Elite Dangerous Distant Worlds - A journey beyond the Abyss (Part 1) - Duration: 19:12. Erimus Kamzel 9,039 views.

My starship is perched along the rim of a crater on an airless moon some 55,000 light-years from home. Hanging in the sky on the other side of the canopy is a water world, its wispy white clouds revealing an endless sea.This moon is just one of trillions like it in a spacefaring game called, which puts players in the cockpit of a starship and sets them loose from a first-person perspective. But unlike the vast majority of those other moons, this one has a name. It’s called.Luna’s Shadow is an unremarkable hunk of rock floating in the void. But this particular patch of the void just happens to be a point in three-dimensional space exactly on the opposite side of the galaxy from our own moon. Here, inside Elite’s virtual simulacrum of our Milky Way, that makes the lonely water world on the horizon a shadow Earth.What’s strange is the fact that Luna’s Shadow wasn’t placed here on purpose by Elite’s creators, the U.K.-based studio Frontier Developments. This entire system, including its bright white central star and its 10 other planets and moons, was procedurally generated.

It was spit out by a mathematical rock tumbler called the, a technology so uncanny that it has. Once created, Luna’s Shadow was just left here for players to find. Image: Frontier Developments via Commander OdinocoElite boasts more than of these virtual star systems, only a tiny fraction of which will ever be visited by players. To some in the community, that represents an incredible challenge.

The human mind has a difficult time settling for the unknown, so just like the ancient civilizations and the modern astronomers who came before them, a dedicated group has spent years mapping and naming these stars.Through their efforts, this preposterously large game now has its own distinct geography. It’s all thanks to the Galactic Mapping Project, a remarkable confluence of sophisticated mathematics, cutting-edge computer technology, and good old-fashioned human perseverance. Elite: Dangerous’ version of the Milky Way galaxy, with and without the regions assigned by the community at the Elite: Dangerous Star Map (EDSM).

Frontier Developments via CommandersThe reason that I’m parked on this rock is because I’ve signed on to participate in, a trip from. After, I’ve spent the last four months making the risky journey out here to places where few players have gone before.Joining me on this journey is the single largest fleet in the history of Elite, now including nearly 14,000 other players. We’re all here to soak in the majesty of these procedurally generated worlds, and to hang out together. It’s a mobile feast of companionship, via Discord and in-game chat, for a game that can otherwise feel a bit lonely.

Just about every other night, I’ve logged in on my PC, said hello to my new friends and comrades, and gotten about the business of moving from point A to point B. I’ve been lucky enough to spend most of that time in virtual reality, via the Oculus Rift, and the experience has been extraordinary.I’ve passed through a brightly colored nebula shaped like webs of rusty wire, skimmed along the edges of white dwarf stars hot enough to melt my nimble ship in an instant. I’ve refueled inside the wildly spinning gas jets of a neutron star. I’ve scaled icy mountains in a six-wheeled rover, some so high that one false move could have easily pushed me into orbit. I’ve rocketed down narrow canyons with walls over 10 kilometers high, and flown between planets so close together that the gravitational force of each one in turn conspired to pull me from the sky. Image: Frontier Developments via Commander Vik!ngSailIn reality, Distant Worlds 2 is a re-creation of the expedition, by a player named Commander Erimus Kamzel. It is a pilgrimage that retraces the steps of a daring explorer to a remote planet named, way out on the edge of the galaxy.

And that daring explorer just happens to be here alongside us, showing the way.Every week, Erimus has. His maps provide waypoints for everyone to follow, and set up places to meet along the way.

And those places just happen to be some of the most extraordinary locations in the entire Elite galaxy. It’s been a four-month journey with sights unlike any that I’ve ever seen in a video game.While Erimus, along with Commander Dr. Kaii, are the expedition’s co-leaders, they are backed. But these wonderful sights aren’t all thanks to them. There are many other explorers who have been down these roads before.As it turns out, Elite doesn’t really do a good job of allowing players to share the wonders that they find in the course of their journeys with the other players in the game. Instead, Frontier has abdicated much of that responsibility to social media and YouTube.

But the internet can be a surprisingly temporary thing. And so, rather than allow all these marvelous sights to be forgotten, Erimus set about archiving them. His effort, called the (GMP), began shortly after Distant Suns in 2015. Hitman contracts mission 2.

The exploration of the Milky Way since the launch of Elite: Dangerous as tracked by the Elite Dangerous Star Map. The red and green band running top to bottom represents the route taken by the Distant Worlds 2 expedition starting Jan. 13, 2019.“During that first journey,” Erimus told me via email, “I made lots of personal maps, just very basic screenshots of the in-game galaxy map with arrows drawn on them to highlight the approximate route I took to Beagle Point and back, done so as a personal reminder of my journey.”“I remember writing about my adventure to Beagle Point and back, and posting it on the forum at the time,” he continued. “Someone asked me to post a map of the route I’d took. That’s when the idea came to me about setting up a community-run mapping project for explorers to share their own maps and points of interest.“The game was new, it had only been out a couple of months, and deep space exploration was in its infancy, no one knew what was out there. There were no guides, and the galaxy was one big blank canvas ready for players to go and make their own mark upon it.”.

“Deep space exploration was in its infancy, no one knew what was out there”Now, when players find something extraordinary in the world of Elite, they can submit it as a candidate entry to the GMP. A core team of moderators (including Commanders Corbin Moran, Finwen, Anthor, Andrew Gaspurr, Heavy Johnson, Kazahnn Drahnn, Satsuma, and Erimus himself) evaluates those candidates. They’re looking for only the most rare, the most beautiful, or the most meaningful locations, all based on the player’s description and any photos or videos they might have taken. If it makes the grade, it gets added to the database, and the intrepid explorer who found it earns their place in Elite history.Some of those discoveries have gone on to be officially recognized by Frontier, immortalized in the canonical lore of the game. They are places that even casual players will likely be familiar with: Beagle Point, of course, but also the distant colony worlds of.

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There’s also, and entire regions such as Abyss, Hawking’s Gap, Tenebrae, the Norma Expanse, and the Conflux.“Over time I’d update the maps and mark on them where all the interesting locations were,” Erimus wrote. “It proved really popular from the off as the community began ‘humanizing’ the map, and giving it some character away from the uninspiring procedural names the game itself generates for these wondrous locations. Explorers added their own stories of discovery to it, to bring it alive, and to inspire the imagination.”In time, Erimus says that the GMP was adopted by other explorers who would use the places that he had named to plot and describe their own journeys. When they returned, they would contribute even more locations that they had discovered. The GMP slowly grew to become a sort of almanac. It now holds some 2,500 points of interest organized into nearly 60 distinct regions of space, each one with its own brief description placing it in the context of the community and the game.

This application was made to honor all the intrepid explorers who participated in the Distant Worlds Expeditions of years 3302 and 3305, in the game Elite Dangerous. The greatest exploration expedition so far. If you ever liked the screenshots commanders have been taking during this legendary journey, then you will love this app.How to use- Install Muzei (Open Muzei app- Select 'Distant Worlds' as your source- DoneImages taken from here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=222490.