Elite: Lore

Dirnivir
14 May 2021, 12:45pm
hm good point.
Claudius Aetius
14 May 2021, 2:20pm
Dirnivirwhy do pirates fly in imperial ships and how do they get them. also you never see them flying federal ships. like never the cutter or corvette. but you see them in couriers and clippers.


I once was attacked by a NPC Pirate with a Cutter. Probably he was a very successful Billionaire Pirate, or perhaps a boring Elon Musk trying to find some "bad boy" excitement...
Sappho
16 May 2021, 10:11pm
From the in-game description - is anything in-game official lore or not? - found in a station market:

"Robotics are used to perform simple automated tasks or to act as avatars for remotely located humans in hazardous environments. They are also used for repetitive and highly accurate production line tasks." [my emphasis]

Hmm. Verrry interesting.
Isaiah Evanson
16 May 2021, 10:14pm
And?
Sappho
16 May 2021, 10:21pm
That seems to open up additional possibilities, that's all.
User308550
16 May 2021, 10:35pm
SapphoThat seems to open up additional possibilities, that's all.


Yes but tech like that has existed since the year 2016 by my knowledge. Even the people of over 1,000 years ago enjoyed such activities remotely.
Sappho
16 May 2021, 11:04pm
The point is, re: lore-valid RP.
Meowers
16 May 2021, 11:10pm
So, Sappho may be an avatar of some human to work in hazardous conditions, doing repetitive and highly accurate actions.
Lambast Mercy
16 May 2021, 11:15pm
Oh god! Interfering with people via remote automaton is somehow worse than someone's independent sex-toy wondering into the bar and striking up a conversation with the patrons.
JB Threepwood
16 May 2021, 11:15pm
I think, in that situation, it would be someone using the robot to interact with the world by proxy.

When I was researching before and read that line I translated it like bomb disposal robots or, in a future setting, soldiers controlling robots remotely (like IOI in Ready Player One but on an actual battlefield).

I think it would be interesting for a massive crime boss or a big celeb to use a robot in that way to avoid people or assassination attempts.
Sappho
16 May 2021, 11:16pm
True. I'm thinking of things right at this moment.
Lambast Mercy
16 May 2021, 11:20pm
I had a boss use a robot that also projected her hologram on its self remotly so she could safely meet with contractors 'in person'

Like telepresence with a physical element for shaking hands or using items in the office.
Iwao Kishiro
16 May 2021, 11:47pm
To be honest, that might be logical explanation to what I suspected: on-foot gameplay in Odyssey is basically remote-controlled avatars.
Isaiah Evanson
17 May 2021, 12:08am
Robotic, remote-controlled avatars... that choke to death when you run out of air.
Sappho
17 May 2021, 12:14am
Robots like Sappho don't need air, at least, not in RP. "Hazardous" would include extreme environments, I presume, & that would seem to include a vacuum.

Or a ship cabin with a "gaseous anomaly" as the commander.

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