Elite: Dangerous PvE - Mobius

Cheers! Sorry for slow reply--just had a very good friend die on top of everything else! Dipping a toe back into the Eliteverse to see what's happened

SUMMARY OF REMAINDER AND FRAGMENTS: 19 Karlon and pirates Blackburns walked across the bridge and peered at the limpet drone. All of the small robot’s multiple limbs were outstretched, some extended many metres. About half were bracing it against the control panel and floor, while the other half wer...

Alas, it's looking unlikely I'm going to finish this. If people want, I could post how the plot was going to develop and pan out?

18 Arjanna was waiting outside Thule’s office. Her hair was still wet from the shower, slicked back against her skull. Unlike most people who had waited outside the Commodore’s office, she was already standing at attention, not snapping to it at her appearance. ‘I was going to send for you anyway,’ ...

Alas, I am afraid that I have fallen out of love with Elite. A month has gone by with no urge to play, or even to check what has happened in the game. Now I have dipped a toe back in, it looks like the same old same old. It is unlikely I am even going to finish the Sagitarius trip or even return to ...

Day 11 Distance from Achenar: 8,431 Commander Vickershaft passed me the other day; he is following a similar route, only faster. I was so surprised to get his transmission that I ran straight into a star and took my first damage of the trip. He brought news. The emperor was assassinated. The evidenc...

Day 7: moral philosophical ramblings Distance from Sol: ~6000 ly I have not made much more distance; I have been drifting, thinking on what I have left behind. At some vague time in the last million years, a set of apes on Earth evolved the ability to pass knowledge from generation to generation whi...

Your can plot 1000 LY? Damn, I've never managed more than 500! I'll try it out again later tonight...

We're going to be mighty philosphers by the time we get back, or completely crazy!

17 In the far reaches of a solar system hundreds of light-years from Earth, on the furthest edge of a belt of pulverised rocks in the cold shadow of a lifeless gas giant, deep within the broken hull of a crippled ship, two pirates and a former hostage were waiting to die. Or at least, the two pirate...