be cleared for atmospheric entry due to the unavoidable damage that would be caused to the fragile atmospheres so throwing them even more out of equilibrium''. Any access (if it happens) would have to be from the Star Ports using eco-friendly shuttle craft to the planet surface below (leaving our space ships up on the orbiting/geostationary stations/star ports).
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Triton in real life is extremely unstable and could tear apart at any moment.