Elite: Lore

08 Apr 2021, 2:46pm
Vinh Kruczek-Lengyel
Knightwolf 1785So does anyone else think the Imperial Explorer is an ugly bird? (...)



Imperial... Explorer?


I believe it was a ship in Frontier: Elite 2.

Edit: Knightwolf was faster
08 Apr 2021, 3:00pm
Yes, it's a ship from Frontier: Elite 2 and First Encounters. Generally looked like a Courier on steroids and with three engines, slower and heavier version. Btw, Courier in those versions was bigger in comparison with others.

p.s. Sorry, was a mistake. "Old" ship was named Imperial Trader.


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08 Apr 2021, 3:15pm
It's still around but just not in game like the Boa MKIII. I won't lie: I'd love to see one of them flying in game. The fun thing about these huge ships is you can still land them on a planet. They even have a listing for exploration builds in the supplement. Think of them as the flying base some of us have wanted from the Type-10.
09 Apr 2021, 12:24am
Knightwolf 1785It's still around but just not in game like the Boa MKIII. I won't lie: I'd love to see one of them flying in game. The fun thing about these huge ships is you can still land them on a planet. They even have a listing for exploration builds in the supplement. Think of them as the flying base some of us have wanted from the Type-10.


I think this trend will be more fitted in "Game Talk" than the "Lore".
09 Apr 2021, 12:36am
It seemed to have died out anyway.
10 Apr 2021, 5:26am
Eris

All this situation is becoming more muddy as time goes by...

I don't know who's behind the incredibly suspicious NMLA, but I will happily point out how convenient it is for some people - and it could well just be that the NMLA is convenient for Hudson and he's just a ruthlessly effective politician, hell someone might even be trying to frame him by making it all this convenient. Whatever it is, the NMLA is very suspicious and has certainly been receiving outside support.

Besides, an interesting conspiracy seems like a good fun storyline for ED, and it would certainly make good writing.


It's definitely muddy.

My thoughts were focused on the information that was released about the NMLA using a similar comms system to the League of Reparation.

When Neve Seutonia took over the NMLA gig and then was suddenly killed I realised they never found the body of the Leagues organiser and it could be the case the ImperialAgent was killed deliberately.

Friends have suggested the NMLA seem more bloodthirsty than the league was but I gotta say genealogical terrorism seems as bad as indiscriminate bombing campaigns.

So in my view the NMLA are the League of Reparation reborn and retasked.

Question is, why?


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10 Apr 2021, 12:13pm
Senator Lorcan Scordato has visited the Marlinist Colonies. I suppose this was a tentative approach from Empire, and could be valuable for the legitimate Marlinist Goverment.

Reportedly many Marlinists are very angry "that [MNLA] have made all Marlinists look like monsters". But I didn't see any Marlinist volunteering to fight for Empire in the Mudhrid War.

They are losing systems, and I bet they are losing ranks to the NMLA Terrorists. They need to be recognized as a valuable asset to Empire and not enemies, and perhaps this will bring some peaceful reassurance to Marlinist people. Desperate people are easily lured to radicalism. "Nothing else to lose" and all that.
10 Apr 2021, 11:37pm
The following picture is set as a spoiler as it's related to the Hesperus, click at your own risk...



I'm quite sure that I saw that symbol somewhere before, but for the life of me I cannot remember where...
10 Apr 2021, 11:50pm
Amata LireinThe following picture is set as a spoiler as it's related to the Hesperus, click at your own risk...

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I feel like I've seen it too, but I can't remember where it was in game either.
11 Apr 2021, 12:07am
Reminds me of Metatron's Cube, but that's probably a coincidence.
11 Apr 2021, 12:22am
SakashiroReminds me of Metatron's Cube, but that's probably a coincidence.


The first thing I thought of was Metatron's Cube but it's only hexagons and circles... I've had a look through some of my books but haven't found a closer match than that though.
11 Apr 2021, 5:24pm
Vinh Kruczek-Lengyel I'd risk the statement that Frontier copies the idea from Expanse in regard to certain events that happen in Season 5 and respective novels from which the TV show is adapted.

Edit: Spoiler tag does not work, it makes entire spoiler text invisible for some odd reason. :/


If this is true, E:D lore -- extremely timid compared to astonishing Elder Scrolls' Lore, for example -- will disappoint as a narrative without originality.

And the most sad thing in a supposed MMORP game's lore without originality is its lack of a soul, a real immersive universe of discoveries.

I hope Fdevs are taking E:D lore seriously. Since Odyssey Alpha release I'm having a unnerving sense of superficiality in the game. As if ED creators decided to leave immersion and Lore in second place and focus on a "Space Call of Duty".

I hope not. I hope there is a real interest by Frontier to give ED an original Lore. Elder Scrolls Online has a fantastic cast of actors to voice its main NPC characters. ED's voices are not so famous as far as I know, but I hope all its Lore's characters, stories and future surprises are true. And Odyssey will bring us a wonderful immersive game, not a mere "first person shooting on the stars" virtual hobby.

Let's see.
11 Apr 2021, 9:39pm
Vinh Kruczek-LengyelOh I rather meant Marlinists and NMLA in terms of what happens in Season 5 of the Expanse, it was more response to Marlinists losing colonies << Show less
with extremists taking a rather large support given the circumstances of the fact that, at some point, they would be targeted as scapegoats behind the terror attacks even if they were never responsible for doing that, like Belters joined Inaros due to the fear of being persecuted for his acts

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That is another interesting point. I wonder if the Neo-Marlinist Order of Mudhrid were really as deeply involved in the terrorist attacks as Empire Intelligence say so. Somehow they seem to fit very well in the "Scapegoat" suit.
11 Apr 2021, 10:22pm
I had a thought on it. For what reason such a small faction should deliberately face the wrath of Empire and it's helpers in an open conflict? They could just grab each other's hands and walk out of the airlock with the same result. And it's no proof of their actual support except... words that started this little war.

Even got a weirdo idea about... Maybe they're the "Tenth Martyr" chosen or forced by NMLA to make that statement, and to be obliterated in the end.
12 Apr 2021, 10:18am
Meowers Even got a weirdo idea about... Maybe they're the "Tenth Martyr" chosen or forced by NMLA to make that statement, and to be obliterated in the end.


In this case, what would be the NMLA's purpose to do that? Remember that Landgrave Arastin Delacroix, the NMOM leader, simply vanished. Empire agents couldn't find him after his faction defeat. NMOM had very little chance to victory, not to mention Mudhrid is practically in Empire's backyard. That's horrible strategy for a war.

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