Lore for games whose fans seem few and far between. Namely, Ace Combat series and Elite Dangerous. ED because I have a ton of time in that game and while it’s shallow without a campaign, I guess my imagination fills in all the blanks as a plausible interstellar space sim. Ace Combat is mostly because of the subreddit. Same goes for Star Wars prequels memes. Funny how I lost that part of my persona when I left reddit.
I can’t comfortably tell you I have depe knowledge of space because it’s big as hell and professionals know way more, but it’s still something where I know a lot of, effectively, trivia.
Ace Combat: maybe it was just memes.
Elite Dangerous: there’s currently a player-run expedition sitting on the far side of the galaxy. 8k registered players. They hit some tourist spots but are going somewhere into under-explored regions now. Some people are grabbing exploration payouts. One group wants to find the furthest possible earth-like planet and name it Earth 2, as a backup, in case the aliens come back. The aliens had a huge event that changed the course of the colonies. There’s some neat items added by the developers in honor of players in the first few years. Beagle Point is an easy one, named after one player spent a ton of time with his elderly dog playing the game. The dog passed and got a star named for it. There’s the Fuel Rats and the Hull Seals, two player groups that have a huge network of players that can assist stranded players. There’s noob training groups that train noobs because the instructions are not clear in the game. There’s 3rd party apps and sites to make QoL better. Some players hate it like it’s cheating, I say future humans would definitely make support systems like this because current humans are currently do it (and can we just pretend it won’t fucking get paywalled in the future, for 3 god damn minutes?)
The star wars prequels are political drama with laser swords. The cgi animals were excessive. But it pretty clearly parallels the historic rises to fascism/dictatorship. The Anakin/Kenobi lava scene works way better than it looks. A akin brings balance to the force by eradicating the huge volume of jedi vs 2-2.5 sith. Kenobi loved him like a brother. Well, relationships are forbidden for the jedi, so yeah, Kenobi just admitted anakin is trash to him (OK, that’s a twisted stretch).
Space, real space, is deep. The Hubble images were amazing, how could we learn more with JWST? Well, I literally couldn’t imagine that every single direction in space is filled with more galaxies. That’s insane. That’s terrifying. That’s not understandable in human terms. There is an unfathomable amount of space and we’re never going to tough anything outside our solar system.
Orbital mechanics are cool. You’re thrown sideways so fast you continue to miss the ground. The Earth is moving so fast it’s actually really difficult to bring enough fuel to slow down enough to hit the sun. The Parker solar probe used venus to slow down and it’s still trying to shed speed and get closer. Or maybe it already peaked (valleyed?) at 430,000mph in the solar corona. But every time it gets close, it’s speeding up and still missing. The video from “inside” the sun is kind of comfortable. You can use gravity to slingshot craft. I don’t know about you, but I airways pictured some scifi visualization of hooking around a sun in a parabolic u-turn. That’s not really a slingshot. You leave with the same relative craft-body speed as you approached. If you’re flying 100 000mph towards earth, you’re leaving it at 100kmph. But the earth is orbiting at 67kmph. You can hook a 90deg turn around it and leave in the same direction to add 67k to your speed. You can hook the other way to shed 67k. You showed up as to approach it, but then it pulls you big and eats that speed. But as long as you’re faster than escape velocity, you can choose what happens next.
Lithobraking means crashing into the ground. It’s a real tactic.
Voyager has left the solar system and is a steady ~40,000mph. Space is big. If it was pointed at the next closest star, Proxima centauri at ~4ly, the trip would still take like 70,000 years. It’s not pointed that way, but it is pointed at a star that is traveling somewhat towards us. In that time frame, it is actually predicted to come within 1.6ly of each other (voyager and this other star) in like 40,000 years. For reference, Voyager 1 was launched almost 50 years ago and is still within one light day of earth. It’s close at ~23.5ld, but still not there.
“We know more about space than our oceans” is scary until you realize nearly all stellar knowledge is useless for human life. It’s a massive hobby.
Because all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. Wait, wrong universe. Not much is known about Mobius 1, but we knew they’re engaged.
