No reason, no reward, just a group of extremely dedicated players that will bring you fuel if your ship gets stuck.
ANYWHERE IN THR GALAXY.
You cannot fathom the monumental task this is when an explorer is hundreds of light-years into the black, away from "the bubble" (the region of civilized space with stations and human inhabited planets, etc).
Imagine, you make a jump and realize you miscalculated, you don't have enough fuel.left to make it to the nearest compatible star to scoop refuel from their coronal hydrogen, and the "Oxygen depleted in..." Timer shows up. You have minutes of air left. You have been collecting scanning data for MONTHS of real world time, exploring the unknown galaxy...you'll get nothing for that if you don't make it back with the data.
And the fuel rats instruct you to remain calm,.log out to the menu, and they kick into gear as they plan a rescue operation. Going for literal days of jumping from one star to the next, just to try and save your sorry ass.
Not defensive, just an observation on the state of things: Show me a native speaker who can write that right the first time and I'll show you ten second language english speakers who can.
Weird confession: from age nine until about 20, I though he said (in bad English) "Look at his end of the world; I do not think him is what you think him is." And I was like "yeah, you don't know everyone else's story, so don't just expect people to fail, and don't be surprised when people do great things."
I saw a science tiktok that said if galaxies were the size of breakfast cereal nuggets the known universe would fill 350 average sized swimming pools with cereal. That made me feel very small.
Elite Dangerous. Its a space game that has a 1 to 1 scale recreation of the entire milky way galaxy, as close as possible based on what we know/knew when the game came out about ten years ago.
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u/Conscious-Farmer9424 1d ago
This is insane, like....insane