Elite: Lore
17 Jun 2020, 10:19pm
Ah a fellow imaginist and a bookworm too I'd vouch.
As Aleksander states, it's the middle bit that makes it happen.
I must have read The Dark Wheel 6 dozen times in the years I played Elite in the late 80s, those hours of station approach at standard speed because someone else was too close to use the jumpdrive (old fashioned frameshift I guess)
I read every snippet published in magazines of the time which were few and far between for the likes of nerdy swots like me.
I still don't know where Raxxla is
But I, yes ME made the story up as I went and I get you are trying not to bend the lore but it is kinda flexy to allow for the imaginative.
As a now grumpy old ape who learned Elite at the hands of his grandfather I am enthralled by the newest game and would dearly love to spend more time reading all the stories. Limited life time (and lifetime) means I get out in the voids and see it, as I imagined it was when it was a wireframe black and white game with beeps and bongs for sound.
I have enjoyed your posts previously so keep it up
/18 Jun 2020, 7:56am
18 Jun 2020, 9:20am
Take Star Wars - by which I mean the 1977 Film and before Empire. (It changed my outlook on life as a child)
Very few novels and comic books to base any kind of Lore on as it were, only George knew for sure. But we made it up as we went for games of action figures.
Jump forward to just after Revenge of the Sith
Thousands of published books, comics, graphic novels, trivia book etc. and of course games and game related novels, some where a little contradictory but mostly all followed a certain path and followed certain ideals etc. resulting in a continuous story line spanning thousands of years.
NOW
Disney, in their infinite wisdom took 30 real years worth of what we considered Lore and threw it in the bin while releasing a NEW film about <DEEP BREATH> a droid stranded on a desert world holding vital information sought by a small group of desperate heroes trying to defeat a super weapon ......... <record scratching noise as required> wait a second, that seems awful familiar.
I guess Lore is what you make it and no matter what, someone somewhere is going to disagree.
Anyway, I ramble on. Elite ~ I dug out my old books and will have a skim through when I get time.
With regard to your dilemma, how did Galcop ever know you were under attack, we never had 'alert to attack' beacons before (or did we but we just never got to turn them off) FTL travel & comms is tricky at best but so far as Lore goes, Anarchy systems - nobody is coming to rescue you no matter how fast your coms are. Could always use ED features like EMP type weapons to disrupt all comms on a ship. If that's what your angle is.
Check me getting all creative in my old age
18 Jun 2020, 9:45am
"Communication frameworks are split into two categories: insystem (local) comms and interstellar comms. Planets, space stations and local spacecraft can be part of a realtime communications link within the boundaries of a star system. Some larger systems, or those with highenergy output stars, use comms booster buoys to allow comms to be maintained. Independent pilots can be employed for the sole purpose of carrying communications data between systems. Those who make their living doing this are called “data couriers”. Interstellar communication allows the transmission of audio data through hyperspace but at a much lower quality and bandwidth than that provided by insystems comms. Both local and FTL communications networks are heavily encrypted by the providers, but individual users can install their own encryption and security measures to their comms terminals and personal comlinks."
18 Jun 2020, 10:11am
Yeah! What he said
The old and the new combine to make new adventures.
As a Ferengi once said " I gave those words to this Huumaan "
18 Jun 2020, 12:03pm
Isaiah Evanson"Interstellar communication allows the transmission of audio data through hyperspace but at a much lower quality and bandwidth than that provided by insystems comms. Both local and FTL communications networks are heavily encrypted by the providers, but individual users can install their own encryption and security measures to their comms terminals and personal comlinks."
That’s the kind of confirmation I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to look it up! Much appreciated!
18 Jun 2020, 6:32pm
18 Jun 2020, 9:24pm
SakashiroIsaiah Evanson"Interstellar communication allows the transmission of audio data through hyperspace but at a much lower quality and bandwidth than that provided by insystems comms. Both local and FTL communications networks are heavily encrypted by the providers, but individual users can install their own encryption and security measures to their comms terminals and personal comlinks."
That’s the kind of confirmation I was looking for. Thank you for taking the time to look it up! Much appreciated!
There also appears to be the need to run Courier missions... no cargo which can be lost or stolen so must be data of some sort.
Data which for some reason can't be encrypted & sent in any other way than via Couriers.
I suspect that it won't help with the inconsistencies or incongruencies...
18 Jun 2020, 10:36pm
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19 Jun 2020, 6:28pm
–Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981