Lore for games whose fans seem few and far between. Namely, Ace Combat series and Elite Dangerous. ED because I have a ton of time in that game and while it’s shallow without a campaign, I guess my imagination fills in all the blanks as a plausible interstellar space sim. Ace Combat is mostly because of the subreddit. Same goes for Star Wars prequels memes. Funny how I lost that part of my persona when I left reddit.
I can’t comfortably tell you I have depe knowledge of space because it’s big as hell and professionals know way more, but it’s still something where I know a lot of, effectively, trivia.
Ace Combat: maybe it was just memes.
Elite Dangerous: there’s currently a player-run expedition sitting on the far side of the galaxy. 8k registered players. They hit some tourist spots but are going somewhere into under-explored regions now. Some people are grabbing exploration payouts. One group wants to find the furthest possible earth-like planet and name it Earth 2, as a backup, in case the aliens come back. The aliens had a huge event that changed the course of the colonies. There’s some neat items added by the developers in honor of players in the first few years. Beagle Point is an easy one, named after one player spent a ton of time with his elderly dog playing the game. The dog passed and got a star named for it. There’s the Fuel Rats and the Hull Seals, two player groups that have a huge network of players that can assist stranded players. There’s noob training groups that train noobs because the instructions are not clear in the game. There’s 3rd party apps and sites to make QoL better. Some players hate it like it’s cheating, I say future humans would definitely make support systems like this because current humans are currently do it (and can we just pretend it won’t fucking get paywalled in the future, for 3 god damn minutes?)
The star wars prequels are political drama with laser swords. The cgi animals were excessive. But it pretty clearly parallels the historic rises to fascism/dictatorship. The Anakin/Kenobi lava scene works way better than it looks. A akin brings balance to the force by eradicating the huge volume of jedi vs 2-2.5 sith. Kenobi loved him like a brother. Well, relationships are forbidden for the jedi, so yeah, Kenobi just admitted anakin is trash to him (OK, that’s a twisted stretch).
Space, real space, is deep. The Hubble images were amazing, how could we learn more with JWST? Well, I literally couldn’t imagine that every single direction in space is filled with more galaxies. That’s insane. That’s terrifying. That’s not understandable in human terms. There is an unfathomable amount of space and we’re never going to tough anything outside our solar system.
Orbital mechanics are cool. You’re thrown sideways so fast you continue to miss the ground. The Earth is moving so fast it’s actually really difficult to bring enough fuel to slow down enough to hit the sun. The Parker solar probe used venus to slow down and it’s still trying to shed speed and get closer. Or maybe it already peaked (valleyed?) at 430,000mph in the solar corona. But every time it gets close, it’s speeding up and still missing. The video from “inside” the sun is kind of comfortable. You can use gravity to slingshot craft. I don’t know about you, but I airways pictured some scifi visualization of hooking around a sun in a parabolic u-turn. That’s not really a slingshot. You leave with the same relative craft-body speed as you approached. If you’re flying 100 000mph towards earth, you’re leaving it at 100kmph. But the earth is orbiting at 67kmph. You can hook a 90deg turn around it and leave in the same direction to add 67k to your speed. You can hook the other way to shed 67k. You showed up as to approach it, but then it pulls you big and eats that speed. But as long as you’re faster than escape velocity, you can choose what happens next.
Lithobraking means crashing into the ground. It’s a real tactic.
Voyager has left the solar system and is a steady ~40,000mph. Space is big. If it was pointed at the next closest star, Proxima centauri at ~4ly, the trip would still take like 70,000 years. It’s not pointed that way, but it is pointed at a star that is traveling somewhat towards us. In that time frame, it is actually predicted to come within 1.6ly of each other (voyager and this other star) in like 40,000 years. For reference, Voyager 1 was launched almost 50 years ago and is still within one light day of earth. It’s close at ~23.5ld, but still not there.
“We know more about space than our oceans” is scary until you realize nearly all stellar knowledge is useless for human life. It’s a massive hobby.
Why Mobius?
Because all of this has happened before and all of this will happen again. Wait, wrong universe. Not much is known about Mobius 1, but we knew they’re engaged.